Volume 3 — B

Bacheller, Irving A. Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing. †50c. Harper.

7–29429.

Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume; one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise, humorous companion of earlier days.

N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w.

Bacon, Edwin Munroe. Connecticut river, and the valley of the Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.

+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 38. F. ’07.

+ Spec. 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w.

18Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam. Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.

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“The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.

“Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.

+ − Bookm. 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w.

“Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and thinner as time goes on.”

+ − Nation. 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w.

“The plot is of soap-bubble texture ... and the whole is told with abundant humor in a style of exceptional simplicity and good taste.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

“The book is full of fun.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

“A mild plot is cleverly managed by the author.”

+ Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.) In high places. †$1.50. Doubleday.

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The “high places” are the risky elevations from which scrupulous and unscrupulous actors in high finance manipulate the money market. A business woman of to-day occupies the center of the stage.

“‘In high places,’ in fact, inspires a hope that Mrs. Bacon may go on rather than back, that she may succeed in ridding herself of the shopworn, obvious side of her talent and by clearing her mind of a residue of stock phrases and characters, leave it free to receive her own unhackneyed and genuine impressions.”

+ − Nation. 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 390w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“In many respects the novel is disagreeable—in some unnecessarily so—but the plea that it is true to life can be supported, without doubt.”

− + Outlook. 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 150w.

Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.), ed. Songs every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.

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More than a hundred songs with music are grouped here. They include songs of sentiment, folk song, cradle songs, songs of war, national hymns, nonsense songs, patriotic songs, Shakesperian songs and miscellaneous songs. Introductory notes to each song add enlightenment for the child.

A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 189. O. ’06.

“The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the taste displayed is broad and catholic.”

+ + Bookm. 24: 295. N. ’06. 780w.

+ − Ind. 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

+ Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 50w.

“Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”

+ − Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 120w.

“One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”

+ Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 30w.

R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 40w.

Badger, George Henry. Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.

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Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.

Bagley, William Chandler. Classroom management: its principles and technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.

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“Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems, and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’ ‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’ ‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.

“The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his task.”

+ + Dial. 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 160w.

“While the book is written primarily for students of education in schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”

+ + Nation. 85: 255. S. 19, ’07. 210w.

“The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public expense.”

+ + Outlook. 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.

Bagot, Richard. Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.

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Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.” (Ath.)

“Mr. Bagot observes keenly, but a little hastily; he is rather sharp than wise in his judgments, and his people are drawn without the subtle shades which would make them interesting in themselves.”

+ − Acad. 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.

“It is a powerful drama, and discloses Mr. Bagot at his best.”

+ + Ath. 1907. 1: 286. Mr. 9. 210w.

“Like Mr. Crawford, also Mr. Bagot never lets you forget that he is writing of an alien race, with habits and temperaments and language quite foreign to that of the Anglo-Saxon; and yet, at the same time, he interprets them so skilfully that the sum total of your impressions is rather that of the brotherhood of the two races than of the gulf between them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 26: 162. O. ’07. 590w.

“Mr. Bagot spends so much care on the few characters whom he introduces, and offers so close an explanation of their motives, that we are prepared both for greater vigour of action and greater subtlety of speech. But he seldom drops his attitude of the grave observer pondering wide issues. In any case, however, it is an interesting book; you lay it down not infrequently, but you open it with respect.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 390w.

19“The facts are bald enough, but they are interpreted with much skill.”

+ − Nation. 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 420w.

“There are few gleams of fascination in ‘Temptation’.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 120w.

“That which may be most cordially praised in this novel is the author’s evidently exact and always interesting depiction of Italian country life and social customs and manners.”

+ − Outlook. 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 100w.

“Although the main theme of the story is gloomy, there are many pleasant passages. The book is always interesting.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 380w.

“Though ‘Temptation’ cannot be pronounced a pleasant book, the author must be acquitted of any desire to palter with the principles of right and wrong.”

+ − Spec. 98: 422. Mr. 16, ’07. 840w.

Bailey, Edgar H. S. Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or, The chemistry of water, air, and food. *$1.40. Macmillan.

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In which the author emphasizes the fact that a knowledge of the relations of health to pure air, unpolluted water, and wholesome food will greatly improve sanitary conditions of students as well as people at large. Part 1 discusses air and fuel in their relation to heating and ventilation, lighting by the various agents now in use, water supply and purification, and disposal of household waste. Part 2 deals with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages and dietaries.

“Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”

+ Nation. 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w.

Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.

Science, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w.

“The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially elementary.”

+ − Science, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w.

* Bailey, Elmer James. Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25. Scribner.

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In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies between his work and that of his predecessors.

“Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence. The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s influence upon other novelists.”

+ − Nation. 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w.

“The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w.

Bailey, Liberty Hyde, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.

7–8529.

A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)

v. 1. Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms; farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.

v. 2. Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields. Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers only.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

“Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the rural districts.”

+ + − Nation. 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ − Nature. 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

Bailey, Temple. Judy. †$1.50. Little.

