Chapter VI: Preface (6)

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“The remaining plays chosen by Mr. Brooke are treated with equal
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would render the volume eminently readable, even to a jaded student of
Shakespeare.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

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exercised.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 205. F. 17, ’06. 1860w.

“They are all the product of a fresh and imaginative mind, alive to
all the subtle influences of poetry, and capable of conveying its
impressions to others. Perhaps the best of all are those upon ‘As you
like it’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”

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=Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances.= Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.

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its place among remembered annals of the Victorian period.” H. W.
Boynton.

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Jeannette L. Gilder.

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workmanship which characterize the editing.”

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“It is really in these letters that the claim of the book to be here
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compilers, are done in a somewhat loose and careless fashion, which
shows itself even in the numerous misprints or misspellings of proper
names we encounter.”

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reflection of the times and the people they represent that the slender
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=Brooks, Hildegard.= Larky furnace and other adventures of Sue Betty. $1.25. Holt.

Sue Betty worried about things in the nighttime and as a result she
had many surprising adventures. She followed the larky furnace that
went out nights and discovered what a really giddy creature he was,
she met a pirate in the lighthouse where she went to see her cousin do
light housekeeping, she rode delightedly on a saddle-moose, she
interviewed the editor of the powder magazine in behalf of her uncle’s
rejected manuscript, and she did many other interesting things all of
which are found in this volume.

* * * * *

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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.

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=Brooks, William Keith.= The oyster; a popular summary of a scientific study. *$1. Hopkins.

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industrial history.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 260w.

“This book is interestingly written and well illustrated.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.

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=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.

+ – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23. ’05. 420w.

=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.

“The thirteen stories that make this volume are excellent reading.
Most of them are set in the kitchens and dooryards of New England
houses; nearly all are enveloped in the young green of spring, and
every one deals with a human predicament.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“There is no abatement of cleverness and there is an increase of
rational motive, which both go to make a heartily agreeable volume.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 240w.

“Those to whom the stories are new have a rare pleasure before them.
Those who have lingered lovingly over the tales as they appeared in
the magazines will rejoice in their possession in permanent form.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 560w.

“They pass through pleasant places, they are free from haste, and they
are frequented by quaint, simple, original people.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 70w.

=Brown, Alice.= Court of love. †$1.25. Houghton.

The Court of love “where everybody has what he likes and likes what he
has,” was naturally looked upon by the world as a lunatic asylum, but
it was merely the whim of a girl who had not found happiness and who
wished to make other people happy. Julia Leigh’s unrestrained
hospitality involves her in strange complications not of her planning,
but by her fantastic masque she succeeds in re-uniting her best friend
to a forgetful husband, in restoring a lost child to its uncle, in
giving a burglar his deserts, in providing a real vacation for a
houseful of strangers, and finally in securing for herself her heart’s
desire. The whole is a pretty farce-comedy.

* * * * *

“No outline of its plot—if there be such a thing about it—could convey
the least sense of its bubbling humor and joyously riotous course.” W.
M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 130w.

“It has the piquancy of plot and an ease of expression that are
refreshing.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

“The plot is merry and farcical, quite absurd in fact, but some of the
characters are cleverly amusing. On the whole, however, the little
play is not up to the author’s usual high standard.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.

=Brown, Alice.= Paradise. †$l.50. Houghton.

“It is a story of strong human interest, tender and humorous, and in
its peculiar way strangely attractive.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1362. D. 30, ’05. 230w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 150w.

“The larger relations of life, with which the book professes to deal,
it handles, after all, rather half-heartedly; its real delight lies in
the pages of humorous observation, its delineations of eccentric
character. Miss Brown has done bigger and more enduring work.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 180w.

=Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.).= Wine-press. †$1.50. Appleton.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

=Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 70w.

=Brown, Arthur Judson.= New forces in old China: an unwelcome but inevitable awakening. **$1.50. Revell.

“The most obvious omission is that of the vital matter of education,
but with the help of the index even this defect may in a measure be
supplied.”

+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 189. Ja. ’06. 500w.

=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25. Scribner.

The Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching delivered at Yale during
1905–6. “The burden of the lectures is that it is the chief duty of
the clergy, at least in the present situation, to inculcate true
principles of social action and become leaders in the work of social
reconstruction.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“His appeal is rarely to facts of personal observation or to what
might be called the original documents of sociological controversy,
but is commonly to writers whose entire fairness and inerrancy have
yet to be proved.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 490w.

“Vitalized throughout by a strenuous moral tone, insisting on the
supremacy of spiritual ends and values, these lectures are
characterized also by the breadth of view and sanity of judgment which
comes of long and friendly contact with the interests both of trade
and unionists and capitalists in California.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 310w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 90w.

