Chapter VI: Preface (6)

“The work lacks the supreme test of the biographer as interpreter. In
this respect this ‘Life of Goethe’ remains incomplete, but in all else
it is a masterly production. Crowning merit of a notable achievement,
the biography, with all its scholarly thoroughness, is yet even better
adapted to the needs of the general public for which it has been
primarily written than to those of the special student.” A. Schade van
Westrum.

+ + − =No. Am.= 186: 442. N. ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Bierer, Everard.= Evolution of religions. **$2. Putnam.

6–42349.

“The particular animus of the author is against the doctrine of the
trinity, which assumes altogether too large a place in his survey of
the development of religious doctrines.”—Putnam’s.

* * * * *

“Is amateurish in character, unreliable in statement of fact,
incomplete in outlook, and disproportionate in consideration of the
phenomena under discussion.”

− =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

“Shows an excellent spirit, and the greater part of its material is
taken from good sources. The title, however, is too large for the
contents, and the book suffers somewhat from the author’s insufficient
acquaintance with the general history of religions.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 50w.

“Although its author, under his limitations as a layman in the
subjects of his criticism, takes himself rather too seriously, the
book is written with a sincere interest for a devoutly spiritual
religion, and for this is commendable.”

− + =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 250w.

=Bigelow, Edward Fuller.= Spirit of nature study: a book of social suggestion and sympathy for all who love or teach nature. **$1. Barnes.

7–14642.

“A book of social suggestion and sympathy for all those who love or
teach nature.” It is intended to strengthen faith in outdoor
education.

* * * * *

“In which the author has many effective and deserved flings at the
stupidity and inanity of much that passes for the study of nature in
schools and elsewhere.” George Gladden.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. 5, ’07. 90w.

“[Suggestions that are] sensible enough, and their light personal
style would make them effective as informal talks at a teachers’
institute but they cannot be regarded as permanent contributions to
the over abundant literature of the subject.”

− + =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.

“The ear-marks of the pedagogue are rather too prominent for the most
enjoyable reading.”

− =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.

=Bigelow, John.= Peace given as the world giveth. **75c. Baker.

The author writes out of the fulness of a long experience in state
craft and diplomacy. He views the Portsmouth peace conference in the
light of an “international calamity,” and makes a plea for the
“righteousness and wisdom” of war.

* * * * *

“A remarkable historical document.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 352. Je. 1, ’07. 450w.

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

6–34082.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“There is some good character drawing but the book cannot lay claim to
artistic merit.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Dust of conflict; with il. in color by W. Herbert Dunton. †$1.50. Stokes.

7–7189.

The stormy period just preceding the Spanish-American war furnishes
the setting for this story. The hero, “hurried out of England under a
cloud,” is wrecked on the coast of Cuba, and in that country becomes a
leader of some insurrectionists. “Peril, disaster, and rescue chase
each other in such quick and picturesque succession as to give the
impression of a grown-up boy’s book.... The military conflicts carry
more conviction than the moral one which sets the story in motion....
Yet the moral dilemma is well enough as a means of sending the hero to
Cuba and the Cuban part is admirably successful.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 310w.

“Not particularly well written but rather lively in interest.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

“It is a rattling good story, told briskly and with zest. It lacks
subtlety, and is not notable for refinement of diction; but it also
lacks dull pages.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 160w.

“It would be hard to find a book which is so complete a satire on all
the faults of the so-called ‘novel of adventure.’ For the sort of book
this present volume typifies there is no legitimate use in literature.
Probably it will sell very well, however.” J. Marchand.

− =Bookm.= 25: 429. Je. ’07. 1020w.

“A story which is rich in dramatic interest, and which exhibits
remarkable powers of characterization and description.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 350w.

“Though of little artistic merit, is exhilarating reading.” Herbert W.
Horwill.

+ − =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 220w.

“The many-sided struggle in Cuba constitutes the strongest part of the
novel. In the main, the characters stand well apart from one another,
and firmly on their own feet as well.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.

“It is a rattling good story exceedingly well told.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

“The book is well written and brisk.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 275. Mr. 2, ’07. 170w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.

Cattle raising in the Northwest, its difficulties and the dangers from
man and nature that beset it, is the burden of this tale. The Canadian
mounted police figure in the story which combines love, adventure and
practical business. In the end the railroad penetrates that wild
country and it finds the rancher hero successful both in love and
labor and the frank little mistress of Bonaventure happy in her hero
and her prairies.

