Chapter V: Preface (5)

“When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the
subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after
all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr.
Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that
he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of
the doctrine of the atonement.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w.

“A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time
learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many
persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become
unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us
at the present moment.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w.

=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2. Macmillan.

7–30451.

A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to
1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work
which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary
patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the
period as facts.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“We commend this book to persons who desire a fairer view of the
ultimate causes of American independence.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 310w.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 720w.

“This is a book that Fourth of July orators will have to reckon with,
sooner or later.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 100w.

=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Manual of theology. *$2.75. Armstrong.

“Professor Beet’s ‘Manual of Christian theology’ expounds the views on
the intermediate state which brought him into difficulty with the
English Methodists some years ago, but otherwise it follows well-worn
paths to conclusions which are now familiar and trite.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Dr. Agar Beet’s is, no doubt, a good specimen of its class, but its
main result is only to afford one more proof, if such were needed, of
the futility of this kind of literature.”

− + =Acad.= 73: 278. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.

“The value of Dr. Beet’s work—and it has considerable value—lies in
its minute knowledge and skilful use of the words of the Biblical
writers, and in the systematizing of the thoughts he finds in those
words.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 500w.

“The religious tone of the treatise prevents it from being a dry
compendium of proof-texts. But one who has accepted the historical
method of studying the Bible will be unable to use the book for
anything more than an expression of Dr. Beet’s own convictions.”
Gerald Birney Smith.

+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 77. Jl. ’07. 430w.

=Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.

+ − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 200w.

=Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 320w.

“We cannot follow his expositions, but we may say that they are
characterised by lucidity and moderation.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 70w.

=Begbie, Harold.= Penalty. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–14251.

A story whose plot rests upon a woman’s determination to have a
certain bishop reinstate her in English society. By means of the theft
and later the loss of a certain book, she planned to show to the world
that this bishop now aspiring to the archbishopric of Canterbury
formerly belonged to a secret order that was proselyting for the Roman
Catholic church. “There results a comedy of errors which in the end
very narrowly escapes becoming a tragedy.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“A novel of unquestionable cleverness.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 220w.

“The welcome feature ... is a distinct originality of theme. Taken
altogether, a very readable volume, full of veiled irony, and plainly
written with a certain underlying seriousness of purpose.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 336. My. 25, ’07. 190w.

“The dignity and serious tone of the book make it quite worth while.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.

=Belcher, John.= Essentials in architecture: an analysis of the principles and qualities to be looked for in buildings. *$2. Scribner.

“Everybody who wishes to be able to distinguish between a good
building and a bad, to recognize at a glance the best and worst points
of the houses he passes in the street, is under a debt of deep
gratitude to Mr. Belcher.” (Acad.) “Dividing the work into four main
parts, entitled respectively principles, qualities, factors, and
materials, Mr. Belcher discourses pleasantly on each, illustrating the
points he makes by reference to well-known buildings.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Uncompromising in his denunciation of vital defects, Mr. Belcher is
as broad-minded as he is sound in his judgments, and his book is
remarkably free from whims, fads, and that irrelevant mass of fuss and
metaphysics which Ruskin in later years detected in his ‘Seven
lamps.’”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 769. Ag. 10, ’07. 1030w.

“The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of
the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture
presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but
one of the practising architect.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w.

“Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general
reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to
those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook
in the maze of practical details.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w.

“One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the
criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to
analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little
finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w.

“It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of
historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been
an oversupply of late.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w.

=Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.= Desert and the sown; a record of travel from Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.

7–35188.

“The book describes the converse with all sorts of Syrians enjoyed by
Miss Bell on a journey through the country east of Jordan to the
Jebel-ed-Drûz, and thence, by Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and
Antioch, to the coast of Iskenderun.” (Ath.) “We get stories of
shepherds and men-at-arms as they ‘passed from lip to lip round the
camp fire, in the black tent of the Arab and the guest chamber of the
Druze, as well as the more cautious utterance of Turkish and Syrian
officials.’ She eschews politics, and points out that the wise
traveller in Syria will avoid being drawn into the meshes of the
Armenian question.... Much of her time was given to archaeological
matters, but they are not her chief consideration in this book.” (Sat.
R.)