“The man who thinks that the message of Christianity is an academic
discussion of theological matters would do well to read this volume.
For every clergyman the reading of it is a duty.”

+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 170w.

=Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes.= In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.

“Other books may tell us much of Venice; Mr. Brown gives us Venice
from the Venetian point of view.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 230w.

“Justifies all expectations. He does not write simply of its
picturesque aspects. He is learned in all the lore of the region,
historical, geographical, practical and artistic.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 310w.

=Brown, John A. Harvie-.= Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangle, 1872, Petchora, 1875. il. 2v. *$20. Wessels.

These two volumes contain the journals which Mr. Harvie-Brown, “an
accomplished ornithologist and enthusiastic faunist,” kept from day to
day during the expeditions to Norway, Archangle and Petchora. “The
real value and purpose of the book, however, lie in the observations
of the author and his companions on bird and animal life,—observations
that are minutely correct and scientific, and will be of interest to
those deeply versed in bird and animal lore.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“The book is rather one for a naturalist’s library than for general
reading, yet there are many passages of character and travel which no
reader could fail to appreciate.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1134. O. 28, ’05. 510w.

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 235. F. 24. 1350w.

Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 300w.

“There are some instructive notes on the habits both of birds and men,
for all of which one is grateful, wishing only that there had been
more of this wheat and less of the journalistic chaff.”

+ – =Nature.= 73: 50. N. 16, ’05. 980w.

+ – =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ’05. 430w.

=Brown, Marshall=, ed. Humor of bulls and blunders. **$1.20. Small.

A book of fun primarily designed to amuse, and negatively to suggest
the importance of clear expression and simplicity of style. There are
educational, parliamentary, political, and typographical bulls and
blunders, there are humorous arraignments of advertisements, epitaphs,
and letters, and there is comedy in careless sentence structure,
punctuation and wrong use of words.

* * * * *

“A merry book, a book full of mirth-provoking passages. He seems to
have captured everything in his line.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 310w.

=Brown, Vincent.= Sacred cup. †$1.50. Putnam.

“The title refers to the sacrament of the Communion. The central
characters are a gentle clergyman, a young man, and a young woman....
Before the story opens a man has seduced a village girl, who dies
after giving birth to a child. The child is brought up in the
clergyman’s house, a fact which scandalizes many people. Presently the
vicar hits upon the identity of the child’s father, who becomes
engaged to the Lady Bountiful of the district. There comes a day when
the vicar feels obliged to refuse to administer the sacrament to this
unconfessed sinner, and upon that action the whole book hinges.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“We have found the novel extremely interesting, for the plot is well
worked out and the characters are clearly developed.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1082. O. 14, ’05. 240w.

“The conclusion is ineffective, and, notwithstanding a certain
cleverness, the novel cannot be called a success.”

– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 230w.

“This is altogether the best piece of fiction written by Mr. Brown.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.

“It may be occasionally dull, but it is never cheap; while in
conception it is tender, and even noble, and it yields passages of
real delicacy and sensitiveness to spiritual beauty.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 400w.

“There is decided ability and moving power in the scenes when the
quiet, timid little rector stands true to his religious conviction and
sacrifices his interests and his human ties.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 90w.

“The story is lacking in many essential elements of strength, as well
as in a completely balanced development of the characters.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 120w.

=Brown, William Garrott.= Life of Oliver Ellsworth. **$2. Macmillan.

“Besides being a biography and concerned particularly with the career
of Ellsworth, the book also presents a picture of life in New England
in Colonial times—the life of the people, picturesque scenes, and many
episodes.” (N. Y. Times.) “Much hitherto unpublished material is
brought to light, the arrangement is as a rule excellent, and the
impression left is that of a clean cut portrait of a fine old
Connecticut and American patriot.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“I cannot venture to say that it is absolutely free from error, for I
have not scrupulously sought for blunders; but those I have noticed
are trivial. The book is well written because the English style is
clear, straight-forward, and simple, not over-elaborated or striving
for effect.” A. C. McLaughlin.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 690. Ap. ’06. 1350w.

“Much information which is not readily, if at all to be found
elsewhere.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 80w.

“A clear and sane account of a worthy patriot and jurist is given by a
practiced historian in this volume.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 70w.

“The life story [is] ... unfolded clearly and in an interesting way.
At times Mr. Brown troubles himself overmuch about petty details, and
at others betrays an undue enthusiasm for his hero. But his work—which
is based on original research and makes available not a little
hitherto unpublished material—has the signal merit of affording a
better insight not alone into Ellsworth’s character and activities,
but into the temper of the times in which he lived.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 530w.

“His biographer, accordingly, finds a dearth of material, and is
forced to rely much upon that indispensable and most dangerous faculty
of the historian—imagination. As a judicious and sympathetic study of
a notable American statesman and jurist, the volume is heartily to be
welcomed.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 930w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 270w.