* * * * *

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

=Bindloss, Harold.= Winston of the prairie. †$1.50. Stokes.

7–29150.

The hero of Mr. Bindloss’ story of the Canadian northwest is a young
man under unjust suspicion of murder who has traded names with a man
of low caliber and who when he wishes to return to his own name finds
it stained with crime. This “impersonation of another man leads to
exciting complications, and it is difficult to see how he is going to
extricate himself from the false position in which he is placed. But
his services to the little farming community, which he teaches to win
prosperity out of seeming disaster, are so substantial that when the
hour of disentanglement comes, he both clears his name and finds
condonation for his deception.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“In the wheat-raising region of western Canada, Mr. Bindloss has found
a field almost as virgin to the novelist as to the agriculturist, and
so subdued it to his purposes that his work will not easily be
matched.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

“His doings are sufficiently thrilling to while away some dull hours,
but the book is not well enough written to commend itself to a reader
of particular taste.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

=Binns, W. Moore.= First century of English porcelain. *$12.50. Lippincott.

6–33521.

After outlining clearly the leading principles of connoisseurship “Mr.
Binns relates with great minuteness the story of the evolution of
English porcelain, beginning with the foundation of the first factory
at Stratford-le-Bow, and passing thence to consider in chronological
order the various establishments which in course of time brought the
art to a perfection that aroused the admiration even of the most
exacting foreign critics, and also of those later manufactories in
which was inaugurated the inevitable decadence.” (Int. Studio.) The
work is made complete by a chronological schedule of English ceramics
and an index.

* * * * *

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 488. Ap. 21. 330w.

“The book will be prized as a real art treasure by its fortunate
possessors, quite as much as for its store of information.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 500w.

“A work that will be of great value to collectors and connoisseurs, as
well as to all who are interested in what may be called the human side
of every successful national industry.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 350w.

“While essentially for the collector, the book is written in general,
popular phrasing, and the techniques of the art, and some of its
secrets are revealed in a pleasantly instructive manner.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 490w.

“The historical side of Mr. Binns’ book is sound as far as it goes;
the author has digested a certain number of text-books, and reproduces
facts with a commendable air of spontaneity. There are some serious
omissions in Mr. Binns’ history.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 101: 590. My. 12, ’06. 1480w.

=Spec.= 96: 467. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.

=Birch, Mrs. Lionel.= Stanhope A. Forbes, A. R. A., and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, A. R. W. S.; with 8 reproductions in color and 32 other il. *$1.50. Cassell.

6–45369.

A monograph from the standpoint of personal friendship on two living
artists. It reflects the characteristics of two personalities and the
environment in which their work has been done.

* * * * *

“Contains a concise and interesting record, pleasantly tempered by
anecdote, of the lives and various works of the two painters of whom
it treats.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 440w.

“There is, indeed, not one dull page in the book, and the numerous
illustrations are thoroughly representative.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 290w.

“She deserves her readers’ thanks for having filled the record
carefully, while avoiding the reproach of overexcitement and an
exaggerated sense of the import of her task.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup 25. N. ’06. 710w.

=Birdseye, Clarence Frank.= Individual training in our colleges. **$1.75. Macmillan.

7–18833.

A study of a college student’s problems from the standpoint of the
graduate. In his discussion the author deplores the loss of the direct
personal influence exerted by professors and instructors over the
students of fifty years ago. He deals with the fraternity question and
its related problems.

* * * * *

“His book shows more knowledge, clearer vision, deeper devotion, and
more rational hope regarding the American college, than any other book
we know of.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 285. N. 1, ’07. 940w.

“Upon his own ground the place in our educational machinery which the
Greek letter fraternities have already taken and the higher place
which, thru the influence of their alumni, they may be made to take,
on this ground, Mr. Birdseye speaks with the authority of the
constructive reformer and for this reason, if for no other, his book
deserves and should receive the careful study of every man who has at
heart the welfare of the American college.” F. P. Keppel.

+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 325. N. ’07. 4300w.

“The book is too long-drawn out, and in parts is repetitious; but it
contains much important material in the form of documents and reports,
as well as of the author’s own observations.”

+ + − =Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 190w.

