Volume 3 — B (continued 3)

7–31191.

“The first part of this little volume is given over to a non-technical definition of a watt, by considering how many watts the common forms of apparatus use. Chapters are included on general principles of meters, troubles and systems of charges and discounts.”—Engin. N.

Engin. N. 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet). Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.

7–11569.

“This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas. In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs. Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function, its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.

+ − Acad. 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w.

“Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view. Written in a luminous, easy style.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07.

“The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results of the most careful investigators into the early history of the institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg Meade.

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w.

“With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.

+ + Int. J. Ethics. 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w.

Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.

J. Philos. 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w.

“Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral, only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to which the latter is apt to be blind.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w.

“It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real and spiritual entity of the family.”

+ + Nature. 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w.

+ + Outlook. 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w.

“It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its materialised form that she traces for us.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w.

47“Mrs. Bosanquet’s book is remarkably restrained and uncontroversial in tone.”

+ + Spec. 97: 825. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ Yale R. 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.

Bose, Jagadis Chunder. Plant response as a means of physiological investigation. *$7. Longmans.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A biologically equipped reader with no special knowledge of plant physiology will experience dazzled admiration for the logical, progressive way in which the author builds up, not in words, but actually experiment on experiment, a complete functioning plant from three simple conceptions. A student of plant physiology, who has some acquaintance with the main classical ideas of his subject, will feel at first extreme bewilderment as he peruses this book. It proceeds so smoothly and logically, and yet it does not start from any place in the existing ‘corpus’ of knowledge, and never attaches itself with any firm adherence. This effect of detachment is heightened by the complete absence of precise references to the work of other investigators.” F. F. Blackman.

+ − Nature. 75: 313. Ja. 31, ’07. 2170w.

Bottome, Phyllis. Imperfect gift [a novel]. †$1.50. Dutton.

“The author has taken for her central characters two sisters, one of whom is obviously and remarkably beautiful; the other is beautiful in her heart and mind, whilst far from impeccable, and lovably human. The lives of these two girls are traced from their early childhood, with a widowed mother in Italy, to their establishment in life in London; and their characters are developed before our eyes with subtlety and skill.”—Ath.

“The whole book is very unequal and unfinished; the people do not live or gain the reader’s sympathy, and difficulties are avoided at the expense of truth.”

− + Acad. 72: 393. Ap. 20, ’07. 480w.

“There are 340 pages in it, and not one of them is a page wasted or spoilt. It is a fine sober piece of literary workmanship, as well as an entertaining novel.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 220w.

“The story is smoothly and competently told, and while its basis lies in the realm of mediocre, respectable fiction, the observation of detail, if a shade shopworn, is always sufficiently correct and agreeably expressed to make the whole fairly readable—if no better novel be at hand.”

+ − Nation. 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07, 260w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.

“The reader will find the story completely satisfactory until the moment comes when he is told what is the particular talent to which the heroine is going to devote herself.”

+ − Spec. 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.

Boulting, William. Tasso and his times. *$2.75. Putnam.

A biography full of side-lights on the history of Italy during the latter part of the sixteenth century. Tasso’s personal history is a succession of failures and troubles; it is a record of one too weak to buffet his way among despots and courtiers identified with Italy’s decline and corruption.

“We may have appeared to have criticised Mr. Boulting severely, but we have done so because his book seems to deserve careful consideration, and we desire to recommend it to many readers whom its more conspicuous merits will instruct and entertain.”

+ + − Acad. 73: 965. O. 5, ’07. 2080w.

“From every point of view, historical, biographical, literary, and critical, ‘Tasso and his times’ will be found most satisfactory.” Walter Littlefield.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 598. O. 5, ’07. 1320w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“It is rather because this volume gives us a clear picture of Italy in the latter part of the sixteenth century than because it is a biography of Tasso that it will be welcome to a large circle of readers.”

+ Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 220w.

“This book, heralded so loudly, is a popular and superficial account, not so much of Tasso as a poet as of Tasso at court, without a single note or an allusion in the text to any authority save a reference in the last chapter to Professor Solerti. Mr. Boulting mistakes the whole dream and purpose of the Italian renaissance.”

− − Sat. R. 104: 397. S. 28, ’07. 1320w.

“Mr. Boulting does a biographer’s duty without partiality, and makes an effective picture of the man. On Tasso’s poetry Mr. Boulting gives us some excellent criticism; this is, we think, the best part of his book. Of the ‘times’ he has much to say. He has gathered materials with unsparing industry, sometimes, it may be going too far afield, and bringing back what it might have been better to leave behind. Still, he has written a very readable book.”

+ + − Spec. 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 230w.

Boulton, William B. Thomas Gainsborough, his life, work, friends, and sitters. *$2.75. McClurg.

This is as complete and comprehensive as a study of every bit of available material can make it. The interesting stages of Gainsborough’s development are followed, facts concerning his friends and the subjects of his portraits are recorded, and a good summary of the achievements of the artist and the characteristics of the man fills the last two chapters. The evolution of his genius is also traced in the forty reproductions of his paintings.

“In spite of unavoidable gaps and deficiencies, even the early chapters of the book are not dull. He has utilized the accepted sources of biographical material, marshalling his facts in simple orderly fashion, and dealing with them in a dignified and yet thoroughly genial and appreciative way.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

+ Dial. 43: 247. O. 16, ’07. 1140w.

“Mr. Boulton has a very uneven style, and the proofreader is guilty of several slips, but these little blemishes do not prevent a reader from enjoying the absence of dryness, one of the common failings of ‘art books’ in all ages. He feels that he has come perceptibly nearer to an understanding of the impetuous yet shrewd, Thomas Gainsborough.” Charles de Kay.

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 585. S. 28, ’07. 1430w.

Bourchier, Dr. Helen. Darry’s awakening. †$1.50. Warne.

A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.

“This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”

+ − Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 380w.

48Bourke, S. Ten Eyck. Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.

