Chapter III: Preface (3)

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=Barr, Robert.= Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.

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– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 140w.

=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. †$1.50. Appleton.

“Eugene Valmont is an addition to the large number of private
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* * * * *

“The creation of Eugene Valmont may, indeed, be counted one of Mr.
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 475. Ap. 21. 200w.

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=Barrett, Alfred Wilson.= Father Pink. †$1.50. Small.

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=Barrington, Mrs. Russell.= Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5. Macmillan.

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+ – =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 540w.

=Barrows, Charles Henry.= Personality of Jesus. **$1.25. Houghton.

Mr. Barrows is a successful lawyer who was formerly president of the
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intellectual power, emotional life, will, and unwritten principles of
Jesus.

* * * * *

“This indifference to the large lessons to be learned from recent
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=Barry, J. P.= At the gates of the east: a book of travel among historic wonderlands. $2. Longmans.

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* * * * *

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+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 410w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 467. Jl. 21, ’06. 590w.

=Barry, John D.= Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.

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+ – =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 120w.

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=Barry, Richard.= Sandy of the Sierras. $1.50. Moffat.

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* * * * *

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=Barry, William (Francis).= Tradition of Scripture: its origin, authority, and interpretation. *$1.20. Longmans.

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* * * * *

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=Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 3250w.

=Bashford, Herbert.= Tenting of the Tillicums; il. by Charles Copeland. [+]75c. Crowell.

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=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= Nature and origin of living matter. *$3.50. Lippincott.

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* * * * *

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– =Nature.= 73: 361. F. 15, ’06. 1130w.

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heterogenesis.” Charles Loomis Dana.

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+ – =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 610w.

=Batten, Rev. Loring W.= Hebrew prophet. $1.50 Macmillan.

“His treatment is interesting, fresh, and skillfully related to modern
life.” John E. McFadyen.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 316. Ap. ’06. 410w.

“The closing chapters, on the prophet’s relation to the church and on
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+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 155. Ag. ’06. 440w.

“It speaks well for the American pulpit that a work of such ability
comes from the rector of an important city parish.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 370w.

=Battine, Cecil.= Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.

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+ – =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 270w.

“A confessed Confederate bias does not interfere with impartial
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+ + – =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 140w.

=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Music and musicians. *$1.50. Lane.

The twenty seven articles included in “Music and musicians” are
reprints of the author’s contributions to English periodicals. He
treats such subjects as “The obvious in music,” “Richard Strauss and
his symphonic poems,” “Richard Strauss and programme music,” and
“Wagner’s ‘Ring.’”

* * * * *

“He has a way of his own in looking at men and things, and it is
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There are many excellent comments and criticisms in the volume.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 167. Ag. 11. 540w.

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+ – =Nation.= 83: 268. S. 27, ’06. 820w.

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 1260w.

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=Baxter, James Phinney.= Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou: his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534; with annotations, etc. **$10. Dodd.

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the voyage of 1534. A bibliography and a collection of all the
pertinent documents thus far discovered in the French and Spanish
archives and included, as well as an exhaustive memoir of
Cartier.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

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American history.”

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=Bayliss, Sir Wyke.= Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 487. Ap. 21. 1560w.

+ + =Contemporary R.= 88: 903. D. ’05. 1230w.

“Unfortunately, however, it can scarcely be said that he has really
contributed anything new to the vast mass of literature on the same
subject already in circulation.”

+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 170w.

=Bazan, Emilia Pardo.= Mystery of the lost dauphin, tr. with an introd. essay by Annabel Hord Seeger. †$1.50. Funk.

With a dramatic power which is moving in its forcefulness this Spanish
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Louis XVI, who was long supposed to have died in prison. It is a book
of such realism that the reader feels thruout that it is the dread
hand of fate and not the author who relentlessly orders the unhappy
life of Naundorff, and forces him finally to give up voluntarily the
recognition he has struggled a lifetime to gain. The story of his
lovely daughter Amélie, whose happiness is sacrificed, gives to the
book a deeper human interest.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 110w.

