The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 4)
Reading edition
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes. In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Brown’s new volume has characteristics in common with his “Life on the lagoons,” viz., full sympathy with the people, love for their customs, their legends and their life. “The short papers vary as widely in subject as in treatment. Here one finds a careful account of the Campanile of San Marco and the loggetta of Sansovino, followed by a diagrammed description of the columns of the Piazzetta, which an architect might prize.... His trips to the mainland, including a voyage to Istria, furnish several papers on out-of-the-way places, which one is glad to see through his eyes.” (Nation.)
* “His book is compact enough to be taken abroad as a companion to the ordinary guidebooks, and may be heartily commended to the tourist as well as the general reader.”
+ + Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Has made a charming book out of a number of facts about Venice, soberly told.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 339. O. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“Some of his papers are slight, and in others there are repetitions; but, taken as a whole, this volume is a worthy successor to ‘Life on the lagoons.’”
+ + Nation. 81: 189. Ag. 31, ‘05. 490w.
“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents, its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.
+ + — Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 160w.
+ + Spec. 95: 432. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.
Brown, John. See MacBean, L., jt. auth. Marjorie Fleming.
Brown, Katharine Holland. Diane. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side. Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.
“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery. The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment and surroundings. They have charm.”
+ Acad. 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 240w.
“But the tale, though full of faults, is a creation, and not a mere echo.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 237. F. 25. 330w.
“Diane is thoroughly lovable; other characters are vividly drawn and full of genuine pathos. The book is well written.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“There is, altogether, a great deal to read in ‘Diane,’ and although it suffers a little from faults of construction, it is on the whole a very good story.”
+ — Spec. 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w.
Browne, George Waldo. St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.
The great river is described from the ocean to the lake, and the men who were connected with it are brought in in chronological order, Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, LaSalle, Wolfe, Montcalm, and the early voyageurs. There is an account of Indian wars, and a fine blending of past scenes and present scenery. There are one-hundred full page illustrations.
“The text appears not to be inadequate, ... but no one can think the style good or graceful.”
+ — Am. Hist. R. 10: 949. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
+ + Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
“Within its limits the book is satisfactory, and a good map adds to its value.”
+ Dial. 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“The author of the book before us has told the story of the St. Lawrence and of early Canada in a most interesting manner.”
+ Engin. N. 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Browne manifests no great originality or literary power, but he weaves together history and geography, legend and description with sufficient skill to make it all readable to one who has any interest in the subject.”
+ Ind. 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a choice company of readers who will hail its appearance with cordial greetings.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 800w.
“Of course in a book of 365 pages there are some good things; the index, for example, so far as it goes, is one of them.”
— + N. Y. Times. 10: 375. Ja. 10, ‘05. 620w.
+ Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
Browne, Henry. Handbook of Homeric study. *$2. Longmans.
Opening with a discussion of the Homeric poems this volume contains commentaries on the Homeric bards; historical outlines of the Homeric controversy, chapters on Homeric life, the Homeric people, and “The epic art of Homer.” There are twenty-two illustrations in half-tone, an “approximate” chronology, and an index.
“It is an honest, candid, careful, and within its limits, it is a lucidly arranged book.” Andrew Lang.
+ + Acad. 68: 487. My. 6, ‘05. 1540w.
“The book would have gained greatly had the author waited a few years to digest his material. We also complain that there is no bibliography.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8, 840w.
“Deserves the highest commendation.”
+ + + Cath. World. 81: 842. S. ‘05. 350w.
“An eminently modern, although probably not final, word on the study of Homer.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 410w.
“Treated with conspicuous judgment and moderation the complex topic of the Homeric literature.”
+ + Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.
44Browne, John Hutton Balfour. South Africa: a glance at current conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.
A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and political questions.
“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions, deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate. Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”
— — — Acad. 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 210. Ap. 8, ‘05. 220w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 459. Jl. 8, ‘05. 670w.
“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails either in observation or in accurate description.”
— — + Sat. R. 99: 743. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w.
* “Whatever he says is forcible and lucid.”
+ + Spec. 95: 503. O. 7, ‘05. 560w.
Browne, Mary. Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by Euphemia Stewart Browne. *$2.50. Dutton.
The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl, who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do, and she could not discover the fact herself.
“This is a perfectly irresistible book, a pure delight to all lovers of children and quaintness.”
+ + Acad. 68: 708. Jl. 8, ‘05. 740w.
Ath. 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5. 510w.
* “Incidentally the book is an interesting picture of French life almost a century ago as seen through juvenile British eyes.”
+ Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 90w.
“Since Marjorie Fleming wrote the ill-spelled pages of her delightful journal, no child’s diary has been published more fascinating, because none have been more unconscious or sincere, than ‘The diary of a girl in France in 1821.’”
+ + Dial. 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 300w.
“Little Mary is an accomplished grumbler.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 211. Je. 30, ‘05. 570w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 609. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
+ Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
Brownell, Leverett White. Photography for the sportsman naturalist. **$2. Macmillan.
A book describing hunting with a camera in all its details, and illustrated with pictures made from life. There is much practical information concerning camera plates, the best methods to use in taking pictures, and the best processes to employ after they are taken.
“In the present work Mr. Brownell has gone into the subject thoroughly. The book may be called a first-rate guide to hunting with the camera.”
+ + Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8. ‘05. 440w.
“This book is packed full of practical directions.”
+ + Country Calendar. 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + Ind. 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“It is essentially a book for the novice.”
+ Nation. 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.
“The book is by no means dry reading, the technical details being enlivened with numerous and appropriate anecdotes. Mr. Brownell has, in fact, succeeded in producing a treatise on practical field photography which it will be very hard to beat.” R. L.
+ + Nature. 71: 483. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w.
R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 30w.
Brownell, William Crary. French art; classic and contemporary painting and sculpture. $1.50. Scribner.
This new and enlarged edition contains a chapter on “Rodin and the institute” and the identical text of the illustrated edition of 1901.
Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w.
+ — Nation. 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. $1. Century.
These sonnets which have had so large a share in immortalizing one of the “most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge,” once more make their appearance with a few of the love poems of Robert Browning, and this time in the dainty workmanship of the “Thumb nail series.” A frontispiece of Mrs. Browning, and an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder add to the value of the volume.
* + + Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + + N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
Browning, Oscar. Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769-1793. *$3.50. Lane.
Napoleon’s boyhood in Corsica, his education at Brienne and Paris, his relations with Paoli, and his career down to Toulon are given in detail. Appendices contain three selections from Napoleon’s writings and some original documents from the British museum concerning the siege of Toulon. The illustrations are largely taken from old paintings and drawings.
“Comparison is inevitable, and recent Napoleonic literature has established so high a standard in this branch of history that Mr. Oscar Browning suffers by being inopportune.”
+ — Acad. 68: 694. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“In regard to historical accuracy as distinct from literary presentment, the volume is, on the whole meritorious.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 774. Je. 24. 1140w.
“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B. Bourne.
+ + Dial. 39: 241. O. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the narrative and in Appendix I.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 930w.
“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note of the book.”
— + Nation. 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 730w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been told earlier and told better.”
— — N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 450w.
R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 50w.
“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight, but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already attained in this field of historical inquiry.”
+ — Sat. R. 99: 811. Je. 17. ‘05. 1610w.
“Presenting his results in a readable and lively style which marked his ‘Age of the Condottieri’ and his notable little biography of ‘Swedish Charles.’”
+ + Spec. 95: 495. O. 7, ‘05. 2780w.
45Browning, Robert. Select poems; ed. with introd. and notes, biographical and critical, by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
The poems selected here range from “Pauline” to “Asolando”, and are so chosen as to reveal the principles which formed the mind and fashioned the art of Browning.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Browning has everything to gain and nothing to lose from such intelligent editorship as that shown in this volume.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
Browning, Robert. Blot in the ‘scutcheon, Colombe’s birthday, A soul’s tragedy, and In a balcony. 60c. Heath.
This is a volume in section 3, “the English drama from its beginning to the present day,” in the Belles-lettres series. The texts are those of the latest editions, and there is a scholarly introduction and brief biography, bibliography, and glossary.
“If Browning is to be considered as a dramatist, and by an editor who is willing to accept him as a dramatist, perhaps the present edition is all that we have the right to expect.” Brander Matthews.
+ — Educ. R. 29: 198. F. ‘05. 340w.
Browning, Robert. Pied piper of Hamelin. $1.25. Wessels.
