Chapter IV: Preface (4)

“It would be a safe prediction that the people who have liked Mr.
Benson’s other books will like this new one even better.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“There is just a tinge here of that diabolism toward which Mr. Benson
seems to have a bent.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

“Mr. Benson is a writer who never quite gets the effect at which he
seems to be aiming. The book would be twice as interesting if it were
half as long.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

=Benson, Godfrey R.= Tracks in the snow: being the history of a crime; ed. from the Ms. of the Rev. Robert Driver. †$1.50. Longmans.

The rector of an English country parish has recorded the story of the
mysterious murder of his friend and neighbor, Eustace Peters and the
unravelling of the mystery to which certain tracks of heavy boots
found in the snow furnish the chief clue. It is from this manuscript
that the present thrilling detective story with its mazes of
suspicions, its strange adventures and narrow escapes is supposed to
have been edited.

* * * * *

“We do not remember reading such a clever murder story since Grant
Allen’s ‘The curate of Churnside.’”

+ =Acad.= 70: 429. My. 5, ’06. 440w.

“The book, in short, shows considerable crudeness, but also an
imaginative faculty by no means contemptible.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.

“It is the history of a crime set forth with much artistic literary
ability.”

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

“A good detective story of a somewhat novel kind. The book is really
interesting.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= King’s achievement. $1.50. Herder.

A piece of controversial fiction which portrays Elizabethan times and
doings, and which specifically deals with the suppression of the
monasteries and the proclamation of the Royal supremacy in religious
affairs. “Father Benson frankly takes sides.... The good is all on the
side of the monasteries, the bad on the side of Henry and Cromwell and
their creatures.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“An exceptionally good historical novel, as such things go. It is a
clever, a thorough, and a powerful work; but, in our opinion, it was a
mistake to write it.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1080. O. 14, ’05. 340w.

“The story, which is long, is mainly used as a vehicle for expressing
the author’s decided views upon the religious and political matters of
the day, and is rather overweighted by the historical detail which
obtrudes itself too persistently in the foreground.”

– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 170w.

“The work does not, on the whole, show as much careful elaboration as
its predecessor [‘By what authority?’]. In compensation, however, the
story has more unity and proportion, chiefly because there are fewer
characters to claim the attention.”

+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 848. Mr. ’06. 460w.

“He draws his characters with ease and sympathy, but not with that
intensity of insight which creates a type and yet gives it the force
of an individual. But they are not complete and striking human beings;
and this is the flaw in what is a really beautiful and sensitive piece
of work.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 359. O. 27, ’05. 500w.

“We gladly recommend the book not only as a romance but also as
history, inasmuch as it gives a far more truthful picture of the great
sacrilege of the sixteenth century than most of the (so-called)
histories of the period.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 240w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Queen’s tragedy. $1.50. Herder.

The court setting is a prominent feature of Father Benson’s portrayal
of Queen Mary, against which background he outlines her as “human and
a woman.... First love, a passion for Philip of Spain in the breast of
a woman of thirty-seven, is tragedy in suspense from its commencement,
and the novelist makes her foolish heart flutter before us till we
need the annalist to reduce the temperature of our pity.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Whatever else may be thought of Father Benson’s latest historical
novel, no one will fail to find it fresh, suggestive and interesting.”
J. H. Pollen.

+ – =Acad.= 71: 63. Jl. 21, ’06. 1090w.

“The writing at the end of the book is fine and grandiose.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 37. Jl. 14. 310w.

“Though it is a creditable piece of work is scarcely on a level with
either ‘By what authority?’, or ‘The king’s achievement.’”

+ – =Cath. World.= 84: 270. N. ’06. 360w.

“It is first and foremost an engaging book. The author has what is
called ‘a way with him’ ... his humour is fresh ... then, too, though
the style is firm and good, it is all so easy, so limpid, so light.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 259. Jl. 20, ’06. 790w.

“Two historic scenes are depicted with great power, the marriage of
Mary and Philip at Winchester, and the burnings of Ridley and Latimer
at Oxford.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 220w.

=Benton, Joel.= Persons and places. $1. Broadway pub.

“Mr. Joel Benton came into casual contact with many people we want to
know about—Emerson, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Horace Greeley, Barnum
and Bryant—and he chats about them in a pleasant way, tho without
contributing anything very novel or important to our knowledge of
these men.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Writing largely of things a part of which he was and nearly all of
which he saw, Mr. Benton can by no means be accused of producing
merely the echo of an echo.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 300w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ’05. 90w.

“Most of the papers are not of serious importance.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.

=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.

A happy account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem during which the narrator
gained “many graces, deep and holy impressions, and an enthusiastic
love for the Holy land.”

=Berard, (Eugene) Victor.= British imperialism and commercial supremacy; tr. by H. W. Foskett; with a pref. to the Eng. ed. by the author. *$2.60. Longmans.