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Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air, simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life lesson.

N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

Bailey, William Bacon. Modern social conditions. $3. Century.

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“The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am. J. Soc.

“The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.

+ Am. J. Soc. 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w.

“Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography. The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.

+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w.

“It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full comprehension of those sections.” J. C.

+ − J. Pol. Econ. 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w.

20“I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.

− − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w.

“As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation. Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.

− + Yale R. 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w.

Baillie, James Black. Outline of the idealistic construction of experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.

7–11048.

The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)

“The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w.

“Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.

+ + − Hibbert J. 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w.

“If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to court disaster.”

− + Lond. Times. 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w.

“The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.

+ − Philos. R. 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w.

“In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration, and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful environment.”

+ Spec. 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w.

Baily, J. T. Herbert. Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.

A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely, her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.

“Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ − Dial. 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w.

“Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”

+ Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w.

R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w.

Baker, Cornelia. Court jester; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.

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The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.

“Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average child’s attention throughout.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 206. N. ’07.

“A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on this successful collaboration.”

+ + Bookm. 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w.

“A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ... are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w.

Baker, Ernest A. History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.

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An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student. “Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 157. O. ’07. S.

“These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.

+ + Bookm. 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w.

“So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work, it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the index.”

+ + Outlook. 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.

“Very carefully compiled catalogue.”

+ Spec. 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w.

Baker, Etta Anthony. Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.

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Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games, their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the sort that any school boy may profit by.

Baker, George Pierce. Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist. *$1.75. Macmillan.

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A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America; in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations 21that throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the period.” (Nation.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 158. O. ’07. S.

“The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward Fuller.

+ + Bookm. 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w.

“The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic development than many others written with less regard for external conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the way for Shakespeare.”

+ + Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w.

“There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.

+ + − Forum. 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w.

“We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and his thorough sympathy with his author.”

+ + Nation. 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w.

“The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation, however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and inspiration.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w.

“His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.

+ + No. Am. 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w.

“This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of uneducated opinion.”

+ Outlook. 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w.

“It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

+ + Putnam’s. 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w.

Baker, James Hutchins. American problems; essays and addresses. **$1.20. Longmans.

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In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)

“Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is vigorous and even inspiring.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w.

Cath. World. 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w.

“The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly original manner.” Max West.

+ Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w.

Ind. 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w.

“The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”

− + Nation. 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

Outlook. 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

+ − Putnam’s. 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w.

R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w.

“If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.

+ − School R. 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w.

Baker, John Cordis, ed. American country homes and their gardens; introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.

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“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’ and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as ‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.

“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of information about the status and development of American architecture and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”

+ Dial. 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

+ Ind. 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

Baker, Louise R. Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.

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A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk. It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.

“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.

Baldwin, James Mark. Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.

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Third edition with improvements and enlargements.

“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.

+ Dial. 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w.

Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w.

“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.

“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work is of distinctive and permanent value.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.

Baldwin, James Mark. Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.

“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.

22“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ − Am. J. Soc. 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w.

“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and cannot well be hastily scanned.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w.

Baldwin, James Mark. Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.

6–44293.

The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological, genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”

“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we close it with a feeling of disappointment.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.

+ + Int. J. Ethics. 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.

+ − J. Philos. 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)

“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious, systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical doctrine in the form of error.”

+ − Nation. 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”

+ + − Nature. 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a notable one.” A. W. Moore.

+ + − Psychol. Bull. 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner ring.”

− Sat. R. 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A. Tawney.

+ + − Science, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)

Baldwin, May. Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.

The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of the particularly undisciplinary pensionnat in which she is placed, and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)

“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.

“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained through all its 400 pages.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the ground.”

− + Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.

Balzac, Honore de. Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.

7–15141.

A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.

Banks, Louis Albert. Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.

7–23975.

This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’ mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.

Barber, Edwin Atlee. Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.

7–19048.

An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham, Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N. Y. Times.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 191. N. ’07.

+ Nation. 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.

Barber, Edwin Atlee. Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.

7–18108.

The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable information based on the latest discoveries relating to various industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07.

“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”

+ − Nation. 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.

23“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first complete work on the subject.”

+ Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w.

Barbour, Ralph Henry. Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.

6–34684.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and will certainly be liked by boys.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

“The best he has done.”

+ Bookm. 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w.

* Barbour, Ralph Henry. Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2. Lippincott.

7–33207.

A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop, thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold binding.

“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless ‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”

+ Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

Barbour, Ralph Henry. Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.

6–34813.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ Ind. 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.

“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking in suggestive quality.”

− Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w.

* Barbour, Ralph Henry. Tom, Dick and Harriet. †$1.50. Century.

7–32158.

The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play, and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the winning of a much needed endowment fund.

+ Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.

“The book is worth reading.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

Barclay, Armiger. King makers. †$1.50. Small.

The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons, undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before all this is safely brought about.

“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is worth while.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.

Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens). Life of Alfred de Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.

6–26201.

“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters, rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.

“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”

+ Lit. D. 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w.

“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”

− + Nation. 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w.

Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens). Princesses and court ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.

6–45155.

The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s sister; and “An Arab princess.”

“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of translation now prevalent.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w.

“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion of cheapness or superficiality.”

+ Dial. 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w.

+ Ind. 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

+ Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w.

“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many interesting pictures.”

+ Outlook. 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w.

“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ Putnam’s. 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w.

“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of biography as we have seen for some time.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w.

“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately represented in the translation.”

+ Spec. 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w.

Barker, Ernest. Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50. Putnam.

7–15512.

“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the spirit within the letter.”—Nation.

“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of his subject.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w.

“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book 24is much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory, both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.

+ + + Int. J. Ethics. 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w.

“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and fantastic analogies.”

+ + Nation. 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w.

“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The universities to which we look for future statesmen may be congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for political studies.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w.

“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.

+ + − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w.

“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic, but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w.

“Illuminating volume.”

+ + Spec. 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w.

Barker, J. Ellis. Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–6776.

“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party government, and especially against the particular form of government which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and army.”—Lond. Times.

“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which Mr. Barker denounces.”

+ − Acad. 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w.

“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large proportion of chaff.”

− + Am. Hist. R. 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w.

“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”

− Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w.

“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too long.”

− Ath. 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w.

“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot Griffis.

+ − Dial. 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w.

“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”

+ − Ind. 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w.

“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he dogmatizes.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.

“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”

− Nation. 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w.

“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on, and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w.

“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic of popular government and all its ways.”

− + Outlook. 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w.

“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have read for some time.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w.

“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr. Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”

− Sat. R. 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 1480w.

“The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations, and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”

+ − Spec. 98: 1010. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.

Barksdale, Emily Woodson. Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.

7–20866.

Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.

Barnes, Howard Turner. Ice formation, with special reference to anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.

6–37871.

The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.

“The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest, and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the more 25consideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”

+ + − Engin. N. 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 1430w.

+ + − Nature. 75: 267. F. 17, ’07. 880w.

Barnett, T. Ratcliffe. Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West. Meth. bk.

The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ... who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”

Barr, Martin W. King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.

7–14249.

The pitiful tale of an insane patient’s life written by herself during her perfectly lucid moments. A joyless childhood, a lonely girlhood, and the speedy wrecking of the happiness that finally dawned for her, produce a wail on every page. It forms an intense human document.

“A weird tale, apparently half in and half out of the region of reality. It is quite as fantastic and as full of creepy horrors as such a tale might be expected to be.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.

Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.). Rock in the Baltic. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.

6–16737.

“The ‘rock’ is used as a prison by those supposed monsters of iniquity the Russian Grand Dukes, and there, in process of time, two enthusiastic seekers for trouble, one a young Englishman and the other a titled Russian, are incarcerated. Finally they are taken away on a yacht, on which two American girls are conveniently placed.”—Ind.

“This is a commonplace book written in a commonplace way about commonplace people.”

− Acad. 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.

“It is not often that the elusive grace and humor of modern girlhood are so well reproduced as they are in these pages.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 230w.

“Reads as if it had been written against time.”

− Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 70w.

Barrett, Howard. Management of children. *$2. Dutton.

7–29143.

“Treats of the physical care of infants and children, in both disease and health, from the time of birth into and past the early teens. All of the usual problems of food, drink, clothing, and sleep, the ordinary diseases, contagious and other, to which children are liable; accidents, malformations, and many possibilities of unusual disease are discussed in a plain, common sense, untechnical way for the enlightenment and guidance of those who have the immediate care of the young.”—N. Y. Times.

N. Y. Times. 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 260w.

“We offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. Barrett, and we may add, to those for whom he writes.”

+ + Spec. 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

Barrie, J. M. Little minister. $1.25. Crowell.

A thin paper edition with limp leather binding which contains a reproduced photograph of Maude Adams.

Barrington, Emilie Isabel (Mrs. Russell Barrington). Life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. 2v. *$10.50. Macmillan.

7–13427.

“This work is said to have the approval of the family of the late President of the Royal Academy, and may be considered authoritative, if not official. A friendship existed between Frederick Leighton and the author for more than thirty years, and so the pages which deal with personal characteristics will be found peculiarly intimate.... The book includes Leighton’s diary, covering a period of fifty years, and among the mass of interesting correspondence incorporated is to be found a number of letters from George Eliot, Ruskin, Browning, Henry Greville, and Charles Dickens. Besides many of Leighton’s finest works reproduced especially for this publication are several fac-simile drawings and paintings never before published.”—N. Y. Times.

“Unsatisfactory as biography, these volumes are entirely valueless as criticism. Instead of disentangling the real merits of Leighton’s work from less admirable characteristics, Mrs. Barrington vaguely couples him with Phidias and the old masters, and urges claims so absurd as to tax severely the patience and perseverance of all educated readers.”

