Chapter V: Preface (5)

Keren Happuch Brenson, better known as Sandpeep, a child of the waves
as well as the shore who “fished and lobstered for a living” and
listened in ecstasy to the music of her fiddle string across the pane
of her cobwebby loft, is a heroine “rustic from her finger tips to her
innermost cerebral atom.” Her development from the moment she became
young Geoffrey Warrington’s governess to the day that established her
in Munich for musical study is characterized by fearless loyalty and
keen devotion to purpose. With a “Jane Eyre heroine and a virtuous
Rochester” the story also records the mercenary intrigue of a woman’s
substitution, of herself and child for her departed twin sister and
baby, out of which deception grows the plot.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 30w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.

“Parts of it are really exciting.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 460w.

=Boissier, Gaston.= Tacitus and other Roman studies tr. by W. G. Hutchison. †$1.75. Putnam.

“This volume contains four essays: the first, occupying more than half
the whole work, deals with Tacitus as an historian, the others with
subjects connected with the same period carry her through some trying
experiences and contain much instruction and not a little
entertainment. The Roman ‘Schools of declamation’ are described with
admirable point and refreshing humour.... The essay on ‘The Roman
journal’ helps us to realize how a worldwide empire managed to survive
without newspapers. The discussion of the poet Martial is a specimen
of ... lively and illuminating literary criticism.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“The young student of the Imperial age ... can get to closer grips
with the facts, even if he cannot deal with them so incisively and so
elegantly as M. Boissier.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 251. Jl. 13, ’06. 470w.

“The translation is correct in the main, and reads fairly smoothly. We
wish that the book might be read and pondered by lovers of Tacitus,
writers of history, and any other scholars who are planning learned
works.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 670w.

“M. Boissier’s sympathetic essay will please all those who believe in
the educational value of the ancient historians and who admire the
greatest of them.” Robert L. Schuyler.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 511. Ag. 18, ’06. 1750w.

+ =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 170w.

“If consequently we advise all those students who can do so to read M.
Boissier in the original, no offence is intended Mr. Hutchison, whose
translation is readable and accurate, and will lead many to work at
the subject who would be deterred by a French book.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 115. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w.

+ =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1480w.

=Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton).= Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.

“Entertaining, chatty, sympathetic essays.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 30w.

=Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature. **$3. Lippincott.

=Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

“The collection is large and varied, and the ‘chestnut’ is not more
frequent than one would expect.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1131. D. 30, ’05. 170w.

=Bond, Francis.= Gothic architecture in England. *$12. Scribner.

“Mr. Bond’s work is extraordinarily full, extraordinarily minute, and
enriched by a wealth of illustrations, as well as most elaborate
indexes, a very full bibliography, a chronological table, and many
sheets of comparative mouldings drawn ... to a uniform scale.... Part
1 is introductory, and covers the whole origin and development of
mediæval church architecture in this country; while Part 2 is an
analysis in which the whole ground is gone over in detail, piece by
piece.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“This is in every sense of the word, a great book. It is a book that
at once steps to the front as authoritative, and it will be long
before it is superseded.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 871. D. 23. 2890w.

“Weighty and eminently trustworthy volume. His language is never
obscure, and the veriest novice can follow with ease the arguments
that are the result of many years’ study and of the critical insight
that is so rare a gift.”

+ + + =Int. Studio.= 26: 86. Mr. ’06. 300w.

“As a mine of erudition, of detailed analysis and information, and of
criticism on English mediaeval church architecture, the book is worthy
of all praise. It is no rival in persuasive literary style to the
charm of Viollet-le-duc’s delightful mastery of lucid French.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 880w.

“This is a scholar’s book.”

+ + + =Nation.= 83: 126. Ag. 9, ’06. 990w.

“Altogether a volume very well worth having, worth inspecting, worth
reading, even, up to a certain point, worth studying.” Montgomery
Schuyler.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 301. My. 12, ’06. 2250w.

“Must stand for many years to come as _the_ book of reference on the
subject of ecclesiastical Gothic in England for all architects and
archæologists.”

+ + + =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 470w.

=Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer.= Old tales retold; or, Perils and adventures of Tennessee pioneers. *$1. Pub. House of M. E. Ch. So.

The annals of Ramsay and Putnam and later historical chronicles have
been followed “with faithful and painstaking exactness” by the writer
in these tales of pioneer life. “They will give the rising generation
of Tennesseans more admiration and respect for the hardy and
intelligent pioneers who invaded the wilderness and built up our
western civilization.”

=Bonner, Geraldine (Hard Pan, pseud.).= Castlecourt diamond case. †$1. Funk.

Lady Castlecourt’s diamonds are stolen, and thereby hangs a detective
tale in the relating of which six people participate. First the lady’s
maid tells her story, then follow statements by the real thief, by
Cassius P. Kennedy and his wife into whose innocent possession the
stolen gems are thrust when the scared thief is forced to act quickly,
by the private detective, and, lastly, by Lady Castlecourt herself who
furnishes the key to a surprising situation.