7–24036.

Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.

Bousset, Wilhelm. Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D. Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.

6–21195.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be constructive, is written in good spirit.”

+ Ind. 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w.

Bowen, Marjorie. Master of Stair. †$1.50. McClure.

7–15924.

“A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally exterminated.”—Bookm.

“The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against [several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters (those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w.

“While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett, she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women, long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w.

“Her second novel is so much more creditable a work that its merits are in no need of puffery.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 170w.

“While we admire her spirit, it is difficult to feel that all this ‘slightly grandiloquent magnificence’ is satisfactory; it is a rich cloak, but it does not take the place of bones and flesh.”

− + Lond. Times. 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 380w.

“The author has decided descriptive ability. Has also dramatic power.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

+ Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

“Exhibiting a total ignorance of technique, of the rudiments of her art, she contrives to emerge safely and successfully from all kinds of difficult situations.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 400w.

Bowen, Marjorie. Viper of Milan. $1.50. McClure.

6–41272.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is not so much the clever blending of history and fiction which makes Miss Bowen’s book remarkable; it is the rare atmosphere of reality which permeates it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 390w.

“The story makes up in action for the shortcomings of its style.”

+ − Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 140w.

“There is not a philosophical sentence in the book, not a single appeal to religion, it is simply a gorgeous fairy tale of human life with a diabolical hero, worked out thru every imaginable irony of circumstance, and considered within these limitations, it is almost beyond criticism in style, construction and fascination.”

+ Ind. 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 640w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair). Her prairie knight, and Rowdy of the “Cross L.” il. †$1.25. Dillingham.

7–23641.

A reissue of two good western stories. In the former a New York society girl is influenced by the sky, the air and the plains, to be true to herself and marry for love rather than for a title. The second tells of the devotion of a little school teacher of the plains to her cowboy brother, whose trickery and dishonesty are run to cover by the man she loves.

“He has a sense of humor, especially in the situations he contrives and he has written an entertaining story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 515. Ag. 24, ’07. 130w.

Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair). Range dwellers. †$1.25. Dillingham.

7–6407.

The breezy, dare-devil, son of a San Francisco millionaire tells in his own amusing way of how he was rusticated on his father’s Montana cattle ranch, in the hope that it would make a man of him, how he fell in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who had enjoyed thirty years of feud and enmity with his father, and how he carried her off in a motor-car. Altogether he demonstrates that he is a wholly “good sort” capable of winning the good comradeship of his fellow cowboys altho handicapped by being “the son and heir.”

* Boxall, George E. Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.

7–32830.

“In this work the author has traced out briefly the tendencies of thought in civilized countries at the present time with a view to estimating the probable trend of events in the near future. He notes the decay of ideals in this and in other civilised lands, and prophesies a new development of the religious idea. Man, he says, always has had and always must have a religion as a guide to conduct, and the lesson we learn from the past is that a new religion grows gradually out of an older one as man’s knowledge increases. According to him Christianity has about reached its ultimate capacity for division, and, as ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand,’ a new development in religion, based on a scientific view of the world, is absolutely necessary.”

“A person who dares to jeer at a faith of whose history he has not a textbook knowledge, who sets his conclusions in matters of ethnological research against those of the acknowledged leaders of the science, without so much as a schoolboy’s equipment, calls rather for contempt than criticism, laughter than logic. When he enters the domain of sociology and religion he becomes merely ridiculous, and his essays in the reconstruction of human origins are too silly to be entirely dull.”

− − Acad. 73: 789. Ag. 17, ’07. 2350w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil D. Langford of the Three Bars. †$1.50. McClurg.

7–15542.

This tale of South Dakota follows the trials of a young ranchman, Paul Langford, who undertakes to put an end to cattle-rustling in his section. The county attorney takes up the fight for Langford against the thieves, and the terrifying happenings that result provide a wild west thrill for every page. Langford’s energy, determination and sense of justice win the day finally, tho not without tragedies.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

49“Their collaborative work is remarkably smooth and even and shows little trace of its double authorship.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.

Brace, Benjamin. Seventh person. †$1.50. Dodd.

6–34686.

Jerry Chambers is a young collegian who as a member of a fraternity is obliged at the end of his course to perform whatever task might be outlined in the envelope that he draws from a mysterious black bag. “Obeying its imperative mandate, against which parental wishes count for naught, he departs for South America, where in a marvelously short time he wins great renown, a love affair with a beautiful señorita, developing meanwhile. The scenes of his subsequent adventures are in Mexico and the South and West of the country.” (Ind.)

“The conclusion is carefully manipulated.”

+ Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.

“Mr. Brace has the gift of imagination in a most frantic form.”

− N. Y. Times. 11: 831. D. 1, ’06. 390w.

Bradby, Godfrey Fox. Great days of Versailles; studies from court life in the later years of Louis XIV. il. $1.75. Scribner.

7–6786.

Based chiefly upon the memoirs of Saint-Simon, the letters of Mme. de Maintenon and of Madame the Princess Palatine, Mr. Bradby’s picture serves as “an introduction to the period for those who wish to pursue a more extensive study of eighteenth century memoirs, and will also be sufficiently complete and vivid to be of interest and value to those who have not the time and opportunity for more detailed reading.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mr. Bradby presents a sombre picture of this distinguished formal period, without any brilliance but with too much care to be at all disappointing, though at times we wish for the lightness and gaiety of style which were the feature of his charming story ‘Dick’ and his flippant farce ‘The Marquis’s eye.’”

+ − Acad. 72: 35. Ja. 12, ’07. 770w.

“Mr. Bradby’s book gives a fair account of phases of life and thought which are now as extinct, and seem almost as remote, as the ways and usages of the Pharaohs, and in the study of them one can find much interest and some profit.” James Breck Perkins.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 883. Jl. ’07. 760w.

“On the whole, however, Mr. Bradby’s book is a scholarly and agreeable piece of light historical reading.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 250w.