“In William Garrott Brown’s book on his life and works the treatment
is as ample as could be desired, if, indeed, it be not a trifle too
detailed for easy reading.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 100w.

=Brown, William Haig.= Carthusian memories and other verses of leisure. *$1.60. Longmans.

“A little volume of occasional and other verses by the late head
master of Charterhouse, collected by his daughter. These verses
represent some of the thoughtful hours of ease crowning days of toil,
and reflect a gentle, kindly man whether in serious or more humorous
moods.... These pages contain no mere jingling rhymes, although they
show the light touch of an accomplished versifier, the work being
invariably easy and natural. Dr. Haig Brown is equally at home in
English or Latin, French or Greek or German.... The many specimens of
prologues for Old Carthusian theatricals show a pen as facile as that
of Dryden, and the four-foot rhyming Latin lines, might have come from
a skilful mediaeval monk.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“There is in all these sets of verses ... a warmth of heart and an
affection ... for the school over which he reigned for thirty-four
years together with a quiet sense of fun.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ’05. 460w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 749. Je. 17. 260w.

“A congeries of scholarly good things.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 120w.

“The general reader will find the book not without a peculiar charm,
which it derives less, perhaps, from its graceful art than from its
attractive humanity.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 498. O. 7, ’05. 600w.

=Brown, William Horace.= Glory seekers: the romance of would-be founders of empire in the early days of the Southwest. **$1.50. McClurg.

These true stories which read like romance are mainly of men who
“standing on the rugged confines of civilization in America at an
early period of our national life, sought distinction by attempting to
hitch their wagons to the star of empire.” Here are recorded
Wilkinson’s “treasonable enterprise,” “Citizen” Genet’s undertakings,
disgrace of Senator Blount, Burr’s arrest, Philip Nolan’s expedition
to Texas, the Magee expedition to Texas and Mexico and other
glory-seekers’ efforts to invade the Southland.

* * * * *

“The book is well done and is interesting.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 80w.

“Mr. Brown narrates the facts fairly enough, but still with that due
regard for the picturesque which the subject seems to demand.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 160w.

“The stories are worth re-telling, and the author tells them most
interestingly.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 390w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 284. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 200w.

“He has also sacrificed critical caution to the desire to be
entertaining, and his work is further marred by a flippancy of style
strangely out of keeping with the theme and in itself conducing to
weaken any claim his book may have to serious consideration.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 200w.

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 270w.

=Browne, George Waldo.= St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.

“It is in delineating the picturesque that Mr. Browne is at his best,
but even here we usually have rhapsody rather than sane description.
It would be tedious even with space at one’s disposal to point the
dozens of mistakes in the book. Enough has been written to show that
Mr. Browne was not equal to the task before him.”

– – =Canadian M.= 26: 123. D. ’05. 1890w.

+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.

=Browne, Nina Eliza=, comp. Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. *$5. Houghton.

The initial volume in a series of bibliographies of prominent fiction
writers. The author, the secretary of the American library association
publishing board, has spent sixteen years upon her task, and has
included entries of everything that can be found in print by and about
Hawthorne, with references also to all the articles that were called
forth by the recent Hawthorne centenary.

* * * * *

“The book is comprehensively arranged, and the items for the most part
very completely covered, so that the volume stands as a genuine
contribution to bibliographical literature, and must prove invaluable
to the Hawthorne student.”

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 647. F. ’06. 250w.

=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 30w.

“Miss Browne has done a remarkably good piece of work in her
bibliography of Hawthorne.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ’05. 410w.

=Browning, Oscar.= Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769–1793. *$3.50. Lane.

“He has carefully gathered the necessary materials and arranged them
in excellent order for those to whom French books are sealed. The
digest, too, is fair and discriminating.”

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 385. Ja. ’06. 900w.

“Does not claim to be more than a summary of MM. Chuquet and Mason’s
works on Napoleon’s early years.” L. G. W. L.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 415. Ap. ’06. 220w.

=Browning, Robert.= Select poems; arranged in chronological order, with biographical and literary notes by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.

=Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 60w.

+ =School R.= 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 30w.

=Browning, Robert.= Selected poems; with biographical sketch by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. $1.25. Crowell.

Browning in the “Thin paper poets” edition is a companion for daily
walks, easily pocketed. The fact that Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke contribute the biographical sketch vouches for its literary
quality and authoritativeness. The frontispiece is a reproduction of
his last photograph made in 1889.

=Browning, Robert.= Selections from Browning; ed. with introd. and notes by Robert Morss Lovett. *30c. Ginn.