* * * * *

“A detective novelette of some uncommon qualities.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ’05. 110w.

“An amusing detective story.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 50w.

=Booth, Eva Gore-.= Three resurrections, and The triumph of Maeve. **$2. Longmans.

Mythological and metaphysical parables based upon the themes of
Lazarus, Alcestis and Psyche form the first part of this volume of
poetry, while the second is a romance in dramatic form which is
“filled with the haunting spirit of Celtic mysticism.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Miss Gore-Booth is a very thoughtful poet, who avoids affected
diction, and combines depth with simplicity.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 460w.

“The bathos which is so frequently the result of a forced alliance
between poetry and science, is a feature of ‘The three resurrections,
and The triumph of Maeve.’”

– =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 110w.

“There is an unreality in the imagery and a monotony in the epithets
which, in spite of all her art, affect the reader with weariness.”

– =Spec.= 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 110w.

=Borrow, George.= Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or English-Gypsy language. $2. Putnam.

“Altogether it is an entertaining book, full of the spirit that makes
‘Lavengro’ so attractive, and with a bit more of a serious definite
character.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.

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

“A substantial octavo volume of more than 700 pages, devoted to the
elucidation and illustration of a single thesis. Although this thesis
is here given in many forms and stated in connection with numerous
associated topics, it is essentially simple in its outline. It is
this: the plant is a machine; its movements in response to external
stimuli, though apparently various, are ultimately reducible to a
fundamental unity of reaction.... By means of ingenious delicate
instruments which exaggerate the slightest motion at any spot, he has
long been able to demonstrate that even the oldest tissues of a plant,
so long as they are living are capable of responding in a marked
degree to certain external stimuli. A special feature distinguishing
this treatise from many of its class is the presentation, at the end
of every chapter, of a summary which gives in a few short sentences
the substance of the chapter.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“One which no plant physiologist, however much he may combat details
in it, can afford to ignore.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 768. Je. 23. 2530w.

“The account itself is too detailed and too diffuse to be read
straight through by any but a lover of plants or a student of the
problem. It is however, simple and straightforward.” E. T. Brewster.

+ – =Atlan.= 98: 419. S. ’06. 560w.

“The book is not without errors, both of reasoning and fact, into
which the author has fallen by reason of some unfamiliarity with his
materials. But whatever the future may show as to the accuracy of
details, this book may be acclaimed as a path-breaking one; for it
shows a method of attack and a refinement of instrumentation for the
study of the phenomena or irritable reactions in plants that are sure
to be of the utmost service.” C. R. B.

+ – =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 148. Ag. ’06. 1170w.

“The treatise is stimulating and is likely to be fruitful in
controversy.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 41. Jl. 12, ’06. 1120w.

=Boswell, James.= Life of Samuel Johnson; ed. with an introd. by Mobray Morris. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

The introduction sketches briefly the difficulties and perils which
surrounded Boswell in the preparation of his lasting work, and
concludes with “A great subject and a great picture! Nor can portrait
and painter ever be dissociated. As long as the huge bulk of Johnson
rolls down the stream of Time, so long will the queer little figure of
his biographer be saluted with no unkindly laughter.”

=Boswell, James.= Life of Johnson. $1. Frowde.

A reprint of the third edition of this standard biography. It is
similar in make-up to the handy classic volumes.

* * * * *

=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 20w.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ’05. 80w.

+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 426. N. ’05. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ’05. 90w.

=Boulton, William B.= Sir Joshua Reynolds. **$3. Dutton.

“If less vigorous in its ideas than Armstrong’s work, has the merit of
telling the story of the painter’s life with much entertaining
detail.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 150w.

“While the work of Leslie and Taylor must remain the best source for
an original study of Reynolds, this volume is easily the best general
survey that we know.” Charles Henry Hart.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 450w.

“He has something of Boswell’s gift. He knows what facts are worth
telling and what are not. His style is unpretending, but not
disagreeable.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 470w.

+ – =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 150w.

=Bourne, Henry Eldridge.= History of mediaeval and modern Europe. $1.50. Longmans.

“In the volume under review, Professor Bourne aims to give an account
of European history which shall accent the features of the development
common to European peoples as a whole, and subordinate the details of
the different countries. He has met with reasonable success in this
aim as well as in the effort to adapt the narrative to the needs of
secondary school students; for it is this audience rather than that of
a college that the author appears to have had in mind.”—Yale R.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Earl Wilbur Dow.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 718. Ap. ’06. 890w.

“A conveniently arranged and well illustrated text-book for school.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 30w.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 260w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

“The geographical relationships have been carefully noted, and strict
attention has been paid to chronology, the various events of history
in several countries being arranged in respect to time, so that the
pupil will be able to carry the general situation pretty clearly in
mind, while studying some special detail.” Francis W. Shepardson.

+ =School. R.= 14: 68. Ja. ’06. 180w.