“Mr. Bradby has overcome the vast difficulties of the subject, and written a book that makes for learning as well as for amusement—a fine thing to be able to say, when we consider how very amusing it is! He has—or he has acquired—the priceless gift of proportion.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 5. Ja. 4, ’07. 850w.

“The value of his work would have been enhanced, perhaps, especially for those who wish to carry their studies further, if he had more frequently footnoted his authorities.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 67. F. 2, ’07. 580w.

“The last few years have seen a great outpouring of books about history, but it is not often easy to find among them one that is written in decent English and is evidently a well-arranged epitome of wide reading as this is.”

+ + Sat. R. 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.

Bradley, Ernest. Seven steps to the cross, being seven meditations suitable for Lent, and more particularly for Good Friday. **60c. Whittaker.

7–4780.

It is the object of these meditations to “carry a deep spiritual message on the sufferings of our Lord to those who may hear or read them.” The seven steps are; The last supper and the new commandment, Gethsemane, Caiaphas, Herod, Pilate, Out by the Jaffa gate, and Golgotha.

Bradley, Shelland. American girl in India. $1.75. Macmillan.

The experiences of a lively American girl who goes to India principally to attend the “great Durbar” at Delhi. “She reckons and guesses with equal aplomb, and has certain idioms of her own invention, such as ‘I don’t catch right on to the people straight away,’ and ‘Say, though, I’m shying off the main point,’ not to speak of a touch here and there of untimely cockney.” (Nation.)

“There is of course fiction and fiction—the kind which aspires to be a fine art (and so seldom, alas! attains its aspirations) and that which aspires among other small things mainly to amuse (so often failing too). To the latter class belongs ‘An American girl in India;’ but far from being a failure, this novel contains so much knowledge of character, and such a light and sure touch in the sketching of passing personalities, that we regret the trivialities which condemn it to a place in the second category.”

− + Acad. 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 410w.

“When one has mastered the jargon one finds her an amusing person in a mild way.”

+ − Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 240w.

“The book is written with a good deal of vivacity, much of it of a cheap sort, and with facility in the use of the English language.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Blue ocean’s daughter. †$1.50. Moffat.

7–29001.

“It is about an Amazonian sort of young woman who was born on board her father’s ship, grew up on it in his company, was as good a sailor as the skipper, and if need was could fight with swords and pistols as well as if she had been a man. The time of the story is laid in the latter part of the revolutionary war and the ship is pursued by an English frigate. Out of the pursuit and the fight there grow all manner of exciting incidents.”—N. Y. Times.

“Has a plethora of strange and exciting incident and is written in his most rattling style.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 170w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.

6–9278.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Strong alike in incident and character-drawing.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 110w.

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry. Richard the brazen. †$1.50. Moffat.

6–28452.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“We have a suspicion that the tale, like the Adelphi melodrama, was written for the gallery, and an American gallery into the bargain.”

− Acad. 73: 778. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.

Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt. Bettina. †$1.25. Doubleday.

7–3184.

Of the following ingredients the story is composed: “a genial brother, a doctor with the orthodox Abernathy manners, a providentially effaced friend, whose non-appearance causes the case of mistaken identity upon which the story hinges, and a child of revealing prattle. A railway wreck, the wise scheme of a self-abnegating nurse, a thunderstorm, an overdose of medicine—all serve to bring about a happy ending foreseen from the first.”—N. Y. Times.

“Not recommended for small library with limited means.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 77. Mr. ’07.

50“As we read the bright little sketch of American social life, we forget to cavil at its elaborate setting.”

+ Ath. 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 160w.

“Slight but cleverly handled story.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w.

“‘Tis foolish,’ as our friend, Mr. Hennessy, says, but it is told in a pleasant, sprightly fashion, and it will furnish beguilement for many readers.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 67. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.

“The story [is] too slight to make into a book.”

− Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 40w.

Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. On reading: an essay. **75c. Duffield.

6–32694.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by William T. Brewster.

Forum. 38: 384. Ja. ’07. 1160w.

Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. Reminiscences of my childhood and youth. **$2.50. Duffield.

6–34030.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Unhappily, however, the translation is not first rate, particularly in the Englishing of original turns and phrases, nor is the volume lacking in typographical errors.”

+ − Ind. 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 500w.

“It is interesting partly though its naïve and refreshing candour—partly through its revelation of the narrow parochialism of Scandinavian life.”

+ + Lond. Times. 5: 431. D. 28, ’06. 980w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 1040w. (Published by arrangement with Lond. Times.)

“There is not a dull paragraph, not a single dry-as-dust element in this highly instructive autobiography, for which I earnestly wish many readers in this country.” Paul Harboe.

+ + No. Am. 183: 917. N. 2, ’06. 1300w.

“The reader of the ‘Reminiscences’ finds Brandes not dry, certainly not unproductive, but assuredly ‘a creature with thoughts ground keen.’”

+ + Putnam’s. 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 700w.

Brastow, Lewis O. Modern pulpit: a study of homiletic sources and characteristics. **$1.50. Macmillan.

6–35521.

An interpretation of the teaching of our day. The influences that are at work upon the ministry, the problems that are before it, and the demands that are urged upon it are all viewed in the light of the present day unification of the denominations.

“Dr. Brastow, always calm, rational, deep-sighted and analytical, is especially so in this volume.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ + Arena. 36: 685. D. ’06. 170w.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

Atlan. 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 240w.

“A book about preaching of decided merit.”

+ + Ind. 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 50w.

“The notable feature of this volume, however, is not its descriptions of personalities, but its examination of the more general agencies that have wrought upon modern preaching, together with its discrimination of the distinctive qualities in homiletical practice in the various Protestant nationalities and communions.”

+ Nation. 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 480w.

“Men of all churches will recognize his work as one of remarkable attractiveness and ability.”

+ + Outlook. 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 600w.

