“A realistic picture of the sea some two hundred years ago, of a sort
calculated to stir the imagination and hold the interest of any
healthy-minded boy, to whom the ordinary happenings of a seaman’s life
with its numerous perils in the early part of the eighteenth century are
unknown. For the glamour of romance which has been thrown around piracy
and for the abominations of the press-gang, Mr. Bullen has nothing but
the strongest condemnation.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Shows the author’s gift for sea-pictures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 90w.
“A really ludicrous performance.”
− =Nation.= 89: 37. Jl. 8, ’09. 270w.
“Is as moral as amusing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 420w.
“To say that it is an admirable sea story and just the thing for boys
seems almost superfluous. In this story he paints piracy in its true
colours, shorn of the false glory with which so many writers have
decorated it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“It is a book for boys, and he knows how to entertain them if anyone
does.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Introduction to the study of economics. 3d
ed., rev. and enl. *$1.28. Silver.
8–18386.
“The issue of the third edition of this excellent text has given the
chance of adding to it a chapter on railroad transportation, which is
mainly devoted to the movement toward combination, the rate problem, and
the question of public control of railroads. A section on the
localization of industry has also been added, but aside from bringing
the statistical data up to date there are no other changes of
importance.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 60. F. ’09.
“As a whole the work is well fitted for its purpose.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 451. Mr. ’09. 120w.
=Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Burge, C. O.=^{[10]} Adventures of a civil engineer: an
autobiography. $3. Rivers, A. London.
“A record of fifty years of engineering work and of impressions of five
continents, gathered during a busy career in the development of India,
South Africa and Australia, as well as Europe. It contains very little
about civil engineering work, except a popular description of the
difficulties encountered in the foundations of the Hawkesbury bridge of
which the author was resident engineer and American companies were the
contractors.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The present book has hardly any indication that the author is an
engineer. In this we are disappointed, for instead of an account which
might have been of peculiar interest to the profession, we find the
typical chat of the traveled Englishman who has gone far and seen much,
and who is constrained to set it all down in detail. It is clever
writing and good reading, but it is the work of Burge the traveler and
not of Burge the engineer.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 11. Ag. 12, ’09. 1000w.
“A delightful autobiography. It is this ‘stereoscopic view’ of life on
five continents, as it appears to a cultured civil engineer, which makes
the book so interesting.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 195. Ag. 14, ’09. 450w.
“Being evidently a man of observation and humour, the writer has a good
deal to tell that is amusing. If some of his stories are rather
venerable they may, from their very age, have an element of novelty for
a new generation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 418. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Good wolf. **$1. Moffat.
8–28997.
“A little boy by the name of Barry goes into the woods, where he meets a
big wolf, which at first frightens him. However, after the animal tells
him that he is a good wolf and a good friend to a boy who is happy and
never grumbles, Barry trusts him and many good times are in store for
the boy through the kind offices of the big wolf. It is illustrated
throughout with pictures of all the animals Barry meets in the
woods.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 499. Ja. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 20w.
“The instinctive humor and the unerring repetitions of effective
phrasing are wholly commendable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 30w.
“A most attractive volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United
States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25. Benziger.
8–18343.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It is fair and unbiased in its treatment of mooted questions, though
overemphasizing the part that the schools of the Catholic church have
played in the educational development of the country.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 35. F. ’09.
“As a summary of the facts in the history of the educational policies of
the church, the volume deserves notice.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 176. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“The book is characterized by a high degree of fairness and candor.” S:
T. Dutton.
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 420. Ap. ’09. 1450w.
=Burr, Mrs. Anna Robeson (Brown).=^{[11]} The autobiography. **$2.
Houghton.
9–28082.
A far reaching comparative and scientific study of the origin, motives,
ideals and psychological importance of the autobiography. Eight hundred
biographies in Latin, French, German, English and Italian have furnished
the groundwork for the author’s investigation of the “obscure and
important questions of the subjective tendency in private history, of
the standards of sincerity, and of the relative value of the deliberate
self-study and the unconscious self-revelation.”
* * * * *
“This is one of those books that no working library should be without,
an aid where the card index of the general library generally fails one.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 220w.
“The absolute ignoring of Montaigne is quite incomprehensible. A
reckless audacity of statement is the prime defect of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 513. N. 25, ’09. 800w.
“The book must take its place at once as an exceedingly valuable and
unhackneyed contribution to the history of literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 676. O. 30. ’09. 820w.
“A book of unique purpose and value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 727. N. 20, ’09. 1150w.
=Burr, Jane.=^{[12]} Letters of a Dakota divorcee. $1. Roxburgh pub.
9–29507.
Letters that remind the reader of Elinor Glyn’s “Three weeks.” The
manner in which the divorcee deports herself is not conventional, to say
the least; and there are a good many thoughtless flings at decorum and
various religious bodies that cheapen the “high soul” experiences of the
letter-writer.
=Burstall, Sara A.=^{[5]} Impressions of American education in 1908.
*$1.25. Longmans.