A collection for the person who has not read Browning. The order in
which they would easily appeal to such a reader has been followed,
giving first poems of action and narration; second, poems of places;
third, love poems; and fourth, poems of character.

=Bruce, William Samuel.= Social aspects of Christian morality. *$3.50. Dutton.

Believing that the social problems are at the foundation personal and
moral problems, the author would solve them “in accordance with the
principles of justice and equity.” He discusses the following
subjects: Scope and method of social ethics. Christian ethics, The
family, Marriage, Family life and relationships, The state, The
national state, State intervention, The civic power, The Christian
state, Public morality and the state, The social mind and the press,
Ethics of war, Ethics of art, Science and Education.

* * * * *

“Dr. Bruce cannot be said to have made any real contribution to the
discussion of his theme.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 310w.

“Simplicity, practicality, and sedate strength characterize these
lectures.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 360w.

=Brummitt, Daniel B.= Epworth league methods. *$1. Meth. bk.

“The Epworth league movement is here set forth with such attention to
detail that the book will be found a working hand-book, sufficient to
give every chapter a complete and not easily exhausted scheme of work,
with most of the plans worked out in full,” and it will be of interest
and value to the thousands of young people of the Methodist church who
are enrolled under the league’s banners thruout the United States.

=Bryan, William Jennings.= Letters to a Chinese official: being a western view of eastern civilization. **50c. McClure.

Written by way of reply to the “Letters from a Chinese official” by
Mr. Lowe Dickinson. They have grown out of Mr. Bryan’s recent travels
in the Orient, and discuss such subjects as Chinese civilization
overrated, Western civilization underrated, The folly of isolation,
Labor-saving machinery, Government, The home, Without a mission, and
Christianity versus Confucianism.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w.

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 60w.

“It is a serious and convincing argument that Mr. Bryan
advances—rather more serious, perhaps, than was called for by so
evident a satire as the first production.”

+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 150w.

=Bryant, Sara Cone.= How to tell stories to children. *$1. Houghton.

Helpful instruction to mothers and teachers on the psychology of
story-telling is followed by a group of stories prepared for use. “It
is pleasant to realize that the author places more store by the
imaginative force of the legend than its educative value, that she
realizes the first requisite of the story is to give joy rather than
to carry primarily useful information.”—Ind.

* * * * *

+ =Bookm.= 22: 534. Ja. ’06. 30w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

“Suggestive to mothers and teachers.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ’05. 10w.

=Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge.= Course in narrative writing. *80c. Holt.

A course is here provided with an aim to definite practical results
for the student of composition. The author discusses the structure of
the story, finding the story, the point of view, the beginning and the
end of the story, scenes and transitions, character drawing, and the
setting, names and titles.

* * * * *

“It appears to us, that granting the propriety of the fundamental
conceptions, as we do not, the development of the subject is in the
right order, and the exercises, as is usual in the text-books of these
authors, ingenious and good.” E. E. Hale, jr.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 450w.

“Contains some interesting comment on the construction of the novel
and might be useful in connection with the study of literature.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

=Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis.= Egyptian heaven and hell. 3v. *$5. Open ct.

“The first two of his three volumes are given to the transcription and
interpretation of the two great books in which the ‘Learning of the
Egyptians.’ as it is related to the life after death, was expressed;
the third is a history and explanation of the two. These may be
defined as rival theories of eschatology, or they might be described
in more popular language as illustrated guides to the abodes of the
dead. They represent respectively the popular and the educated view of
the other world.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Dr. Budge’s rendering of the very difficult texts with which he here
has to deal is in every way adequate, and his third volume, in which
he discusses their bearing, contains matter which it is incumbent upon
every student of such matters to read.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. My. 26. 2610w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

“It is impossible to do full justice to this work in the space at our
disposal, but it will certainly long form the standard work on the
subject of Egyptian eschatology.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 295. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.

“The conceptions of the rewards and punishments of the dead in the
next world as given in these two books are also well worth the
attention of the anthropologist.”

+ + + =Nature.= 74: 10. My. 3, ’06. 770w.

“None of the material has escaped Dr. Budge’s unwearied industry. The
English reader now has before him all that can be known at present
about the ‘Book Am-Duat’ and the ‘Book of gates.’”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 623. My. 19, ’06. 1510w.

+ + =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.

=Buell, Augustus C.= Paul Jones: founder of the American navy. 2v. $3. Scribner.

Mr. Buell’s work on Paul Jones published six years ago appears in new
edition form, with supplementary chapter by General Horace Porter of
sixty-five pages devoted to a detailed account of the recent discovery
and identification of the remains of this revolutionary hero.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately, the publishers have not taken advantage of the
opportunity afforded by a new edition to correct the many inaccuracies
of the first imprint.”

– =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 974. Jl. ’06. 120w.