“Among new works on preaching and the modern pulpit, perhaps the most noteworthy volume of the past few months is ‘The modern pulpit.’”

+ + R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 110w.

Breasted, James Henry. Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest; collected, edited and translated with commentary, v. 1–4 ea. *$4; v. 5. Index number. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–5480.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In a work of such extent and difficulty there is inevitably much to criticize: and one cannot in reading it avoid the reflection that six months of steady revision of the whole of it are required in order to bring the work up to the high standard at which the author aims and which is to be looked for from one endowed with his comprehensive insight. The English throughout is crude, there are many mistakes in renderings and descriptions, and many hasty judgments.”

+ + − Acad. 72: 116. F. 2, ’07. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“The translation exhibits the same careful attention to matters of detail that is everywhere apparent. In wideness of scope, thoroughness of treatment extending to the minutest details, systematic arrangement and conscientious scholarship Professor Breasted’s ‘Ancient records’ takes high rank, and it cannot be doubted that it will have a most important influence upon Egyptological studies in the domains both of history and philology.” Christopher Johnston.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 858. Jl. ’07. 1720w.

“One half of the corrigenda which Dr. Breasted announces in his fifth volume are caused by the uncouth and barbarous system of transliteration which forms the trade-mark of Berlin Egyptology, and which Dr. Breasted admits must be ignored by the general reader, it will be seen that he has suffered in no slight degree by his devotion to his innovating teachers. This is, however, the only fault we have to find.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 599. My. 18. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

Reviewed by Christopher Johnston.

+ + + Bib. World. 29: 233. Mr. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“A great saver of time and energy to the student.”

+ Bib. World. 29: 400. My. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)

“A great work ready at hand with one of the best indexes ever constructed, making every fact available by its comprehensive system for quick, and easy reference.”

+ Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 5.)

“These volumes form a monument of the author-translator, which will give his name a permanent place in the literature of the subject.”

+ + + Nation. 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

Nation. 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 5.)

“It is a monumental work, of which any country might be proud, and the University of Chicago is to be congratulated upon finding the scholar to achieve it and providing the means to give it to the world.”

+ + + Sat. R. 104: 270. Ag. 31, ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 5.)

Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.

5–34978.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Throughout Dr. Breasted writes clearly and lucidly. He tells his story in a straightforward and spirited manner and, while no detail of importance is omitted, he is never prolix. This happy combination of judicious conciseness 51with ample fulness of treatment is a distinguishing feature of the book.” Christopher Johnston.

+ + + Bib. World. 29: 234. Mr. ’07. 560w.

“The best and most readable English history of Egypt.”

+ + + Nation. 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 260w.

Brebner, Percy. Knight of the silver star. *$1. Fenno.

7–34776.

An English traveler slides inadvertently down a mountain side on the borderland of Russia and finds himself in a strange kingdom where mediæval customs prevail. Here, welcomed as a heaven sent knight, he wields a sword in behalf of the beautiful princess, passes safely thru many wondrous adventures, and at last in a miraculous fashion escapes from his enemies. He returns to our modern London carrying with him the princess who, as his wife, remains the one proof of the time when he tilted for her in the lists wearing the armour of the knights of the silver star.

Brebner, Percy James (Christian Lys, pseud.). Princess Maritza; il. by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.

6–32119.

“It is the old story of the little kingdom and the succession and the ‘peace of Europe’ on the verge of collapse. As in all such stories, there are tricky ministers, intriguing women, swash-buckler soldiers and the lovers—a princess and a soldier of fortune.”—N. Y. Times.

“The incidents are numerous though unconvincing. The personages do not live, we are indifferent to their fates.”

− Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 230w.

“Usually, in such stories, there are lay figures, but Mr. Brebner has injected hot blood into them, and the result is a story, the stirring action and situations of which may cause Anthony Hope to tremble for his ‘Zenda’ laurels.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

Breed, Charles Blaney, and Hosmer, George Leonard. Principles and practice of surveying. $3. Wiley.

6–39471.

“Not a treatise, but a text-book, and an elementary rather than a comprehensive text-book. They [the authors] deal with the simpler branches of the surveyor’s work in a clear and simple explanatory style. The subject is covered in four main divisions, headed, respectively: Instruments (use, adjustment and care); Surveying methods: Computations: Plotting: followed by a rather good collection of tables.”—Engin. N.

“Good manual of the simpler branches of surveying. Especially careful in pointing out possible sources of error.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 160. O. ’07. S.

+ + Engin. N. 56: 528. N. 15, ’06. 400w.

“The usual tables complete the volume, which is probably as satisfactory a text-book under present methods of technical school instruction in surveying as can be written.” H. N. Ogden.

+ Science, n. s. 26: 17. Jl. 5, ’07. 600w.

“The book as a whole is worthy of a place on any beginner’s desk, and merits success.” Arthur D. Butterfield.

+ + − Technical Literature. 1: 222. My. ’07. 1490w.

Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry. With God in prayer. **50c. Jacobs.

7–11202.

Bishop Brent’s purpose in writing this little book is to suggest prayerful thoughts and to promote the prayerful spirit.

Bridge, Norman. House health, and other papers. **$1.25. Duffield.

7–29539.

The titles of the papers included in this volume are suggestive: House health, Human talk, The blind side of the average parent, Some commencement ideals, A domestic clearing house, The true gospel of sleep, Some unconceded rights of parents and children, and The trained nurse and the larger life.

“Contains much good advice, and some that is perhaps not so good because the counsel of an extremist.”

+ − Dial. 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 250w.

“He says so much that is sensible and practical that almost any parent might find himself chastened and enlightened by a perusal of the volume.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 310w.

Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.) Eternal religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“His outlook is broad, his sympathies are wide.”

+ + Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.

Brierley, Jonathan. Religion and experience. *$1.40. Whittaker.

7–37539.