− − Acad. 72: 91. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.

“It is disfigured by one or two hasty figures of speech ... and the printer’s reader has been unusually neglectful of his duties. It is a pity to leave such blemishes on a book of sterling value, indispensable to all students of modern English life and art.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 140. F. 2. 860w.

“Unfortunately Mrs. Barrington is not as skilful in arranging and adapting her material as she has been industrious in collecting it.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

− + Dial. 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 1980w.

+ + Int. Studio. 30: 363. F. ’07. 500w.

“Interesting as are many of Leighton’s letters, and multifarious as are the details with which the book is filled, the reader would have been able to gather a truer impression of Leighton, his development, his artistic character, and his work as an administrator if the biographer had been more rigorous in selecting and had been a better critic.”

− + Lond. Times. 6: 61. F. 22, ’07. 1500w.

“It cannot be called a worthy monument to its subject. Its author has little critical acumen or severity of taste; it is rambling and repetitious; padded with much matter of little interest as presented; marred by mistranslations of foreign tongues, misunderstanding of technical terms, faulty transcription of proper names, and careless proofreading.”

− − + Nation. 84: 275. Mr. 21, ’07. 1510w.

N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“On the whole the book disappoints one in the lack of letters from the interesting people Leighton knew. A more serious matter is the failure of the biographer to offer a plausible pen-portrait of Leighton, or even to allow him to describe himself.” Charles de Kay.

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 2490w.

“Small points and insignificant matters are grossly inflated, but the real issue is never faced. The flawless impeccable Leighton remains so to the last, though we are not told why he was, or, what is rather more important, why he was really not so.” Christian Brinton.

− Putnam’s. 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 340w.

Barron, Elwyn Alfred. Marcel Levignet. †$1.50. Duffield.

6–36038.

“A detective story laid in Paris and including all the elements needed for profound sensation. The author is skilled in keeping apparently tangled threads in his hands, and unties several hard knots with all the ease of a practiced novel writer.” (Outlook.) “The hero is a sort 26of modern Cyrano de Bergerac.... He is bon vivant, editor, amateur detective, student of life as it is lived. His kinship with Cyrano is sentimental.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A refreshing variant on the old detective story. To readers of a certain vein, in fact, ‘Marcel Levignet’ will furnish a particularly agreeable light evening’s pastime.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 500w.

“The tone of the story is essentially French—sentiment, situation, and characters, and most especially the climax.”

+ Outlook. 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 60w.

“As fantastic as the generality of detective stories, ‘Marcel Levignet’ differs from said generality in being readable by grown-up persons.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 50w.

Barry, Richard Hayes. Events man; being an account of the adventures of Stanley Washburn, American war correspondent. **$1.25. Moffat.

7–15132.

In which Mr. Barry records some of Mr. Washburn’s adventures on a newspaper dispatch-boat between Corea and Port Arthur during the first part of the war between Russia and Japan.

“The story is rich or tiresome in detail, according to taste, but is an exciting picture of conditions in war time on the water around Port Arthur.”

+ − Ind. 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 130w.

“The book has evidently been written in a great hurry, not even time enough having been given to have the chapter headings all spelt correctly.”

− + Lit. D. 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.

“The author indulges himself in a diction so plentifully sprinkled with slang that it often becomes unintelligible to the reader accustomed to ordinary English. It is a story full of dogged perseverance and unbounded pluck, and it was well worth telling.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 500w.

“On the whole the good ‘stuff’ ... far outweighs the bad. The story is a bit of real life; vivid, strong and picturesque. It remains to be recorded that the proof reading of the volume is unbelievably bad.”

+ − Outlook. 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 1830w.

“Mr. Barry may always be counted upon for graphic power.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.

Bartholomew, John George, ed. Atlas of the world’s commerce. *$8. Scribner.

A new series of maps, with descriptive text and diagrams showing products, imports, exports, commercial conditions, and economic statistics of the countries of the world, compiled from the latest official returns at the Edinburgh geographical institute.

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 42. F. 8, ’07. 170w.

“So excellent is the idea, and so good the execution by devices of colorings and diagrams, that whoever wants information of this description can hardly be directed to a better source for satisfaction. This cordial recognition of the volume’s merits must be accompanied with regrets that the figures are some years old, and that all figures of this sort are incomplete and contradictory.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 310w.

Barton, Clara. Story of my childhood. 50c. Baker.

7–35389.

A simply told story of the childhood of Clara Barton, which is really written for the school children of the country after repeated appeals from them for bits of her early life.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. S.

“Is as wonderful as its writer: it is extremely interesting, and yet it hardly touches on those aptitudes and activities that all the world associates with her remarkable personality.”

+ + Dial. 43: 171. S. 16, ’07. 250w.

“Will be found interesting to all persons who have followed her beneficent career.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

Barton, George. Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.

7–19594.