“The style on the whole is excellent, simple, remarkably free from
technical terms, and abounding in effective illustrations.” Curtis
Howe Walker.

+ + =Yale R.= 14: 435. F. ’06. 390w.

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

A book which “is a study of the mind of Jesus in its relation to the
Jewish circle of His time, with its ideas and ideals, and also to the
larger world of humanity.” (Ath.) “Bousset rejects the miraculous from
the Gospel story and regards it as a later accretion. The only
wonderful works of Jesus which he considers genuine are His miracles
of healing. ‘His healing activity lies entirely within the bounds of
what is psychologically conceivable.’” (Hibbert. J.)

* * * * *

“Translated into excellent English.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 700w.

+ – =Hibbert J.= 4: 934. Jl. ’06. 680w.

“Tho brief in compass and designed as a popular hand-book, could not
be omitted from any fair list of recent scientific studies in the
records of the past.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

“The character and teaching of the Saviour are treated by Professor
Bousset with splendid sympathy, though he occasionally adopts a tone
of patronage; and he frankly rejects some of His moral teaching as
exaggerated and impracticable. But in spite of this, we welcome the
book as being a real step back from mere criticism towards a deeper
religious appreciation of our Lord and His gospel.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.

=Bovey, Henry Taylor.= Theory of structures and strength of materials. *$7.50. Wiley.

“The book, as its title indicates, is an attempt to cover, in one
volume subjects which are generally and in the opinion of the
reviewer, better, separated. It apparently aims to be a treatise on
mechanics, the strength of materials, friction, framed structures,
masonry, and, to some extent on machinery. The subjects of toothed
gearing, dynamometers, belts and ropes appear, although they are
usually included in works on structures.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The book contains a very large amount of information, and will be
useful as a book of reference for those familiar with the subject, but
it is very poorly arranged and there is a lack of emphasis on
fundamental principles.” George F. Swain.

+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 425. Ap. 12, ’06. 1380w.

“We have no hesitation in saying that Prof. Bovey in thus practically
rewriting his book has considerably improved its value, both to the
engineering student and to the civil engineer, engaged in the design
of all classes of structures in steel and iron.” T. H. B.

+ + =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 640w.

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

“The viper of Milan,” written by a youthful novelist of sixteen,
outlines against a mediaeval background the black intrigues of Gian
Galeazzo Visconti. The plot centers about Visconti’s destruction of
Verona, his abduction of the Duke of Verona’s wife and the efforts of
the Duke to rescue her, necessitating a round of treacherous
adventure.

* * * * *

“While making no special pretensions to historical accuracy, it
attains, from the standpoint of romance, an unusually high level. We
notice with regret the numerous grammatical slips which disfigure an
otherwise excellent style.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 280w.

“The book represents an infinitesimal achievement, and it would not be
serving Miss Bowen to pretend that we find special promise in it.”

– =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 240w.

“Della Scala and Visconti stand out most vividly in one’s memory of
the characters, but there are many others drawn with admirable
delicacy and skill. She has certainly triumphed along unconventional
lines, for love is not the absorbing theme in ‘The viper of Milan,’
and the ending is most unhappy.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 780w.

“For so young a writer, Miss Bowen shows a remarkable sense of style,
which, taken in conjunction with her energy and imaginative power,
make her a welcome recruit to the ranks of adventurous romancers.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 578. O. 20, ’06. 1200w.

=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Immanence of God. **$1. Houghton.

The author says that “The undivineness of the natural and
unnaturalness of the divine is the great heresy of popular thought
respecting religion.” He would offset the heresy with the statement
“God is the omnipresent ground of all finite existence and activity.”
“Two ... characteristics are very apparent in this little book.... The
first is his ability to see clearly the reality so often hidden behind
a voluminous debate about words; the second is his literary knack in
so expressing the truth that the non-scholastic reader can understand
it.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

Reviewed by George Hodges.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 310w.

“His volume is a very sane and a very readable book, at once profound
in thought and intelligible in expression.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ’05. 230w.

=Boxall, George E.= Anglo-Saxon; a study in evolution. $1.25. Wessels.

The aim of this volume is “to bring all the English-speaking peoples
together by enabling them to realize their own characteristics.” And
to this end the author “has covered the ground that the Anglo-Saxon
occupies in anthropology, history, economics, art, theology, and
everything else.... The privileged classes of England are a Latin
survival, and so is the ‘boss’ of American politics. Nevertheless,
Americans, Australians, and other Anglo-Saxons are far ahead of Great
Britain in their progress towards true Anglo-Saxonism; but a revulsion
is coming even there.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“He goes on for page after page proclaiming statements, sometimes of
the most far-reaching importance positive and negative, and sometimes
completely reversing conclusions of the students of those subjects,
without a rag of evidence except the statement of his own general
impression.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 670w.

“His observations are comprehensive and interesting, but rather
cursory and superficial. In philosophizing upon them he is plainly
amateurish.”

– + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.