Mr. Foskett says: “At the present time, the antagonistic opinions of
free trade on the one hand, and the protection, fair trade, preference
to the colonies on the other, are shaking to its very foundations the
economic structure on which commercial Great Britain has rested and
flourished undisturbed for the past fifty years. Under the
circumstances the comprehensive survey made by M. Victor Bérard of the
commercial and industrial situation of Great Britain among the leading
communities of the day must undoubtedly appeal to the intelligence of
all thinking Britons.” The translator’s aim is to emphasize the
necessity for a thoro application of modern scientific methods.

* * * * *

“The analysis of the book is keen, its style lively, and it is
interesting reading.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 140w.

“On the whole, the translation is meritorious, and pains have been
bestowed upon the book.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 880w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 522. O. ’06. 160w.

“The figures are now so far out of date that an appendix bringing them
down to within the year—if it be impossible to recast the text—is
necessary. The translation is excellent.” Edward A. Bradford.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 1410w.

“Suggestive and entertaining.” Alvin S. Johnson.

+ =Pol. Sci.= Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 420w.

“M. Berard is at best an able journalist juggling with second-hand
knowledge and snippets from Blue-books and consular reports.
Seriously, M. Berard’s English friends ought to have revised this
undoubtedly interesting volume before it was allowed to appear before
the English public.”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 1860w.

“M. Bérard is a charming writer, but of English politics, of the
English temperament, of Imperialism, of the personnel of English
government, his conception is wholly farcical. The English version, in
our opinion, might have been better done, for it is full of misprints,
and many of the phrases are awkwardly rendered.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 536. Ap. 7, ’06. 1240w.

=Bergamo, Rev. Cajetan Mary da.= Thoughts and affections on the passion of Jesus Christ for every day of the year taken from the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the fathers of the church; new tr. by the Passionist fathers of the U. S. *$2. Benziger.

“The principal object of this new translation is to rescue from
oblivion a valuable work for many years out of print.”

=Bernheimer, Charles Seligman=, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.

“All are written out of a wealth of precise information and, though
deeply sympathetic, exhibit a perfectly sane and fair minded spirit.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 340w.

“The book could still be rescued for the mass of American people who
ought to read it, by careful editing, by the elimination of one third
of its material, which is useless repetition, and by giving it that
typographical dress in which the average reader expects a book of such
popular value to appear.” Edward A. Steiner.

+ – =Yale R.= 15: 106. My. ’06. 440w.

=Bernstein, Hermann.= Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.

“In its pictures of facts and conditions the book is entirely
convincing, but as a story is not signally impressive.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

“The story has a curious interest, as an interpretation, from the
inside, of a theory of life utterly foreign to the average reader’s
ideas.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.

“Is a simple, affecting tale of Russian-Jewish life.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 230w.

=Bertin, L. E.= Marine boilers: their construction and working, dealing more especially with tubulous boilers; tr. and ed. by Leslie S. Robertson, with a new chapter on “Liquid fuel” by Engineer-Lieutenant H. C. Anstey and a preface by Sir William White. *$5. Van Nostrand.

A second edition of this work by a Frenchman appears with such
revision and extension as the strides in marine practice, make
necessary. The editor says that “progress has been rather in the
direction of concentrating practice, along well acknowledged lines,
than by the introduction of any noticeable departure in the design of
boilers. Considerable development has taken place in the application
of steam turbines to marine propulsion, but it has not called for any
change in the types of boilers already in use.” A notable addition to
the volume is a chapter on “Liquid Fuel.”

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 620w.

“On the whole, the book is to be commended as the most satisfactory
treatise on water tube boilers from the historical and constructive
standpoint of which the reviewer has knowledge.” Wm. Kent.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 700w.

=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 1. Historical and social. *$7.50. Macmillan.

This division of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey
of London” will be complete in two volumes. “Mediaeval London,
historical and social” to be followed by “Mediaeval London,
ecclesiastical.” “The first volume discusses the history of the city
in relation to our kings, whose dealings with the capital are
succinctly recorded. The social condition of the town is also
exhibited in its many and varied phases.” (Ath.) “The numerous and
excellent illustrations are not the least attractive feature of the
book. Many are taken from manuscripts in the British museum and
elsewhere.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The great charm of these volumes is the individuality of the writer.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)

“His notes are exceedingly valuable, and no future historical novelist
of London will, we imagine, ever pass them by.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Parts of the whole volumes are suggestive rather of a collection of
materials than of the production of a literary artist.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 101. Ag. 2, ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Sat. R.= 102: 424. O. 6, ’06. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is impossible here to do justice to the ability with which this
picture of the past is drawn. Sir Walter left out nothing that could
help us to realize the vigour of the great city, its pride of
patriotism, its wealth, its far-reaching commerce. His name will be
linked with it in such a fashion as we can hardly find paralleled in
the history of the world’s capitals.”

+ + + =Spec.= 97: 541. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Betts, Ethel Franklin.= Favorite nursery rhymes. †$1.50. Stokes.

Some of the oldest and the best nursery rhymes are grouped here and
charmingly illustrated in black and white with six full-page colored
plates.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 90w.