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+ – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

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=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Spoilers. †$1.50. Harper.

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conspirators. There are brawls, shootings in the streets, riots,
battles at the mines, and murderous hand-to-hand fights—all of which
show elemental savage man free from moral restraint.

* * * * *

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=Beach, Seth Curtis.= Daughters of the Puritans. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.

“No one can read these lives without being renewed in spirit, and for
young women we know of no works so instinct with spiritual virility or
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+ =Arena.= 35: 221. F. ’06. 390w.

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+ =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.

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+ – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 940w.

“The author’s style and treatment are sufficiently fresh and original
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+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.

=Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli.= Lord George Bentinck: a political biography; new ed; with introd. by Charles Whibley. **$2. Dutton.

“It seemed timely, amid the great free-trade electoral campaign just
closed across the water to bring out on behalf of the losing side a
new edition of Disraeli’s political biography.... It opens on the eve
of the repeal of the Corn laws, of which it gives the Tory view.
Bentinck forestalled Chamberlain in thinking that England’s commercial
policy should be not free trade but reciprocity.” (Nation.) Mr.
Whibley in his introduction “leads thru unsparing denunciation of
Cobden and Peel up to a parallel between the leader of the
Protectionists in 1846 and the leader of the Protectionists to-day.
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non-political must leave Mr. Whibley’s opinions to speak for
themselves.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“An eloquent, not to say vehement, introduction. Frankly partisan in
tone.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N. 4. 150w.

“Mr Whibley has certainly managed to compress into a few pages an
exhibition of a lack of political judgment and foresight, along with a
degree of supercilious cocksureness which will not conduce to
recommend his work to the reading public.”

– + =Ind.= 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.

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sense of historical perspective.”

– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 348. O. 20, ’05. 1100w.

=Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 190w.

“From the historical standpoint, too, there is ample room for
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– =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 210w.

“Disraeli sums up the character and career of Peel with an
impartiality and a penetration that make this biography an English
classic. It is the only instance we know of contemporary history being
written with a due sense of perspective. But Mr. Whibley is more than
sympathetic: he is discerning.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 617. N. 11, ’05. 1330w.

=Bearne, Catherine M.= A queen of Napoleon’s court. **$2.50. Dutton.

A sketch of Désirée Bernadotte whose interest centers in “the picture
it gives of her times rather than of her life, for she seems to have
been an exceptionally dull product of a brilliant age.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“Miss Bearne has put together a book which will appeal to the reader
who is not particular in the matter of strict accuracy.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1342. D. 23, ’05. 200w.

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+ =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 460w.

“A book that has caught something of the glamour of that extraordinary
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drag in a fine tale, gallantly regardless of any right it has to be
there; but she is pleasant gossip, full of mirth and entertainment.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 1390w.

“It will please a class of readers unacquainted with Bourrienne and
Madame Lenormand, indifferent as to criticism and judgment, unskilled
in matters of grammar and rhetoric, intent merely on promiscuous
anecdote and cheap sentiment.”

– + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 110w.

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+ =Sat. R.= 100: 630. N. 11, ’05. 130w.

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France.”

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27. ’06. 380w.

=Bearne, Rev. David.= Charlie Chittywick. 85c. Benziger.

The tale of a resolute little lad who battled against a whole family
of idle, shiftless, worthless members, and step by step becomes a
self-respecting bread-winner.

=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English classics; text ed. by Arnold Glover. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.

An edition of Beaumont and Fletcher in the series of “Cambridge
English classics.” It gives the text of the second folio, which
contained the thirty-four plays of the first folio with the addition
of the wild-goose chase and all other known plays of the authors
published previously to 1679. All the variant readings appear in the
appendix, but there is no critical apparatus provided.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 69: 1169. N. 11, ’05. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“Does not seem to us to possess any advantage over the Variorum
edition ... except that of greater cheapness.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 344. Ap. 26, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Within its restricted limits it seems to be well done. But it is not
the twentieth century edition of Beaumont and Fletcher which is wanted
by all students of the history of the English drama.” Brander
Matthews.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The text ... is that of the second folio ... which causes us both
wonder and regret.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The work has been executed with scrupulous care, but the result is
far from satisfactory.”