* * * * *

“It is not too high praise to say that the book before us is the most
charming addition to the literature of travel that has been published
for many years—we had almost said, and we think we should be justified
in saying, for many decades.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 210. Mr. 2, ’07. 2460w.

“A most delightful account of travel in Syria in which the author
shows a wide knowledge of desert lore and desert peoples, of
archaeology and Asiatic politics, an unusual power of description,
which, together with a keen sense of humor and fine dramatic touch,
conveys the whole scene in a quite remarkable way.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

“But after a searching criticism this book remains one of the best of
its kind that we have ever read. A valuable map is appended, but,
alas! there is no index.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 159. F. 9, 1540w.

“The author has made a distinct contribution to the literature of
travel, and has put her name far up on the list of women who have
written good travel-books.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 391. Je. 16, ’07. 670w.

“One thing is wanting: Miss Bell has not sufficiently absorbed the
medieval associations of Syria.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 28. Ja. 25, ’07. 2510w.

“I cannot quote it all and unless all is quoted you have lost the
better part.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 1020w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 240w.

“A book of unusual atmosphere and charm.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 530w.

“A charmingly written, fully illustrated account.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 270w.

“An enchanting example of travel literature. To her power of
describing scenery and people, and of recording the living talk of men
who, though they belong to the wilderness, have shrewd and capable
brains, Miss Bell adds a wide knowledge of archaeology and a sound
instinct for the politics of Asia.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 253. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.

=Bell, John Keble (Keble Howard, pseud.).= The Smiths: a comedy without a plot. †$1.50. McClure.

7–16483.

“It is a simple, agreeable story of the lives of two affectionate and
well-behaved people from the day when they come back from their
wedding journey and begin housekeeping in a snug suburban cottage, to
the time when they become grandparents.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Keble Howard has shown us again his keen insight into ordinary
human nature and with his sympathetic touch has brought to the surface
valuable jewels from unsuspected sources.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 320w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.

“The record of two honest young people who marry on a small income and
lead the uninspired life of the solid British middle class, may be
quite as tiresome in print as it appears in its suburban villa.”

− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.

“Mr. Howard is not only in earnest, but he has also an old-fashioned,
tender reverence which is refreshing at a time when that high quality
has become somewhat rare. His people are fairly representative of the
best members of that great, sterling middle class which at all periods
has been the safeguard of English social life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 450w.

“We are warned that the Smiths are neither superior nor fashionable,
but it would have been more kind to warn us that they are absolutely
uninteresting. We object to the inference that superiority and fashion
are required in order to be interesting.”

− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

“Many a person who is genuinely depressed by the mere sight of a
suburb from a train-window, and who would be utterly bored by half an
hour’s companionship with the Smiths in real life, will find himself
oddly interested in Mr. Howard’s little story, until he comes to the
love affairs of Phyllis, when the conversations become tedious.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 200w.

“The story of ‘The Smiths of Surbiton’ is not told with any
distinction of literary style or any subtlety in the analysis of the
human heart. The want of literary artifice in the treatment makes it
therefore obvious that the approval with which the book has been
greeted is due solely to its subject.”

− + =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 460w.

=Bell, Lilian.= Why men remain bachelors, and other luxuries. **$1.25. Lane.

6–38991.

A group of half humorous half philosophical essays which deal with
such subjects as The management of wives, The management of husbands,
The luxury of being stupid, How men propose, The broken engagement,
Modern mothers, etc.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

“These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in
a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and
spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w.

=Bell, Malcolm.= Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.

W 6–139.

Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on
account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.

* * * * *

“His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love
for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the
‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page
immediately before the index. The only works named in this
insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w.

“Treats its subject very successfully.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 179. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w.

=Bell, Nancy R. E.= Historical outskirts of London. **$2. McClure.

“Mrs. Bell conducts her readers on a tour of the places situated on
the fringe of London, recalling the historic associations in which
they abound and noting the changes they have undergone down to the
present time when these once isolated hamlets and townships have
become practically merged in the great metropolis.” (Int. Studio.)
Highgate, Hampstead, Woolwich, Epping Forest, Epsom, Fulham,
Hammersmith, Greenwich and other places are described with interesting
anecdotes of people whose history is associated with them.