=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= Eternal spring: a novel. †$1.50. Fox.

A drama full of youth and love is enacted by a group of Americans on
an Italian stage. A young American of thirty whose struggle for a
competence in the Chicago stock-market had worn him down to “the
absolute essentials of physical being” goes to Italy to marry the
woman he had secretly loved—eight years his senior and now a widow.
While pursuing the course of a luke-warm wooing he falls in love with
her cousin, a gifted girl made melancholy by a wrongly fostered idea
of hereditary insanity. The courage of the woman who relinquishes her
claim on him is only surpassed by his energy in dispelling the
illusion of insanity that holds the woman he loves.

* * * * *

“‘The eternal spring,’ forms a curious and not altogether satisfactory
antithesis to ‘The forerunner,’ insomuch as its plot is a much more
conspicuous feature than its human nature. It is not so fine a piece
of art as the author’s earlier novel, not so fine even as her short
stories.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 190. Ap. ’06. 800w.

“Sentimentality runs riot in this story of young love in Italy.”

– =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 70w.

“The story is told with freshness and charm, in parts almost with
distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 260w.

“Although we have found its leading characters not a little
exasperating, ‘The eternal spring’ is a model of unusual originality
and interest.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 610w.

“This story is not bad reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

“The absence of plot and incident seems to indicate that it was
intended to be a psychological novel; but the absence of any real
psychological analysis leaves it doubtful just where to place it.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 50w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 60w.

=Boyd, James E.= Differential equations. 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus, O.

“The merit of the book consists in a large number of mechanical and
electrical problems that are given. These ought to do much to
stimulate the interests of the students for whom the author writes.”
William Benjamin Fite.

+ + – =Phys. R.= 22: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.

=Boyd, Mary Stuart.= Misses Make-Believe. †$1.50. Holt.

The Misses Make-Believe occupy a dilapidated London house, drive a
victoria, jobbed for the London season on the most moderate terms,
give “ghastly” receptions, the eve of which function finds them in the
kitchen making half a dozen packets of table jelly and a bag of flour
and a dozen shop eggs into supper for fifty. The guardian of these
ambitious sisters at length persuades them to leave their stifling
atmosphere and take up their abode in the country. The story really
begins at this point, for when Belle and Eileen learn to live natural
lives, their most coveted desires are within reach,—happiness,
friends, and even husbands.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 210w.

“The book is not remarkable, nor is it, in style, to be called
common-place.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.

=Boyesen, Bayard.= Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R: G.

– =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 70w.

“Is a piece of rather shadowy symbolism, which has, withal, a
continuity of poetic atmosphere that is distinctly of promise.”

+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 20w.

“It contains some fine lines, but the average reader is too intent
upon economizing his gray cortex to use it in deciphering allegories.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 80w.

“Is poetic both in feeling and expression, moving swiftly and easily
in its dramatic form, but the symbolism is too pervasive and rather
obscure and the setting is cumbersome for the matter.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 60w.

=Bradford, Amory H.= Inward light. **$1.20. Crowell.

“Altho these papers were written before the publication of Sabatier’s
‘Religions of authority and the religion of the spirit,’ they may be
regarded as the doctrine and message of that remarkable book adapted
to the religious situation in America.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 430w.

=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Between two masters. †$1.50. Houghton.

“A young man who suspects taint on money won in State street but is
uncertain as to how it may be removed or avoided is the central figure
of the tale. In addition there are three young ladies, one standing
for ease of living and material comfort, one for charm and vivacity of
manner, and the third for social service. In the end his feet stray
into the paths of the social settlement.”—Pub. Opin.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 210w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 433. My. 24, ’06. 310w.

“An entertaining sentimental novel.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.

“The social philosophy with which the book abounds is rather vague and
ill-defined but the general idea has promise.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 573. My. 5, ’06. 90w.

=Bradley, A. C.= Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. $3.25. Macmillan.

“We are impelled to state our belief that we have here a criticism
which, in its combination of profundity and brilliance, of subtlety
and balance, of eloquence of expression and exactness of thought,
surpasses any comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare since the great
critics of the romantic revival.” William Allen Neilson.

+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 703. My. ’06. 370w.

=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Captain John Smith; with a map of the Powhattan district of Virginia. 75c. Macmillan.

Relying chiefly upon Captain Smith’s personal narrative, the
biographer sketches Smith’s early career in the high seas, his coming
to America, his adventures here among the savages and his
explorations, his return to the Old world and his quiet life there,
and the end of his busy life.

* * * * *

“Admirable little book.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 70. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.

“The volume is to be commended.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 761. D. 2. 60w.

“With all the author’s credulity, however, we have in this work one of
the best accounts of Smith’s life that has been written.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 340w.

“The whole story is agreeably told, and the book in every way pleasant
to read.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.

“Considering the range of the hero’s career and the advantages the
subject affords, the book is astonishingly tame—but one may count it
as a fairly truthful picture of the man as candid historians have come
to see him.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 890w.