“To make his study effective, the author undertakes to enter the
student’s college home life. He searches diligently for facts and
deals frankly and candidly with the facts as he finds them.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 170w.

=Birukoff, Paul.= Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. v. 1. **$1.50. Scribner.

6–22384.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“If we are to take ... [the translation] seriously as an attempt to
give English readers as intelligible a narrative as that enjoyed by
readers of the original, we have to point out that the work has been
carelessly done, and that the English reader often finds himself
mystified where the Russian finds himself enlightened. When in his old
age Tolstoy tells us what he thinks we ought to know of his
reminiscences, no one has any right to interpose between him and the
English reader. Least of all, has anyone a right to do this
anonymously and secretly.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 51. Ja. 12, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Bishop, Emily M.= Seventy years young, or The unhabitual way. *$1.20. Huebsch.

7–20745.

A sensible outlook on life whose purpose is “‘to put it into the
heads’ of its readers that they can add (1) life to their years and
(2) years to their life.” The keynote is the admonition to “keep out
of ruts.”

* * * * *

“A very suggestive, thought-provoking volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 40w.

=Bisland, Elizabeth.= Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn. 2v. **$6. Houghton.

6–44374.

“Less than one-fifth of this work contains the record of Hearn’s life.
The rest is pure Hearn—even more intimate than the books he has
written, dealing with the themes which always moved his imagination.
His strange origin, his troubled boyhood and years of apprenticeship,
his pursuit of the weird, the exotic among tropical peoples, and
finally his departure for Japan in 1890 resulting in permanent
expatriation, are recorded in more or less brief compass.” Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The facts of his later life Miss Bisland tells with exactly the
brevity and precision with which such facts should be told. Indeed, it
is a pleasure to feel that too much praise cannot be given for the
ability and reverence with which she has done her work.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 88. Ja. 26, ’07. 1810w.

“It is certain that no letters reveal more vividly or subtly the inner
feeling—the essence, one might say—of the writer, than do these.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07.

Reviewed by Paul S. Reinsch.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 607. N. ’07. 1230w.

“Perhaps the worthiest thing to say of these two volumes of some nine
hundred pages is that there is not a page too much. Indeed, one page
more would have been welcome—containing a bibliography and a glossary
of Japanese words.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 126. F. 2. 2170w.

“It is certain, at any rate, that this vivid, affectionate, one might
almost say motherly, record of Hearn’s fugitive and feverish life
affords a view of him in more illuminating consonance with the quality
of his work than any that has been offered by his friends of his own
sex.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ + =Atlan.= 99: 261. F. ’07. 7490w.

Reviewed by Harrison Rhodes.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 73. Mr. ’07. 1990w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 49. Ja. ’07. 1890w.

“It would be impossible to give in a few words any adequate impression
of the rare quality of the letters that make up the larger part of
this book. It is impossible to read them and not feel acquainted with
the writer—with the real man behind the mask.” Frederick W. Gookin.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 448. D. 16, ’06. 2370w.

+ + =Ind.= 62: 560. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 130w.

“No reader of Hearn’s books can do without this work.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

“In these days when our shelves are crowded with trivial biographies,
it is rare to come across a book so full of human interest, so
suggestive, so valuable as a contribution to history as the ‘Life and
letters of Lafcadio Hearn.’”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1440w.

“Of the biographical chapters, it is possible to speak with praise,
while admitting considerable reservations. Unquestionably these
letters of Hearn’s are among the most interesting that have appeared
for a number of years—probably the most valuable since the publication
of FitzGerald’s.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 1350w.

“The most entertaining, self-revealing, even fascinating literary
correspondence published since the death of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
James Huneker.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 803. D. 1, ’06. 2380w.

Reviewed by Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ =No. Am.= 184: 417. F. 15, ’07. 1860w.

“His letters are good to read because they are hearty, spontaneous,
lacking in all those reticences and poses with which we are familiar
in the correspondence of literary persons of minor note.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ + =Putnam.= 1: 636. F. ’07. 500w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 110w.

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 174. F. 9, ’07. 2050w.

+ + =Spec.= 98: 501. Mr. 30, ’07. 1530w.

=Bittinger, Lucy Forney.= German religious life in colonial times. **$1. Lippincott.

7–12674.