* * * * *

“The general reader should be glad to have so much put before him in a
compact and readable form. The ‘proofs’ have occasionally been badly
read.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 240w.

“The book should not fail to stimulate interest in these time-honoured
spots.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

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

6–35603.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

“The charm of her writing entirely dispels from her pages, full of
carefully-acquired information as they are, that suggestion of the
guide-book which is not always inseparable from works of this kind.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 170w.

“The truth is that writers like Mrs. Bell do not possess a tithe of
the information necessary to draw a real picture of Brittany.”

− + =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 720w.

=Bellamy, Charles Joseph.= Wonder children, their quests and curious adventures. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–38395.

Here are quests that frequently terminate where the rainbow touches
the earth, and which permit the wanderer children to open the bags of
gold and live in peace forever after.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

“The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any
especial charm.”

− + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.

=Belloc, Hilaire.= Hills and the sea. *$1.50. Scribner.

7–13406.

“Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with
another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of
places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England,
France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity
only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn
through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes
to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength
lies.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w.

“None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that
is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and
has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and
simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both
very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w.

“The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something
more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial
and sympathetic message—possibly many.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w.

“It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their
failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner,
and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most
part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w.

“He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He
sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is
reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred
of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which
he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us
from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all
criticism is powerless.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w.

=Belloc, Hilaire.= Historic Thames. *$6. Dutton.

“Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and
deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the
topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as
incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the
Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead,
by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the
Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives
some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the
possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful
and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers
have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or
plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are
very badly drawn.” W. T. S.

− + =Acad.= 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w.

“Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and
is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing
to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist,
without special connexion in his mind with history.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w.

“In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved
in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in
a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has
little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.

− + =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w.

“Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high
quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of
interest and vivacity.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

“While he has performed his task with thoroughness and
conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is
impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one
naturally expects with this subject.”

+ − =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.

“Mr. Belloc’s book is a serious contribution to history. The
illustrations are very attractive, but they do not illustrate the
book, and they are arranged, or scattered about, with a more than
usually provoking irrelevance.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 340w.

=Bement, Alburto.= Peabody atlas: shipping mines and coal railroads, in the central commercial district of the United States, accompanied by chemical, geological and engineering data. $5. Peabody coal co., 125 Monroe st., Chicago.

Maps 7–25.

In which are set forth conditions in the coal-carrying railways and
their relations to the coal mines. “The atlas contains some valuable
information and illustrations on smokeless furnaces and smoke
prevention, analysis of combustion gases and improvements in boiler
designs.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“To the investigator in this field, the statistics of the various
bituminous mines and contributing railways throughout the central
states, which is given in this atlas, should be of as great value as
they also are to the various dealers for whom the book will serve the
purpose of a trade directory.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.

=Benham, W. Gurney.= Book of quotations: proverbs and household words. $3. Lippincott.

A collection of quotations from British and American authors, ancient
and modern, with many thousands of proverbs, familiar phrases and
sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.

* * * * *

“The collection shows an advance on those available, including
material from more recent authors, and from some now adorning or
amazing the world with their pens. A fairly thorough search has
convinced us of the general suitability and accuracy of the English
section. The section of miscellaneous quotations and other odds and
ends is good, but we are unable to praise the various lists of foreign
quotations.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 222. F. 23. 1230w.

“We know of no other book of the kind that contains so much matter,
and we can heartily recommend it as an addition to the reference
shelf.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 130w.

+ + =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 180w.

“Upon the whole, while it is not to be expected or desired that the
new book will supersede the old [Bartlett], it may very conveniently
supplement it, and is very well worth having, if one may say so
without applying to it the only real test, that of habitual use.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

“A slight examination will show that a good deal of original research
has been employed in the work. The arrangement, classification, and
indexings of the book are all commendable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 170w.

+ + =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 190w.

=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Machine design. *$2. Holt.

6–45053.

“A text-book for the use of students, and while very useful for that
purpose is not complete enough for the requirements of the practical
designer.... The principal things in the book which are valuable are
the results of experiments performed on various springs, journals,
fly-wheels, etc.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“It has the fault that is common to most books bearing its title; that
is, it covers only a small part of the subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.