“Is undeniably interesting, but is extremely uncritical.”

+ – =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 250w.

“Forms one of the best of the ‘Men of action’ series.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 20w.

“Mr. Bradley tells the tale in a pleasantly ironic style, where
enthusiasm for the subject is mingled with a sense of his amazing and
whimsical fortunes.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1540w.

=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= In the march and borderland of Wales. **$3. Houghton.

In this volume “Wales and its people and the eastern counties of
England are happily described.... The book treats not only of the
Marches of Wales, but of the English counties bordering on the
principality.... Wherever Mr. Bradley wandered, he made notes and
studied local history—not merely the history that one finds in books,
but the history that is handed down by word of mouth.... Odds and ends
... that make this story vastly interesting to read.... Mr. Bradley
was accompanied by a sympathetic artist, Mr. W. M. Meredith, whose
pictures are pronounced excellent and accurate by the author.... A
good index completes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.

+ =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 320w.

“Here is a long book, disfigured by blunders so numerous that they
arrest the attention abruptly and make the act of reading far less
agreeable than it ought to be.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 1260w.

“He knows how to write and what to write.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 95. F. 17, ’06. 970w.

“For the average American reader the treatment is sometimes
over-minute and leisurely.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.

“Is a guide-book, a history, an atlas, and an appreciation of Wales,
all in one.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 100w.

“The book is, we think, decidedly superior to the author’s two volumes
of ‘Highways and byways’ and quite on a level with ‘Owen Glyndwr.’
Such slips notwithstanding, this itinerary is a brilliant piece of
work for which all dwellers and tourists on the March should be duly
grateful to the author.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 1340w.

“Every page has some new and various interest. And the pleasantest
part of the whole thing, perhaps, is the waiter’s own fresh,
good-humored, kindly, enthusiastic spirit.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 755. My. 12, ’06. 2100w.

=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= My lady’s slipper. **$1.50. Dodd.

“Another charming love story.”

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 80w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.

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

“General Lee is the noble figure put upon a fitting pedestal in this
romance of our Civil war. A tangled love affair straightens itself out
by the simple device of mismatched lovers seeing their error and
turning to their soul mates before it is too late.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The writer has, moreover, a pretty knack of working up his historical
argument, and he has really read widely and wisely in American
annals.” W. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 270w.

“His last novel is, by all odds, the best he has ever written, but
that is not saying enough to recommend it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 350w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= True Andrew Jackson. *$2. Lippincott.

The “True biographies” series aims at no formal biography in
chronological order. In keeping with this purpose the author says,
“here is an attempt to make a picture in words of a man; to exhibit
personality; to show that personality in touch with its human
environment; to declare what manner of man was he whose name is on the
title page. Not to chronicle events, therefore, but to describe a
being; not to write a history of the time, but to give an impression
of a period associated with its dominant personal force, has been my
task.” Thus the work is an intimate personal sketch of the man, based
upon years of study.

* * * * *

“Mr. Brady seems to have placed a rather uncritical dependence upon
Parton and the two recent biographies of Colyar and Buell, and to have
wholly ignored the collection of Jackson papers in the Library of
Congress, a collection that is unique for the vivid insight it gives
into Jackson’s character.”

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 975. Jl. ’06. 140w.

“Mr. Brady’s picture is neither true nor plausible.”

– =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 270w.

“There is too much quotation, and the result is too much like a
scrap-book. Mr. Brady has made a closer study of Jackson than most of
the recent authorities quoted by him, and his judgment, not theirs,
should have been given.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 520w.

“The historical background is weak, and the forces which shaped the
hero’s life are but half understood.”

– =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w.

=Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 190w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

“He is uncritical and undiscriminating in the use of material. The
book is, of course, not faultless in accuracy of detail. He is always
fair.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

“His work is further open to objection as ill-proportioned, abounding
in extreme statements, and uncritical—defects which quite outweigh the
considerations that it is vivacious, rich in anecdote, and thoroughly
readable.”

– + =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 220w.

“Little new knowledge is added to the work of previous biographers.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.

“Most readers will be indebted to him for not a few facts that they
could not have gleaned from a reading of Parton or any other of
Jackson’s numerous biographers.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 120w.

“With laudable impartiality, but without much claim to clearness of
arrangement or distinction of style, Mr. Brady has brought together a
mass of facts which fairly justify the title of his book.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 871. Je. 2, ’06. 1870w.

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

In this amusing comedy the vigorous hero, in the guise of a cowboy,
rescues the heroine, who is the daughter of his father’s ex-partner in
business, from a cattle stampede. Then he follows her to New York and,
owing to a lucky accident, is enabled to masquerade as a young English
earl and thus throw aside paternal prejudice and find time and
opportunity to win the daughter. When all is explained the heroine
does not regret her lost coronet but welcomes the discovery of her
cowboy rescuer in the person of her audacious American lover.

* * * * *

“Clever and entertaining story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 546. S. 8, ’06. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“The tone of this novel will not commend it to those who appreciate
work of the first order.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 120w.