“The brevity of his essays, rarely exceeding eight pages, commends them to a world that prefers short sermons, and to preachers who would learn to say in fifteen or twenty minutes much that will both hold the attention and stick in the mind afterwards. The standpoint is that of a devoutly Christian thinker fully responsive to the intellectual demands of the modern world. The introduction compresses into a short statement, clear and simple, the modern argument for experience as the test of reality, whether in science, philosophy, or religion.”—Outlook.

“The chief value of the book consists in the facts that the writer combines a truly liberal with a deeply religious spirit: that he is steeped in the thoughts of the world’s highest thinkers, ancient and modern, and that he is able to place their ideas before his readers in such telling fashion that they may be ‘understanded of the people.’”

+ + Acad. 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

“The various subjects are well exploited, and the conclusions, while marked by an optimism that is too easy-going to bear a searching criticism, are unquestionably honest, kindly, and wholesome.”

+ − Nation. 85: 125. Ag. 8, ’07. 500w.

“The gifted British essayist ... evidently, as the present volume like its predecessors shows, reaps a rich-soiled field.”

+ Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.

Briggs, Charles Augustus. Critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Psalms. 2v. ea. **$3. Scribner.

v. 2. This volume contains the commentary on the Psalms from the fifty-first to the one hundred and fiftieth. “The special student and the ordinarily intelligent reader are both provided for: the former in full measure. The latter will find some strikingly new translations superseding the old.” (Outlook.)

“Is one of the most notable books of the year in the field of Scripture study.”

+ + Cath. World. 85: 406. Je. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This work is encyclopaedic in character. The introduction, covering 110 pages, is the fullest treatment we have seen on all the questions that concern a critical study of the Psalter.”

+ + Dial. 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“The possibility of accidental or deliberate changes of reading must constantly be remembered in dealing with such a book as the Psalter. It is in this respect that Dr. Briggs is perhaps deficient, and this deficiency, for me, throws much doubt on his metrical arrangements of the psalms. I consider his work of great educational use, and that even for very 52advanced students it will save much trouble to have the book near at hand.” T. K. Cheyne.

+ − Hibbert J. 5: 453. Ja. ’07. 3040w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Dr. Briggs is hardly critical enough, nor has he sufficient experience in the use of all the newest and best methods.” T. K. Cheyne.

+ − Hibbert J. 5: 944. Jl. ’07. 1530w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Dr. Briggs’s ‘Commentary on the Psalms’ is dominated by the author’s interest in their metrical structure. There is no harm in arranging a Psalm in strophes and lines, if one so desire, but when enthusiasm for metre dictates important textual emendations, as is frequently the case with Dr. Briggs, the matter is more serious.”

− + Ind. 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his correction of the text.”

+ Ind. 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both the text and the development of the Psalter.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for exhaustive thoroughness.”

+ + − Nation. 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ + Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)

Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von. Papal commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.

In which the author and his friend Friedrich von Hugel exchange letters on the decision of the Pontifical commission concerning the Pentateuch. Professor Briggs expresses his “surprise and grief that the Commission should have put such a burden on the church, and restates the critical conclusions as to the composite authorship of the Pentateuch, as against the Commission’s conclusion that Moses wrote it, with the use of pre-existing documents and some later scribal additions. Von Hugel replies, defining the liberty of Catholic scholarship in the church, agreeing with Professor Briggs as to the folly of the Commission’s action, even altho approved by the Pope, and both agree that the decision should not forbid critical research and freedom.” (Ind.)

Cath. World. 84: 707. F. ’07. 1260w.

Ind. 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.

Lond. Times. 5: 410. D. 7, ’06. 770w.

Nation. 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 150w.

Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.

Brinton, Selwyn. Correggio. Forty-eight plates with biography. (Newnes’ art lib.) *$1.25. Warne.

W 7–47.

A biographical sketch, a list of the most celebrated works with descriptive, critical and historical matter, and forty-eight half-tones of paintings.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

Reviewed by Charles de Kay.

+ − N. Y. Times. 11: 881. D. 22, ’06. 200w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.

Brode, Heinrich. Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central Africa. *$3. Longmans.

Tippo Tib is an Arab trader well known to all who took an interest in East Africa or the Congo fifteen or twenty years ago. This sketch is a transcription made from Tippo Tib’s own story of his life. “He was a species of African Cortez, brave as a lion, utterly unscrupulous, avid of wealth, shrewd and masterful. Like the Spanish adventurers, he accomplished prodigies with a handful of men.” (Lit. D.)

“It is a fascinating chronicle.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.

“A valuable addition to the scanty records of East African history.”

+ + Nation. 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 940w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.

Spec. 98: 904. Je. 8, ’07. 490w.

Bronson, Walter C., comp. English poems. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–29839.

The last volume in a projected series of four, devoted to English poems. The first volume will include Old English poems in translation, Middle English poems, specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama and old ballads; the second will cover the Elizabethan and Caroline periods; and the third will include poems of the restoration and the eighteenth century. The present volume is devoted to poetry of the nineteenth century. The series is designed for use in survey courses covering the entire field of English literature.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07.

“Should be warmly welcomed as [an] adjunct to the work of teaching English literature in both colleges and secondary schools.”

+ Dial. 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 100w.

“The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond dispute.”

+ Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 200w.

Brooke, Emma Frances. Sir Elyot of the woods. †$1.50. Duffield.

7–15923.

Sir Elyot Ingall of Ingalton, young, handsome, and on the eve of a literary career, finds his estates hopelessly encumbered and is obliged to let his manor house and strive by personal effort to keep a mortgage off his Dower woods, the woods he loves, the trees of which offer the only source of revenue for him. He struggles against the woodman’s axe and finds inspiration for his writings in his forest. When thru a legal tangle it is all but lost to him he recovers it, and in recovering learns that the girl he loved and trusted had played the trees false and planned to sacrifice them for the gold she craved. In his agony his heart returns to his first love thru whom he and his estate come once more to their own.

“If the whole book did but carry out the promise to be seen in the opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”

+ − Acad. 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w.