Bible for young people: arranged from the King James version; with twenty-four full page il. from old masters. $1.50. Century.

A need of the day is supplied in this volume of Bible stories which is
a new and revised edition of a book originally issued at double the
price. In making the text interesting to young readers, genealogies,
doctrines and the hard-to-understand passages have been omitted. The
illustrations are fine reproductions of the work of old masters.

* * * * *

“The present edition is in more popular form than when it first
appeared.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 31, ’06. 30w.

“The compiler has shown discrimination and taste in her selection of
material. While primarily appealing to young people, this admirable
compilation will interest grown readers as well.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 190w.

Bible—Proverbs; tr. out of the original Hebrew and with former translations diligently compared and revised. $1. Century.

This little volume uniform with the “Thumb nail series” contains for
introduction a chapter on “The proverbs of the Hebrews” from Dr. Lyman
Abbott’s “The life and literature of the ancient Hebrews.”

Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.

“The translation here presented is a good one—accurate, fresh,
suggestive, and rhymical. The conclusions embodied in this work ...
seem to rest upon too uncertain and subjective grounds.” Ira Maurice
Price and John M. P. Smith.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 323. Ap. ’06. 190w.

=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam, v. 1, ready.

A three-volume life of Goethe, with full critical estimates, designed
for the student rather than for the general reader. The author devoted
a life-time to the work and based it upon material made accessible by
the opening of the Goethe archives and by recent philological
investigation. The first volume covers the period from 1749–1788,—from
Goethe’s birth to his return from Italy.

* * * * *

“Mr. Cooper approves himself a competent German scholar, and a writer
of sound English as well. His rendering is now and then a trifle
loose.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 321. Mr. 17. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Critic.= 48: 364. Ap. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Bielschowsky’s book, by reason of its fuller and more accurate
information will now take the place in our libraries that Mr. Lewes’s
held so long. Professor Cooper’s translation is, in general, a very
satisfactory piece of work. The language is usually well-chosen, and
renders the thought, and in some degree the style, of the original.”
Lewis A. Rhoades.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 85. F. 1, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Is remarkable for the impartiality with which, as a general thing, it
keeps the balance between literature and scholarship.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Bielschowsky has brought to his task the two indispensable
requisites: on the one hand, familiarity with the details of Goethe
research, a world of scholarship by itself; on the other hand, the
ability to think and feel and enjoy independently and to write with
clearness and charm.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 430. My. 24, ’06. 2250w.

“Two things seem defective in this volume: Bielschowsky has been no
more successful than his predecessors in getting at the details
incident to Goethe’s administration of public office at Weimar, and
less even than others has he appreciated the dramatic significance of
Goethe’s first touch with Schiller when Goethe visited the military
school in Würtemberg, which he disposes of in two lines.” J. Perry
Worden.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Is probably the most complete and authoritative life of Goethe.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The story of the years covered by this installment—1749 to 1788—is
told clearly enough, but with all his study, all his industry, all his
admiration of Goethe’s genius Bielschowsky has not written a great
biography.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 640. Ap. 28, ’06. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Biese, Alfred.= Development of the feeling for nature in the middle ages and modern times. *$2. Dutton.

“It has been the author’s endeavor to trace in this volume the
development of human thought in regard to the phenomena of nature from
the introduction of Christianity downwards, in the same way that was
done in a previous volume for the time of the Greeks and Romans. This
has been done mainly by the study of writings, both in prose and
poetry, in which natural phenomena, whether connected with scenery,
weather, birds, or flowers, are spoken of with admiration.” (Nature.)
“Ample quotations, pertinent notes, and a good index give point to
Herr Biese’s discussions.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The vague and unsatisfactory impression left by his generalizations
is, no doubt, due in some degree to his style, though for this the
translator may be to blame. On the whole, however, the translation is
workmanlike.” C: H. A. Wager.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 235. O. 16, ’06. 1850w.

+ =Nature.= 74: 293. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.

+ =Outlook= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.

“Useful and comprehensive handbook.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ’05. 210w.

=Bigelow, Melville Madison, and others.= Centralization and the law; scientific legal education, an illustration, with an introd. by Melville M. Bigelow. **$1.50. Little.

Eight lectures delivered before the Boston university law school “on
various recent occasions ... as part of the plan of legal extension
now on foot there.” “The main lines of thought centre around the ideas
(1) of Equality which according to the author, was formerly the
dominant legal force in American life; (2) of Inequality, which is
characteristic of present conditions; and (3) of Administration, which
is the supreme end of legal, and, in fact, of all education intended
to fit men for the practical affairs of life. Specifically, the more
important subjects discussed are the extension of legal education, the
nature of law, monopoly, the scientific aspects of law, and government
regulation of railway rates.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

=Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 130w.

“The economic philosophy underlying these essays is of a somewhat
conventional, if not dangerously superficial order.”

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 329. My. ’06. 1080w.

