Chapter III: Preface (3)

An argument against municipal trading. The author shows that municipal
trade increases local expenditure and local indebtedness, gives rise
to awkward labor problems, seriously interferes with private
enterprise and our foreign commerce, and that by reducing the demand
for labor it has not only injured the ratepayers generally, but
especially the working classes.

* * * * *

=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 149. Jl. ’07. 390w.

“His book, it hardly need be said, is an able presentation of his
subject. While less partisan and more dignified than Mr. Porter, Lord
Avebury is seldom thoroughly judicial in his treatment of his
subject.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

“All thru the book Lord Avebury shows an amazing fondness for
irresponsible writers and a curious shyness of official figures.”

− =Ind.= 62: 1412. Je. 13, ’07. 1180w.

“The materials appear to have been gathered hastily, and are thrown
together in slap-dash fashion.”

− + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 260w.

“One commendable feature of the book is its definiteness. The reader
who seeks a clear, brief statement of the arguments against municipal
trading cannot find the case more satisfactorily stated than in Lord
Avebury’s book.” Wm. Hill.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 436. Jl. ’07. 950w.

“A useful handbook for those who may have to debate the subject on
public platforms.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 213. F. 9, ’07. 1740w.

=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people. In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.

=v. 3.= “Volume three is devoted to what has been happily termed a
neglected period of American history,—a period extending through the
latter part of the seventeenth to well toward the meridian of the
eighteenth century. Behind it lay the stirring, strenuous and
oftentimes intensely exciting period that marked the colonization of
the new world and the struggle for a firm foothold,—a struggle that
sometimes meant war with Indians, sometimes conflict with rival
nations, and ever the fierce battle to subjugate the soil and wring
from it more than was needed to supply food, raiment and shelter for
the isolated bands on the wilderness frontiers of the new
world.”—Arena.

* * * * *

“Mr. Avery has aimed at and achieved ‘readability,’ and at the same
time there is little doubt that this will be the standard record of
United States history.”

+ + + =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“We have detected but one actual inaccuracy—an understatement of
Oglethorpe’s age. The American writer’s handling of some portions
strikes us as hardly adequate.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 862. S. 7, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)

“On the whole the volume is superior to its predecessor. The sense of
proportion is better developed.” Wm. R. Shepherd.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 657. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The strong feature of this volume, as of its predecessor, is—aside
from the work of the publishers—the accuracy and detail of the
author’s narrative. Certain of its limitations are also among those of
the earlier volumes and seem, therefore, likely to characterize the
entire work. They are: First, the author’s lack of assured perspective
and his consequent inability to impart emphasis, selection and
organization to his work; secondly, his attempts to vary the monotony
inevitable in a narrative devoid of the above mentioned qualities by
constant recourse to the phraseology of others or to awkward
trivialities; and thirdly, his disposition to abdicate to others the
historian’s essential function of passing judgment, without at the
same time distinguishing at all between the purely personal opinions
of those whom he quotes and their documental verdicts.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 1250w. (Review of v. 2.)

“We are fully gratified to find that it fully maintains the high
standard set in the preceding volumes. Dealing as it does with this
largely neglected period, is of special interest to students of
history.”

+ + + =Arena.= 38: 221. Ag. ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The colonial history of the Jerseys is usually regarded as prosaic in
the extreme; but Mr. Avery has discovered in it points of dramatic
interest, and has spared no pains to reveal them to us.” Anna Heloise
Abel.

+ + − =Dial.= 43: 165. S. 16, ’07. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)

“At times there is revealed, often in opening and closing paragraphs,
a knack of rapid and effective description. But the body of the
chapter is liable to be disjointed and unimportant. The work lacks
conscious certainty of judgment and too often seems to be impartial
from caution rather than conviction.”

+ + − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Dr. Avery’s narrative grows more praiseworthy as it proceeds, while
his style is less stilted and freer from mannerisms and fine writing
than was the case with the first volume.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 3.)

“It is pleasant to find, also, that Mr. Avery has profited by earlier
criticisms—developing, for example, far more clearly than before the
relationship between the early upbuilding of America and the stirring
events transpiring in Europe.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Its methods are more like those of the old, with a little less
insistence on style. In respect of its material make-up Avery’s work
is one of the most notable books ever printed in America, and no doubt
the most notable in American history.” John Spencer Bassett.

+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Dr. Avery’s style illumines the annals of those primitive times,
sustaining the reader’s interest.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Axon, William E. A.= Cobden as a citizen: a chapter in Manchester history. *$6. Wessels.

7–31407.