A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.

Barton, James Levi. Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.

6–43768.

In which the author has brought together a “large number of testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of competence and character.” (Ind.)

Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.

“It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.

“Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to the worth of Christian missions.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 70w.

Barton, Mrs. Marion T. Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–11589.

The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.” Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second marriage.

“About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession of a story worth telling.”

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w.

“The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship between the girls hangs.”

− + Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

Bashford, James Whitford. China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.

7–524.

A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25 to May 6, 1907.

Bashore, Harvey Brown. Outlines of practical sanitation, for students, physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.

6–33610.

Improved sanitation with regard to habitations; water, milk and food supplies; the collection and disposal of waste; schools and cars. There are chapters on vital statistics, municipal, rural and suburban sanitation, and personal hygiene.

27“Clear, convincing, and simple; but, covering as it does so wide a range of subjects in 198 pages, is of course, only suggestive.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 5. Ja. ’07.

“Within the limits indicated by its sub-title, this is one of the best and most practical books on sanitation that has ever come to our attention. Perhaps it is surprising that in attempting to cover so wide a range of subjects in a popular manner, more slips and questionable statements were not made.”

+ + − Engin. N. 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 260w.

“The book should be found useful as a means of imparting sound ideas of the laws of healthy living to teachers and citizens.”

+ Nature. 76: 125. Je. 6, ’07. 100w.

Baskerville, Beatrice C. Polish Jew: his social and economic value. *$2.50. Macmillan.

7–15500.

Eight years’ residence and study in Poland lie back of Miss Baskerville’s presentation of the Jew of that country. She throws light upon the Polish Jew immigrant by revealing the conditions of his native economic and social environment.

“The author is very frankly unfavorably impressed by the Jews, and, although it is to be hoped she has exaggerated the dark side of the situation, her volume is of great importance. The style is good and the thought clear.”

+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 500w.

“Such a book as this deserves a hearty welcome, and for valuable matter contributed on Poland—a country very little known—it may be classed with that of Dr. George Brandes, which appeared a short time ago.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 95. Jl. 27. 870w.

“Would have enhanced value if the author ... would have shown more sympathy with the population she describes.”

+ − Ind. 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.

“It is so obvious that she knows a great deal that we cannot help regretting a certain lack of clearness in the impression which her book produces. It would almost seem as though Miss Baskerville had unconsciously written rather for a Polish than for an English public.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 880w.

“The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”

+ − Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w.

“What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w.

“Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak with authority.”

+ Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w.

“An elaborate, dispassionate study.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w.

“It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”

+ + Sat. R. 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.

Bastian, Henry C. Evolution of life. *$2.50. Dutton.

7–33603.

“A detailed and somewhat belated statement of his side of the controversy over the spontaneous generation of life, which followed the publication, in 1872, of his book on ‘The Beginnings of life.’”—Dial.

“Ingenious and striking some of the new experiments cited certainly are; but it will be very difficult to find any biologist who will be convinced that they demonstrate the truth of the conclusion drawn from them by Dr. Bastian.” Raymond Pearl.

− Dial. 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 210w.

Ind. 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 60w.

Lond. Times. 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 1140w.

“With practically all the eminent bacteriologists of the world flatly denying such a postulate of spontaneous generation, we can only add, in deference to Dr. Bastian’s evident sincerity, that his experiments must be at fault in some way; there is some loop-hole unguarded.”

− Nation. 85: 192. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.

“It is impossible not to admire the author’s strong desire to get at the truth, the courage of his convictions, and his incomparable good humour.” J. A. T.

− + Nature. 76: 1. My. 2, ’07. 1070w.

Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates. Glimpses of Italian court life: happy days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.

6–41530.

“Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.

Current Literature. 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w.

“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and thoroughly readable.”

+ Dial. 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 340w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w.

“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”

+ − Nation. 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 650w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.

“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”

− Outlook. 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w.

Bates, Arlo. Talks on teaching literature **$1.30. Houghton.

6–37886.

“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature, the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship, literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the 28author within the comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book upon the subject with which it deals.”

+ + Dial. 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w.

“The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”

+ + Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 60w.

“The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness. But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.

+ + − Forum. 38: 389. Ja. ’07. 860w.

“The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.

+ + − School R. 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w.

Bates, Carroll Lund. The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1. Badger, R. G.

7–7479.

Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of Christ.

“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w.

Bates, David Homer. Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.

7–32385.

Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861 to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.

“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply and naturally written.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”

+ Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w.

“Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his books a great deal of information concerning important military movements.”

+ R. of Rs. 36: 754. D. ’07. 140w.

Bates, Katharine Lee. From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary journey in England. **$2. Crowell.

7–32870.

In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is based upon wide reading and careful observation.

“A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”

+ Dial. 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 130w.

“As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England, easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is thoroughly got up.”

+ Nation. 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 180w.

“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”

+ Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.

Battersby, Harry F. P. Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.

6–37929.