“The book is one that can be recommended to the general reader as well
as to the lawyer and the law student. The historical presentation is
excellent, and the citation of modern cases gives to the conclusions
an immediate interest which either presentation by itself would not
possess.” Worthington C. Ford.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 1880w.

“As an exposition of law regarded as a progressive science,
‘Centralization and law’ is a valuable contribution to real progress,
and in a department where that contribution is greatly needed.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 478. Je. 23, ’06. 600w.

=Bigelow, Poultney.= History of the German struggle for liberty, v. 4. **$2.25. Harper.

“In the details of book-construction the volume is unusually faulty. A
large proportion of the text, probably a third, consists of quotations
worked in with so little skill that the volume suggests the note-book
rather than the finished production. The worst feature of the book,
however, is its unfortunate tone.” Frank Maloy Anderson.

– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 711. Ap. ’06. 490w. (Review of v. 4.)

“It contains the same slap-dash miscellaneous kind of matter as do its
three predecessors, and does not deserve, any more than they, to be
ranked as history according to any established canon, nor as
literature if grace of style and a clear thread of consecutive
narrative are to be regarded as necessary.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The tone of the work is throughout journalistic, often hysterical;
but some later writer will doubtless find in this mass of material
abundant matter for a single volume that will clearly and logically
present the subject without sacrificing what has evidently been Mr.
Bigelow’s paramount aim—the readableness and popular character of the
narrative.”

– + =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)

“Occurrences are treated rather in accordance with their
picturesqueness or with the degree of attention which they excited at
the time than with their permanent significance.”

+ – – =Nation.= 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Bigg, Charles.= Church’s task under the Roman empire. *$1.75. Oxford.

“They are delightful reading, fresh and breezy in their manner, with
an ease of handling the material that speaks of long familiarity. The
footnotes add very much both to the size of the book and to its
value.” Franklin Johnson.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 337. Ap. ’06. 630w.

=Bigham, Madge A.= Blackie, his friends and his enemies: a book of old fables in new dresses; il. by Clara E. Atwood. †$1.50. Little.

Thirty-five stories made new with the furbishing suggested by the
“Story lady’s” imagination are told a little street boy by way of
compensation for his pet rat that died.

* * * * *

“An animal book which children will find very charming.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Alton of Somasco. †$1.50. Stokes.

“It is interesting to compare with Mr. Beach’s novel the somewhat
similar ‘Alton of Somasco.’ Here the scene is British Columbia instead
of Alaska, and there is no political deviltry to impel the action, but
otherwise the situation is the same, being evolved out of the conflict
between legitimate settlers and unscrupulous schemers for the
possession of valuable ranching and mining properties.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“A novel which is terse, powerful yet graceful, showing intimate
knowledge and acute observation, never overweighted with description
yet containing many delightful pictures of colonial life and manners.”

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 881. Ag. 26, ’05. 330w.

“We have no hesitation in pronouncing this his best story, nor in
recommending it particularly to the attention of adventurous young
England.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 235. Ag. 19. 400w.

“The interest of the plot is fairly well sustained, but the book is
carelessly written.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 50w.

“An admirable novel is the result, and one which introduces us to a
territory hitherto almost unexploited in fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1. ’06. 120w.

“In ‘Alton of Somasco’ Mr. Bindloss is seen at his best.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ’05. 380w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Cattle-baron’s daughter. †$1.50. Stokes.

The transition-period when the boundless cattle-lands of the Northwest
were first opened to the home-steader is well handled in this story of
the cattle-baron’s daughter and her divided loyalty to her father, the
champion of the old order, and to her lover, the leader of the
homestead boys. The characters are well drawn Western types and the
scenes of feud and riot, of miniature war and revolution, are
stirring, because behind the hero is the spirit of the times, the
steady march of the settler leading to the final triumph of the plow.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 180w.

“A tale of thrilling adventure with plentiful humorous relief.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 240w.

“The interest is well sustained to the end of the story, which is much
above the average and is well worth reading.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 237. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.

=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Walt Whitman. **$3. Dutton.

In Mr. Binns’ biography and interpretation it has been the aim to
write about Whitman rather than to give Whitman’s work with running
commentary. The author is an Englishman “who ‘loves’ the United
States,” and thinks the time is not yet ripe for a final and complete
biography, and therefore his work is suggestive rather than conclusive
in the sense of literary decisions. “It is as a man that I see and
have sought to describe Whitman. But as a man of special and
exceptional character, a new type of mystic or seer.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“As a biography, it will easily take its place as our most exhaustive
and authoritative record of Whitman’s career.”

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1285. D. 9, ’05. 1520w.

Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.

+ =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 1280w.

“Both in biographical detail and in critical comment the book is an
excellent piece of work, perhaps the fullest and best study of the
poet’s life and writings that has yet appeared.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 145. Mr. 1, ’06. 850w.

“A book of some interest and value, which yet has a few of the faults
common to most biographies. In the first place, it is too long.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 401. N. 24, ’05. 2880w.