“As the faults of the novel are popular, they will not interfere with its circulation.”

+ − Ath. 1907. 1: 693. Je. 8. 230w.

“It lacks but little of achieving distinction of style; it just misses success in portraying one of those rare women characters that really count.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − Bookm. 25: 391. Je. ’07. 460w.

“On its merely human side, this is a singularly impressive and well-managed story; to the lover of trees, who can share in Elyot’s passion, it is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 800w.

“The book escapes being what it might have been, a notable piece of work; as written it is nothing but a fairly readable ‘minor novel.’”

+ − Ind. 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 180w.

“With a subtler art than that of the descriptive writer, Miss Brooke contrives to pervade her story with the beauty and sanctity of the 53woods, showing them to us through the eyes of her characters, and keeping them always before us.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 280w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.

Brooke, George H. Story of a football season. **$1. Lippincott.

7–29718.

Steeped in the atmosphere of the athletic field, this story of a foot-ball season, written with all the life-likeness and authority which inside knowledge can afford, makes its appeal to every champion of a college eleven. All the stages of team development are interestingly set down and gridiron encounters, including the great end-of-the-season victory are realistically described.

Brooke, Stopford A. Life superlative. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.

W 6–183.

A collection of Mr. Brooke’s sermons and addresses which are characterized by their moral outlook, their grasp of things unseen and eternal, their practical appeal to the highest and best in human nature, and a high note of optimism. They are grouped under the following headings: Religion and conduct, Lessons by the way, Social problems, The outlook—here and hereafter, The foundations of life and The city of the soul.

“This is a book good to have on the table for leisure moments and their opportunities of refreshment for the higher self.”

+ + Outlook. 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 160w.

+ Spec. 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.

Brookfield, Frances (Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield). Cambridge “Apostles.” *$5. Scribner.

7–13938.

“A record of the talk and a study of the character of a large group of gifted people who enlivened their intercourse with one another with unfailing gaiety of mood and unflagging humor. High spirits and abounding wit are generally found in the company of men of genius; and the madness theory of Nordau is set at naught by the sanity and love of fun of the apostles’ who gave the University of Cambridge distinction between 1830–1840.”—Outlook.

“The book, indeed, is full of blunders—some due probably to slack reading of proofs, some to want of familiarity with the details of the life of the time.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1320w.

“An index, whose five pages, however, do not contain all the entries one might have occasion to look for—not even all the names of persons mentioned in the work. If the book has still another fault, it may by the more serious be thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain—or, if not, they may be skipped.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + − Dial. 12: 134. Mr. 1, ’07. 1500w.

“To one behind the scenes this is not a good book.”

− Nation. 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 890w.

“A few typographical errors disfigure a volume unusually excellent in its format, a joy to both eye and hand. It is of the nature of an accolade to be admitted to this elect circle. Mrs. Brookfield’s readers cannot but have a sense of distinction conferred upon them.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 930w.

“It is loosely put together and not always carefully written, but it is starred with great names and full of delightful glimpses of that rare kind and quality of society which charms, refreshes, and liberates.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

+ + − No. Am. 181: 528. Mr. 1, ’07. 1470w.

“A more interesting and witty book has not come from the press for a long time.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 164. Ja. 26, ’07. 1900w.

Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

+ Putnam’s. 2: 613. Ag. ’07. 1270w.

“We may complain that her proofs have not been read, and that her pages bristle with inexcusable misprints. We may object that many of her statements are inaccurate. But, when all deductions are made, we cannot deny the merit of Mrs. Brookfield’s book, and we have read it from beginning to end with a pleasure which its faults have done no more than temper.”

+ + − Spec. 97: 988. D. 15, ’06. 1270w.

* Brooks, Mary Wallace. A prodigal. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

7–22410.

This story tells how the goodness of a sweet maid reformed the prodigal son of a brokenhearted minister. It contains reproof for the unthinking people of the world who lift their voices in popular condemnation of every son among them who feeds on husks, people who not only do not offer a more Christian diet but who scoff at those who have the courage to offer it.

Broughton, Rhoda. Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“Is no more than a sketch, verging here and there on caricature. It is light, unpretending, avowedly skimming over the surface of things. It is amusing to an unusual degree.” Mary Moss.

+ Atlan. 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 510w.

Brown, Alice. County road. †$1.50. Houghton.

6–33588.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“None of the tales touch upon the darker aspects of life, all are optimistic in tone, and delicately humorous in treatment.”

+ Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 160w.

“The title of the book is well chosen, carrying with it a leisurely pace, happy endings, unforced homely dialect, Yankee talk as it really is.” Alice Durant Smith.

+ Bookm. 24: 598. F. ’07. 920w.

“The people in the book are mainly earth creatures, dimly aware of, but in no wise intimate with their own mental processes, and they are handled with insight and unfailing charm.”

+ Ind. 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 220w.

“All lovers of New England studies are cordially advised to read this collection.”

+ Spec. 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.

Brown, Arthur J. Foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world movement. **$1.50. Revell.

7–23292.

A text-book for the student contemplating going into the field. “Beginning with a statement of the missionary motive and aim, he describes simply and clearly the essential qualifications for the work, then passes on to a detailed account of the missionary’s relations to the society which sends him out, his duties to it, and its obligations to him. The principal arguments against foreign missions are briefly stated and answered, and the book closes with a striking portrayal of the modern missionary, not as a saint on a pedestal with a halo about his head, but as ‘preëminently a man of affairs.’” (Nation.)

“We only regret, and it is our single criticism, that he has not given some information as to the way in which young English, German, and Swiss candidates are prepared for missionary work in Asia and Africa.”

+ + − Nation. 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 380w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“A thoroughly sane book is a thing of beauty and a joy. Such is Dr. Brown’s book on missions. This book is especially adapted for two classes of persons—those who believe in foreign missions and those who don’t.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

54Brown, Charles Reynolds. Main points: a study in Christian belief. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

7–19461.