+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 250w.

“The faults of the book are faults of omission rather than of
commission; to a large extent the matter given is original and cannot
fail to be of great value to designers of machinery. The analytical
treatment of some of the problems dealt with is both new and
ingenious. We have noticed a few slips, but they are mostly
unimportant.”

+ + − =Nature.= 76: 564. O. 3, ’07. 500w.

=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Modern American machine tools. *$5. Dutton.

7–33555.

A book written from the purchaser’s point of view which gives “a good
outline of the principal characteristics of modern machine tools, as
manufactured in the United States, the various points in which they
differ, the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, and some
data in regard to their capacity and performance.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“The book is a valuable one and well worth consulting. There is,
however, one important fact to be remembered which lessens the value
of the book to the buyer of machine tools and that is the
impossibility of getting the latest and best information from a book.
In this case, it would be safe to say that this book is now two years
behind the times.” W: W. Bird.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.

=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The ghost: a novel. †$1.50. Small.

7–24288.

“The Ghost” by the author of the fantastic “Hugo” “is an exciting
story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat
disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough
to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such
fatal jealousy.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always
first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are
never apparent in the writing or construction.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

=Sat. R.= 103: 274. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.

=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Hugo; a fantasia on modern themes. $1.50. Buckles.

6–41708.

One feels that Mr. Bennett fairly slaps his canvas with a Kipling
brush of comet’s hair. The result is a fantastic, panoramic
“improvisation.” “Hugo is proprietor of an immense shop in London. He
falls in love with a milliner in one of his innumerable ‘departments.’
She weds another, is pursued by a third, officially dies, is bereft
timely of her spouse, and returns in due season to life and Hugo.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“He never makes an attempt to modify or explain: he piles
improbability upon improbability with calm assurance, and mortars it
all together with clever little facts and truths in a style which is
always restrained and neat, and by its very lack of ornaments
convincing.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 92. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.

“The plot has been deliberately and cunningly designed to sustain the
reader’s excitement from chapter to chapter, and, this being admitted
as the author’s aim, the book may fairly be pronounced a success.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 131. F. 3. 210w.

“It is all very absurd and pleasant; all the more so that the writer
appears to be regarding his own fable with merely good-humored
toleration.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 160w.

“An Italian novel with the plot laid in the sixteenth century is tame
in comparison, and though Mr. Bennett has used all kinds of
incongruously modern stage machinery along with his melodramatic
characters, he does it with a seriousness that seems to bridge the
difficulty.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 11. Ja. 5, ’07. 440w.

“The book, in fine, is an amusing skit on the vastness of modern
commercial enterprises; but in it Mr. Arnold Bennett has by no means
touched the level of his delightful comedy, ‘A great man.’”

+ − =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.

* =Benson, Arthur C.= Alfred Tennyson. **$1.50. Dutton.

“Mr. Benson thus formulates his object in the present volume: “(1) I
have given a simple narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch
of his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs; (2) I have tried
from his own words and writings to indicate what I believe to have
been his view of the poetical life and character; (3) I have attempted
to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the technical point
of view, here again as far as possible using his own recorded words.””

* * * * *

“A quiet sympathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and makes
it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 380w.

“Few readers, indeed, one would say, can read the volume without
deriving from it both a clearer and a higher estimate of its subject
than they had before.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 650w.

* =Benson, Arthur C.= Altar fire. **$1.50. Putnam.

7–32854.

Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s
diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of
the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of
personal religious life.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely
articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book
a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w.

“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well
acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected
extension of scope.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put
into its hands.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w.

“As an artistic whole ‘The altar fire’ suffers from the use of too
ambitious a scene. The book is sure of a large and respectful public;
but the remnant of reactionaries, the classical people whose eyes have
been dazzled by gazing upon the sun, will still see patent blots in
Mr. Benson’s work—if indeed it is Mr. Benson and not the mask which
comes between.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. N. 16, ’07. 980w.

=Benson, Arthur C.= Beside still waters. **$1.25. Putnam.

7–15922.