+ – =Nation.= 81: 469. D. 7, ’05. 840w.

“The poet’s work is, indeed, vindicated simply and naturally by Mr.
Binns, with no violence of argument, and it is a pleasure to
acknowledge the fine quality of spirit which he displays.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 970w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 150w.

“Mr. Binns’ book, granted a few somewhat soulful peculiarities, is not
at all bad.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 20. Ja. 6, ’06. 1760w.

=Birney, Mrs. Theodore W.= Childhood. $1. Stokes.

Believing that “discord in the home is in most cases due to a lack of
comprehension of child nature and its needs,” Mrs. Birney offers
parents and teachers the benefits of her earnestly acquired
experience. “She is singularly free from fads; does not write as if
she were the whole Law and the Prophets on the subject of children.”
(Critic.)

* * * * *

“A careful perusal of the book should bring help to many households.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 90w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.

=Birrell, Augustine.= Andrew Marvell. **75c. Macmillan.

“Very little is said of the poetry upon which his reputation rests.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 260w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 100w.

+ =Spec.= 96: 582. Ap. 14, ’06. 1720w.

=Birrell, Augustine.= In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.

“A collection of short essays on a great variety of subjects by a
writer who is, by nature and training, a spectator and commentator of
the school though not of the genius of Charles Lamb.” (Outlook.) “He
opens his service, so to speak, in the name of the Bodleian, and goes
to tell us of book-worms—the literary bookworm, not the one with
spectacles—confirmed readers, first editions, libraries, old
booksellers, collecting, and some score of similar things of value to
the bibliophile.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“If his work is always slight, it is very nearly always agreeable.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1191. N. 18, ’05. 1360w.

“Represents him favorably enough as a critic none the less stimulating
because he touches his topics with a light hand.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 230w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 310w.

“Is characteristically full of quaint fancies, brilliant sallies of
wit and humor, keenly-calculated judgments of men and things, and an
erudition that pointedly avoids beaten highways to cull its treasures
from old nooks and dusty corners.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.

“Without being in any sense of the word a great essayist, Mr.
Augustine Birrell is a brilliant and lucid writer.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 426. D. 8, ’05. 1520w.

“It would be a limited taste indeed that could not extract from [these
essays] several half-hours of entertainment.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 41. Ja. 11, ’06. 640w.

“None of them will seem really trivial to lovers of ‘Obiter dicta’ and
its successors. For they are all marked with the good-humored
acuteness, the animated nonchalance, which engaged us in him long
ago.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 879. D. 9, ’05. 1400w.

“This volume is more fragmentary and discursive than the earlier books
from the same hand, and the papers are, on the whole, less valuable.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.

“These essays, aside from the Arnold fling, are charming in tone and
in their literary quality, which ranges from Baconian formality to a
very effective use of modern slang.”

+ + – =Reader.= 7: 566. Ap. ’06. 450w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.

“It is always easy, but not always comforting, to read Mr. Birrell.
When he is writing about books he is commonly delightful, though even
here he cannot resist the temptation to ‘get his knife into’ something
or somebody that he dislikes.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1160w.

=Birukoff, Paul.= Early life of Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. **$1.50. Scribner.

The work of a man who was a friend of Tolstoi’s and in his employ. The
outlines of M. Paul Birukoff’s biography were filled in by notes
furnished by Tolstoi himself which fact lends a serious and
authoritative value to the work. This first volume gives an account of
the origin of the Tolstois, the novelist’s childhood, youth and
manhood, and ends with his marriage. “A great deal of attention is
devoted to the moral development of the young prodigy and very little
to those amusements and external interests that probably were of far
more importance in shaping his character.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“It is indeed a most serious work and suggests that the author was
much more anxious to exhibit Leo Tolstoy as a prophet and teacher than
as a literary artist whose province it is to hold the mirror up to
nature.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 498. My. 26, ’06. 2030w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This most interesting publication ought to find many readers.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 178. Ag. 18. 1360w. (Review of v. 1.)

“There can be no doubt that this work will be a mine of information to
the more critical biographer as well as in itself of much value.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is an exhaustive analysis of the youth and early manhood of a
personality of exceptional interest, with whose later years of
achievement the reading-public is generally familiar.” Annie Russell
Marble.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 59. Ag. 1, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)

“When completed bids fair to become one of the important contributions
to our biographical knowledge during recent years.” Wm. T. Brewster.

+ + =Forum.= 38: 97. Jl. ’06. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

“One can pardon somewhat his lack of literary skill, in view of his
transparent honesty, and modest attitude toward his work as ‘material’
for the use of more competent workers hereafter.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)

“There is in his attitude towards his literary master a certain
servility of indiscriminate admiration, a too thoroughgoing sympathy.
The net result of which simplicity is that the eminent Russian’s worst
enemy could have wished him no other biographer.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The undisguisedly autobiographic portions are exceedingly frank in
places, and always intensely egotistical.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The book is thus chaotic and almost incoherent, yet most of the
material is of intense interest.”