A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their true affinities.” (Sat. R.)

“The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary composition.” Wm. M. Payne.

− + Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w.

“The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not counteract its unpleasant features.”

− + N. Y. Times. 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

“Mr. Battersby has done a daring and remarkable thing and his book should place him high among contemporary novelists.”

+ Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 440w.

Baxter, William, jr. Switchboards for power, light and railway service, direct and alternating current, high and low tension. $1.50. Derry-Collard co.

6–45714.

“In the first third of the book the way in which switchboards are connected for single generator and multiple generator plants, and also for the three-wire system, is shown.... Somewhat over a third of the book following the matter just mentioned is devoted to switchboards in actual practice.... The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to switches, circuit breakers, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.

“With the exception of [three] omissions ... the book is an ideal one from a didactic standpoint.”

+ + − Engin. N. 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.

Bayley, R. Child. Complete photographer. $3.50. McClure.

7–35187.

A guide to photography which deals thoroly with the science of photography from its earliest beginnings to its most recent developments and adaptations.

“The completeness of his book, however, lies more in the fact that scarcely a single point is left untouched, than that any particular point is exhaustively treated; and in this respect the work, admittedly, does not challenge comparison with cheaper specialised brochures already on the market. Of many good pictures it would be invidious to mention a few; but it may safely be said that their praiseworthy selection and adequate printing will give the book a great value.”

+ + − Acad. 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 520w.

“The book is much in advance of most works in completeness and attractiveness.”

+ + A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 94. Ap. ’07.

“As an historical review of photography it seems to merit its title, the whole subject being treated with a great deal of method. For the beginner ‘Complete photographer’ should serve as a textbook, and he will do well to follow the author’s advice.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 350w.

29“There is hardly a difficulty which besets the practice of photography, on which valuable advice is not given in it.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 850w.

“There are some opinions with which we do not agree. To those who know enough about photography to appreciate it, and there must be a very large number of persons so qualified, the volume will prove both entertaining and instructive.”

+ + − Nature. 75: 75. N. 22, ’06. 590w.

“The book treats of the subject thoroughly and is of value to the beginner as well as the expert.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

“The book is clearly written and the descriptions are easily followed, and not too technical, each particular subject being dealt with in a separate chapter in a most thorough and practical manner.”

+ + Sat. R. 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“It is as an art that Mr. Bayley prefers to deal with his fascinating hobby, and his book should meet a widely felt want in this respect.”

+ Spec. 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 270w.

Beale, Harriet S. B. Stories from the Old Testament for children. il. $2. Duffield.

7–30462.

A sure help to mothers and Sunday school teachers who wish to present Old Testament characters in an attractive light with nothing lacking of the historical and religious significance. The book is interestingly illustrated.

“The Old Testament is practically retold in a way to interest children.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 40w.

“For a book which might be kept in a household and referred to every other Sunday, the volume seems well compiled, though we think the author has unnecessarily preserved the phraseology of the Bible. We would suggest that since her narrative is in the language of today, the conversation should be also; it would then seem truer to the child reader.”

+ − R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.

Beale, Joseph Henry, jr., and Wyman, Bruce. Law of railroad rate regulation, with special reference to American legislation. *$6. Nagel.

6–36405.

“This is a legal treatise of twelve hundred pages. It contains the full text of the Interstate commerce act and decisions of both of the courts and of the commission under this act, as well as a discussion of the general principles of public service law and the primary obligations of these in public employments, particularly of carriers. In brief, it covers comprehensively the whole law, both common and statutory, with respect to railway rate regulation.”—Outlook.

“The book appears to us a valuable addition to the editor’s library, and with its companion book of ‘Selected cases’ on the same general subject, to be well nigh indispensable to the lawyer who has to deal with this subject.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.

“The authors intrude some assertions not supported—and in some cases not supportable—by citations of authorities. But Professors Beale and Wyman have been wofully betrayed by him who compiled the index. Lawyers will be dismayed to find the text rendered so inaccessible. The impression left by the book is of hasty compilation and absence of just proportion.” Roberts Walker.

− + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 333. Je. ’07. 1080w.

Beard, Charles Austin. Introduction to the English historians. *$1.60. Macmillan.

6–37646.

“In this book Mr. Beard tries to solve a problem very real to teachers of large history classes—the twofold problem of introducing each member of the class to a number of great authorities on special periods and topics at the same time, and of securing a critical examination of the materials in the class-room. His work differs from the well-known source-books in that it consists of excerpts from the secondary sources only: e. g., Maitland, Freeman, and Stubbs. Thirty-six authors are represented and a larger number of works. The difficulty of making a wise selection from abundant materials is recognized and fairly met. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief, explanatory statement concerning the citation, which is divided into sections with topical headings. These form a brief, clear analysis.... A short bibliographical note concludes each chapter, and an index at the end of the volume gives easy access to the material.” (Am. Hist. R.)