“His book is quite good enough to deserve its splendid new setting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 190w.

“Will probably take place as the authentic narrative relating to this
early officer under the American flag.”

+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.

Buff: a tale for the thoughtful by a physiopath. $1. Little.

Buff, a frail wisp of humanity, passes thru interesting stages of
development as thought, reason and observation bring him into harmony
with the restorative power of nature. The aim of the sketch is to
teach the beneficial results of co-operating with nature in developing
useful lives.

* * * * *

“In the form of a biography, written in an unconventional but
attractive manner.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 130w.

=Buley, E. C.= Australian life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

“Australia is no longer a colony, but a nation. This is the keynote of
Mr. Buley’s book on Australia.... It is a vivid picture that Mr. Buley
presents of newly made cities humming with industry and business and
filled with comfortable homes; great cattle and horse ranches, where
every proprietor is a little lord of the manor; sheep farms in the
back blocks fifty miles from a neighbor; gold fields where fortunes
are made in a day and lost the same night; and wide, dreary stretches
of the Never-Never land still awaiting irrigation and the consequent
inrush of settlers.”—Pub. Opin.

* * * * *

“The book deals most entertainingly with Australian life, and is well
illustrated.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 197. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.

“The especial virtue of the book is its elementariness.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 806. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.

“We have not, however, often read a volume in which solid information
was conveyed in a more pleasing style.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 750w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ’05. 240w.

“This is an interestingly written volume, with a particularly
absorbing chapter on the ‘Never never’ country.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 70w.

=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance. *$2.25. Ginn.

A book which supplies the collateral reading needed to supplement the
text-book and lectures in a general course in finance. It aims to
introduce students to standard authors on subjects of finance, to draw
upon modern monographic or periodical literature not easily
accessible, to present other material of a statistical, historical and
descriptive nature that is necessary to amplify a knowledge of the
subject.

* * * * *

“Ought to prove of great value to teachers in small colleges.”

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 520. O. ’06. 140w.

“The chief criticism to be passed upon what is in other respects a
most useful work is the comparatively slight attention paid to
specifically American problems.”

+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 160w.

“It is not often that a volume is found where the evils of such
multiple authorship are so well overcome.” H. C. E.

+ + =Yale R.= 15: 334. N. ’06. 340w.

=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.

“Mr. Bumpus’s book is a valuable guide in the case of these buildings
not only describing them very fully, but also pointing out what parts
of them are original, and what new.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 903. D. 30. 170w.

“His book should be carefully read before any of the churches he
describes are visited.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 426. Ap. 7. 140w.

“It is no mere dressing-up of old material and hackneyed views.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 150w.

“Mr. Bumpus has only one real fault in writing about our cathedrals.
He is convinced that all the restorations of English cathedrals,
since, say, 1840 have been justified.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 556. N. 3. 210w.

“Not merely a useful handbook, but a piece of real literature.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 20: 180. Ap. ’06. 130w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 52. Jl. 14, ’06. 830w.

“We are not much struck by the illustrations, which are reproductions
from very ordinary photographs such as any amateur might take, but the
letterpress shows painstaking work, and the author is clearly well
studied in architecture.”

+ – Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 160w.

“Mr. Bumpus writes, for the most part, with moderation and good sense.
It is a pleasure to follow a guide so well informed and so
enthusiastic.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 264. F. 17, ’06. 330w.

=Bunyan, John.= Pilgrim’s progress: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s life. *25c. Ginn.

Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress”
has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.

=Burdick, Lewis Dayton.= Hand. $1.50. Irving co.

A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual
ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical
study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A
symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,”
“Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social
hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in
idea.

* * * * *

=Arena.= 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.

“An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly
manner.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.

=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in use. *50c. Huebsch.

In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an
answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be
separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply
and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded
with such conviction that if he reach a wide enough audience the stock
phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 1353. D. 6, ’06. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 190w.

=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Little sister of destiny. †$1.50. Houghton.

Margaret Million is a wealthy young heiress who plays the rôle of
chorus girl, cashier, manicure, artist’s model, and serving maid in
order to befriend and help less fortunate girls. Her Lady Bountiful
methods demand that her beneficiaries never know the source of their
good fortune—the idea of mystery enhancing the fairy-tale aspect of
the book.

* * * * *

“The stories of her experiences are entertaining in spite of their
unlikeliness.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.

“Is one of the most lovable books that have come to our table for many
a long day.”

+ =Ind.= 60: 1686. My. 31, ’06. 150w.

“Everybody should read ‘The little sister of destiny.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 214. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.

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

“They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s
reputation as a whimsical humorist.”

– =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.

“After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with
considerable whimsical nonsense.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.

– =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 70w.

=Burgess, William Watson.= Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.