Browning’s poem made attractive for children by numerous ingenious colored illustrations, the work of Van Dyck.
* + Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 30w.
Brudno, Ezra Selig. Little conscript. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The little conscript is a Jew pledged to the synagogue whose life is devoted against his will to the service of the czar. A truthful picture of Russia of to-day is presented, including military and peasant life. There is sidelight information on the methods of force and fraud employed in organizing and maintaining the army.
“Throughout his book, Mr. Brudno’s style is deliberately simple at times to the verge of crudeness. It would have been improved by a certain amount of relentless pruning.”
+ — Bookm. 22: 37. S. ‘05. 280w.
Ind. 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 90w.
“He is a Russian who has much English yet to learn. Is not a novel, though it may contain some ugly chapters of Russian history.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“The end is black and depressing but the value of the book as a great human document and as a strong indictment of the political and military methods of a great nation remains with the reader.”
+ + — Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Is a much more appealing piece of literature than ‘The white terror and the red,’ but not, we suspect, so trustworthy an account of actual conditions.”
+ — R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 140w.
Brumbaugh, Martin Grove. Making of a teacher. $1. S. S. times co.
“This book is on ‘How to teach.’ Its emphasis all through is where the emphasis needs to be laid, upon the trained teacher. The first part of the book is a simple, clear series of lessons on pedagogy; then follow chapters on the Teacher, the Courses of study, the Educational principles of Jesus; and finally several wise chapters on the scope of religious education. The illustrative materials, the captions, and the arrangement are excellent, and the book is made admirable as a text-book for normal classes by suggestive questions at the close of each chapter.”—Bib. World.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the book by Dr. Brumbaugh is just now the one most needed in the Sunday-school world.” Wm. Byron Forbush.
+ + + Bib. World. 26: 395. N. ‘05. 170w.
“He has done his work well.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 140w.
Bryan, Michael. Dictionary of painters and engravers. 5v. subs. *$30; hf. mor. *$50. Macmillan.
The present volume (S-Z) is the fifth and last of the 1904-5 edition of this valuable reference work, and contains over a hundred full-page illustrations. This is the fourth edition of the work which has appeared since 1816 when it was first published, and it includes 1200 new biographies.
“The revision has been very thorough throughout the volume.”
+ + + Acad. 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“The dictionary is now as complete as it can be made, and the work has been done with the greatest care.”
+ + + Critic. 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“A work which should be absolutely indispensable to every one interested in art or artists.”
+ + + Ind. 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 300w.
* “Another great and invaluable work of historical narrative and critical comment, ranking in its field with Grove in the field of music.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ + + Int. Studio. 25: sup. 87. Je. ‘05. 340w.
“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”
+ + + Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained. In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 488. Je. 15, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 401. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w.
“The fifth volume has the merits and defects of the rest.”
+ + — Sat. R. 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
Bryce, James. Constitutions. *$1.25. Oxford.
This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions; Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia.
Nation. 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 613. S. 16, ‘05. 560w.
Bryce, James. Holy Roman empire. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“Not only has Mr. Bryce rewritten the work with a view to a clearer presentation of the theories it elaborates, but he has met and admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed—the seeming neglect of certain striking personalities and events, the inadequate 46treatment of the Byzantine empire, and the expression of views rendered untenable by the political developments of the past quarter of a century.... The more important changes ... of his work may be briefly summarized. In chapter V. Mr. Bryce, discussing the reluctance of Charles the Great to assume the imperial title, incorporates the theories of Dahn and Hodgkin; in chapter VII, he enters into a broader explanation of the theories that went to sustain the empire through the middle ages; chapter XIII., on ‘The fall of the Hohenstaufen,’ he considerably enlarges by the inclusion of a fuller account of the momentous struggle between Louis IV. and Pope John XXII.; in chapter XIV. he develops the early electoral system under the Germanic constitution; in chapter XV. the theories regarding the source of civil authority, a vexed question subsequent to the struggle of the investitures, are discussed more largely; chapter XVI., ‘The city of Rome in the middle ages,’ contains new studies of Arnold of Brescia and Cola di Rienzo. Chapter XVII. is entirely new, embodying an account of the Eastern empire and affording a comprehensive idea of the impress made on history by the people and rulers of New Rome; finally, in Chapter XVIII., the attempts to reform the Germanic constitution are disclosed in greater detail. To this it should be added that the text is more fully annotated, that greatly needed maps are supplied, and that, in addition to the chronological list of popes and emperors found in previous editions, there is a compact and helpful table of salient events connected with the empire.”—Outlook.
+ + + Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“The two new chapters exhibit Mr. Bryce’s capacity for brilliant historical generalisation at its best.” H. A. L. F.
+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 20: 605. Jl. ‘05. 320w.
“The identity of the book is by no means lost in the revision, for the changes have not been such as to alter the general mode of treatment, nor to increase the size of the work beyond the limits of a single volume.”
+ + + Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“But not since the edition of 1873 has it shown such changes as are now apparent—changes which, while not materially affecting the main argument, are nevertheless of a character and extent that make the present edition completely supersede its predecessors. He has met and has admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed. The revision he has found it necessary to make in his exposition of the rise, decline, and fall of the ancient empire is of an elucidatory rather than a corrective nature.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 443. F. 18, ‘05. 2010w.
“Now more than ever before deserves high rank as a text-book. It is still centered upon a single idea and institution, empire and popedom in the middle ages. On this subject it is the standard English authority.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 250w.
“This latest edition has taken into account fully the results of modern historical research. A concluding chapter, sketching the constitution of the new German empire and the forces which have given it strength and cohesion, has been appended. A chronological table and three maps have also been added, and the book has been revised throughout. Typographically it is very satisfactory.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 247. F. ‘05. 100w.
+ + + Spec. 94: 408. Mr. 18. ‘05. 2120w.
Buchanan, Thompson. Judith triumphant. †$1.50. Harper.
The siege of the Assyrians under Holofernes against the Jews of Bethulia is the field of this romance. Judith, its heroine, goes forth into the camp of the enemy at the risk of her life and honor, in the hope of saving her people. The dangers she encountered, the brutality of Holofernes, the intrigues of Nin-Gul, the dancing girl, whom she has supplanted in the affections of Holofernes and her love for the Ammonite captain, who devotes himself to her interests, form the theme of the story.
“Appears to possess no unusual or particular qualities to distinguish it from the vast number of other equally interesting and entertaining narratives of the same period. For quick and easy reading, however, with plenty of spirit and no little action it can be highly commended.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 279. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w.
“Told with some skill and much vigor.”
+ Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
Pub. Opin. 39: 27. Jl. 1. ‘05. 120w.
Buckham, James. Wayside altar. *$1. Meth. bk.
A collection of poems which contain a mellow philosophy and treat of the hereafter, and the deep contentment attending true Christian living.
Buckmaster, Martin A. Descriptive handbook of architecture. *$1.25. Dutton.
There is a strong plea in Mr. Buckmaster’s preface for the study of historical architecture in our elementary schools. “Though this historian of architecture does no more than merely to outline the various styles and briefly to trace their development, he does this in such untechnical, though not over-picturesque language, that those who read his text to the end will wish to learn more about architecture and in greater detail.” (Outlook.)
* “As a popular elementary text-book on the history of architecture this little book is certainly welcome. It is brightly and clearly written.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 475. O. 7. 550w.
* “It would probably have been better had the author dealt with one period of architecture, and have done that thoroughly, rather than have taken up so large a field. It has resulted in an essay which is ‘scrappy.’”
+ — — Nature. 73: 52. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
* “A valuable vade mecum for the student of the history of architecture.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 330w.
“To the average reader Mr. Buckmaster’s text is particularly useful; first, because he has appended thereto a glossary of architectural terms, and secondly, because he has illustrated that glossary.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 270w.
Buell, Augustus C. History of Andrew Jackson, pioneer, patriot, soldier, politician, president. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
A comprehensive biography based upon public and private documents, and personal recollections of eminent men and women. The long life of the man of many-sided character and varied activities is given in full with the history of his time in the background.
“Against Mr. Buell’s style of expression one cannot bring the charge of dullness. He has written with alertness and clearness. He has given us a personal biography in which an abundance of incident and many amusing anecdotes are introduced. Mr. Buell’s facile narrative is full of errors great and small. There are in the book serious omissions of facts.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Buell gives the fullest and most elaborate description [of the battle of New Orleans] which we have seen.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 540w.