An interesting account of the general course of ecclesiastical life
among the Germans in America during the Colonial era. The subject is
treated under the headings, The Separatists, The church people, The
Moravians, The Methodists, The German churches during the Revolution,
and it is dealt with in a purely historical manner.

* * * * *

“Her work shows much care and pains, and full sympathy with its
subject.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 498. My. 30, ’07. 100w.

+ =Outlook.= 85: 525. Mr. 2, ’07. 200w.

=Bjorling, Philip R., and Gissing, Frederick T.= Peat: its use and manufacture. **$2. Lippincott.

A practical account of the different methods of preparing peat for
commercial purposes and the uses to which peat can be applied. A
subject which is claiming more attention as the American coal supply
diminishes.

* * * * *

“It is doubtful if there is possible a more comprehensive view of the
field in a small volume than is given in this one. The material is of
course largely compiled, but with more detail than one would think
possible.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 425. O. 17, ’07. 460w.

+ =Nature.= 76: 562. O. 3, ’07. 1020w.

=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Listening to God: Edinburgh sermons. **$1.25. Revell.

6–42404.

Brief sermons by the professor of practical theology in Union
seminary.

* * * * *

“The sermons are not brilliant, but they are manifestly the expression
of the personality and experience of the preacher. And that after all
is the only preaching that counts.” Theodore G. Soares.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 711. O. ’07. 140w.

“The sermons are full of ideas, without being in the least
sensational, and cannot fail to stimulate thought.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 110w.

=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 40w.

“Some of them put fresh points to their texts, and all of them are
characterized by simplicity, earnestness, and moral vigor.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Economics; new ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.

7–12998.

A new edition which extends bibliographies and brings its tables down
to date.

* * * * *

“In preparing his book on economics, the author has obviated both of
these general criticisms by stating his problems in a clear and
interesting manner, and by placing on the market a text book which is
both elementary enough and cheap enough to be accessible to average
beginners.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 180w.

“Beyond being simply and well written, the book is without any very
marked distinguishing characteristic. Its presentation of the doctrine
of socialism in chapter 8 is excellent.”

+ =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 70w.

=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 376. Je. ’07. 50w.

“The whole is a moderate and common-sense exposition of the subject,
not always set out in the happiest terms.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 646. N. 2, ’07. 110w.

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

3–6936.

Descriptive note for series in December, 1905.

“There is no other comprehensive treatment of this subject to compare
with it. It is a most praiseworthy piece of editorial work.” James A.
LeRoy.

+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 912. Jl. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 39–46.)

+ + =Ind.= 63: 878. O. 10, ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 39–50.)

=Blaisdell, E. Warde.= Animal serials. **$1. Crowell.

6–34712.

In which animals are drawn to express the “foibles, fancies,
weaknesses, and conceits that are noticeable in human beings.”

* * * * *

“A unique and mirth-provoking collection of droll drawing.”

+ =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 50w.

+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

=Blake, Mary Elizabeth.= In the harbour of hope. **$1.25. Little.

7–37236.

A volume of verse by one to whom Dr. Holmes once said, “You are one of
the birds that must sing.” Her poems touch upon religion, nature,
humanity and ideals, and voice the sturdy yet peaceful notes of the
simple life.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Blake, William.= Letters: together with a life by Frederick Tatham; ed. from the original manuscripts by Archibald G. B. Russell. *$2. Scribner.

7–15910.

From all the material furnished in this “life and letters” one gathers
a story of Blake’s life “quite apart from his poetry, his painting and
his mysticism, and full of human interest.”

* * * * *

“A collection of letters as complete as it can be made at present.” A.
Clutton-Brock.

+ + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.

“No more simple and straightforward letters were ever written, nor any
in which an intimate ecstasy has found such immediate expression. The
other part of Mr. Russell’s book, the life of Frederick Tatham, is of
no literary value, but is invaluable as a document.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 611. N. 17. 910w.

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 120w.

“Mr. Russell’s introduction is written from large knowledge, and is a
really valuable essay on Blake as an artist.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 350w.

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.

“These letters give us a better idea of the man than any biography.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 500w.

“Mr. Russell has made amends for some want of editorial judgment by
restoring the true reading in one line of poetry, misprinted in
Gilchrist, and consequently in every edition of the poems.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 680w.

=Blanchard, Amy E.= Four Corners in California. †$1.50. Jacobs.