– + =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Variorum ed.; ed. by A. H. Bullen. 12v. ea. *$3.50. Macmillan.

Mr Bullen’s variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher was some years
ago announced to “include all that was of importance in the work of
previous editors, together with such further critical matter as the
investigations of the past half-century supplied, and also a fuller
record of the variant readings of early texts.... It follows in the
main the lines laid down by Dyce, and offers an excellent reading
text, while much learning is accumulated in the notes; textually,
however, it is hardly what the modern philological scholar will regard
as altogether satisfactory.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Where all the old editions are unanimous in one reading, but that
reading is to modern editors inexplicable, the Variorum edition does
not hesitate to change it.”

– =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The most striking of its deficiences is that it appears in what the
general editor terms ‘modern spelling.’” Brander Matthews.

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“There is no astonishing amount of erudition displayed in the very
concise introductions.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ – =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Beavan, Arthur H.= Fishes I have known. $1.25. Wessels.

The author’s many and varied experiences in landing strange fishes in
out-of-the-way abodes are given instructively enough for cyclopedia
information and entertainingly enough to captivate the most
indifferent angler. “Dolphins, turtles, pilot-fish—very seldom caught
it seems—the Australian barracouta, the Murray cod, the catfish and
other antipodean fishes, have been among his prey.... After
experiences in faraway waters he comes back to England, and always an
entertaining guide, conducts us to more familiar scenes.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

+ =Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 140w.

“A pleasant non-technical little volume upon fishing in general and
particular—from the British standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ =N. Y. Times= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.

“It is a book which any intelligent reader might presumably enjoy if
he enjoys animate life, travel and adventure of any kind; but we
imagine the average ten year-old boy would read it with keener
interest and more profit than the angler.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 269. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.

+ =Spec.= 85: 764. N. 11, ’05. 180w.

=Beck, (Carl) Richard.= Nature of ore deposits; tr. and rev. by Walter Harvey Weed; with 272 figures and a map. 2v. $8. Engineering and mining journal.

The work “has that temper which has marked the Freiberg work for a
century, and which took shape in the like work of his predecessor, Von
Cotta, and the many successive scholars of that school.... The aim of
the treatise is to give a compendium of what is known as to the origin
and distribution of all those deposits which afford important metallic
elements, with a measure of attention to each in some proportion to
its economical importance, and by the means of a systematic
classification of the occurrences.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“Coming to the matter of this work, it may summarily be said that
within its limits it is almost beyond praise. What is essential of all
the important metalliferous ore deposits of the world is briefly, yet
clearly, set forth, and this with a surprising evenness of
presentation. The present writer knows of no other treatise dealing
with as varied and wide-ranging features which approaches it in its
accuracy and sufficiency. The work of the translator in his
emendations as well as his renderings from the German is generally
excellent.” N. S. Shaler.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 191. F. 15, ’06. 2120w.

“The subject of ore deposits is treated in an exhaustive way.” E. W.
S.

+ + =J. Geol.= 14: 659. O. ’06. 160w.

=Becke, (George) Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.

“Given a setting which includes a man or two, a ship and a stretch of
the Pacific, Mr. Louis Becke may be relied upon to reel off yarns of
adventure to any extent.... The young hero is caught by a ‘southerly
buster’ while sailing in Sydney harbour, and driven out between the
towering ironbound Heads which guard the entrance to that famous
haven, we settle down with confidence to the perusal of a string of
adventures in which no break is likely to occur.... A [story] that
should find much favour among boy readers.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The opening part of the present book inclines to dullness. The critic
may quarrel with such books for their lack of any artistic scheme of
construction, and upon many other grounds. But it is a fact that the
adventures do not halt.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 300w.

“To enjoy the book to the full one should not be more than seventeen.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.

“We imagine that ‘The adventures of a supercargo,’ although
disappointing from the viewpoint of Mr Becke’s old admirers, will
prove an enjoyable book to boys and those fond of taking their travels
in such fictional form.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 610w.