“A collection of this kind is open to two serious objections: (1) the subject matter is in a sense ‘pre-digested’ ... (2) the personality of the author becomes blurred.” C. T. Wyckoff.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 416. Ja. ’07. 460w.

“An excellent reference book. Nothing else like it available at present.”

+ + A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 94. Ap. ’07.

“The usefulness of the volume should be considerable. The extracts are all well within the grasp of college students, and the larger number can be profitably used in secondary schools. To teachers the book will be of service as a guide in the selection of suitable matter for collateral reading, while for the many schools which lack access to good libraries the volume will be a real boon.” William MacDonald.

+ + Educ. R. 34: 101. Je. ’07. 680w.

“Both from the pedagogical and the research points of view the volume deserves unqualified commendation. It is intelligently discriminating in its selections, liberal and mature in its comment, and in its arrangement it shows the results of thoro scholarship and fruitful classroom experience. It should save both teachers and students of English history a vast amount of labor and time.”

+ + Ind. 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 370w.

“Even outside Mr. Beard’s own classroom it is an open question how far such a collection will find a following. We are inclined to think his selections somewhat severe for college freshmen.”

+ − Nation. 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 120w.

“The good effect of its use would probably overbalance any counter tendencies.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 11: 897. D. 22, ’06. 420w.

“Time alone can demonstrate the success of his experiment from the pedagogical point of view, but there can be no doubt as to the value.”

+ + − Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 360w.

Beard, Daniel Carter. Field and forest handy book: new ideas for out of doors. $2. Scribner.

6–40572.

In furnishing to boys a year-around guide for equipping themselves for out-of-door pursuits Mr. Beard has drawn only upon his own outing experiences. “The book is not a ‘re-hash’ of old ‘stunts,’ but is full of brand-new things, cleverly arranged according to the seasons to which they are appropriate.” Some of the problems solved are: How to cross a stream on a log, How to make a bridge for swift waters, How to make a real hunter’s clothes and moccasins, and How to build a real log house.

“The material is almost wholly new.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07. ✠

“It is simply indispensable to any wide-awake, real boy.”

+ + Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.

“There is nothing, from airships to flying birds, from boating to camping, from loghouse to snowhouse, that has escaped this born sportsman of our time.”

+ + Ind. 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

30“A treasure for all boys and not without its use for men.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

“The boy or man who has heard the ‘call of the wild’ will do well to entrust himself to Mr. Beard’s guidance.”

+ + R. of Rs. 34: 762. D. ’06. 220w.

Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia Belle. Things worth doing and how to do them. $2. Scribner.

6–40580.

Clear directions accompanied by pen drawings are given for all manner of clever things at home. The book is designed for girls, and one part is devoted to things for parties, shows and entertainments, and the other to things for home, gift days and fairs.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

“The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly practical and actually make the things they describe.”

+ Bookm. 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.

+ Ind. 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

Beardsley, Rufus C. Design and construction of hydroelectric plants; including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.

7–18823.

“This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.

“Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.

+ + Engin. N. 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 780w.

Beare, John Isaac. Greek theories of elementary cognition, from Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.

7–29076.

“This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis, and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Nature.

“Mr. Beare’s scholarship is sound.”

+ + − Nation. 83: 121. Ag. 9, ’06. 660w.

“The statement is very clear, the discussion of disputed points scholarly, the facts are well arranged, and the literature—to judge from the foot-notes and the list of books consulted—seems to have been thoroughly studied; although one misses a reference to one recent work on the ‘De anima’—that of Rodier, whose commentary, if not his translation, has been regarded by competent judges as indispensable. On every account this volume is to be commended to those interested in the development of theories of sense-perception.”

+ + − Nature. 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w.

“The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.

+ + − Philos. R. 16: 205. Mr. ’07. 1360w.

“A learned and elaborate disquisition which will be welcome not only to students of ancient Greek psychology, but also to readers who desire to know what the Greek philosophers accomplished in this particular line of psychological investigation.”

+ + Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 130w.

Bearne, Mrs. Catherine. Heroines of French society in the court, revolution, empire and restoration. *$3. Dutton.

7–25682.

“Contains sketches of the lives of four women: Madame Vigée Le Brun, La Marquise de Montagu, Madame Tallien, and Madame de Genlis. Scraps of contemporary history are interwoven; a number of photogravure portraits are scattered here and there; and the whole makes a fairly readable volume.”—Nation.

“The book is one which deserves more attention than we can give it.”

+ Acad. 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 210w.

Ind. 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.

“As an historical study the work has little value; as a group of biographical sketches it adds nothing to what has already been published in a much more useful and entertaining fashion.”

− Nation. 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 180w.

“A chatty book, filled with anecdotes and incidents that illustrate the manners, morals, and ideas of the upper classes of France previous to and following the years of the revolution.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 165. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.

“Mrs. Bearne writes fluently, and opens here and there a door through which the lover of personal anecdote and gossip can get a glimpse of characteristic French court society.”

+ Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 310w.

“The volume is full of stirring pictures of the terror and moves with spirit.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.

* Bearne, Rev. David. Guild-boys’ play at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.

More glimpses of Ridingdale boys and this time they try their skill as actors in Shakesperian rôles.

* Bearne, Rev. David. New boys at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.

Another Ridingdale book whose events take place at a Catholic school for boys. Wholesome lessons are taught between the lines of fun and frolic.

Bearne, David. Ridingdale flower show; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.

6–46345.

A story of real live boys who “talk as boys and act as boys.”

Bearne, David. Witch of Ridingdale; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.

6–46344.

A spiritual story for boys whose hero, Lance Ridingdale, has become a favorite among young readers.

Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. Works. Cambridge English classics; text ed. by A. R. Waller, 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Nation. 84: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 111. F. 23, ’07. 1560w. (Review of v. 4.)

Beazley, Charles Raymond. Dawn of modern geography. 3v. ea. *$6.75. Oxford.

v. 3. A history of exploration and geographical science from the middle of the 13th to the 31early years of the 15th century (c. A. D. 1260–1420). In it the author tells of the great inland-trade pioneers and of the daring challenge that they made for the “open door” in Hind and Cathay.

“Mr. Beazley’s work is most timely. It is without doubt the best that has yet appeared on the subject. It is not only a work belonging to geographical literature, it has an important place in historical literature. Such a work serves well to impress the importance of historical geography, an importance which receives commendable recognition in the European countries, but which we in America are slow to appreciate.” E. L. Stevenson.

+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 869. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The most interesting and easiest to master of the series.” G. Le Strange.

+ + Eng. Hist. R. 22: 573. Jl. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The form and arrangement of the book undoubtedly leaves something to be desired. After surmounting a long list of abbreviations and corrections, a very ill-knit preface, and an introduction which reads like an after-thought, the reader flounders heavily amid footnotes, supplementary notes, appendix notes, and bibliographical notes. The references are often rather bewildering, and one misses a capable summary at the close. One is easily reconciled to the lumbering of the wheels by the novelty of the outlook and the strange vision of these outlandish regions, so seldom penetrated by modern book.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 98. Mr. 29, ’07. 2860w. (Review of v. 3.)

“In the completion of his great work Mr. Beazley has done and more than done for the middle ages what Bunbury did for ancient times in his ‘Ancient geography.’”

+ + Nation. 85: 330. O. 10, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 3.)

“A credit both to him and to his university.”

+ + Nature. 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.)

“A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

Beck, Otto W. Art principles in portrait photography, composition, treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the plate. **$3. Baker.

7–19429.

The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which “commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and canvas.” (Dial.)

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 159. O. ’07.

“The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional photographers.”

+ Dial. 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

“Mr. Beck’s ‘principles’ are generally very good, but we cannot say as much for his practice.”

+ − Nation. 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 380w.

“Mr. Beck’s book is the work of a man who knows pictures for their full value.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.

Becke, Louis. Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.

W 6–235.

“Reminiscences of a happy-go-lucky wandering along quiet French byways.... The dog furnishes most entertaining diversion all along the way, but so does Jimmy Potter, with his sophomoric proclivities; Mrs. Basker, with her mania for ‘doing things cheaply’ at somebody else’s expense ... and a dozen other quaint and interesting personalities that stand out with remarkable distinctness, considering the highly unconventional mode of their introduction.”—N. Y. Times.

“Delightfully humorous sketches. Fortunately Mr. Becke’s love of fun is tempered by discretion.”

+ Int. Studio. 31: 334. Je. ’07. 90w.

“Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”

+ − Nation. 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 250w.

“Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter, but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the South Seas.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 560w.

Becke, Louis. Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.

Beckwith, Clarence A. Realities of Christian theology; an interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.

6–37867.

An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)

“It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.

+ Am. J. Theol. 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

Atlan. 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w.

“The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.

+ − Bib. World. 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w.

+ − Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.

“The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon them.”

+ − Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w.

R. of Rs. 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w.

32Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles. (Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.

“This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’ Bailey.”—Nation.

“Since Dr. Gosse’s edition is not to be had by all, we offer a hearty welcome to the little reprint before us. May it sell far and wide, and bring Beddoes many new admirers.”

+ Acad. 72: 360. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.

“Mr. Colles’s introduction, though rather carelessly written, gives a good many interesting facts about his obscure life, and he has been at considerable pains to produce a correct text.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 209. Jl. 5, ’07. 2160w.

Nation. 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 120w.

+ Sat. R. 104: 334. S. 14, ’07. 680w.

Beebe, C. William. Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.

6–37592.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“But not only is this volume crowded with new and interesting facts: it is also profusely illustrated, and most of these illustrations are extremely good.” W. P. Pycraft.

+ + Acad. 72: 431. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.

“Written in so interesting a style as to be enjoyed by the general reader as well as by the specialist.”