7–30993.

In which the four Corners go on a trip to California where new scenes
and experiences call forth all their young enthusiasm. There are bits
of instruction which the young reader may cull from the story.

=Blanchard, Amy E.= Three little cousins. (Little maid ser.) †$1. Jacobs.

7–28974.

One from England, one from the east and one from the west, three
little cousins meet for the first time at their aunt’s cottage by the
sea. This story tells of the good times they had during a summer
together.

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

6–34371.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Told with something of the humor and originality of the
‘Would-be-goods’ but overdrawn, inclined, to sensationalism, and not
nearly so good.”

− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.

“It must be confessed, however, that the incidents in ‘The railway
children’ are quite as conventionally melodramatic as in many of the
American stories.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 270w.

=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Story of the amulet; with 48 il. by H. R. Millar. $1.50. Dutton.

7–32330.

“Here we have what we may call ‘Alice in Wonderland in excelsis.’ A
family of children, whose father has gone as a war correspondent,
while their mother is on a health voyage, discover a wonderful
creature called a Psammead. By his help, together with the amulet
which figures in the title, they are transported to various scenes in
the past, after the fashion of the king who lived a life while he was
dipping his head in a pail of water. They go to pre-dynastic Egypt,
when palaeolithic man was in the Nile valley; they see Babylon, whose
queen has an opportunity of expressing her views about social
conditions in London; they see the vanished Atlantis, and Julius
Caesar when he was in Britain, and then, by a backward leap, a
Pharaoh, one of the special devotees of the Amen-Ra.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her
small admirers.”

+ =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 70w.

“Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously
acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.

“Characteristic of E. Nesbit are skillful delineation of childish
individuality and facility in charging the most impossible situation
with a current of sweet reasonableness, and these features distinguish
‘The story of the amulet.’”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 70w.

“Very delightful book which is interesting for old as well as young.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

“A fascinating narrative, and one which has beneath the surface a
gentle satire and also a kindly human sympathy.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.

+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“The general result is a very clever extravaganza, which an
intelligent young person will hardly be able to read without
acquiring, unconsciously, or even against his or her will, a certain
amount of knowledge.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

=Bland, Hubert.= Letters to a daughter. *$1.25. Kennerley.

“A staid book of imaginary letters” in which the writer “instructs a
young woman in that mysterious art, in which all that is subtle, all
that is beautiful, all that is morbid, all that is delicate, all the
all of all, can be expressed—the art of being a woman.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 71: 406. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

“He drags Epicuranism over the ultimate precipice of cynicism, and it
is only because he does it with humor and an eyeglass that we forgive
him. Our admiration in any case must follow him.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 350w.

“One thing Alexa’s father did not have, and that was keen sense of
humor, a thing hardly to be forgiven in a letter writer.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 400w.

“They are eminently readable. How far the instruction they contain is
suited to the age of their supposed recipient—a girl of nineteen—is
another matter.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 529. O. 13, ’06. 1940w.

=Blunt, Reginald.= Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea. *$3.50. Macmillan.

7–25145.

Being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street
newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry notable persons
who in former times dwelt there, to which are added likenesses of the
principal of them and their several houses; the whole collected and
presented by Reginald Blunt.

* * * * *

“Our author’s style does not always please us, and is sometimes
complicated.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 480w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 300w.

“He tells his story very agreeably.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, 06. 220w.

=Boardman, Rosina Cox.= Lilies and orchids. *$2.50. Cooke.

7–24620.

“A guide to those interested in this particular branch of floral and
botanical study, and is of use also to all lovers of wild flowers. The
flower families are illustrated by specimens chosen mainly in the
United States east of the Rockies, but with a few also from Canada and
California.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A timely and attractive publication.”

+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.

“A really unusual book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.

“The color-studies are notable for their exquisite tints and faithful
reproduction of the originals.”

+ + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 90w.

=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.

7–21749.