Including a facsimile of Cobden’s pamphlet “Incorporate your borough,”
with an introduction recording his career as a municipal reformer, and
a Cobden bibliography.

* * * * *

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 538. My. 4. 330w.

“A little volume which all admirers and students of Cobden will desire
to possess.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 160w.

=Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.

=Ayer, Mary Allette=, ed. Heart melodies. **$1. Lothrop.

7–16925.

The compiler has culled from works of prose and poetry both well-known
and obscure these brief quotations chosen because they are helpful and
cheering.

B

=Bacheller, Irving A.= Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing. †50c. Harper.

7–29429.

Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume;
one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben
Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise,
humorous companion of earlier days.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w.

=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.

6–27342.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the
complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical
associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.

+ =Spec.= 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w.

=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.= Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.

7–29425.

“The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences
of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined
resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the
suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the
peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in
the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but
occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up
several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the
chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w.

“Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness
that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and
thinner as time goes on.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w.

“The plot is of soap-bubble texture ... and the whole is told with
abundant humor in a style of exceptional simplicity and good taste.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

“The book is full of fun.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

“A mild plot is cleverly managed by the author.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)= In high places. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–31212.

The “high places” are the risky elevations from which scrupulous and
unscrupulous actors in high finance manipulate the money market. A
business woman of to-day occupies the center of the stage.

* * * * *

“‘In high places,’ in fact, inspires a hope that Mrs. Bacon may go on
rather than back, that she may succeed in ridding herself of the
shopworn, obvious side of her talent and by clearing her mind of a
residue of stock phrases and characters, leave it free to receive her
own unhackneyed and genuine impressions.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 390w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“In many respects the novel is disagreeable—in some unnecessarily
so—but the plea that it is true to life can be supported, without
doubt.”

− + =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 150w.

=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)=, ed. Songs every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.

6–35301.

More than a hundred songs with music are grouped here. They include
songs of sentiment, folk song, cradle songs, songs of war, national
hymns, nonsense songs, patriotic songs, Shakesperian songs and
miscellaneous songs. Introductory notes to each song add enlightenment
for the child.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 189. O. ’06.

“The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the
taste displayed is broad and catholic.”

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 295. N. ’06. 780w.

+ − =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 50w.

“Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into
groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”

+ − =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 120w.

“One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 30w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 40w.

=Badger, George Henry.= Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.

7–29693.

Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the
hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used
for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface
of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the
murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies
back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.

=Bagley, William Chandler.= Classroom management: its principles and technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.

7–15629.

“Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems,
and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of
the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from
experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best
expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book
may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’
‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’
‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.

* * * * *

“The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is
always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more
varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his
task.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 160w.

“While the book is written primarily for students of education in
schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will
appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 255. S. 19, ’07. 210w.

“The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble
chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately
printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public
expense.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.

=Bagot, Richard.= Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–37716.

Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in
psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister
fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by
poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she
loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of
San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.”
(Ath.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Bagot observes keenly, but a little hastily; he is rather sharp
than wise in his judgments, and his people are drawn without the
subtle shades which would make them interesting in themselves.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.

“It is a powerful drama, and discloses Mr. Bagot at his best.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 286. Mr. 9. 210w.

“Like Mr. Crawford, also Mr. Bagot never lets you forget that he is
writing of an alien race, with habits and temperaments and language
quite foreign to that of the Anglo-Saxon; and yet, at the same time,
he interprets them so skilfully that the sum total of your impressions
is rather that of the brotherhood of the two races than of the gulf
between them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 590w.

“Mr. Bagot spends so much care on the few characters whom he
introduces, and offers so close an explanation of their motives, that
we are prepared both for greater vigour of action and greater subtlety
of speech. But he seldom drops his attitude of the grave observer
pondering wide issues. In any case, however, it is an interesting
book; you lay it down not infrequently, but you open it with respect.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 390w.

“The facts are bald enough, but they are interpreted with much skill.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 420w.

“There are few gleams of fascination in ‘Temptation’.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 120w.

“That which may be most cordially praised in this novel is the
author’s evidently exact and always interesting depiction of Italian
country life and social customs and manners.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 100w.

“Although the main theme of the story is gloomy, there are many
pleasant passages. The book is always interesting.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 380w.

“Though ‘Temptation’ cannot be pronounced a pleasant book, the author
must be acquitted of any desire to palter with the principles of right
and wrong.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 422. Mr. 16, ’07. 840w.

=Bailey, Edgar H. S.= Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or, The chemistry of water, air, and food. *$1.40. Macmillan.

6–32422.