“From such tokens—as from laxities of style sufficient to rouse a suspicion that every statement will not bear scrutiny—the reader finds his confidence in the historical value of the book impaired. To the author’s credit it must also be said that he has performed with marked success the difficult task of giving a fairly intelligible account of the two great battles of Jackson’s life,—the battle of New Orleans, and 47the fight against the United States bank. This is manifestly one of the works to which future students of the man and period must have recourse.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + — Atlan. 95: 132. Ja. ‘05. 710w.
“The work is written in a spirit that may well be characterized as judicial, although in places the author leans far too heavily on Parton. We are inclined to class the work, at this writing, as the best biography of Jackson that has appeared.”
+ + + Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 810w.
“As a mass of biographical material, pleasantly and honestly presented, these volumes have a real value, especially to the student who can remove the chaff.”
+ — Ind. 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 710w.
“There are occasions also, it is to be feared, where Mr. Buell suffers his personal Anglo-phobism to interfere with his facts.”
— Lond. Times. 4: 231. Jl. 21, ‘05. 460w.
“It is not a balanced work in execution. It exhibits a singular incapacity to weigh testimony and to judge the contemporaries. It would be a fruitless task to follow Mr. Buell in his many errors of statement, for no chapter is free from them.”
— — — Nation. 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1460w.
Bullen, Frank Thomas. Denizens of the deep. **$1.75. Revell.
“A study-built book.... The subjects of Mr. Bullen’s collection of short stories are animals that cause the reader to have a vivid conception of the life of the inhabitants of the deep. There are many different specimens of these denizens considered, whales and sharks and seals and sea lions, or sea elephants, as Mr. Bullen calls them, and the birds of the sea as well as the fishes. We find that there is a story about every one of the more important birds.... And the narratives are not all fictional.”—Baltimore Sun.
“When the narrative is not fiction it is full of information conveyed in a delightful manner. The author writes easily and accurately, and his work, whether taken as a collection of interesting stories of fish and of bird life or as contribution to popular natural history, is deserving of praise.”
+ + Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 380w.
+ Dial. 38: 242. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“Is certainly as charming in style and graphic in description. All sorts of representatives of the reptilian and finny tribes are introduced and made as familiar as men we know.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
* Bumpus, T. Francis. Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.
“This volume is a detailed account of the architectural features of a number of English cathedral churches, prefaced by a sketch of the general characteristics of cathedrals and of the development of cathedral building in England and Wales. It is, of course, copiously illustrated from photographs of the exteriors and interiors of the edifices treated, and the author takes up each cathedral historically.... The book is intended for students (or at any rate connoisseurs) of cathedral architecture.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The book has all the marks of close observation and a real knowledge of what is and what is not good art and good archaeology.”
+ Nation. 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 430w.
* “It is not a popular but a serious work.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Mr. Bumpus’ style has a refreshing air of the gossiping antiquary.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.
* + Spec. 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 150w.
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s progress: from this world to that which is to come. $2. Macmillan.
Just the text and Gertrude Hammond’s eight pictures, “good in themselves, and excellent examples of modern processes of color printing” make up this new edition of “The Pilgrim’s progress.”
“We are inclined to doubt whether Mr. White, in his otherwise admirable monograph, need have given a fifth of his space to what is really an abridgement of the famous narrative.”
+ + — Bookm. 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 460w.
“Attractive edition.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 87. F. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“This is an admirable edition, so far as paper type, and size go.”
+ Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 40w.
Burdett, Sir Henry. Hospital and charities annual, 1905; being the year book of philanthropy and the hospital annual. *$2. Scribner.
An account of the hospitals and charities of the United Kingdom, India, the British colonies and the United States. The work of various branches, such as free dispensaries and military hospitals is described, and hospital administration, officials, details of staff, the number of patients and the income of each institution are given. A copious index renders the book convenient for reference.
“A wonderfully complete record of hospitals and charitable undertakings.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 144, Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.
Burgoyne, Frank J., ed. History of Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester: being a reprint of “Leycester’s commonwealth,” 1641. *$2.50. Longmans.
This work, of unknown authorship, was first printed 1584, it was translated into French and Latin, was proscribed by the queen in England and burned whenever found, by the officers of the law. It depicted Leicester as an “inhuman monster” and charged him with many crimes among them the murder of Amy Robsart. The queen officially denied the charges and Leicester’s nephew, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an indignant answer to them.
Am. Hist. R. 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“The editor has done little beside write a necessary introduction.”
+ South Atlantic Quarterly. 4: 93. Ja. ‘05. 260w.
Burke, Edmund. American taxation: ed. by James Hugh Moffatt. 25c. Ginn.
A fully annotated copy of Burke’s speech for class room use.
Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s lectures, 1904, on the Syriac speaking church. *$2. Dutton.
“It is far Eastern Christianity with which these lectures are concerned, not that of the Greek and other Eastern churches within the ancient Roman world. Its chief seat was Edessa, in the Euphrates valley, the ancient ‘Ur of the Chaldees, the fatherland of Abraham.’ ... Into this unfamiliar field these lectures conduct the reader, through an interesting account of the Bible, the theology, and the internal life of a long extinct but once flourishing and distinctively characterized church.”—Outlook.
Ind. 58: 1367. Je. 15, ‘05. 90w.
“It is, then, especially in this fertility of ideas and suggestion that the value of Mr. Burkitt’s book lies.”
+ + Nation. 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1360w.
“The task is difficult, and despite the careful study made by Prof. Burkitt the result leaves 48much to be desired. The data is uncertain and mixed up with legend and fable. Lectures have their value, if only to make comparisons between the beliefs of to-day and those of the past.”
+ — N. Y Times. 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 580w.
+ Outlook. 79: 245. Ja. 28, ‘05. 120w.
Burland, Harris. Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting story of a man who, when young, stole some money for a woman’s sake and on the death of his neglected wife turned against her. She in anger betrayed him to the police. He serves his term in prison, and twenty years later builds the black motor car, commits burglaries and murders, captures and tortures a man who turns out to be his own son, and seeks out the woman who had ruined his life to kill her, but is foiled in his revenge, for she is already dead. The whole thing culminates one night in a race for life, he in his black car, the whole country aroused and armed and waiting for him. The criminal maniac escapes them all, however, but meets his death in a quicksand.
“Mr. Burland does not waste words in his story. He has a good yarn to tell, and does not stand on art to do it.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 197. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“It is a story with thrills and shivers.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“For those who love horrors and melodrama, this book will furnish a feast.”
— Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
“May be characterized as a freak tale.”
— Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
Burnaby, Andrew. Travels through the middle settlements of North America; ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. **$2. Wessels.
“Another volume of the ‘Source books of American history,’ and a notable one; first published in 1775, reprinted the next year, soon translated into French and German, and reissued in enlarged form in 1798, from which this new reprint is made. It is hardly necessary to say that a book with such a history, and long out of print, richly deserves to be rescued from the obscurity into which it had fallen in the lapse of more than a century.”—Critic.
“Of critical notes there are none, which seems unfortunate. The form of the book is, however, very attractive, and the narrative was well worth reprinting even without editorial annotations.” F. H. H.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 445. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 80w.
+ Ind. 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 130w.
Nation. 80: 51. Ja. 19, ‘05. 200w.
R. of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 220w.
Burne-Jones, Georgiana. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
While the attitude of the real man towards his thoroly idealized art fills the pages of Lady Burne-Jones’s “Memorials,” “it is not the painter to whom we are introduced so much as the man, and a very straightforward, single-minded and lovable character we find him.” (N. Y. Times). “The author has very wisely avoided any artistic appreciation of her husband’s work as a painter, but has taken great pains to collect all the facts relating to his family, its origin, his education and early tendencies, his friendships and ideas, often quoting his own words from letters to friends.” (Nation).
“The whole book is filled with the poet’s personality, and little anecdotes of his sayings and doings. G. B.-J. has worthily carried out her task, and the world is the richer for the story of a great artist and a lovable and much-loved man.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 24. Ja. 7. 2290w.
“She presents him in a wise Boswellian way, mainly by the record of his daily speech and acts. The result is a very clear impression of a personality of great, of surprising power and charm.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + Atlan. 95: 423. Mr. ‘05. 1130w.