The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence
of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for
the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by
preventing instead of punishing crime.

=Burke, John Butler.= Origin of life: its physical basis and definition. *$3. Stokes.

This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of
Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile
solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of
the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium
which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size
and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not
bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and
represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying
between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living
aggregates.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“We are indeed no nearer the solution of the problem of the origin of
life than before this book was written.” W. P. Pycraft.

– =Acad.= 70: 500. My. 26, ’06. 1280w.

“He possesses neither the learning nor the clarity of mind which give
value to Dr. Bastian’s treatment of the same topics, irrespective of
his personal views.” E. T. Brewster.

– =Atlan.= 98: 421. S. ’06. 380w.

“It is to be hoped that he is more skillful with the test-tube than
with the pen. His style is extraordinarily loose and awkward.”

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 123. Ap. 6, ’06. 1320w.

“While biologists generally will regard this presentation, like the
earlier one, as failing to prove the author’s main thesis ...
nevertheless, the volume will serve a valuable purpose as an excellent
exposé of both old and new theories of the origin of life, and of a
philosophy of nature which is growing in popularity.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 340w.

“An interesting book on a perennially interesting theme.” J. A. T.

+ – =Nature.= 74: 1. My. 3, ’06. 2200w.

“Mr. Burke may not have proved his points, but he is not dogmatical,
and he certainly seems a very wholesome philosopher.” Charles Loomis
Dana.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 1460w.

=R of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 120w.

“It is amazing that a man should dare to publish such a record of
experiment, so slipshod, so uncritical, so destitute of scientific
method; great must be his trust in the abundant and unfailing
beneficence of popular ignorance.”

– – =Sat. R.= 101: 334. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.

=Burland, Harris.= Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.

“The volume, contains indications of a gift for narrative, and some
respectable powers of description; it is compact of energy and
enthusiasm.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 210w.

=Burland, Harris.= Financier. †$1.50. Dillingham.

A new story by the author of “The black motor car.” “Briefly set down,
the plot involves an African region, a promoter who is also an
unscrupulous British patriot, a contest with Germany, a little war
with heaps of slain, an impossible young actress, an equally
impossible young civil engineer, a peer or two, a panic, gold mines,
and members of the kaiser’s secret service—especially a lady spy,
picturesquely named Mrs. Wooddevil. Mr. Burland has by the way, a
curious taste in names.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“His ‘Financier’ like his other stories, is readable in spite of the
glaring inexpertness of the diction, the wretched quality of the
puppets, and the exposed condition of the wires that pull them about
to do the showman’s will.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.

“A crude story.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 20w.

“Is an honest piece of sensationalism free from the most glaring vices
of its class.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 212. Ag. 18, ’06. 150w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Dawn of a to-morrow. †$1. Scribner.

A book which embodies the spirit of Christian science without the
letter seems to be a sermon with the unannounced text “I if I be
lifted up ... will draw all men unto me.” A king of finance just ready
to “shuffle off this mortal coil” by act of suicide withdraws to the
slum section of London to hide his deed in a pauper’s seclusion. Here
he is found by a “little rat of the gutter,” an ugly girl of twelve
years, with astonishing insight into human hearts. This child with her
sure faith in God as a present unfeared reality; Jenny Montaubyn who
had taught her this hope; Polly, a girl of the streets; and a hungry
thief form a group who make a great capitalist take hope and desire to
work out his own salvation.

* * * * *

“Is a simple, old-fashioned miracle-play, set forth in modern London
with the sure, swift touch of a practised story-teller.” Mary Moss.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 299. My. ’06. 560w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 130w.

– =Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 160w.

“The little story is tenderly told, leaving the reader with a softened
heart and broader sympathies.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.

“It is an unusual little tale, written powerfully and dramatically.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

“There is a decidedly tense air about the short story, which detracts
from its intended effect.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Little princess: being the whole story of Sarah Crewe now told for the first time. †$2. Scribner.

“It is unusual to tell a story three times over, but all three
versions are charming, and we accept them with gratitude.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 150w.

“Is written in that fascinating style which has won for the gifted
author of ‘The little Lord Fauntleroy’ so many admirers.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 375. F. ’06. 60w.

+ =Spec.= 95: 1042. D. 16, ’05. 140w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Queen Silver-Bell. [+]60c. Century.

Silver-Bell, queen of the fairies, grieves because people have grown
so stupid that they no longer believe in fairies. She is so agitated
that her temper flies out of its golden cage, and the Dormouse, to
whom she goes for advice, assures her that the only way she can atone
for her loss is to encourage the writing of fairy stories. Into the
ears of her amanuensis, apprenticed for life, she whispers these
stories, which so far are three in number. “Queen Silver-Bell” and
“How Winnie hatched the little rooks” are found in this first volume
of the series.