In which the author emphasizes the fact that a knowledge of the
relations of health to pure air, unpolluted water, and wholesome food
will greatly improve sanitary conditions of students as well as people
at large. Part 1 discusses air and fuel in their relation to heating
and ventilation, lighting by the various agents now in use, water
supply and purification, and disposal of household waste. Part 2 deals
with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages
and dietaries.

* * * * *

“Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he
has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of
Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w.

Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.

=Science=, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w.

“The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to
be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small
pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the
student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially
elementary.”

+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w.

* =Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25. Scribner.

7–34148.

In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s
genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies
between his work and that of his predecessors.

* * * * *

“Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence.
The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s
influence upon other novelists.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w.

“The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on
Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.

7–8529.

A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific
farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and
permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)

=v. 1.= Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their
soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms;
farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.

=v. 2.= Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the
first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its
response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and
electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and
introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields.
Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from
pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general
discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the
main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers
only.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

“Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be
extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the
rural districts.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ − =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Bailey, Temple. Judy.= †$1.50. Little.

7–30439.

Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this
story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air,
simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with
things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life
lesson.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Bailey, William Bacon.= Modern social conditions. $3. Century.

6–34864.

“The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in
Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an
elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters
give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal
conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am.
J. Soc.

* * * * *

“The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the
figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w.

“Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but
strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography.
The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with
information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely
for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and
practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On
the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating
mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w.

“It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less
familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet
the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such
treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are
included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and
difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full
comprehension of those sections.” J. C.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w.

“I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best
authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used
critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present
condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.

− − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w.

“As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort
to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation.
Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The
style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.

− + =Yale R.= 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w.

=Baillie, James Black.= Outline of the idealistic construction of experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.

7–11048.

The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential
principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and
with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)

* * * * *

“The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of
philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more
successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those
abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w.

“Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly
extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and
epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is
hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment
of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it
is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.

+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w.

“If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the
scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well
chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work
of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is
sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted
independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to
court disaster.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w.

“The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is
dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think
out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails
exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so
preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very
important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of
science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not
less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.

+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w.

“In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an
idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration,
and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful
environment.”

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w.

=Baily, J. T. Herbert.= Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.

A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but
emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely,
her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.

* * * * *

“Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even
warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected
by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F.
Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w.

“Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on
her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w.

=Baker, Cornelia.= Court jester; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.

6–28221.

The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become
the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.

* * * * *

“Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average
child’s attention throughout.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.

“A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on
this successful collaboration.”

+ + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w.

“A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ...
are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w.

=Baker, Ernest A.= History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–29857.

An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is
classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student.
“Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical
fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general
arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel
and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in
the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written
in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.

“These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well
expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the
books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not
without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w.

“So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work,
it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the
index.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.

“Very carefully compiled catalogue.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w.

=Baker, Etta Anthony.= Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.

7–30441.

Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games,
their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is
wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the
sort that any school boy may profit by.

=Baker, George Pierce.= Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist. *$1.75. Macmillan.

7–22387.

A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a
playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great
dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from
the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America;
in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the
disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace
the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations that
throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many
other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the
period.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 158. O. ’07. S.

“The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as
supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward
Fuller.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w.

“The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic
development than many others written with less regard for external
conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the
way for Shakespeare.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w.

“There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is
tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely
valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the
playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.

+ + − =Forum.= 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w.

“We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and
his thorough sympathy with his author.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w.

“The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so
desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation,
however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of
the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and
inspiration.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w.

“His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with
the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with
those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.

+ + =No. Am.= 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w.

“This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of
uneducated opinion.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w.

“It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable
addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w.

=Baker, James Hutchins.= American problems; essays and addresses. **$1.20. Longmans.

7–7477.

In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and
education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and
on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of
illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is
vigorous and even inspiring.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w.

=Cath. World.= 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w.

“The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the
whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly
original manner.” Max West.

+ =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w.

=Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w.

“The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness
and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful
nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

=Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w.

“If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be
despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.

+ − =School R.= 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w.

=Baker, John Cordis=, ed. American country homes and their gardens; introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.

6–38345.

“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best
features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine
to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’
and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate
often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of
the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as
‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are
artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many
hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller
and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of
information about the status and development of American architecture
and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of
appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

=Baker, Louise R.= Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–27611.

A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group
of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk.
It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.

* * * * *

“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.

=Baldwin, James Mark.= Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.

6–44351.

Third edition with improvements and enlargements.

* * * * *

“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one
cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental
development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of
data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon
biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in
genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the
particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin
champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at
certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.