“It is a wonderful revelation of an intensely interesting and lovable personality. A striking feature of these volumes is the never-failing humour of Burne-Jones’s letters and of the many comic sketches that enliven the text. Lady Burne-Jones has given us a biography that is at once a life record of deep human interest and an invaluable contribution to the history of English painting in the Victorian era.”
+ + Contemporary R. 87: 294. F. ‘05. 1980w.
“It is a true and an appreciative record of the man and his life-work.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + Critic. 46: 118. F. ‘05. 1090w.
“It is only fair to Lady Burne-Jones to say at once that she has avoided every pitfall that lay along her path, and has made the most of every pleasure that the excursion afforded.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ + + Dial. 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 1930w.
“She reveals in this book a skill in construction and a charm of style that would do credit to a writer of established reputation.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + Forum. 36: 553. Ap. ‘05. 2170w.
“She would have shown a finer devotion to his memory had she reduced the bulk of these two volumes to one. Having made our own abridgement, we have little but praise for Mrs. Burne-Jones’s work. To our mind the best part of the narrative is that which contains the experiences of Burne-Jones at Oxford and during the first years in London, while the Oxford influence was still upon him. Mrs. Burne-Jones has a happy knack, all the more artful for its extreme simplicity, of hitting off the great men of the day as they come into her circle.”
+ + — Ind. 58: 263. F. 2, ‘05. 720w.
* + + Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“No more deeply interesting biography has appeared of late years than this tribute to the memory of Sir Edward Burne-Jones from the pen of his widow. Its one drawback is the fact that the illustrations are not in the least representative of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.”
+ + — Int. Studio. 24: 367. F. ‘05. 420w.
“Lady Burne-Jones seems especially endowed with the qualities needed for the task; she writes with convincing sincerity and a sense of humor, and has the gift of literary style. Her readers cannot fail to get a vivid impression of Burne-Jones’s fascinating personality.”
+ + Nation. 80: 115. F. 9, ‘05. 2780w.
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 140w.
“Lady Burne-Jones writes from a standpoint of knowledge and sympathy impossible to anyone else, and we can but admire the skill with which she has arranged the material. The narrative is full, but never confused, and the characters of the men and women who pass through the pages are drawn with rare ease and distinctness.”
+ + + Spec. 94: 111. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1920w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). In the closed room. †$1.50. McClure.
The father and mother of Judith, a strange visionary child of the tenements, are called to be caretakers of the big empty house with the closed room where a little girl has died. Judith mysteriously passes thru the locked door and plays with the child who is dead and her toys until this strange spiritual bond is tightened and little Judith is drawn into the land of spirits.
“She is artistically vague and not dogmatic. The story is accomplished with a fleeting, caressing touch; it has a considerable charm and is very suggestive.”
+ Reader. 5: 785. My. ‘05. 370w.
49Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). Little princess: being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time. †$2. Scribner.
The story of Sara Crewe and what happened at Miss Minchen’s school, which charmed its young readers years ago, appears once more in holiday garb with a dozen beautiful colored plates by Ethel Franklin Betts. The book has grown and the present volume includes all the new matter which was put into the successful play called the “Little princess,” and also much matter newer still which was inserted when the play came to be transformed once more into a story.
* Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + Ind. 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — Nation. 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 380w.
+ + Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is the leading child’s book of the year.”
+ + + R of Rs. 32: 764. D. ‘05. 470w.
Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay). Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition of the famous diary, with preface and notes by Austin Dobson, photogravure portraits and other illustrations. It extends from the issue of “Evelina” to the author’s death (1778-1840).
Acad. 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. (Review of Vol I.)
Acad. 68: 331. Mr. 25, ‘05. 620w. (Review of Vols. II and III.)
+ + + Acad. 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 6.)
Am. Hist. R. 10: 709. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 233. Ag. 19. 2870w.
Nation. 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 70w. (Reviews of vols. 1-3.)
Nation. 80: 317. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1510w. (Reviews of Vols. I.-III.)
“The foot-notes are precisely what one must desire for such a text.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 113. F. 25, ‘05. 1910w. (Reviews of v. 1 and 2.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 640w. (Review of Vols. III. and IV.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 343. My. 27. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ Outlook. 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 210w. (Reviews of v. 1 and 2.)
“The value of this edition is greatly increased by the complete general index in the last volume, each volume having its own index as well. On the mechanical side the edition leaves nothing to be desired, while on the editorial side Mr. Austin Dobson has brought thorough knowledge and ... sympathetic appreciation.”
+ + + Outlook. 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Madame D’Arblay’s diary is her masterpiece, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is as good as a novel, for it is composed in all respects like a work of fiction. The diary from beginning to end is written in Miss Burney’s characteristic style; it is not marred in a single page by Johnsonese, and we believe that it will be read even when ‘Evelina’ itself has become a curiosity.”
+ + + Spec. 94: 141. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
* Burr, William Hubert, and Falk, Myron Samuel. Design and construction of metallic bridges. $5. Wiley.
This book is based upon the ninth edition of Prof. Burr’s standard work, “The stresses in bridge and roof trusses, arched ribs and suspension bridges.” “The book consists of ten chapters, the first of which is A historical sketch of bridge building.... Chapter II. is devoted to the general types of trusses, loads and specifications, and contains the most recent practice in railroad and highway bridges.... Chapter III. treats of moments and shears, and of the design of plate girders.... Chapter IV. and V. treat of all kinds of trusses with parallel and horizontal chords and with chords not parallel.... To the chapter on swing bridges has been added the treatment of these bridges by the method of deflections, with examples in each case.... The book concludes with chapters on wind stresses and details of construction.”—Engin. N.
* “It may be stated that the book reflects well the advance in the design of metallic bridges, and is a worthy successor to the old standard which it replaces.” Leon S. Moisseiff.
+ + Engin. N. 54: 531. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.
Burrage, Champlin. Church covenant idea: its origin and its development. **$1. Am. Bapt.
“Mr. Burrage has reproduced a great many covenants of the early Baptist and Congregational churches. They are, like the early Christian oaths, pledges of loyalty to standards of right living to a remarkable degree. The beginnings of the covenant idea are found among the German Anabaptists of the reformation period. Mr. Burrage is very modest in the claim he makes for any Anabaptist roots of the Scotch covenants. These, culminating in the Solemn league and covenant of 1643, were quite apart from the main course of the development of the covenant idea. They were all covenants to maintain a fixed order of belief and worship. In conclusion, it is confessed that ‘the covenant idea has ceased almost entirely to have for us the great significance it had for the early New England colonists.’”—Nation.
“It is a splendid specimen of scholarly method and interest.”
+ + Am. J. Theol. 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
+ Nation. 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 370w.
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. History of the Baptists in Maine. $2. Marks ptg. house, Portland, Me.
This history “covers the period from about 1675 to the present time. It treats freely the educational and temperance activities of the denomination, its connection with the anti-slavery agitation, its missionary labors, and the growth of its church organizations.”—Am. J. of Theol.
Am. Hist. R. 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Leaves little to be desired by persons interested in the Baptist history of the state of Maine.”
+ + Am. J. of Theol. 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
Burrill, Katharine. Corner stones. *$1.25. Dutton.
A book which pleads for the old-time leisurely courtesy and a home education for girls. “The volume is made up of essays, several of which appeared in a London magazine, to girls on friendship, cleanliness, duty to parents, letter writing, cooking, etc. In her ‘Foreword,’ the author speaks of the modern girl. She does not believe in sending a girl away from home for her education. The mother is the best teacher. ‘It is better,’ she writes, ‘to keep a girl at home, if all she learns is spelling and simple arithmetic.’” (N. Y. Times). While it appeals strongly to English girls, it is no less a book with a mission for the American girl.
“The ethical purpose of the book and its pleadings for sweeter manners are sufficiently plain, and are handled so wittily, with such lurking fun and brimming humor, that their assimilation is an easy and pleasant process. In its pages it never outsports discretion. As a 50gospel of goodness it is eminently reasonable, and its style has the charm of unconsciousness.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 107. F. 18, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a series of monitory chapters upon all sorts of social and moral observances delivered in slangy English.”
— Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 100w.
Burroughs, John. Far and near. **$1.50. Houghton.