+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 1.)

=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Black, Rev. J. F.= Bible way: an antidote to Campbellism. *50c. Meth. bk.

An argument in dialogue form which presents arguments against the
doctrine of so-called Christian or Campbellite church.

=Black, John Janvier.= Eating to live, with some advice to the gouty, the rheumatic, and the diabetic: a book for every body. *$1.50. Lippincott.

“Forewarned is forearmed” might be said to be the watchword of Dr.
Black in his present work. He aims to save from pitfalls the mortals
who eat and drink from instinct rather than from reason. He discusses
the economics and values of different foods and gives dietary advice
to people variously afflicted.

=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Elements of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“On the whole, the author has furnished us with a very serviceable
text. It is a logical development of the principles of the science and
the different branches have been brought into proper correlation. Its
style is sufficiently simple for easy comprehension and the student
will find it a working manual of great value.” George B. Mangold.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 243. Ja. ’06. 440w.

“Is a singularly ineffective and eminently mediocre book. It affords
no real penetrating insight into the nature of society. It has no
intrinsic coherence.”

– =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 230w.

=Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 60w.

“In general it may be said that Mr. Blackmar has made effective use of
the new sources of material and new developments of theory that have
become available since the publication of Mr. Fairbanks’ book.... Many
pages of Mr. Blackmar’s book are marred by English not merely faulty,
but incorrigibly and persistently so to such an extent that the sense
may be recovered only with difficulty.” Robert C. Brooks.

+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 100. Mr. ’06. 910w.

“The chapters on social pathology bring the science down to earth, and
constitute probably the most valuable part of the book.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 210w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.

“Will serve a useful purpose ... for intelligent general readers and
social workers who wish to gain a social attitude of mind in relation
to all varieties of man’s activities.”

+ =School R.= 14: 542. S. ’06. 200w.

=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander=, eds. Philippine islands, 1493–1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

“In eight volumes just under consideration, ninety documents ... are
produced in translation, as are parts of the whole of seven old
printed works. The editorial work upon these documents shows
painstaking care and much discrimination. The translations—and this is
important—appear generally to deserve the same commendation.” James A.
LeRoy.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 681. Ap. ’06. 2900w. (Review of v. 21–27 and
29.)

Reviewed by James A. LeRoy.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 143. O. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 28–38.)

“The volumes of 1905 are, all in all, the best edited and most
carefully arranged and translated of the series thus far.”

+ + =Ind.= 40: 927. Ap. 19, ’06. 1090w. (Review of v. 21–27.)

+ + =Ind.= 61: 695. S. 20, ’06. 730w. (Review of v. 28–38.)

=Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 28–32.)

=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Hearts’ haven. †$1.50. Bobbs.

“A stirring romance, rich in lights and shadows, full of human
interest and possessing the peculiar charm of new scenes and
surroundings. Another excellence of this work is the remarkable
knowledge of psychology displayed.”

+ + =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 1310w.

“The author of ‘Hearts’ haven’ has made clever use of her material,
and the admission that the book leaves behind it a sense of depression
is in itself a tribute to her strength.” Frederick Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 160w.

=Blake, William.= Poetical works: a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letter-press originals; with variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces by J. Sampson. *$3.50. Oxford.

“‘Blake’s final version is uniformly adopted as the text, while all
earlier or cancelled readings are supplied in foot-notes.’ All the
poems are arranged exactly as they are found, and each group is given,
as far as is known, in chronological order. The two main MS. sources,
the Rossetti and the Pickering MSS., are now printed for the first
time from careful and accurate transcripts, made by the present owner,
Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“If it be desirable to possess a scholarly and complete edition of
Blake, it would be impossible to imagine anything more suitable to the
purpose than the edition before us.”

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1325. D. 23, ’05. 830w.

“Mr. Sampson’s edition of Blake is a masterpiece of editing and Blake,
of all modern English poets, was most in need of a good editor.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 100. Ja. 27. 2150w.

“We cannot be too grateful for this beautiful and scholarly edition of
the great mystic.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.

“Mr. Sampson has compiled texts, compared different readings, grasped
and illuminated obscure points, with all the tact and insight of the
born commentator. His book should become the standard authority for
all Blake students.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 129. Ap. 12, ’06. 4030w.

“Is in point of laborious research and painstaking arrangement, one of
the most admirable pieces of editing that we have lately seen.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 99. F. 1, ’06. 280w.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 298. Ap. 21, ’06. 3240w. (Reprinted from the
Lond. Times.)

+ + =Spec.= 96: 259. F. 17, ’06. 1760w.

=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Four Corners. †$1.50. Jacobs.

The three Virginia acres on which the somewhat impoverished Corner
family lived formed the center of the stage upon which the four little
Corners, Nan, Mary Lee, and the twins, a cousin, an old mule named
Pete, an angora cat, a mongrel dog, and a few delightful grownups, act
out a little family drama. In it, sad little economies, sickness, and
trouble bravely met, are contrasted with the joys of healthy girlhood
with homely adventures, and happy little surprises. It is a story that
will make careless little girls thankful for their blessings.