* * * * *

“The little story will be warmly received.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

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

“While Mrs. Burnett’s style is so pure that it makes easy reading,
there is not in her subject matter in these books any very striking
motive to make an impression on the child’s mind.”

+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Racketty-Packetty house. [+]60c. Century.

The second volume of fairy tales dictated by Queen Silver-Bell to her
amanuensis.

* * * * *

+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

=Nation.= 83: 514. D, 13, ’06. 20w.

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

+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.

=Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay).= Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.

Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.

+ + + =Living Age.= 249: 268. Ja. ’06. 9790w. (Reprinted from
Quarterly R.)

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 526. D. 28, ’05. 2060w. (Review of v. 4–6.)

Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.

+ + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 89. Ja. ’06. 9790w.

=Burns, Robert.= Poems; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

One of the eight volumes in the “Thin paper poets” series. The book
contains a biographical sketch and a glossary, and as a frontispiece
reproduces the Peter Taylor painting of Burns in 1786.

=Burr, Agnes Rush.= Russell H. Conwell, founder of the institutional church in America: the work and the man. **$1. Winston.

This is the sketch of a philanthropist still living, still doing
active work for church, college, and hospital, in all of which three
lines “he has blazed new paths ... has not only proven their need,
demonstrated their worth, but he has shown how it is possible to
accomplish such results from small beginnings, with no large gifts of
money, with only the hands and hearts of willing workers.”

=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.

“His book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the
battle, the second detailing the circumstances connected with the
inception, dedication, and completion of the cemetery and the third
giving a record of the work of the park commission.” (Outlook.) “Of
special interest are the chapters on Lincoln’s address, and the
slightly different versions of it printed. He shows that many persons
who heard the address were deeply impressed by it.... Mr. Burrage,
with greater fulness than Nicolay or Hay, has gone into the
circumstances in which Lincoln wrote the speech. He presents facts
which are as new as they are interesting.” (Lit. D.)

* * * * *

“The sketch is well written and to the point.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

+ =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 190w.

“Mr. Burrage’s monograph was worth the doing, and he has performed
this task fairly well.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

=Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 150w.

“A useful volume by Major Henry S. Burrage, himself a war veteran and
imbued with obvious enthusiasm for his theme.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

=Burrell, Joseph Dunn.= New appraisal of Christian science. 50c. Funk.

An estimate of Christian science made according to the standard of
mental science resulting in an adverse summary characterized by such
expressions as “infantile logic, offensive pretentiousness, and
slippery casuistry.”

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 30w.

=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.

This collection of the nature verses which have been published in
various periodicals is happily dedicated “To the kinglet that sang in
my evergreens in October and made me think it was May.” “The freshness
and precision of Mr. Burrough’s observation need no comment. He is a
master of clean-drawn phrase, and ... has a good gift of short-lined
metre. So far as his work is poetry rather than versified nature
study, it is so by virtue of a certain single-minded affectionateness
of interest in nature.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.

+ =Critic.= 49: 139. Ag. ’06. 780w.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 41: 206. O. 1, ’06. 190w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 230w.

“Quite free from such introspection, without a trace of the haunting
melancholy that pervades ‘The Shropshire lad,’ John Burroughs makes
his songs of ‘Bird and bough.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 280w.

=Burroughs, John.= Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.

“In his latest book his observations are new and described with
freshness and point.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 355. Ap. 14, ’06. 630w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 350w.

+ + =Nation.= 82: 59. Ja. 18, ’06. 1140w.

“Burroughs evidently proves his case to his own convincing, if not to
a legion of his hearty friends and admirers.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1610w.

“He has thought out the subject, and what he writes is fairly
interesting.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 110w.

=Burry, B. Pullen-.= Ethiopia in exile: Jamaica revisited. †$1.50. Wessels.

“It is a valuable contribution to the great racial problem which
demands the serious attention of American statesmen. The author draws
an instructive parallel between the condition of the negroes of
Jamaica and those of the United States.” (Ath.) “The black man in
republican America is vastly worse off than in monarchist Britain, she
says; and no American has a right to gainsay her. The Jamaican is out
of work because, owing to changed conditions, there is no work in
Jamaica for him to do; the American negro is deliberately prevented
from working by the whites, both North and South; they won’t have
him.” (Nation.) “Miss Pullen-Burry sees the most hopeful sign in the
work done by Dr. Booker T. Washington and his colleagues for the
education and racial elevation of the negro, and gives a full and
interesting account of this work.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 300w.

“We can commend Miss Pullen-Burry’s book; it is an excellent account
of Jamaica, it is a fair study of the chief problem before us
Americans.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 540w.

=Burton, Richard.= Rahab: a drama in three acts. *$1.25. Holt.