“My life has gone on, my love of nature has continued, my habit of observation has been kept up, and the combined result is another collection of papers dealing with the old, inexhaustible, open-air themes.” So says Mr. Burroughs. The “far” scenes described are those in “green Alaska” and Jamaica. The “near” pictures are of the wild life around his home on the Hudson river. Nearly half of the book is devoted to an account of his Alaskan trip in 1899 as a member of the Harriman expedition. The only heretofore unpublished essay of the group is that in which he tells how he lost February and found August in Jamaica. Mr. Burroughs’s northern soul however, takes little pleasure in nature in her tropical aspect. He “cannot make love to her there.” She “has little winsomeness or tenderness. She is barbaric; she is painty and stiff; she has no sentiment; she does not touch the heart.”
“Humdrum, undistinguished style. It is kindly wholesome stuff.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 271. F. 25. 180w.
* “He records impressions however slight and incidents however trivial, but it is all done with that charming double gift of his for seeing everything as if for the first and only time, and of making others see it in the same way.” F. M. Colby.
+ + Bookm. 20: 475. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
“The records of far journeys in this new book may not add greatly to his reputation, but they serve the gracious purpose of showing us an old friend in new surroundings.”
+ Dial. 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10:5. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
R. of Rs. 30: 757. D. ‘04. 100w.
+ + Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 300w.
* Burroughs, John. Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.
In these essays Mr. Burroughs, who has ranged himself upon the side of those who protest against animal stories which humanize animal life, not only sets forth his own views, in which he declares that animals share our emotional but not our intellectual nature, but also defends himself from recent attacks upon his theories and gives counter arguments.
* “This book succeeds in presenting what may be judged as a rational view of Nature’s methods.”
+ Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘06. 70w.
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
* + Dial. 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 420w.
* “One reads the little volume with extreme pleasure, drawing from its pages an uplifting sense of air and light.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
* “The whole discussion is pervaded by Mr. Burroughs’ well-known charm of style and clearness of statement.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
Burton, Charles Pierce. Boys of Bob’s hill; adventures of Tom Chapin and the “band” as told by the “secretary.” †$1.25. Holt.
The summer vacation of eight healthy-minded boy bandits who live at home and are petted and disciplined by turns, like most everyday boys, but when they climb Bob’s hill and enter their cave they are outlaws. They do many plucky things, and incidentally they start a forest fire, almost wreck a train, call out the fire department on the Fourth of July, and try to smoke real tobacco. The reader, whether he be boy or a grown-up, will follow their adventures with interest and will agree with the band that the hermit’s gold rightfully belongs to Tom.
Outlook. 79: 1012. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.
Burton, E. D. Short introduction to the Gospels. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
An introduction to Biblical literature which may become a distinct treasure to the student. Dr. Burton’s work is concise, and reveals a careful examination of the four gospels. There is added a chapter on the synoptic problem. “The chapter of ‘the gospel according to Matthew’ closing with a table of contents which exhibits excellently its general plan, will be welcome to all students of that difficult New Testament book.... The notes appended to the chapter on Luke’s gospel merit particular attention. Note II is on ‘The enrolment in the governorship of Quirinius.’ ... Dr. Burton’s view of the Johannine problem will command attention.” (Bib. World).
“Has a definite aim, and without superfluous words goes straight to its mark. It uses chiefly internal evidence, and asks each gospel to disclose its own secret. To expound the synoptic problem in less than twenty small pages of English is to do the impossible. No other book that the reviewer knows of does it so well as this.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.
+ Bib. World. 25: 150. F. ‘05. 610w.
Burton, E. D. Studies in the Gospel according to Mark. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
The “Studies” in Mark’s gospel is a book “for secondary classes.”
“The lessons have already borne the test of actual use by experienced teachers, and all the material appears to be admirably arranged. The appended dictionary, filling twelve pages, is an important feature.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.
+ Bib. World. 25: 150. F. ‘05. 80w.
Ind. 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 40w.
Bury, John B. Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The book opens with a chapter on the diffusion of Christianity beyond the Roman empire, followed by the story of the life of St. Patrick. The appendices contain the descriptions of the writings of St. Patrick and other documents from which the author drew the material for his biography; notes on the different chapters, and an excursus.”—N. Y. Times.
“Speaking generally, what chiefly impresses us in narrative and appendices alike is the constant presence of a wide and just sense of historical perspective which should not in the least dwarf the particular interest of the book.”
+ + + Acad. 68: 899. S. 2, ‘05. 2250w.
“A life of St. Patrick in which careful and minute research has not quenched a bold and vivid imagination. The index ... is wholly insufficient and not prepared with a fraction of the care required.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 101. Jl. 22. 2360w.
“Although, as we have seen, the Professor is absolutely beyond suspicion of any religious bias in favor of his hero, he gives us a picture of Patrick which may be called sympathetic.” James J. Fox.
+ + Cath. World. 82: 145. N. ‘05. 5550w.
“Perhaps some readers regret that Professor Bury has found it necessary to reject so much picturesque material, but students of the middle ages are likely to agree that in writing this biography the author has done a real service to the cause of Irish history.”
+ + Dial. 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“The appendix ... is in many respects better reading than the body of the book. For the 51main portion is a little confusing from the way in which it gives all the legends and no clear criticism of them.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 239. Jl. 28, ‘05. 2390w.
“The volume is built of hypotheses.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 980w.
“A work whose technical merit is commensurate with its intrinsic interest. The main part of the work spreads before the general reader the sifted results of historical criticism.”
+ + + Outlook. 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 100w.
“The sources are meagre, and Dr. Bury’s examination of them is masterly.”
+ + + Sat. R. 100: 438. S. 30, ‘05. 2270w.
Butcher, S. H. Harvard lectures on Greek subjects. *$2.25. Macmillan.
If in the intense modernism of the present century we sometimes vaingloriously forget the debt we owe to the ancients, such scholars as Mr. Butcher do a real service in commanding a mindful attitude. While given at Harvard, the author addresses himself not only to scholars but to a mixed audience. “The first lecture compared in a singularly able and effective fashion the Greek spirit with the Jewish spirit, the Greek influence and the one other comparable with it.... Then he passes in the next lecture to a comparison of the Hellenes and the Phoenicians. These represent the pure commercial spirit. The next lecture deals specifically and enlighteningly with the quality of the Greek passion for knowledge. Still further lectures deal with ‘Greek art and inspiration,’ and with ‘Greek literary criticism.’” (N. Y. Times).
“These lectures are not only full of thought, they are also written, it is superfluous to say, in admirable English.”
+ + Acad. 68: 48. Ja. 14, ‘05. 320w.
* “The style throughout is admirable. It would be difficult to say too much in praise of this most scholarly book.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1500w.
“Mr. Butcher’s own style is admirably suited to such essays as these. No one can read them without recognizing how desirable it is that a synthetic mind like his should handle these larger questions of classical scholarship.”
+ + Nation. 80: 233. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1700w.
“The title of Greek to retain its ancient place in education of the broader kind is convincingly supported by Mr. Butcher in this volume. The book needs no recommendation to Hellenists. It may be cordially commended to the attention of the more open-minded and liberal of those who consider Greek a cumberer of the modern stage.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 600w.
“So illuminating an interpretation of the Greek spirit. Knows his subject, and he deals with it in the freshest way and in the most human spirit.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“It is their naturalness, their contagious freshness and vivacity, rather than their learning, which strike the reader first.”
+ + Spec. 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 1630w.
Buxton, E. M. Wilmot. Ancient world: outlines of ancient history for the middle form schools. *$1. Dutton.
A “wonderful story” of the civilization of bygone days. The “author writes about the first ages of man, the history of Egypt, ancient Babylonia, the Medes and Persians, Phoenicia, the land of the merchant carriers, the Hebrews, the story of Carthage, the Hindu people, China, the story of Alexander, and of Parthia, and gives some glimpses of the ancient Romans and Greeks.... For those who wish for a bird’seye view of the great landmarks of the history of the ancient world, the author has provided a full summary, with approximate dates, embracing the period from 4400 B.C. to the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Gives a striking picture of the mind, manners, customs, myths and legends of the different ancient nations and describes the influence exercised by these nations on one another.”
+ + Ind. 59: 265. Ag. 3, ‘05. 30w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
Byles, C. E. Life and letters of Robert Stephen Hawker. *$5. Lane.
“A visionary, a poet, a humorist, a priest.... His love of fighting was perhaps the only quality in which he differed from the gentlest of the saints. There are still some who believe that modern science is a tool the devil has put into the hands of sinners, but Hawker’s certainty of that is only equalled by his belief in witchcraft, charms, pixies, mermaids, evil eyes, the immediate answer of prayers, the damnableness of dissent, and much else allied to these. But he made his parish of Morwenstow. He rescued and tended the shipwrecked, he consoled the wicked, he spent his income on charity.... He was a very wild, naughty boy, and, as a youth, full of practical jokes and uncomfortable animal spirits.”—Acad.