“A novel which makes good reading for a winter’s night, or, for that
matter, for any time.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 110w.

=Brain, Belle Marvel.= All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told for little folks. **$1. Revell.

“A pleasantly written book.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1480. D. 21, ’05. 30w.

“The book would have been much better if it had not been leveled down,
and if it had been expurgated of most of its piety—not its religion.”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.

=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Concerning Belinda. $1.50. Doubleday.

“Any one who has followed the diverting ‘Nancy’ through her various
‘misdemeanours’ and other sensations will not be disappointed in the
new character Belinda.” G. W. A.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 340w.

=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= In vanity fair: a tale of frocks and femininity. *$1.50. Moffat.

“A bright, chatty, and quite superficial account of certain phases of
Parisian life, such as many newspaper people could throw off, and not
a few could do better.” (N. Y. Times.) “She calls her views snapshots
of the inner courts of Vanity fair, and the representation must be
viewed entirely apart from any moral or ideal sentiment. Frocks,
dining, races, sport, hunting, fashionable Paris in its most
extravagant follies, with Americans following hard after, make up the
record.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 100w.

=Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 270w.

“The book, whether or not satisfactory as a whole, is entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 270w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

“The book of this season that most strongly commends itself as a gift
to a traveler, especially to a woman, is ‘In vanity fair.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 410. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.

“Manages to treat a frail and trivial subject with much skill.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 90w.

“A very entertaining, gossipy book about French women.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 50w.

=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Main currents in nineteenth century literature. 6v. v. 4 and 6. v. 4, *$3; v. 6, *$3.25. Macmillan.

Volume six deals with “Young Germany,” and covers the period lying
between the Congress of Vienna and the great revolutionary years of
the mid-century.

* * * * *

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 6.)

“The present volume is one of the most interesting and admirable in
the series. It gives the author abundant opportunity for the display
of his extraordinary psychological gifts.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 630w. (Review of v. 6.)

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 363. D. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1–6.)

“It is difficult to keep within bounds our admiration for the energy,
the insight, and the profound philosophical basis of this masterwork
of criticism.”

+ + + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 540w. (Review of v. 6.)

+ – =Ind.= 61: 822. O. 4, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 4 and 7.)

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)

“He wrote in the full tide of liberalism, and his opinions are
manifestly colored by political affiliations, but he writes always
with spirit. The translation in the present edition is idiomatic, and,
so far as we have examined, accurate.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)

“Miss Morison, who has translated the last three volumes of the
series, is responsible for much of the interest of the book; her
translation is easy and fluent, to a very large extent, throwing down
the bars between a foreign writer and an English reader, and much of
the book’s interest is due to her.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 6.)

“As a whole, the study shows literary insight, breadth of view, and
treatment vitalized by deep human sympathies.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 1–6.)

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

Dr. Brandes answers the three questions why, what, and how to read,
incidentally giving good advice on the subject of owning a library.

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

The reader follows this autobiography in the spirit of its synthetic
presentation. Especially interesting is the transitional period when
the formative forces became apparent, when religious, philosophical,
and social ideas were vaguely demonstrating a resolving principle. It
is a thoroughly subjective sketch, and its introspective character
appeals rather to the philosophical student than the casual reader.

* * * * *

“Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the book is the address
with which the writer manages to convey the impression of his own
personality and at the same time to suggest the influences of his
early environment.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 580w.

“What the most famous critic has to tell us is of interest in view of
his position and personality, and it is charmingly told.”

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 361. D. ’06. 1730w.

“The vigor and the vitality which characterize his treatment of other
writers are equally characteristic of this account of his own career,
and in part even to the most trivial happenings a high degree of
interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ – =Dial.= 41: 323. N. 16, ’06. 2600w.

“A two-fold value may be attached to this work. It is a piece of
self-revelation by a master of psychological analysis, and it is a
picture of events and personages prominent on the page of European
history in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, seen through
the prism of a very rich temperament.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 290w.

“The translation of the book is, unfortunately, not very good. Not
only is Brandes’s nervous, individual style entirely lost, but the
translator shows lamentable ignorance of idiomatic English.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 450w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

“While there is little in the narrative that is of permanent value, it
is an interesting exercise to assume the writer’s point of view, and
look out of the windows he opens toward the world of social, artistic,
and literary movement.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 60w.

=Breal, Auguste.= Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. *75c; lea. *$1. Dutton.

“He has plenty of enthusiasm in his heart, but he writes with
moderation, and his little book forms an almost ideal introduction to
the study of Velasquez.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 130w.

=Breasted, James Henry.= Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents from the earliest times to the Persian conquest, collected, edited and translated with commentary. 5v. ea. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

A five volume work which when completed by the last volume next fall
will constitute a full and reliable source book of Egyptian history.
The work is intended as a companion to the author’s “History of
Egypt,” and in scope covers chronologically arranged inscriptions from
the earliest records to the final loss of Egyptian independence by the
Persian conquest.