=Bedford, Randolph.= Snare of strength. †$1.50 Turner, H. B.

A tale of Australia which “shows intimate acquaintance with Australian
miners, politicians, company promoters, and prodigal sons.” (Ath.) The
atmosphere of vitality, of invincible youth greedy of life and domain
is fairly heroic. Three young men “run their race with extraordinary
vigor and leave the reader breathless, as was the way of the early
Australian novels of the bushranging days. Modern worship of athletics
has resuscitated the old type of wild rider and bold lover, but he has
the modern touch of self-consciousness and knows himself for the man
he is.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“But because there are signs of power in Mr. Bedford’s book, we would
beg him not to squander his language as Ned the prodigal squandered
his life.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1155. N. 4, ’05. 340w.

“In the matter of style he sometimes errs through striving after force
of expression, but there are passages in the book that are admirably
written. Taken as a whole ‘The snare of strength’ is a remarkable
book.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7. 230w.

“If you can forget its shortcomings, you will find in it no small
measure of rugged human nature, and you will get some new and
interesting impressions of Australian life, physical, social and
political.” Frederick Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 330w.

“No more man-book has appeared since Theodore Roberts gave us ‘Hemming
the adventurer’ in ’94.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.

“Is in its very being a book ‘worth while.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 460w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

“While the book is defective in proportion and literary art in some
respects, the author has a genuine knowledge of human nature, and
often writes acutely and with a real grasp on his characters and their
motives.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.

+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 130w.

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

An untechnical study of the bird in the abstract, which, the author
believes, with an earnest nature-lover, should follow the handbook of
identification. Among the phases of physical life discussed are
features, framework, the skull, organs of nutrition, food, the breath
of a bird, muscles, senses, beaks, and bills, body, head and neck,
wings, feet and legs, tails and eggs of birds. The book is handsomely
made and copiously illustrated.

* * * * *

“A valuable contribution to nature study, for it is both scientific
and popular.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

“It is to the fascinating drama of the evolution of bird life that he
devotes most attention, and it is this feature of the book that will
probably be found the most interesting.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 180w.

=Beebe, C. William.= Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year; with 52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and photographs from life. **$6. Holt.

Fifty-two short essays form the text of a chronicle which deals with
interesting forms of the twelve-months’ life including plant, fish,
insect and the neighbor in fur and feather. The sketches are direct
invitations to enjoy the wild beauties of out-of-door life, and the
illustrations fully second the call. The volume represents perfection
in book-making combining strength with artistic points of excellence.

* * * * *

“The most sumptuous nature book of the year. Anyone who absorbs this
book will become in his own person a fairly accomplished naturalist,
besides having a very good time in the process.” May Estelle Cook.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 420w.

“A most useful handbook.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 140w.

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

“We find only one false note in the present volume, and this was sung
by a ‘bob-white’ in January.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 520. D. 13, ’06. 540w.

“His words should reach a larger audience than holiday buyers and
recipients.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 890. D. 8, ’06. 380w.

=Beebe, C. William.= Two bird-lovers in Mexico. **$3. Houghton.

“A simple, unforced and delightful narrative.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 149. F. 10, ’06. 290w.

“They have made one of the most delightful of nature-books.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 123. F. ’06. 120w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.

“Mexico is an attractive country, and the account of the profusion of
bird life, especially in the marshes of Chapala, is vividly written.
But the book is not a work of great literary merit.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 180w.

=Beecher, Henry Ward.= Life of Christ: without—within: two sermons. $1. Harper.

Two of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s strongest and most inspiring
sermons. Christ’s life from without is sketched as it appeared to
pharisee and publican; from within, as the greatest moral force the
world has ever known.

=Beecher, Willis Judson.= Prophets and the promise. **$2. Crowell.

“The real strength and interest of Dr. Beecher’s book lie in the
second part, ‘The promise.’” Kemper Fullerton.

+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 340w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 101. Jl. 12, ’06. 280w.