“The Reverend R. S. Hawker has left behind him no literary remains which point to the possession of any extraordinary genius, and yet a baffling and beautiful soul leads us to examine every record and study every poem for a key. In ‘The life and letters of R. S. Hawker’ just published we turn page after page and only manage to catch the flying skirts of the vicar. Of Hawker’s own poems, his fragment of the ‘San Graal’ is worthy to be compared with Tennyson’s treatment of the subject, and his ballads earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott.”
+ + Acad. 68: 168. F. 25, ‘05. 2310w.
“Mr. Byles has performed his task—by no means an easy one—with skill and good taste.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1070w.
“Its contents are a product of unusual skill and discretion.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Atlan. 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 710w.
“Must be regarded as one of the best biographies of recent years.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + Bookm. 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Byles has given us an excellent presentment of a most interesting and picturesque figure of the last century.”
+ + Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 100w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 38: 308. My. 1, ‘05. 2260w.
“His ‘Life and letters,’ by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles, leaves nothing to be desired.”
+ + Nation. 80: 292. Ap. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“His book therefore, demands acceptance as the real biography of the Vicar of Morwenstow.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 850w.
“This book, written by Hawker’s son-in-law with such fairness and discretion as may well eradicate even the memory of an unhappy effort by another hand.”
+ + Sat. R. 99: 778. Je. 10, ‘05. 750w.
Byron, George Gordon. Complete poetical works; ed. by Paul Elmer More. $3. Houghton.
For this Cambridge edition of Lord Byron’s poems, the editor has chosen the text of 1832-33 in preference to that of 1831 because of its more satisfactory use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks. It is unexpurgated and contains the recently resurrected poems of Byron.
* + + Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 15w.
* + + Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“A thoughtful and scholarly estimate of Byron’s genius and character introduces the volume.”
+ + Ind. 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 310w.
+ + Nation. 81 :278. O. 5, ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Paul Elmer More edits the book with judgment and restraint.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 110w.
52Byron, George Gordon. Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W. A. Lewis Bettany. *$2.50. Scribner.
In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the business seriously.”
“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary ‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr. Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific analysis of correspondence.”
— + Acad. 68: 653. Je. 24, ‘05. 1410w.
* “These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary public.” H. W. Boynton.
+ Atlan. 96: 846. D. ‘05. 560W.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
+ + Dial. 39: 235. O. 16, ‘05. 1530w.
“These editorial lapses are not, however, very numerous; and the compilation is on the whole satisfactory and instructive.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 217. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1030w.
* “Mr. Bettany’s selections are, however, judicious, and, in spite of frequent detachment from illuminating context, do the writer no injustice.”
+ + Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 940w.
“The selections are full of interesting matter for those who wish to approach Byron’s personality in this way.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 970w.
“Mr. Bettany has made an excellent arrangement of the matter with which he deals.”
+ Spec. 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
Byron, George G. N. Love poems of Byron. 50c. Lane.
Among the sixty poems found in this group are “When we two parted,” “She walks in beauty,” “Maid of Athens,” “Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa,” “She walks in beauty like the night,” and “There be none of beauty’s daughters.” “This volume is one of a series of little works entitled ‘The lover’s library’ which constitutes a veritable treasure-house of poetry sentiment.” (Arena).
“Love poems of Byron is a dainty little volume, bound in flexible violet cloth, stamped in gold, with gilt edge, and of vest-pocket size, contains more than sixty poems and selections from Byron’s verse devoted to love.”
+ Arena. 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w.
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* Cabell, James Branch. Line of love. †$2. Harper.
“The tales have been culled from French ‘romans’ and dull English chronicles, and the mediaeval atmosphere has been preserved by the quaintly, though never obscurely, archaic style of narration. Ten pictures and cover vignette by Mr. Pyle, richly colored and ... perfectly in keeping with the literary atmosphere, together with conventional floral borders in color, make a singularly attractive giftbook.”—Dial.
* + + Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* “Is worthy of its predecessors.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are written in the richly colored, tapestry-like style. Unfortunately in the present volume the tapestry gives the impression of being machine-made and a little threadbare.”
— Outlook. 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* “A collection, told in exquisite poetical way, of some of the most picturesque but less-known love-stories of history.”
+ R. of Rs. 32 :752. D. ‘05. 100w.
* Cadogan, Edward. Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.
“The struggle between conservative principles and revolutionary forces constitutes the framework of the history of the nineteenth century. With this great movement are closely associated the names of Louis Napoleon, Cavour, and Bismarck, the subjects of the three essays included in this volume.... It is on the epoch making, the history making, actions of these men that emphasis is here laid.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The volume contains no new materials, but it summarises the careers of the three Machiavellian personages in question clearly and sensibly.” W. M.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 20: 615. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
* “In general, however, these essays may safely be recommended to the unprofessional reader, who will be dull indeed if he does not discover in them the absorbing interest of the three dissimilar men whom they describe.”
+ Nation. 81: 492. D. 14, ‘05. 680w.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 130w.
* “The faults of the book are greatly those of immaturity, and the writer may possibly in time produce historical work of permanent value.”
— Sat. R. 100: 311. S. 2, ‘05. 860w.
* “The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of narrative.”
+ Spec. 95: 123. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1820w.
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to study pictures. **$2. Century.
Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed, contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one to be an intelligent judge of merit.
+ + Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 160w.
* “While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives, the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”
+ + Dial. 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* “Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “Except for this driving ideas in double harness, the material and judgments are not unfamiliar; but the task is done thoroughly and many things are happily put.”
+ + — Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 190w.
“What Mr. Caffin has to say is always worth reading, for he puts each painter’s character forcibly before one, and manages to be entertaining as well as instructive.” Charles de Kay.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 570w.
53* + N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.
* + Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
* “It is the one most completely adapted to the needs of the person entirely ignorant of art, its history and its development.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 240w.
* + R. of Rs. 32 :640. N. ‘05. 90w.
Caffyn, Mrs. Kathleen Mannington (Iota, pseud.). Patricia, a mother. †$1.50. Appleton.
Patricia, whose husband, a hypocrite and a humbug, leaves both his son and his estate to the guardianship of his mother, goes to live with her mother-in-law and sees her son slowly estranged from her because she will not speak and blacken the character of her dead husband to the mother who reveres his memory. There is much of gossipy country society and in the end an old family servant sets things right and Patricia comes to her own.
“A most moving story, full of feeling and insight into human character. Certainly it is a story that ‘counts.’”
+ + Acad. 68: 397. Ap. 8, ‘05. 650w.
“The cleverness of the novel lies not so much in its plot as in the graphic characterization. It is a piece of work of which the author has reason to be proud.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 300w.
* “Her story makes a thoroughly interesting book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“There is considerable strength in this novel. There is some lack of artistic proportion in the general working out of the story.”
+ + — Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
Cahan, Abraham. White terror and the red. $1.50. Barnes.
A story of inner Russia by a member of the Revolutionary party who was forced to flee from Russia to avoid Siberia. The plot concerns the tragic events of a quarter of a century ago, when czar Alexander II. was assassinated by the Nihilists and an antisemitic outbreak followed, but it is the Russia of to-day that we see, drawn from a practical knowledge of the subject. The hero of the book is a Russian prince who steps out of his class to uphold the cause of the people, marries a Hebrew woman and finally suffers imprisonment.
“The intelligent reader will find in it much sound workmanship and no little insight into the psychology of the Russian intellectuals.”
+ Acad. 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 430w.
“But the style has a curious impenetrability about it, which reminds one of a bad translation.”
— + Ath. 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 240w.
“In ‘The white terror and the red’ we have something far more interesting than a narrative of sensational episodes, or a gallery of interesting types, more valuable than a vivid picture of melodramatic history in the making. We have a work of art of the highest class. As a guide to the full understanding of Russian political and social life it is probably the most valuable ever written in the English language.” Edwin Lefevre.
+ + + Bookm. 21: 186. Ap. ‘05. 1380w.
“It is a sound, firm piece of work; and it shows an easy familiarity with the subject and with the method. As an addition to its historical importance, a sweet, fully realized piece of fiction.” Hutchins Hapgood.