* * * * *

“It is a peasant, homy sort of tale.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Little Miss Mouse. †$1. Jacobs.

Miss Hester Brackenbury in days of affluence adopts two little waifs,
a small boy and a girl, and when a few months later, she becomes poor
she refuses to give them up but moves into a cottage and supports them
by making buttonholes. It is a pretty story for grown-ups as well as
children, for in the background is an old love-story which throws a
mellow light upon the children in the foreground, their joys, their
contentions and their troubles. In the end, thru little Miss Mouse and
an old receipt, Aunt Hester is restored to her old estate.

=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Incomplete amorist. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“A study of an accomplished and refined male flirt who plays the game
of love with counters only to find that at last he must play with
gold. Contrasted with this superfine trifler is a straightforward,
even impulsive English girl whose common sense and simple ignorance of
the early Empire. These last three studies her girl artist life in
Paris. The story has movement, variety, and originality.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“It is essentially bright, witty, superficial work, and we are sorry
to be, more than once, confronted with problems and situations which
demand a stronger treatment and a deeper insight into human nature.”

+ – =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 140w.

=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 210w.

“There are several reasons why ‘The incomplete amorist’ is deserving
of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a
new and whimsical way.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 480w.

“To judge by the experiment her true vein would promise to lie not in
the picturesque region of Bohemian romance, but on the quiet levels of
rustic comedy.”

– =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 340w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

“‘E. Nesbit’ has shown that she understands grown-ups as well as she
does children, and in ‘The incomplete amorist’ has written a novel
original, clever, and full of interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 840w.

“It has the great affirmative merit that it never bores the reader.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 120w.

“As this novel is a study in masculine psychology it is unsatisfying.”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

“The greater part of the story is extraordinarily vulgar, and to that
part of it which is not vulgar it is impossible to apply any epithet
but that of ‘stagy.’ The story cannot but remind its readers of the
sentimental fiction of about twenty years ago.”

– =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 220w.

“In the midst of the inrush of novels it is one of the few that
deserve a better fate than that of serving as a time-killer.”

+ =World To-Day.= 12: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.

=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Railway children; with drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“By a family misfortune these children are for a time deprived of
their father, compelled to leave their pleasant home, and obliged to
live in a little cottage close to the railway. All their strange joys
and troubles are in one way or another connected with this railway and
its surroundings.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A fragrant and sweet story. It would be indeed difficult to find one
better suited for reading around the nursery fire or one which boys
and girls alike would more enjoy.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 510. O. 27. 70w.

“The interest—of which there is fair amount—is fortunately independent
of the weak pen-and-ink drawings.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 150w.

“E. Nesbit has put into a book for children some of that cleverness
and charm which characterize his grown up stories.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

“The incidents are worked out in a decidedly original way, and the
story is strong enough to hold the attention of older readers as well
as of young people”.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 170w.

“It seems to us a pity that she has introduced into her latest story
so very tragic and unpleasant a subject as imprisonment, whether
wrongful or otherwise; to say nothing of implanting a premature
distrust of British justice in the youthful reader’s mind.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

“We can thoroughly recommend ‘The railway children’ as an excellent
story.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Rainbow and the rose. *$1.50. Longmans.

This volume of poems shows the author to be “Skilled in her craft....
We like her best in her village monologues, which are full of insight
and humour and sound philosophy. But when she pleases she can write
also graceful songs.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Full of clever things in the conventional condescending mood which
ought not to succeed, but unquestionably does. For the rest, E. Nesbit
is not a poet, not a minor poet, not even an exquisite maker of verse;
but all that an able woman who is not these can do by means of verse,
she can do.”

+ – =Acad.= 69: 902. S. 2, ’05. 170w.

“Many of the occasional pieces here tremble on the verge of success,
and it seems as if a little more trouble and thought would have made
them excellent.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 150w.

“Her work always pleases. It reaches about the level of Jean Ingelow’s
thought and sentiment, but never quite achieves the distinction of
Christina Rossetti.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 273. N. 1, ’05. 140w.

“Has the same qualities that has given her other collections rather exceptional circulation. Mrs. Bland’s poetic sentiment is appealing rather than poignant with the true poetic poignancy; though she has no gift of verbal magic, she has verbal adequacy, and her verse is always readable.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ’05. 220w.

“The ‘Rainbow and the rose’ ... is neither decadent nor revolutionary,
but fresh and individual in a simple way that makes agreeable reading
of her more or less subjective verse.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ’05. 90w.

“Shows much dexterity in versification, and a wider range than is
usual in modern lyrics.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ’05. 160w.

=Bliss, Frederick Jones.= Development of Palestine exploration. **$1.50. Scribner.