=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Last things. *$1.50. Eaton.

A reprint, carefully revised and partly rewritten work published in
1897. The principal topics discussed are “The second coming of
Christ,” and “The doom of the wicked.”

=Beethoven, Ludwig van.= Beethoven, the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words; compiled and annotated by Friedrich Kerst; tr. into Eng., and ed., with additional notes by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 110w.

+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.

“Of real value to the student of musical history.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.

+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.

Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.

=Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B.= Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“We think [its value] considerable from every point of view save the
pictorial.”

+ + – =Acad.= 71: 178. Ag. 25, ’06. 780w.

=Bell, Lilian Lida (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue).= Carolina Lee. †$1.50. Page.

An ardent Southern girl brought up abroad refuses to be comforted when
her father dies. “How can you believe in a God who punishes you and
sends all manner of evil on you while calling himself a God of love”
expresses the burden of her distracted mind. She loses her fortune,
she falls from a horse and becomes a cripple. Life looks hard and
bitter. To her, in this state comes the healing truth of Christian
science with its deep revelations of the power that can bind up the
broken hearted, make whole and restore harmony.

=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.).= Paolo Veronese. $1.25. Warne.

=Outlook.= 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.

=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.).= Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50. Dutton.

The text and illustrations work out a unity of presentation
interesting from a descriptive, historical and artistic standpoint. It
is the record of a summer holiday in Brittany, and the observations
include scenery, people, their homes, customs and manners, with now
and then a dip into the religious and political aspects.

* * * * *

“We think [Mr. Bell’s drawings], indeed, better than those of any
other colour-book on Brittany that has yet been issued. Mrs. Bell
reveals in the arrangement and proportion of her book the skill of a
practised writer, if in the loose style we are sometimes allowed to
see the author almost ‘en déshabille.’”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 400w.

“To journey through this romantic region with such accomplished guides
is indeed a privilege.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 360w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 120w.

“The text is agreeably written, and the pictures ... are sober,
truthful, and sufficiently able, and are without any of those
extravagances of color that have grown, of late, somewhat too
familiar.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 80w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 425. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 420w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w.

=Bell, Ralcy Husted.= Words of the woods. **$1. Small.

Verse, “ranging from patriotic addresses to our country, through
appreciation of nature in many moods, and eulogiums of friends, to
impassioned love-songs.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind, devoid of anything
like originality and not noticeably felicitous in diction.” Wm. M.
Payne.

– + =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.

“An impression is left upon the mind that prudent pruning would have
made the volume smaller and saved the reader from occasional
commonplaces both in thought and phrase.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.

=Benn, Alfred William.= History of English rationalism in the nineteenth century. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

Mr. Benn’s book “includes intelligent summaries of the various systems
of philosophy which have influenced English thought, and gives much
detailed consideration to the influence of Coleridge and the
neo-Platonists, to utilitarianism, and Benthamism, to the Oxford
movement, and to all literary work of distinction which has influenced
the spread of rationalism or tended to curb its spread.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“His book strikes us as neither amusing nor particularly instructive.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 440w.

“It is a singularly interesting and well written account of the
movement of theological (and, to some extent, of philosophical)
thought in England during the last century. The fulness and accuracy
of Mr. Benn’s information regarding the books and writers whom he
passes in review makes his survey instructive and suggestive even to
those who dissent from the barren negativity of his conclusions.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 198. Je. 1, ’06. 2820w.

“The discussion is necessarily far less simple than Sir Leslie
Stephen’s account of the eighteenth century, and its dramatic unity
correspondingly weaker; but it has a richness and variety that are not
without their compensating interest.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 2230w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1800w.

=Bennett, John.= Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. †$1.50. Century.

While Jack Gignillatt, a young civil engineering student is
recuperating among his Southern relatives, an old box is found at the
end of a secret stairway which contains the legend of treasure buried
in an adjoining swamp by an ancestor in the Revolutionary days at the
time of a Tory raid. Jack’s nimble mathematical wit, aided by a
cousin’s intuition, is put to the test of unravelling a cryptogram’s
secret, which when once revealed starts an excited group on its way to
the sure unearthing of a fortune.