“Meditations and recollections of a man who, after a busy life,
settles down into a kind of epicurean seclusion from the world. ‘He
found a small, picturesque, irregularly-built house crushed in between
the road and the river, which, in fact, dipped its very feet in the
stream.’... Could a better lodge be found for a recluse who likes to
season his days of solitude with an occasional dinner in Hall with his
old college friends! And presently the college takes him back into its
fold, while the house by the waters is kept as a place of retreat and
quiet work.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.

“It is difficult to write so completely introspective a book as this.
We wonder at the end of it how we have interested ourselves with it
for so long, till we reflect on Mr. Benson’s easy flow of
undistracting thoughts, raised just a little above commonplace by a
certain sanity or breadth of view which no doubt is a gospel in
itself.”

+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 539. My. 4. 330w.

“Those who have enjoyed the charm of ‘From a college window,’ with
sweet spirit, lofty thought, and exquisite tenderness expressed in
limpid delightful English, will find a similar treat in Mr. Benson’s
present work.”

+ =Cath. World.= 86: 117. O. ’07. 470w.

“Notwithstanding a tendency to repetition and undue elaboration—a
conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness,—this book is the ripest,
thoughtfullest, best piece of work its author has yet produced.”

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.

“Gives us a scholar’s philosophy of life.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 700w.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 160w.

“Mr. Benson’s polished prose and his mastery of style and language
serve only to throw into bolder relief the thinness of the substance.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 84. Mr. 15, ’07. 1060w.

“Remind one of ‘The private papers of Henry Ryecroft,’ graceful and
wise and sober, a delightful refreshment in the bustle of modern
literature, but lacking in the last incalculable touch of style and
insight that make Gissing’s book so memorable.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 330w.

Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 360w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.

=Benson, Arthur C.= From a college window. **$1.25. Putnam.

6–17648.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’07. 1060w.

=Benson, Arthur C.= Gate of death; a diary. **$1.25. Putnam.

6–43770.

The author says that the book is not a treatment of death “the
saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact
in the world.” It is merely “the record of the sincere and faltering
thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with
death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life,
with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to
interpret it as he best could.”

* * * * *

“Naturally a great deal in the book will not be agreed with by
Catholics; but, making allowances for this, we must say we have here a
book of more than ordinary interest and power.”

+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 111. Ap. ’07. 260w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 196. F. ’07. 2460w.

“He has great power of attention and analysis, a great interest in
ideas, and considerable culture, and in addition he is master of an
easy and picturesque style; so that he has no difficulty in putting
upon paper what he feels and thinks and sees. What he seems to lack as
an artist is power of selection.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 346. O. 12, ’06. 1290w.

“A work not of didactic effect, but of singularly pure and elevated
sentiment; of melancholy in the old sweet sense.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 560w.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 768. Mr. ’07. 190w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 7, ’07. 300w.

=Benson, Arthur C.= Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr of the same college. $1.25. Holt.

The quiet story of the life of a “thoroughgoing determinist who was
still faithful to the voice of duty, still striving upwards,” who
trusted “in an invisible all-ruling Father who really was ordering the
world in the smallest details when He seemed to be ordering it least
and who wished the best for His children.” It is a character study
with a moral, for Arthur Hamilton “in spite of every trial and every
rebuff, preserved at heart a serenity that was not thoughtlessness, a
cheerfulness that was not hilarity, a humor that was not cynicism.”

* * * * *

“It is a curious piece of intellectual dissection and has many of the
graces of style that characterized the author’s recent volumes.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 29, ’07. 460w.

Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 160w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.

=Benson, Arthur C.= Upton letters. *$1.25. Putnam.

5–34654.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’06. 1060w.

“We honestly thank him for painting his portrait so well. It is good
work no less than a good likeness. The touch is firm and easy; the
treatment broad and yet very delicate. There are a few patches of
prettiness which should be painted out; but they do not much mar the
effect of the whole.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 144. F. 2, ’07. 1670w.

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

6–37196.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is a purposeless book and an unpleasant one. Its interest suddenly
drops at the halfway point, like an underdone loaf of cake, and what
is meant to be its most solemn chapter is more apt to provoke a desire
to laugh.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 540w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 345. Mr. ’07. 660w.