This book which presents in amplified form the lectures delivered
before the Union theological seminary in 1903 “treats of the progress
made in the art of identifying sites, of the shifting point of view of
travellers of different times, of Edward Robinson, Renan and his
contemporaries, and of the Palestine Exploration fund and the
exploration of the future.” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 728. Ap. ’06. 80w.

“The work, as a whole, is written in an admirable spirit. Justice is
done to the labors of each writer mentioned, though Dr. Bliss does not
hesitate to mete out fair criticism to each when it seems necessary.
The book contains an occasional misprint.” George A. Barton.

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 581. Jl. ’06. 580w.

“His tone is scholarly and his criticism remarkably just and well
balanced. In a future edition Dr. Bliss might correct some misprints.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 790. Je. 30. 1340w.

+ =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 90w.

“An ambitious work covering in small compass a large tract of
history.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 160w.

“The book is full of important information, not only for the Bible
student, but also for the modern traveller, who incidentally receives
some good advice.”

+ + =Ind.= 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 260w.

=Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 574. Ap. 14, ’06. 1100w.

“His work is neither a complete bibliography, with such notes as will
enable a student to select what he wants for study, nor, on the other
hand, is it a narrative of exploration. It falls midway between.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 63. Jl. 19, ’06. 1500w.

=Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 834. My. 26, ’06. 1740w.

=Blomfield, Reginald.= Studies in architecture. *$3.25. Macmillan.

Mr. Blomfield who is a “practising architect of distinction and
enthusiasm sends a side-glance at Byzantium and Lombardy, but is
chiefly occupied with the architecture (and architects) of the French
and Italian renaissance.... Mr. Blomfield has not fallen into the
faults he denounces: what he writes is full of interest because of his
standpoint (and standing) as an architect, his personal knowledge of
the buildings of which he writes, and his researches into their
history. Above all, he has great enthusiasm for his art, a passion
which archæology (while admitting others) tends, it would seem, to
exclude.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A book as interesting as it is sound.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 523. Je. 2, ’06. 620w.

“The volume is a real contribution to architectural criticism.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 1100w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 100w.

“Can be heartily recommended to layman and architect alike. Its
literary flavour is delicate; its architectural criticisms are sound,
to the point, and keen.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 307. Ap. 12, ’06. 840w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 151. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.

=Blundell, Mary E. Sweetman (Mrs. Francis Blundell).= Simple annals. †$1.50. Longmans.

Natural simple stories of humble village life. “Mrs. Blundell says in
her Foreword that a golden thread runs through the homespun of even
the most commonplace life. In each of these stories she has followed
the golden thread. The village girls are innocent and charming, the
men are chivalrous—their purpose is invariably marriage, and
courtships end, as they should, with wedding-bells.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“Our only quarrel is with her claim in the Foreword to call these
charming fables ‘studies.’ For that, they are surely too slight and
too determinedly optimistic.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.

“None of them reaches the high level which the best of ‘Dorset dear’
attained.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 667. Je. 2. 160w.

“It is as charming a book of the kind as we have come across in many a
long day.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 120w.

“The book is full of delicately handled studies of the lights and
shadows that fall across the existence of the modern workaday world.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 70w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 120w.

“A collection of short stories, which are even better from a point of
view of comprehensive description than her novels.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.

=Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseuds.).= Wild wheat: a Dorset romance. †$1.50. Longmans.

Another tale of the West country, which “carries its readers’ thoughts
far afield on to the blue hills and into the wild woods.” (Spec.) “It
has more of passion and sorrow in it than most of her romances, but is
all the stronger for this, while there is enough of the humorous and
cheerful to balance the whole. The love story is sweet and wholesome.”
(Outlook.)

* * * * *

“‘Wild wheat’ is an admirable story and Peter’s character is finely
handled, but in general interest it does not reach the level of some
other Dorset tales.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1130. O. 28, ’05. 580w.

“This is a very readable story of country life, though it is not equal
to ‘The manor farm.’ The plot is a little thin.”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 190w.

“A correct, pretty, unpretentious tale that will please those who love
the primroses of literature.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 708. F. ’06. 130w.

“Inconsequent as the story is, it is readable, and perhaps we have
found it the more provoking because indications are not wanting of the
author’s capability of really good work.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 380w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 70w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 1090. D. 23, ’05. 200w.

=Boas, Henrietta O’Brien (Owen) (Mrs. Frederick Samuel).= With Milton and the Cavaliers. **$1.50. Pott.

“This book is a collection of biographical sketches relating to the
chief personages in England at the time of the civil war. The only
connection that binds them together is the common period of which they
treat and the historical thread that runs through them. The political,
military, religious, literary, and social figures of the time are all
illustrated in these essays, which taken together, thus present in a
way a sort of picture of the moving forces of the period.”—N. Y.
Times.

* * * * *

“Is not an instructive or a well-written book.”

– =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 390w.

“She has written soundly and soberly and from abundance of
information. She has not made her work abstruse, and it is a clear and
consistent account of a momentous period in English history.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 679. O. 14, ’05. 510w.

=Boggs, Sara E.= Sandpeep. †$1.50. Little.