* * * * *

“A remarkable ingenious and vigorous yarn of mystery.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 420w.

“The manner of the book is unconventional, and its combination of
poetic imagination with rugged, somewhat broken style gives it a
peculiar charm. The author’s one love scene, although it is told with
poetic beauty and elevation of feeling, is a serious fault in
construction, because in it he makes the sole departure from the first
person in which the rest of the book is written.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 863. D. 8, ’06. 440w.

“Will certainly hold a high place among tales of modern
treasure-trove.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 190w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= From a college window. **$1.25. Putnam.

Eighteen essays whose subjects “are exceedingly diverse and unless
they can all be brought under the heading, ‘criticism of life,’ there
is no real bond of connexion amongst them.” (Ath.) The author writes
upon religion, education, and literary subjects.

* * * * *

“He is always suggestive, and writes in a style that must commend
itself to every lover of letters.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 445. My. 12, ’06. 1550w.

“We find an ease and withal a grace, in these essays that charm out of
the reader his sense of the pettiness of their reflections.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 420w.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 260w.

Reviewed by C. H. A. Wager.

+ =Dial.= 41: 33. Jl. 16, ’06. 770w.

+ + =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 320w.

=Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

“After reading ‘From a college window,’ it is still possible to hold
that ‘T. B.’ is a more engaging and even a more ‘convincing’ person
than Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 1570w.

“There is nothing musty about these essays. They are characterized by
good sense, clear discrimination, and sane judgment, but they were
written with scholarly ease, and they are invested with the atmosphere
of well-bred leisure.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.

“The interesting and attractive personality of the author stands out
from the discussions, which are clothed in the best of modern essay
style.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 90w.

“The chief fault one finds in these agreeable papers is here and there
a touch of sentimentalism.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 260w.

=Spec.= 96: 741. My. 12, ’06. 1360w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.).= Peace and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.

=Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“Mr. Benson does not seek verbal felicities, and he has few lines that
stand out from the rest, but all his writing is at a high level of
thought and style. Sincerity and simplicity are too rare endowments at
any time for us to pass them by lightly.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ’06. 130w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr and T. B., pseuds.).= Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 716. N. 24, ’06. 550w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= Walter Pater. **75c. Macmillan.

A life of Walter Pater written for the “English men of letters”
series. The biography “is arranged chronologically in seven chapters;
each chapter stands as a complete story either of events or of mental
development. Pater’s early and long-forgotten writings are recalled,
the raison d’etre of his Oxford life is clearly defined, the
authorship of ‘Marius the Epicurean’ is analyzed with much care, and,
finally, the fifty-odd pages devoted to ‘Personal characteristics’ are
an achievement in graphic and intimate personalia which will doubtless
be generously cited by reviewers of the book.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The life of Pater could not have fallen into safer, kindlier, or more
sympathetic keeping than that of Mr. Arthur Benson.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 659. Je. 2. 1700w.

“The biographer has entered so thoroughly into the spirit of his work
that he writes of Pater with almost Pater’s own felicity.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 206. S. ’06. 860w.

“On the whole, however, the book is to be counted among the best of
this excellent series.”

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 330w.

“Mr. Benson writes with the most scrupulous self-effacement.
Throughout, he walks warily, reverently, seriously, decorously, and
his admiration is so constant that in one or two passages, as in the
opening pages and the last chapter of the book, he falls somewhat into
the manner of the master. Pater has been given into uncommonly
sympathetic hands.” Wm. T. Brewster.

+ + =Forum.= 38: 102. Jl. ’06. 1000w.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 490w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 869. Je. 9, ’06. 1220w.

“It does not perhaps dig very deeply into Pater’s curious mind, and it
has certain definite limitations; but it is a living sketch, vivid,
tender, engaging, taken from a particular point of view, and touched
off with real grace and ease.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 190. My. 25, ’06. 1220w.

“It is quite an ideal biography.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 14. Jl. 5, ’06. 1530w.