“The present work puts before thoughtful laymen the main points of evangelical doctrine as now held by what twenty years ago began to be known as ‘progressive orthodoxy.’ It is for these who desire a statement of fundamental Christian truths more accordant with modern thought and experience than what they find in the historic creeds.”—Outlook.

+ Ind. 62: 504. F. 28. ’07. 150w.

“It is a luminous help to the clear thinking that grasps essential reality. It is also sane in stopping at the line where it is more reasonable to wait for more light before exploring further. This quality, however, is not so manifest in its discussion of the divinity of Christ.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 352. F. 9, ’07. 170w.

Brown, Charles Reynolds. Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25. Scribner.

6–32406.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

Atlan. 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 110w.

“The main interest in the volume lies in the method by which the Biblical story of Exodus is made to suggest moral factors in the labor problems of our own time and land.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ Dial. 42: 12. Ja. 1, ’07. 400w.

Brown, Francis. Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. *$8. Houghton.

Professor Brown has brought an enormous undertaking to its completion, aided by Professors Driver and Briggs. It is “the most important contribution to Hebrew lexicography since the ‘Thesaurus.’ When it is added that the gains of three-quarters of a century in Semitic philology, in textual criticism, geographical exploration, and archaeological research, as well as in Biblical exegesis, have been brought to bear on the lexical problems of the Old Testament, it will be understood that the lexicon has no need to commend itself by even the greatest names of former generations.” (Nation.)

“It is, indeed, a veritable thesaurus, and will not fall far short of meeting the most exacting requirements. It is safe to predict that it will be a long time before it is superseded; and in the meantime it will remain what it is now, an indispensable helper.” Charles C. Torrey.

+ + Am. J. Theol. 11: 510. Jl. ’07. 2990w.

“We regret that the price of this essential dictionary will conduce to the further neglect of the Hebrew language in our theological seminaries.”

+ Ind. 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 310w.

“Let the place of honor among the religious books of the year be given to a monument of patient toil and exact and searching scholarship. Professor Francis Brown’s ‘Hebrew and English lexicon of the old Testament.’”

+ + + Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 130w.

“Scholars of the English tongue have now in their hands an instrument not only unsurpassed, but unrivalled in any other language.”

+ + Nation. 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 200w.

Brown, Sir Hanbury. Irrigation: its principles and practice as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.

A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.

Brown, Helen Dawes. Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–32838.

Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.

N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

Brown, Hiram Chellis. Historical bases of religions, primitive, Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

6–33632.

A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense, introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious progress.

“Is a well-written but misleading book. It is the product of wide reading rather than of close study or original investigation.” Kemper Fullerton.

− + Am. J. Theol. 16: 666. O. ’07. 250w.

“We have no opportunity to verify at this time the author’s statement of historic facts concerning the teachings of the monuments, but assuming them to be correct we feel that the conclusions drawn therefrom are not entirely warranted. In our opinion the author lacks power of historic perspective.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ − Arena. 37: 107. Ja. ’07. 870w.

“Throughout the volume the wrong is so mingled with the right, and there is such a distortion (doubtless unintentional) of the history, that the general reader may often get an impression not in accordance with the facts. A proper estimate of Hebraism and Judaism calls for wider knowledge and a calmer and more Judicial attitude than are to be found in this volume.”

− Nation. 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 540w.

Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 160w.

Brown, John Mason. Lecture on the law of contracts. $1. John M. Brown, Washington, D. C.

7–23481.

“The subject-matter of the book was prepared by Mr. Brown for delivery before the Association of American Government Accountants, the aim and desire of the author being to correct some of the misconceptions of law and some of the errors of practice which have so largely characterized the government contract and those who have had to deal therewith.”—Engin. N.

“The presentation of the matter—especially those features and branches with which contractors are so frequently harassed and annoyed—is exceptionally clear. The language is entirely untechnical and the book is so arranged as to give the layman a thorough grasp of the main principles of the law.”

+ Engin. N. 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.

+ Technical Literature. 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 230w.

Brown, John Pinkney. Practical arboriculture: how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity: a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers; how, where and what to plant for the rapid production of 55lumber, cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs by the author. $2.50. J. P. Brown, Connersville, Ind.

6–23171.

A thorogoing handbook sufficiently well outlined in the sub-title.

“The work can in no proper sense be called a text-book, since it is utterly lacking in systematic arrangement, but it will doubtless prove of no little educational value. It is a pity that the book has no index, what is called such being merely a table of contents.”

+ + − Engin. N. 56: 525. N. 15, ’06. 310w.

R. of Rs. 34: 761. D. ’06. 80w.

Brown, Katharine Holland. Dawn. †50c. Crowell.

7–21225.

An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.

Brown, Kenneth. Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.

6–19771.

“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’ and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country, it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.

“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities, not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.

“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.

Brown, William Adams. Christian theology in outline. **$2.50. Scribner.

6–44353.

A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties, while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)

“It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern doctrine.”

+ − Ind. 63: 884. O. 10, ’07. 330w.

“Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the place of thought.”

+ Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 280w.

“This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”

+ Outlook. 86: 565. Je. 13, ’07. 1650w.

R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.

Browne, Edward G. Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di. (Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.

7–2590.

The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,” the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.

“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of letters.”

+ + Acad. 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w.

“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and bounteous exposition.”

+ + − Ath. 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w.

“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but light reading.”

+ + Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in years.”

+ + Lit. D. 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w.

“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits. The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly scholarly spelling of the names.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w.

“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader] comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s book.”

+ + Sat. R. 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w.

“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even from an Eastern.”

+ + Spec. 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w.

Browne, George Waldo. Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in Venezuela. 75c. McKay.

A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.

Browne, J. H. Balfour. Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5. Longmans.

The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the “Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The “Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and Macready.

“A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 590w.

56“The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular value in this twentieth century.”