* * * * *

“The general arrangement of the work seems excellent, and Dr.
Breasted’s translations leave nothing to be desired.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The series is admirably planned and executed and promises to be of
immense value to all workers in these lines.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)

“No student of ancient history can be satisfied without access to this
important work.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 224. S. ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 4.)

“When the promised index to these translated records has been issued,
Professor Breasted may be cordially congratulated on having begun and
ended a great task, by the successful accomplishment of which he has
put the study of Egyptian history on an entirely new footing.” F. Ll.
Griffith.

+ + + =Bib. World.= 28: 345. N. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“Such source-books are invaluable to the student of Egyptian history.”
Ira Maurice Price.

+ + + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 550w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“The fullest as well as the most vivid and interesting that has ever
been written.” F. Ll. Griffith.

+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 545. Jl. ’06. 960w. (Review, of v. 1.)

“It is time that such a work as this by Professor Breasted were
provided.”

+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1106. My. 10, ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Professor Breasted has accomplished a very difficult task never
before accomplished, and one which is greatly to the credit of himself
and of the Chicago university.”

+ + + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 792. Je. 23, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“The whole series of volumes is indispensable not only to the
Egyptologist but also to the historian, and will be found interesting
even by ‘the general reader.’”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 4)

=Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)

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

“This book fills a great want. The writer seems to me to view Egypt
too often not as a critic but as an over-enthusiastic lover and
admirer, a fault rather general with the older school of
Egyptologists. The treatment of the transliteration of Egyptian names,
abounding in unwarranted innovations and inconsistencies, is hardly
suited to a popular work.” W. Max Müller.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 866. Jl. ’06. 1230w.

“Pitfalls have been avoided by Dr. Breasted, and in the result, and
subject to the caution we have indicated, his book is the best so far
at the disposal of the general reader.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 473. Ap. 21. 1680w.

“The best single-volume history of Egypt yet published. The work is
intended for the general public rather than the specialist.”

+ + + =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

“Professor Breasted has shown remarkable skill in weaving together the
scattered fragments of information that we possess covering the whole
period of his treatment; and the result is a vigorous, popular, and
highly interesting narrative account—even though sometimes severely
condensed—of the political, religious, and social life of the ancient
Egyptians.” Ira Maurice Price.

+ + – =Dial.= 41: 15. Jl. 1, ’06. 750w.

“He has, in a word, and without abating a jot of authority, invested
the most arid as well as the most intensely human topics of Egyptology
with a fresh interest. To us its most serious defect lies in the
unduly high valuation of the influence of the Nile valley people on
the earliest civilization of Southern Europe.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 610w.

“His style ... is singularly vigorous and lucid. Professor Breasted
never forgets that his book is a history and not an archaeological
treatise, and this is one of his great merits.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 1630w.

“The student will look in vain for any other one work so well adapted
as this volume is to give him his first broad ideas and impressions of
the beginning of civilization and of the great general tendencies of
social evolution which have been exemplified in the development of all
peoples ancient and modern.” Franklin H. Giddings.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 529. S. ’06. 790w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 160w.

“Little seems to have escaped his notice, and the story is put
together out of it in a pleasant and readable way.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 870w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 792. My. 19, ’06. 1410w.

=Brennan, Rev. Martin S.= What Catholics have done for science: with sketches of the great Catholic scientists. 3rd. ed. $1. Benziger.

A general refutation of the two wide-spread notions that when a man
devotes himself to science, he must necessarily cease to be a
Christian and that the Catholic church is hostile to scientific
progress.

=Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry.= Adventure for God; six lectures delivered in 1904. **$1.10. Scribner.

Bishop Brent of the Philippine islands appeals to the intellect, thru
the imagination in his six lectures, The vision, The appeal, The
response, The quest, The equipment, and The goal.

* * * * *

+ =Outlook.= 82: 392. F. 24, ’06. 860w.

“Bishop Brent outlines in vivid, effective form the impetus,
character, and purpose or goal of the active Christian life. The style
is vigorous and direct and the thought is practical and helpful.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.

=Bridges, Robert (Droch, pseud.).= Demeter: a mask. *85c. Oxford.

“In ‘Demeter’, a masque written for and acted by the ladies of
Somerville College, Oxford, the author tells the old tale of the rape
of Persephone, of Demeter’s quest for her, and of her return as queen
of Hades, to live in this world only during the flower-time. His
variation upon the simplicity of the tale is his mystical account of
Persephone’s experiences in the nether-world, where she learns the
hidden darkness of evil.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“The verse throughout is extraordinarily interesting, and there is
much to rank with the best of modern verse, both in its novelty and in
its excellence.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 607. Je. 10, ’05. 850w.

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 6. Jl. 1. 1440w.

“It is but fair to observe that correctness and decorum usually attend
the march of Mr. Bridges’s metrical battalions.” Edith M. Thomas.