+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w.

=Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w.

“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the
obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude
of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children
must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.

“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work
is of distinctive and permanent value.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.

=Baldwin, James Mark.= Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.

“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a
product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its
evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he
finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies
that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do
not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.

* * * * *

“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an
invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to
the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to
apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation
of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w.

“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely
studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and
cannot well be hastily scanned.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w.

=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.

6–44293.

The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of
knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological,
genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”

* * * * *

“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we
close it with a feeling of disappointment.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable
interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the
contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive
complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and
thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other
embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the
author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at
the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest
appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its
author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a
little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.

+ − =J. Philos.= 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)

“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious,
systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of
continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean
that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that
belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical
doctrine in the form of error.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one
finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”

+ + − =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the
reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other
volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint
and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive
special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a
notable one.” A. W. Moore.

+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to
turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner
ring.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great
and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A.
Tawney.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Baldwin, May.= Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.

The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt
young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of
the particularly undisciplinary _pensionnat_ in which she is placed,
and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well
brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless
revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.

“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly
upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained
through all its 400 pages.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose
‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the
ground.”

− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.

=Balzac, Honore de.= Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.

7–15141.

A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern
language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.

=Banks, Louis Albert.= Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.

7–23975.

This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’
mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.

=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.

7–19048.

An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed
points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers
which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real
salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its
manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the
stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental
centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham,
Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N.
Y. Times.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07.

+ =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.

=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.

7–18108.

The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable
information based on the latest discoveries relating to various
industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the
maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and
England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary,
Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also
comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery
that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the
principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries
named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.

“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste
of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which
Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.

“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first
complete work on the subject.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w.

=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.

6–34684.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school
life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and
will certainly be liked by boys.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

“The best he has done.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w.

* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2. Lippincott.

7–33207.

A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a
true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop,
thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its
very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold
binding.

* * * * *

“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is
natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless
‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.

6–34813.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.

“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The
story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking
in suggestive quality.”

− =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w.

* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Tom, Dick and Harriet. †$1.50. Century.

7–32158.

The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for
the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied
in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader
could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play,
and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between
Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the
winning of a much needed endowment fund.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.

“The book is worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

=Barclay, Armiger.= King makers. †$1.50. Small.

The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons,
undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those
misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks
askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are
worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is
persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess
cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is
much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before
all this is safely brought about.

* * * * *

“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall
not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a
well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is
worth while.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.

=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Life of Alfred de Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.

6–26201.

“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in
both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that
which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in
the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is
essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters,
rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and
reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate
sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic
insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w.

“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns
and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is
anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the
translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece
of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”

− + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w.

=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Princesses and court ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.

6–45155.

The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated
from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played
parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal
Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of
Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s
sister; and “An Arab princess.”

* * * * *

“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of
translation now prevalent.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w.

“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of
scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion
of cheapness or superficiality.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w.

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w.

“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many
interesting pictures.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w.

“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w.

“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of
biography as we have seen for some time.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w.

“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately
represented in the translation.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w.

=Barker, Ernest.= Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50. Putnam.

7–15512.

“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just
perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the
spirit within the letter.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of
his subject.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w.

“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every
respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book is
much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political
thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as
an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory,
both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.

+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w.

“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire
subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance
of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian
verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and
suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and
fantastic analogies.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w.

“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition
of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The
universities to which we look for future statesmen may be
congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for
political studies.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w.

“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of
its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its
historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w.

“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic,
but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running
analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a
book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w.

“Illuminating volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w.

=Barker, J. Ellis.= Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–6776.

“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material
professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the
purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party
government, and especially against the particular form of government
which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes
undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the
necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and
federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and
army.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff
reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say
that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which
Mr. Barker denounces.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w.

“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome
and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large
proportion of chaff.”

− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w.

“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general
reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w.

“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress
the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh
sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief
objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political
tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not
to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too
long.”

− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w.

“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities
are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six
pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the
study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot
Griffis.

+ − =Dial.= 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w.

“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an
antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the
author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w.

“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to
be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments
are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false
premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this
book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the
intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he
dogmatizes.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.

“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are
very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in
reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance
of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”

− =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w.

“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man
who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on,
and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w.

“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it
is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic
of popular government and all its ways.”

− + =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w.

“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have
read for some time.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w.

“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr.
Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current
controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out
of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is
fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”