A drama made out of the story of the “Woman of Jericho” whose house
was on the city wall. Dr. Burton’s quick imagination has given life
and a distinctive dramatic energy to a Bible story that of itself is
meager. His Rahab who has seen the glory of God of Israel in a vision
and has dreamed of the downfall of Jericho is drawn in flesh and blood
characters, and thru her and her three rival lovers a strong human
interest is maintained.

* * * * *

“Dr. Burton brings to his task the faculty of clearly perceiving his
‘dramatis personæ’ of determining the interaction of his characters,
and a skilled workmanship in the management of the verse-vehicle.”
Edith M. Thomas.

+ + =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 390w.

“Dr. Burton’s ‘Rahab’ is a pretty enough academic exercise. But it has
about as much to do with existing conditions as has the megatherium.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 130w.

“If the play lacks sufficient vigor to foretell for it length of days
it has some qualities that are uncommon in contemporary verse.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.

“It is simply and fluently written, with many felicities of phrase,
and with comparatively few passages to which the most super-sensitive
critic might object.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 300w.

“It is not in any sense a great play, but it has movement, vivacity,
color, and dramatic feeling.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 769. Jl. 28, ’06. 240w.

=Bury, John B.= Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“His method can without hesitation be said to be sound, and his mind
singularly unbiased. His mastery of the evidence, both in Latin and in
Irish, is also unquestionable. The style, too, though rather compact
and severe, is lucid and readable.” F. N. Robinson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 633. Ap. ’06. 770w.

“The arrangement of the book is admirable. We hope that in a second
edition we may be supplied with a complete index.” F. E. Warren.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 347. Ap. ’06. 2360w.

Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.

+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.

“The text of Professor Bury’s book is clear, succinct, and well
arranged chronologically.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 19. Ja. 4, ’05. 930w.

“We cannot part from Professor Bury’s work without expressing our
unfeigned admiration for his complete control of the original
authorities on which his narrative is based, and of the sound critical
judgment he exhibits in dealing with sources which present unusual
difficulties.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 977. D. 9, ’05. 1830w.

=Butler, Alford A.= Churchman’s manual of methods: a practical Sunday school handbook for clerical and lay workers. $1. Young ch.

A practical handbook compiled wholly from the author’s experience as
Sunday school teacher, superintendent, clergyman and professor of
religious pedagogy.

=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Incubator baby. [+]75c. Funk.

The author of “Pigs is pigs” writes an incubator baby’s comments upon
the change from her “paradise” to the big uncongenial world presided
over by her indifferent father and mother.

* * * * *

“Here we have gentle satire at its best. It is a delightful story and
will be enjoyed by old as well as young, though it will be especially
pleasing to the little people.”

+ =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 240w.

=Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 80w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 140w.

“The satire is relieved by an abundance of sentiment and common
sense.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Perkins of Portland; Perkins the Great. †$1. Turner, H. B.

Seven adventures of Perkins of Portland leave nothing to be desired in
the way of advertising-finesse. He seizes the moment to launch a ware
upon a gullible public, and whether it be porous plasters or guinea
pigs his success is obvious.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, 06. 110w.

“Sequels and second books in the wake of a popular success, while they
may be measurably good themselves, are usually dangerous experiments.
This little book is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.”

– =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 50w.

=Byrne, Mary Agnes.= Fairy chaser and other stories. 60c. Saalfield.

Five charming fairy tales for young readers: The fairy chaser, Kitty’s
ring, The magic mirror, The old gray shawl, and Cecelia’s gift.

=Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron.= Poetical works; new and rev. ed.; ed. with a memoir by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. *$1.50. Scribner.

A complete edition of Byron’s poetry, containing all the new poems
included in the 1898–1904 edition. The reader will find “a lively and
well-written memoir by the editor, and judicious notes to the various
poems, which explain all that one needs to know.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The introductory memoir ... is all that could be desired; in every
way this is a most satisfactory edition of Byron to have on the
bookshelf, and we think it will continue for many a long day, to
deserve a place there.”

+ + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1160w.

“An admirable and probably final edition of the noble poet.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 130w.

+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.

“It contains the gist of the editorial matter in Mr. Coleridge’s
definitive seven-volume edition.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 240. Ap. 1, ’06. 100w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 100w.

“The text is authoritative.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 150w.

“In every way it is an excellent addition to one’s book shelves.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.

“This is an acceptable one-volume edition of Byron’s poems.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

C

=Cabell, James Branch.= Line of love. †$2. Harper.

“An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond
popular understanding and enjoyment.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.

“Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic
fervor.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.

=Cable, George Washington.= Old Creole days; with 8 full-page il. and head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.

In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen
smaller ones add new charm to the contents.