+ =Critic.= 47: 571. D. ’05. 240w.

“He had things that were worth saying and he has said them; but they
are not the mighty things that Milton had it in him to say, nor has he
the organ voice at the sound of which all other voices know that their
part is silence.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 189. Je. 16, ’05. 1960w.

“The versification, where he is content to be normal, is easy and
flowing, the diction graceful and worthy of the subject, but the
beauty of the myth is too often overlaid with philosophisings which
are not startlingly original.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 57. Jl. 8, ’05. 990w.

“In the main the verse has that grave perfection of form which Mr.
Bridges almost alone of the moderns can achieve.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 191. Ag. 5, ’05. 270w.

=Bridgman, Raymond Landon.= World organization. 50c. Ginn.

“The present volume is an important contribution to the literature of
peace and progress. In it Mr. Bridgman discusses the subject of world
organization in the clear and able manner of one who has thoroughly
mastered his theme.” (Arena.) The chief subjects discussed are: The
world constitution, The world legislature, The world judiciary, The
world executive, World legislation already accomplished, World
business now pending. Forces active for world unity, and World
organization secures world peace.

* * * * *

“It is an important contribution to the literature that makes for a
permanent upward-moving civilization.”

+ =Arena.= 34: 445. O. ’05. 580w.

=Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 130w.

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

Making use of the “heritage of the past centuries, with their vast
endeavors after ultimate truth, and at the same time of a scientific
method for assaying their results” the author first sets forth
principles, necessary to an understanding of the theme as a whole,
then deals with some of the leading positions of Christianity, and
devotes the succeeding chapter to application of religion, as he
expounds it, to some of the prominent present-day problems.

* * * * *

“In Mr. Brierley’s treatment of his subject, breadth and
discrimination are equally apparent. For all religious teachers, and
for any who are perplexed with religious problems, it would not be
easy to find a more stimulating and helpful book.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 320w.

“We have read this book with much interest and with frequent
agreement. On the other hand, we find much that is impossible to
accept.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 821. N. 18, ’05. 280w.

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

“This volume includes the introduction to the entire Psalter and the
Commentary on Pss. 1–50.... Especial attention is given in the
commentary to the poetical form, each psalm being translated with the
due attention to the parallelism and recognition of the strophic
structure. The critical position of the author might be called
conservative in these days when many interpreters are denying the
existence of pre-exilic psalms in the Psalter.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The introduction is full and thorough, packed with learning.”

+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 80w.

“His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both
massive and minute, by any volume of the ‘International series,’ to
which it belongs.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 300w.

“Dr. Briggs’s introduction is a monument of industry and learning.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 460w.

=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 320w.

=Brinkmeyer, Rev. Henry.= Lover of souls: short conferences on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. *$1. Benziger.

Nineteen helpful conferences which treat from a Roman Catholic
standpoint of: Devotions in the church, Love manifested in creation,
The exceeding great reward, The memorial, The bread of life, The
sacrifice, Reparation, The malice of sin, The satisfaction for sin,
and other kindred subjects.

=Brinton, Davis.= Trusia: a princess of Krovitch. †$1.50. Jacobs.

Of the same old ingredients, an obscure corner of Europe, a
revolution, a beautiful and throneless princess, and an adventurous
American, the author has made a stirring and interesting tale. He
carries his readers and his hero in a touring car from a New York club
to Krovitch, an ancient kingdom on the borderland of Russia, where
there is bloodshed and treachery, war and intrigue, in plenty. There
the hero’s valet becomes a king, and the hero wins the love of a
princess, Trusia, who after all is better fitted to be the wife of a
wealthy New Yorker than mistress of a crumbling medieval castle.

* * * * *

“The proceedings are by turns stirring, comic, and pathetic. If there
were less real gore and real killing it would read like unstaged
extravaganza. Even as it is it seems widowed without light music.”

– =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 290w.

“There are plenty of exciting incidents, which begin with the first
page and end with the last, and they are woven together with a fair
amount of skill into a plot that is coherent and sufficiently
reasonable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 220w.

=Brooke, Stopford Augustus.= On ten plays of Shakespeare. *$2.25. Holt.

“To the reader who has thought much about Shakespeare and is not new
to Shakespearian criticism the book is disappointing in its
meagreness. The author, while not going beyond what has been said by
his predecessors, writes almost as if he had had none.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 57. Ja. 20, ’06. 1050w.

Reviewed by William Allen Neilson.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 310w.

“It is marked throughout by thorough scholarship, keen critical
acumen, and refined taste.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 100w.

“To make us see more in Shakespeare, that is the writer’s desire.
There have been few books so single-minded as this.” Edward E. Hale,
jr.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 148. Mr. 1, ’06. 1770w.

“His inferences are generally reasonable, and his statements of facts
accurate. But it is not clear that any very definite addition has been
made by the publication of this book to the common stock of
knowledge.” R. W. Chambers.

+ =Hibbert J.= 4: 920. Jl. ’06. 2010w.