“His book is readable. He has marshaled his facts and given them to us
in an interesting style.” James Huneker

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 349. Je. 2, ’06. 3420w.

“Is, so far, the best expression of the life and mission of that
Oxford dilettante in Roman English art and letters that we have.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

“Mr. Benson, with extraordinary skill, has caught the butterfly, and
yet produced the impression upon our minds that it is still free and
alive, still floating in the air that gave it being.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 460w.

“This little volume is the best summary of Pater’s life and work we
have yet seen.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 50w.

“With a fine and delicate reserve he refuses to do more than to
suggest how and in what spirit we should approach so lovable, so
reticent, so shy a man. Just this, so it seems to us, is the chief
value of his work.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 146. Ag. 4, ’06. 1220w.

=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Angel of pain. †$1.50. Lippincott.

The hero of this new tale by the author of “Dodo” is a fine young
Englishman, inheriting wealth and strength, but “a man with an iron
hand who did not always remember to put on the velvet glove.” He
proceeds in much too business-like a manner with his courtship, but is
accepted by Madge Ellington chiefly through her ambitious mother’s
persuasion. On the eve of the marriage, Madge finds that she loves a
poor painter, and so begins a series of tragic happenings which lend
hurried action to the story. There is a character worthy a
Maeterlinck, Tom Merivale, who can give and receive messages from bird
and beast.

* * * * *

+ – =Acad.= 70: 381. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.

“We have no patience with the chapters in which the hermit appears.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 445. Ap. 14. 290w.

“The book is full of clever satire, trenchant analysis and a certain
underlying vein of symbolism that is full of suggestion, but it lacks
heart. There is not quite enough human nature in it, of the better
sort, to make the characters convincing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 31. Mr. ’06. 370w.

“Mr Benson has gained much in solidity; he can no longer be called
merely clever. But he has lost in vitality.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 483. My. ’06. 190w.

“He has simply spoiled a story of genuine human interest by a reckless
indulgence in sensational imaginings.” Wm. M. Payne.

– + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 220w.

“Is a good story and is something more.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 350w.

“Leaves us with the impression that, for all its laboured length and
solid paragraphs, the book is the result of incomplete imagination and
undigested thought.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.

“The book is undeniably a little disappointing at first, because
somewhat lacking in the amusing qualities which we have learned to
expect from its author but it grows upon one as the characters slowly
develop and the theme is worked out through the medium of their
lives.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 600w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.

“A singular mingling of the attractive and the disappointing. It is in
its plot and situations distressing, but in its pictures of English
society it is extremely interesting, and there are several characters
worth knowing and rather carefully worked out.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

“It is unusual, and well executed in a way but it is decidedly not a
cheerful tale.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.

“Mr Benson would do well to shun the supernatural: it does not suit
his style.”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.

=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.

Paul Norris and Norah Ravenscroft who had played together since
childhood find that they love each other after Norah marries Theodore
Beckwith, a mean-spirited shrivelled up specimen of mankind. Paul
becomes Beckwith’s private secretary and incidentally is compelled to
be a modern type of court fool, tho sacrificing none of his dignity
and courage in playing an entertainer’s rôle to amuse a pagan,
sensuous nature. Paul’s hatred for the man tempts him to run him down
with a motor car, he repents at the last moment but too late to avert
the tragedy. The second part of the story shows Paul’s remorse which
would drown itself in drink, his conversion, his marriage with Norah,
and his final reparation to a “calm, un-angry, inevitable justice” by
saving the child of Theodore and Norah from certain death.

* * * * *

“An unpleasant laboured story.”

– =Acad.= 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 150w.

“We are disposed to rank this novel as Mr. Benson’s best work
accomplished since the public ear was captured by the specious
cleverness of ‘Dodo.’”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 280w.

“The writing is hardly less slovenly and involved than usual, and, as
usual, the minor characters are delightful.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 290w.

“The villain is too villainous to be true, and the hero too amiable to
engage sympathy; the heroine is simply a nice girl in an awkward
position.”

– =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 360w.