+ − Dial. 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 90w.

“The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”

+ − Nation. 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 330w.

“Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of literature.”

− Sat. R. 103: 528. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.

− + Spec. 98: 1014. Je. 20, ’07. 210w.

Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Complete poetical works; with a prefatory note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp leather “Thin paper poets.”

Browning, Oscar. Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.

7–32141.

“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M. Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this country.”—Acad.

“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint. The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”

+ − Acad. 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w.

“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

+ + − Am. Hist. R. 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w.

“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early in 1813.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.

“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.

+ − Dial. 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w.

“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we say, over-facile composition.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w.

“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”

+ Nation. 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w.

“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other matters.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w.

“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.

“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in any library of Napoleonic literature.”

+ Spec. 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w.

Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough. Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.

6–46250.

The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart of the black belt of Alabama.”

Bruce, George A. Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.

6–18330.

Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’ battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania.

“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full of valuable sidelights.”

+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w.

“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy tale, without an index.”

+ + − Nation. 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w.

R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w.

Bruce, Jerome. Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.

6–43783.

The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in antebellum days.

Bruce, Philip Alexander. Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

7–29102.

More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions, and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of the past.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. S.

“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the northern army of invasion.”

+ Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w.

“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world history.” W: E. Dodd.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.

+ R. of Rs. 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w.

Brunetiere, Ferdinand. Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.

6–43793.

The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters. The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s life, as with the 57elemental points that define, explain and characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.

“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”

+ + Acad. 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w.

“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable. Not equally well translated throughout.”

+ + − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w.

“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”

+ + Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w.

“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s ‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”

+ + Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w.

Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w.

“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater distance of time.”

+ + Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w.

+ Nation. 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w.

“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.” James Huneker.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w.

“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel that it would have carried farther had its author never become involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.

+ + − No. Am. 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w.

“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”

+ + − Outlook. 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and partial.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ − Putnam’s. 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w.

Sat. R. 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w.

* Bryant, W. W. History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.

“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial evolution.”—Ath.

“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w.

“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.”

+ + Dial. 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w.

Bryce, James. Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50. Oxford.

A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law of Rome and the history and law of England.”

“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”

+ + Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w.

“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as himself.” Edward Cary.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w.

Buchanan, Alfred. Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.

Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation, heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about its decay.”

“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr. Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”

+ R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w.

“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption. On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”

+ Spec. 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.

Buckell, G. T. Teasdale. Complete English wing shot. *$3.50. McClure.

A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game birds.

“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its title would lead one to expect.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w.

“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs, seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long and practiced experience, and will, no 58doubt, win the attention they deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its limits.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any sport about which much has already been written, is the direct personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of bringing up pheasants and partridges.”

+ − Spec. 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w.

Buckham, James. Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.

7–23873.

The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them. Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of forming an acquaintance with nature.

“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these meditations.”

+ Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

* Budge, E. A. T. Wallis. Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.

7–24130.

A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose ancestors built them and worshipped in them.

“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and, whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The arrangement of the book also might have been better.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w.

“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of prosperity.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel with information concerning archaeological research and history, these books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the student.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w.

“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”

+ + Spec. 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w.

Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck. Reinforced concrete. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.

6–41296.

This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their application.

“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank among the standard books and should continue to be of service to designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.

+ + Engin. N. 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w.

+ + Nature. 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w.

Bullen, Frank T. Frank Brown, sea apprentice. †$1.50. Dutton.

7–25665.

“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”

+ Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.

“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures, lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners, and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”

− Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.

“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea yarns, will find the book entertaining.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.

“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be relished by young readers.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w.

“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”

+ Spec. 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w.

Bullen, Frank T. Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.

W 7–129.

Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously. Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and enjoy his early works.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.

“A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic without being at all a romance.”

+ + − Outlook. 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w.

“Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”

+ Spec. 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

59Bullock, Charles Jesse. Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.

7–31981.

A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”

“The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate library facilities.”

+ + J. Pol. Econ. 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w.

Bullock, Charles Jesse, ed. Selected readings in public finance. *$2.25. Ginn.

6–6286.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value alike to teachers and students of public finance.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w.

Bulpett, C. W. L. Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50. Longmans.

7–19053.

“The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then, bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.

“In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with Abyssinia.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

“The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and straightforward way.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w.

“They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably upon their progress and adventures.”

+ Spec. 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w.

Bumpus, T. Francis. Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5. Pott.

Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona, Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described therein.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to understand.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w.

“Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and instructive book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w.

“He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full of spirit and vigour.”

+ Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w.

Burbank, Luther. Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.

7–15628.

Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.

“Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment, differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07.

“The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned Sunday school libraries.”

− Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w.

“It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it to our readers.”

+ + Arena. 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w.

“The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”

+ Educ. R. 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w.

+ Ind. 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w.

“Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well deserved separate publication.”

+ + Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.

Burgess, Gelett. Heart line. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–32840.

If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the girl he loves.

“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums, ‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”

+ Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w.

Burgess, Gelett. White cat. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–10048.

A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower personality.

“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.

+ Arena. 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.

60“The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr. Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”

+ − Ind. 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.

“His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly entertaining, nevertheless.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w.

Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w.

Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton. Cotton; its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

6–26066.

The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)

“Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”

+ Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w.

“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’ derision.”

+ − Nature. 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w.

“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w.

“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less full and satisfactory.”

+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w.

“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”

+ − Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w.

Burkitt, Francis Crawford. Gospel history and its transmission. *$2.25. Scribner.

7–31392.

“Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon, delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.

“It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.

+ + Am. J. Theol. 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w.

“Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”

+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w.

Bib. World. 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w.

“The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of information concerning the life of Christ.”

+ + Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

“The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”

+ Nation. 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.

“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but in this book he is on the whole conservative.”

+ + − Sat. R. 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w.

Burland, J. B. Harris. Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.

6–42432.

“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and material power.

Burne, Sir Owen Tudor. Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.

7–28493.

Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during a long period of years.” (Ath.)