“He deliberately constructs the first half of his plot in such a way
as to produce the maximum of irritation, not to say resentment.”
Herbert W. Horwill.

+ − =Forum.= 38: 542. Ap. ’07. 1260w.

“Escaped by a hair breadth writing a novel of the first rank.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 340w.

“The individuality and distinction of phrase are maintained, but the
obtrusive ‘smartness’ which marred the first novel [‘Dodo’] has been
carefully eliminated.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 210w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= History of Richard Raynal: solitary. $1.25. Herder.

“The story purports to be the translation of an ancient Latin MS.,
discovered by Father Benson in a library of Rome, and containing an
old English priest’s account of a young solitary, who lived somewhere
near London in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.”—Cath.
World.

* * * * *

“The rare qualities of Father Benson’s mind find here their perfect
expression.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 229. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.

“The quaint beauty of the archaic style adopted by Father Benson in
his recital is beyond praise.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 412. D. ’06. 340w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Mirror of Shalott, being a collection of tales told at an unprofessional symposium. *$1.25. Benziger.

7–21227.

Fourteen stories which a group of Reverend Fathers told, one tale each
evening. They are largely gathered from their professional experiences
and concern incidents which cannot be explained without recourse to
the supernatural. The evil spirit which was exorcised, the man who
offered himself for his brother’s unbelief, the artist whose art
founded on corruption was lost when he regained his faith, these and
the others have the charm of the unusual.

* * * * *

“There is one that suggests a better capacity on Mr. Benson’s part as
a writer than anything else we have read from his pen.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 310w.

=Cath. World.= 86: 257. N. ’07. 210w.

“In truth, qualities that are admirable elsewhere rather prevent Mr.
Benson from telling his tales so as to excite the feelings which
people, whatever their faith, cherish for the supernatural. He is too
surefooted, too painstaking. His method is too robust to deal with
such intricate and at the same time poignant emotions; he sets
everything in order, tells you how the basket chair clicked, and what
happened next, and works out the situation methodically with the
desire clearly to get at the truth. But it is a great matter that
every story makes an impression of sincerity and intelligence.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 189. Je. 14, ’07. 500w.

“Father Benson, like the other brilliant sons of the late archbishop,
is a fluent and spirited writer.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 167. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.

“The author displays in the narration a skill as subtle and as
charming as his imagination has been subtle and weird in the conjuring
up of incidents. Each narrator is distinctly individualized by the
character of his experience and his manner of telling it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 460w.

“Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his
readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable
of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.

7–14565.

“The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and
Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally
arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one
who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though
with a favourable eye.”

* * * * *

“If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of
exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of
this brilliant little book.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w.

“The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature
and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans,
though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than
did that strange Frenchman.”

+ =Cath. World.= 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w.

“‘The papers of a pariah,’ while they will appeal to religious zealots
of the Roman Catholic faith, and, to a certain extent, to all who are
deeply interested in discussion of abstract creeds, loses in literary
value by virtue of these very tendencies. The discussion, moreover, is
one of sentiment rather than of reason, an argument of dreams rather
than of realities.” Florence Wilkinson.

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 490w.

“The reader will note that in the early part of the book emphasis is
laid on the unchangeableness of the teaching in the Roman church,
while later this argument is dropped in favour of development.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 210w.

+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 330w.

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

6–36010.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Though she modestly refuses to enter into competition with other
pens, which have described the scenes through which she has passed,
she evinces good capacity for observation and for describing whatever
came under her notice.”

+ =Cath. World.= 84: 837. Mr. ’07. 230w.

=Bergen, Joseph Y., jr., and Davis, Bradley, M.= Principles of botany. $1.50. Ginn.

6–35475.

Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its
subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the
structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and
classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany. Part 2
is Dr. Davis’ portion of the work.

* * * * *

“While the book as a whole is too heavy for the average high-school
work, it will be almost indispensable as a reference work because of
its large amount of information, its abundant illustrations, and its
helpful suggestions as to the significance of structures and their
relationship to one another.”

+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 64. Ja. ’07. 720w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 380. N. 1, ’06. 440w.

“The book can be confidently recommended to students and teachers, and
the latter will find the arrangement well worthy of consideration.”