+ + Critic. 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 860w.
“This book gives one a more realistic and vivid impression of the Terrorist movement than any we have read. It has no definite plot or literary coherency, but consists of a series of sketches written in an unexaggerated and impassioned style.”
+ + Ind. 58 :502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w.
“To those who seek an education on underground’ Russia Mr. Cahan’s latest novel can be recommended.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 450w.
“A well-constructed, forceful, and ably sustained piece of work. Has given us a picture of Russian conditions which we may accept as essentially correct. Of no small merit from the purely literary standpoint.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“It would be more exact to characterize this book as a study of Russian social conditions than as a work of fiction, although there is a story as a whole.”
+ Pub. Opin. 38: 430. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“The book is written in an admirable style,—keen, quiet, full of reserve power. The book is a valuable contribution to present-day literature, considered either as fact or fiction. It tells with judgment, with conviction, with emotion, the sad story of a sad people.”
+ + Reader. 5: 784. My. ‘05. 380w.
“A book that impresses one with its power, competence, and fairness. It is a profoundly interesting sociological document that the public may thank Mr. Cahan.”
+ + — R. of Rs. 31 :763. Je. ‘05. 90w.
Caine, Hall. Prodigal son. †$1.50. Appleton.
This latest of Hall Caine’s novels has all the strength and the heart sadness found in his other works. Iceland is the home of the tragic story and its characters are the simple folk of the Northland: the factor and his daughters, Thora and Helga; the old governor and his sons, Magnus and Oscar. Magnus resigns Thora, his promised wife, to Oscar, his more fascinating brother, bearing the odium of the broken betrothal that they may be happy. Helga, however, breaks in upon this dearly bought joy, and wins Oscar’s love. The sad death of Thora and the wanderings of the exiled Oscar are strong and dramatic, and his final return home as the renowned Icelandic composer has not the joy of that first prodigal’s home coming, but holds the full sorrow of the years.
“The story shows a confused sense of moral values, and fairly reeks with cheap sentimentality. Its style is common and its situations theatrical. Altogether it is a poorer performance than was to be expected even from the author of ‘The Christian’ and ‘The eternal city.’” W. M. Payne.
— — Dial. 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Though the plot is horribly tragic, there are no melodramatic climaxes to detract from the dignity of the style in which it is written. There are exquisite touches of pathos in the descriptions, and in the delineation of character the author shows a keen knowledge of the various phases of human nature. It is intensely emotional, and certainly the strongest book that Hall Caine has ever written.”
+ + Reader. 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
“Here, as in all his books, Mr. Caine has the power of wringing his readers’ vitals, yet not the power of convincing them that he is working out a tragedy rather than a melodrama.”
+ + — R. of Rs. 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
Caird, Edward. Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This second course of Gifford lectures is closely allied to the first, delivered ten years earlier at the university of St. Andrew’s, which treated of the evolution of religion. This course treats of the evolution of theology in its first great period. There are lectures upon the relation of reason to religious faith; the three stages in the evolution of theology; the precursors of Plato, the two distinctive tendencies of Plato; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophies; Stoicism; Neo-Platonism; Philo; and Plotinus.
“The theology of the earlier Greek philosophers seems inadequately treated. There is at 54times a tendency to interpretation which seems formal and doctrinaire. The book is entirely free from pedantry. Nevertheless statements occasionally occur which stand much in need of a reference to authorities. It may be questioned whether the author’s horror of mysticism does not lead him into misunderstanding and exaggeration. The advantages of a point of view steadily maintained throughout a discussion ... gives lucidity to the exposition and is a constant challenge to investigation of its adequacy.” H. N. Gardiner.
+ + — Philos. R. 14: 204. Mr. ‘05. 3560w.
Cajori, Florian. Introduction to the modern theory of equations. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“The present work falls into two nearly equal parts. The first 103 pages treat the following topics: Elementary properties and transformation of equations; location and approximation of the roots of numerical equations; solutions of cubic, biquadratic, binomial and reciprocal equations; the linear and Tschirnhausian transformations. The remaining 120 pages are devoted to substitution groups and Galois’s theory of the solution of algebraic equations.”—Science.
“The work has much that may be praised; in particular, its very moderate size, its choice of topics, copious references for further study, and a large number of illustrative examples and problems. Lack of explicitness is manifest.” James Pierpont.
+ + — Science, n.s. 21: 101. Ja. 20, ‘05. 850w.
Caldecott, Alfred, and Mackintosh, H. R., eds. Selections from the literature of theism. *$2.50. Scribner.
Professor Caldecott has edited selections from Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, Berkeley, Cousin, Comte, and Janet. While the sections under Professor Caldecott’s care include Kant, Schleiermacher, Mansel, and Latze. There are full notes and references.
“A well-selected collection.”
+ + Am. J. of Theol. 9: 401. Ap. ‘05. 30w.
“The plan of this book, therefore, is excellent, and the careful notes and introductions show that it has been well carried out.”
+ + Ind. 58: 616. Mr. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The editing of these selections fell into excellent hands. The misgivings of the editors as to the wisdom of the selections made are quite needless, for nothing better could have been desired. The notes and biographical notices are very fine—fresh, scholarly, interesting. Though I have deemed it necessary to say some things of more or less critical character, yet, taking the work as a whole, it is a welcome and highly useful addition to theological literature.” James Lindsay.
+ + — Int. J. Ethics. 15: 247. Ja. ‘05. 1610w. (Survey of contents.)
Caldecott, Rev. W. Shaw. Tabernacle—its history and structure; with a preface by Rev. A. H. Sayce. *$1.75 Union press.
A study of the Old Testament itself has furnished the material for this unconventional, original, and withal, scholarly work on the history and architecture of the tabernacle. The book is divided into four parts: The history of the tabernacle. The triple cubit of Babylonia, The triple cubit of Babylonia as used in the construction of the tabernacle. The triple cubit in Babylonia and in Palestine. The index is complete and the illustrations are good.
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 139. Jl. 29. 460w.
Caldwell, Otis William. Handbook of plant morphology. *$1. Holt.
This volume is based upon the handbook of plant dissection, by J. C. Arthur, Chas. R. Barnes, and John M. Coulter, which Prof. Caldwell has revised, rewritten and extended in order to bring it down to date. There is a preliminary chapter for both teacher and students upon the use and equipment of the laboratory. Eight lessons are devoted to the cyanophyceæ and chlorophyceæ, five to the fungi and lichens, five to the bryophyta, three to the pteridophyta and five to the spermatophyta.
“The types selected illustrate very well the probable steps in the evolution of plants, and the discussions are exceedingly clear and suggestive.” R. B. Wylie.
+ + Bot. G. 39: 424. Je. ‘05. 260w.
“A preliminary chapter on the use and equipment of the laboratory contains some very practical suggestions for the teacher and student. The comparison of the morphological characters that appear in the concise annotations attached to each exercise materially enhances the value of the book.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + Educ. R. 29: 425. Ap. ‘05. 270w.
“It is an excellent guide for study of plant structures in a college course.”
+ Ind. 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
Calhoun, Alice J. When yellow jasmine blooms. $1.50. Neale.
A story of the southland, with a heroine of the old-fashioned type, of rare beauty and unyielding pride, and a hero who, when he is not trusted without explanation, seeks to hide his wounded heart at the ends of the earth. By the aid of an opal which foretells disaster, and a railroad wreck, all is happily ended “when the jasmine blooms.”
Calkins, Ernest Elmo, and Holden, Ralph. Modern advertising. **$1.50. Appleton.
“‘According to various estimates the amount of money spent to-day in America for advertising ranges from six hundred to one thousand million dollars a year.’ This statement gives some measure of the important part which the art of advertising has come to play in the methods of business in the twentieth century. This volume gives an interesting account of the methods of modern advertising, and attempts to formulate some of the principles which underlie successful publicity.” (Outlook.) The volume belongs to Appleton’s “Business series.”
“Is overloaded with a special plea for the general advertising agent. Yet the authors have their subject practically and thoroughly in hand, and supply an illustrated manual that will be of value particularly to the business man who is planning a campaign of publicity.”
+ + — Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 60w.
“It is as interesting to read as a novel.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
+ — Nation. 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 540w.
“Though the authors have not succeeded in supplying a concise and altogether satisfactory definition of their subject, they have certainly produced a very readable book.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 610w.
+ Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w.