+ =Nature.= 76: 124. Je. 6, ’07. 200w.

“The whole revision has been toward greater precision and succinctness
of statement, and has resulted in a more scholarly work.” I. N.
Mitchell.

+ + =School R.= 15: 305. Ap. ’07. 850w.

“To ‘touch the high points’ and yet to keep up the connection between
them is the difficult task of the writer of an elementary text-book.
In some portions of the book before us this has been accomplished,
while in others a good deal of matter has been admitted which might
well have been left out.” Charles E. Bessey.

+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 144. Ja. 25, ’07. 780w.

=Bernhardi, Frederick von.= Cavalry in future wars. *$3. Dutton.

War 7–19.

“This book was written at the outbreak of the late war in South
Africa.... In the course of the first few chapters, Gen. Bernhardi
analyzes the functions of the cavalry as modified by the changes that
have occurred since the war, and later explains the difficulties which
in the future will confront all cavalry operations unless the cavalry
leader and his men have been ‘perfected down to the minutest
detail.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“His views are entitled to more than ordinary consideration, even
though in all his conclusions we may not concur. Perhaps there is no
other German soldier so well equipped for handling this subject.”
Peter C. Hains.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 606. N. ’07. 440w.

“This book will be read by soldiers, but is needed by a wider public.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 573. N. 10. 1360w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 560w.

“Gen. von Bernhardi’s ... rank and experience entitle his views to
great respect, the more from the earnestness with which he pleads his
cause. Barring a few slightly obscure passages, and a faint trace here
and there of Teutonic roughness, Mr. Goldman’s translation is smooth
and flowing.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 110w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 875. D. 15, ’06. 290w.

“An exhaustive summary.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 70w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.

“It may fairly be called the last word on the subject.” Grey Scout.

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 197. F. 16, ’07. 1310w.

=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4. Appleton.

7–34323.

The whimsical, rhapsodical, patriotic woman of temperament is revealed
in almost every line of these memories. The autobiography “exhibits
the true woman in clearer relief than it does the largely mythical
superwoman whom it labors to depict. Rich as it is in minor details
and vivacious descriptions it adds but little to the common knowledge
of the career of the best advertised actress in the world.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“In her very characteristic and brightly entertaining memoirs we have
on every page the Sarah Bernhardt of the stage, the eccentric and
versatile woman of genius, very much as she is already known to the
world.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 43: 279. N. 1, ’07. 2150w.

“Self-revelations such as these give, as we think, a real documentary
value to this first volume of Sarah Bernhardt’s memoirs, though no
doubt the general reader will prefer the narratives of travel and
adventure wherein everything appears to be turning around in a mad
farandole.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1600w.

“One of the most successful books ever written. To tell the plain
truth, the monstrous egotism of the book greatly weakens the
pleasurable impression created by its vivacity, its cleverness, and
its abundance of interesting material.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 403. O. 31, ’07. 1140w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“An invaluable addition to the library, dramatic and otherwise.” Anna
Marble.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 733. N. 16, ’07. 2230w.

+ + =Outlook.= 77: 611. N. 23, ’07. 210w.

=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 2: Ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Macmillan.

This second volume of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The
survey of London” treats of the ecclesiastical life, institutions and
influence of the Norman and Plantagenet centuries. The first eight
chapters deal with the rise of London’s municipal government.

* * * * *

“When the nature of the material permits the story is unfolded with
agreeable literary effect. We notice here and there a lack of
references, usually associated with a passage of minor historical
importance. These pages form a good example to tesselated history.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 113. F. 2, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 2.)

“There are various heedless and more or less incorrect statements in
the general description of ecclesiastical London, apart from the
religious houses. The accounts of hermits and anchorites, as well as
of pilgrimage and sanctuary, are insufficient. But enough of adverse
criticism has been offered. We cannot help thinking that if Besant had
lived a little longer, this portion of his work would have been
revised by him or by friends who were competent to aid him.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 157. F. 9. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Sir Walter Besant’s ‘Mediaeval London’ has unfortunately, found no
more capable editor than his ‘London under the Stuarts’ and his
‘London in the time of the Tudors.’ The illustrations are for the most
part of real value.” G.

− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is largely a work of paste and scissors, and they have not been
applied with intelligence.” M.

− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 832. O. ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is impossible to regard this volume as a work which Sir Walter
Besant would have presented to the public in anything like its present
form.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“We select a single passage for quotation, not only because it is
significant in itself, but because it gives, we think, a fair idea of
the broad and readable way in which this work treats what many might
expect to prove a dry-as-dust, antiquarian record—words which
precisely describe the exact contrary of the present volume.”

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 374. F. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Is sure to take its place among popular works on the subject.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 115. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Bevier, Isabel.= The house; its plan, decoration and care. (Library of home economics.) *$1.25. Am. school of home economics.

6–41738.

“In the early chapters on the development of the house, domestic
architecture is shown to be closely allied to the larger problems of
state and nation.... Chapters on house planning, construction,
decoration and furnishing, and the care of the house follow, and from
them may be obtained much useful information. Throughout the book
emphasis is laid upon appropriateness, beauty and simplicity of form
and color. The book is suggestive to the home builder; plans,
materials and cost and the various subdivisions of these are taken up
concisely. The home-operator will find here definite suggestions
concerning fabrics and furnishings, their cost and durability.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“Valuable because of its consideration of basic principles, and of
conditions attainable by the average householder.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 160. O. ’07. S.

“For its size this little book contains a great deal of that which
tends to raise the standards of the householder and to make the home
the real center of national life which the author claims should be its
real purpose.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 632. My. ’07. 280w.

=Bevier, Isabel, and Usher, Susannah.= Home economics movement, pt. 1. *75c. Whitcomb & B.

7–5679.

A three-part discussion including Home economics in agricultural
colleges and state universities, Cooking schools, and Home economics
in the public schools.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

Bible. Gospel of Barnabas; ed. and tr. by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, with a facsimile. *$5.25. Oxford.

This manuscript was probably written in the middle of the sixteenth
century. It is a “rather careless sixteenth century copy, made by a
Venetian scribe, of an earlier and apparently Tuscan document.”

* * * * *

“The editors deserve the greatest praise for the thoroughness and
skill with which they have performed their task. They have been
extremely careful in editing the text, and they have supplied an
excellent translation, for it is accurate and reads as if it were an
original work. They have also written a good introduction, which
contains all the information that the reader requires.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. Ag. 31. 840w.

“It is to be said that the gospel is interesting reading not only
because of its doctrines, as, for example, the view that Paul
wrongfully teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus disclaimed
Messiahship, that Mohammed is Messiah, not only because of the
restraint manifested in the story of the virgin birth, but also
because of the positive beauty of some of its sayings and parables.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 261. S. 19, ’07. 940w.

=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; tr. by W. A. Cooper. 3v ea. **$3.50. Putnam.

=v. 2.= This volume covers the period from the Italian journey to the
War of liberation, 1788–1815, comprising the last two chapters of the
first volume and the first twelve of the second of the German edition.

* * * * *

“Mr. Cooper is an American, and he writes ‘American,’ or, at any rate,
a dialect of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, which is often forcible and
picturesque, but is quite as often not pure English.” Rowland Strong.

+ − =Acad.= 73: 93. N. 2, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Though Bielschowsky displays remarkable skill in interweaving
critical analysis with personal details concerning the poet, yet one
who is unfamiliar with the actual works will probably find the
chapters devoted to them a trifle dull. After all, these defects are
really exaggerations of a good quality—the desire to enter into full
sympathy with and understanding of Goethe’s point of view.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)

“In general it seems that here there is a marked improvement [in the
translation]; it is very faithful and at the same time the English is
usually free from the influence of the foreign idiom. Occasionally the
rendering does not allow for the difference in the connotation of the
same word in the two languages.”

+ + − =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is to begin with, erudite; one feels confident that the author has
sifted the enormous mass of material accumulated about every step of
Goethe’s career. In the metaphysical parts it is excellent, almost
impeccable. We commend heartily the translation of this work and
recognize its undoubted value; but we must add frankly that it is in
no sense of the word in the tradition of great literature.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 514. Ag. 29, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

Reviewed by J. Perry Warden.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 464. Jl. 27, ’07. 2210w. (Review of v. 2.)