“The book is written primarily for the general reader, and as such it will be found to be a most interesting exposition of the subject of advertising and sales-management.”
+ + R. of Rs. 32:128. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
* Calkins, Harvey Reeves. Mind of Methodism. *25c. Meth. bk.
“This little tractate was written by a British Wesleyan missionary for his people in India. It is an excellent description of a catholic Christianity that in general is not particularly distinctive of Methodism from other evangelical ‘isms’ as known among us.”—Outlook.
* + Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w.
55Call, Annie Payson. Freedom of life. **$1.25. Little.
“Interior freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all things painful to our natural love of self,” sums the trend of Miss Call’s arguments. Many of the chapters contain comfort, and good advice, and are the result of sure insight: among them are ‘Self-consciousness,’ ‘Human sympathy,’ ‘Dependence and independence,’ ‘Self-control,’ ‘About Christmas,’ and ‘To mothers.’
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ — Critic. 47: 248. S. ‘05. 80w.
“Contains sound logic—and some sophistries; much good sense—and just a little nonsense. Although we have entered a demurrer in regard to certain parts of the book, be it understood that we criticise only the universal application which the author makes of her fundamental principle of non-resistance. The excellent little volume should be widely and thoughtfully read; it is written in a style at once succinct and limpid, and it holds much truth upon which it is safe to build.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“‘The freedom of life’ is directed not so much against the bondage of doing wrong as against the bondage of doing right in the wrong way.”
+ Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 200w.
“It is a pity that a book always excellent in intention and usually in performance should be marred by such absurdities.”
+ — Reader. 6: 591. O. ‘05. 390w.
Call, Annie Payson. Man of the world. **50c. Little.
The man of the world as Miss Call characterizes him is one who must know evil in order to renounce it, must be capable of understanding all phases of life, must recognize the beauty and power of the things of this world as servants to our highest law, must be in the process of gaining freedom from the world’s evils, must be a citizen of the world sustained by the mind and heart of God.
* “A little book, but sound and sensible as its larger predecessors.”
+ Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 50w.
Calthrop, Samuel R. God and his world: sermons on evolution. *$1.25. Ellis.
Eight scholarly sermons by this venerable Unitarian minister which set forth the doctrine of evolution and “fill that idea full of God.” The sermons are entitled: God, Religion and evolution, One Lord and His name One, Jesus and the evolution of the kingdom of God, Experimental theology and experimental religion, Fate and freedom, God minus man and God in man, and Immortality.
“Dr. Calthrop is a theist, and more thoroughgoing than very many theists. He is also a Christian theist, and distinct as such from many who share with him the name of Unitarian.”
+ Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 300w.
Calvert, Albert F. Life of Cervantes. $1.25. Lane.
This story of Cervantes’ romantic life and adventures was written for the tercentenary of the publication of the first part of “Don Quixote.” The illustrations of the first edition of that book are reproduced, and there is a bibliography, a list of proverbs traceable to Cervantes, and a table giving the editions of “Don Quixote” as brought out in various countries.
“Is a little too obviously written for the tercentenary.”
+ — Acad. 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Calvert is evidently unacquainted with the recent literature of his subject.”
— — Ath. 1905, 1: 366. Mr. 25. 500w.
“The first brief and satisfactory monograph to be written in English. This narrative is compact and well considered.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + Atlan. 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“With some simulation of scholarship, however, this ‘Life’ lacks its essence.”
— + Nation. 80: 355. My. 4, ‘05. 580w.
“It contains a good short account of Cervantes’s adventurous and romantic life, about the only one of convenient size and real fullness known to us.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 296. Ap. 15, ‘05. 450w.
Reviewed by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
* — Sat. R. 100: sup. 3. O. 14, ‘05. 2650w.
* “The ‘Life’ is sufficiently well done.”
+ Spec. 95: sup. 798. N. 18, ‘05. 210w.
* Calvert, Albert Frederick. Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.
A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of Moorish art.
* + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 280w.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I, II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States; vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X, Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol. XII, The latest age.
(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization really clear.” J. H. Robinson.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10:382. Ja. ‘05. 1420w.
(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 403. Ja. ‘05. 1770w.
“The length of some of the chapters and paragraphs is somewhat disproportionate to the importance of the matters of which they treat. And there are some rather startling omissions. There are moreover a considerable number of misprints and minor errors. Despite all these minor defects, however, there can be no doubt that the third volume of this great work is in every way worthy of the high standard set by the earlier ones.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 11: 145. O. ‘05. 960w. (Review of v. 3.)
(Vol. VIII). “No single-volume history of the French revolution in the English language, and possibly none in the French, contains so much and such well-organized information as that embodied within the compass of this book. In breadth and accuracy of treatment, in the opinion of the reviewer, it is superior to any that has yet appeared in the series.” James Westfall Thompson.
+ + — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 139. Ja. ‘05. 2110w.
56“Presents too much accidental selection and grouping. The paramount excellence of some of the chapters is so evident that the weakness of the others is made especially evident.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 598. My. ‘05. 1010w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The index of the present volume is, we are glad to see, a great improvement on its predecessors.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 583. My. 13. 2520w. (Review of v. 3.)
“With one exception, beyond painstaking fidelity and unflagging industry which gathers in every scrap of fact that can be crammed into the work, there is nothing remarkable in the treatment of the subjects. And the devotion to detail seems to have been carried too far.”
+ + — Cath. World. 82: 91. O. ‘05. 3900w. (Review of v. 8.)
“There is a certain lack of homogeneity, produced partly by divergencies both in opinion and in style, and partly by repetitions due to the treatment of a single subject in its different phases. A graver objection is the absence, both from this volume and from that devoted to ‘The reformation,’ of a sufficient statement of the Roman Catholic side. The work would be indispensable to students for its bibliographies alone.”
+ + — Critic. 46: 278. Mr. ‘05. 1280w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.
+ + — Dial. 39: 165. S. 16, ‘05. 1140w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviews Vols. III and VIII.
Ind. 58: 669. Mr. 23, ‘05. 700w.
* “A fine, scholarly catalog of events, with little sense for literary form or emphasis. It is learned and fair, but cold and unsympathetic; useful as an encyclopedia, and having little dramatic interest.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is generally accurate; it is critical; it is clearly written; it is dispassionate. The attitude of pure science is worthily maintained.”
+ + Nation. 80: 314. Ap. 20, ‘05. 2930w. (Review of Vol. III.)
“It is everywhere conscientious and never hurried.” Christian Gauss.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 209. Ap. 8, ‘05. 4100w. (Detailed review of Vol. III.)
+ + Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
Cambridge natural history. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’ (leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’ (teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)
“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack; in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions better treated.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 423. My. 25, ‘05. 1140w.
“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”
+ + + Nature. 72: 103. Je. 1, ‘05. 1990w.
“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology and classification.” Theo. Gill.
+ + — Science, n.s. 21: 653. Ap. 28, ‘05. 5080w.
Campbell, Gerald, comp. See Fitz Gerald, Edward and Pamela. Letters and portraits of.
Campbell, Reginald John. Sermons addressed to individuals. **$1.25. Armstrong.
As the author states in his preface, these eighteen sermons “are not literature, they are extempore speech.” Each one was suggested by some life story or called out by some confession, or some cry for pastoral aid, and to the text of each sermon is prefixed a short account of the particular case which it was designed to meet. Mr. Campbell is an evangelist, and minister of the City Temple of London.
“But these occasional sermons are not sermons for an occasion merely. Their appeal is a very wide one.”
+ + Bib. World. 26: 154. Ag. ‘05. 130w.
Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 80w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 200w.
+ Outlook. 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 220w.
Candler, Edmund. The unveiling of Lhasa. $5. Longmans.
An account of the Lhasa mission from the standpoint of the correspondent of the Daily Mail. He relates the predetermining causes, the diplomatic and historical matters bearing upon the expedition, and a detailed account of the actual journey and of the encounters with the Tibetans. A vivid description of Lhasa, of the monasteries, and of the people follows.
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 147. F. 4, 2320w.
“A series of clear-cut sketches depicting the every-day life of the people ... form the most striking feature of that portion of Mr. Candler’s book given over to Lhasa.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + Bookm. 21: 305. My. ‘05. 490w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ Dial. 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“There is in his pages a breezy personal element, which lends the charm of reality to all he sees and does. His descriptions are brief, and his summing up of the results of the mission clear and forcible.”