=v. 1.= “This new collection covers the period extending from the last
days of the old monarchy, through the revolution and the first empire,
to the restoration of the Bourbons by the allied sovereigns of
Europe.... The pages are filled with lively reminiscences and amusing
anecdotes in which figure all the famous folk of this wonderful time,
men and women distinguished in society, politics, and literature, from
Mme. Récamier and Lady Hamilton to Guizot and Lamartine, from
Lafayette to Mme. de Staël.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

=v. 2.= “The reminiscences of the Comtesse are continued during the
Hundred days, Napoleon’s return from Elba, the events of Waterloo, and
the restoration down to the year 1819. During this period the Comtesse
returned to England with her father, who was French ambassador.
Anecdotes of the English court and aristocratic society abound, and
much criticism of English manners and customs, pointed by comparisons
with French social and political life, makes highly entertaining
reading.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“These memoirs are exactly what memoirs should be—to be of value and
interest. No attempt is made to write history; there is nothing
pretentious about them, nothing dull.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 532. Je. 1, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A volume which, while here and there open to doubts as to accuracy,
is everywhere attractive.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 64. Jl. 20. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)

Reviewed by S. M. Francis.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The translator, modestly anonymous, has succeeded in giving to his
version the agreeable effect of an original work.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 43: 84. Ag. 16, ’07. 1630w. (Review v. 1.)

“This second volume is inferior in interest to the first, owing to the
lesser importance of its subject-matter.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1376. D. 5, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)

“This volume is one of exceptional readableness.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 271. Ag. 24, ’07. 2480w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The Comtesse de Boigne is a good talker, and we cannot have too much
of her. She is not as piercingly clever as Madame du Deffand, or as
steely in her philosophical content as Madame Geoffrin, or as
sensitive as Madame de Beaumont, or as sensible as Madame d’Epinay.
But she is what the frontispiece tells us—a shrewd, sagacious, witty,
unexaggerative Frenchwoman, with enough heart to serve our turn and
enough experience to make her wise—not enough, perhaps, to make her
lovable. She may have been more trenchant than profound, but to
quarrel with her is impossible.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 188. Je. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The work contains much distinguished trifling, and is interesting for
desultory reading or as a mine for quotation.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The appendix is stored with some interesting correspondence, which
the judicious editor has carefully sifted from the text in order to
make the latter coherent. Everywhere his literary skill and historical
knowledge are in evidence but never intrusive.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 509. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Decidedly, these memoirs are among the best and most valuable
published this autumn. No lover of biography and personalia can afford
to forego the pleasure of their perusal. No historian of the period
can ignore them. Incidentally, both will be under deep obligation to
M. Charles Nicoullaud, the editor, whose literary adjustments have
undoubtedly added to the coherence of the book and whose running
commentary and appendices make its authority complete and secure.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Delightful reading of their kind.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 370. D. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“What makes these memoirs so interesting is that Madame de Boigne
describes, with pitiless fidelity, the intimate life of three
successive régimes, that of Louis XVI., that of Buonaparte, and that
of Louis XVIII.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)

“She was a shrewd observer, wrote cleverly, and her little cynicisms,
mingled with aristocratic complacency, are extremely amusing.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

“A readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of
Madame de Boigne’s best stories.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Bolce, Harold.= New internationalism. **$1.50. Appleton.

7–6637.

The financial and commercial amalgamation of the nations is the
central theme of Mr. Bolce’s discussion. The following comparison
between this book and Miss Jane Addams’ “Newer ideals of peace” is
enlightening: “Mr. Bolce is material; Miss Addams spiritual. He puts
his trust in the development of international trade; she detects the
development of cosmopolitan friendship. One sees, in the financiers
and merchants, the architects of the new internationalism; the other
finds among the feeblest immigrants the harbingers of the new ideals.
But the books are complementary, not contradictory.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“The book is scrappy and somewhat superficial, but clever, interesting
and emphasizes a note that needs emphasis at the present time, that of
reciprocity and the economic interdependence of modern nations.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07.

+ =Ind.= 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 680w.

“Though written primarily for English readers, it has interest for
American students of the subject, but it does not pretend to be a book
for experts. If it can lay claim to no striking merits, the volume is
also free from striking defects.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 553. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.

“There is nothing visionary or academic about Mr. Bolce’s economics.
His sympathies are all with the men who do things, and he thinks them
competent to teach the closet theorists.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 320w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 50w.

=Bölsche, Wilhelm.= Haeckel; his life and work; tr., with an introd., by Joseph McCabe. *$4. Jacobs.

6–24940.

A “plain study” of Haeckel’s personality and the growth of his ideas
which is intended in its approximately true appreciation to replace “a
hundred Haeckels grotesque in their unlikeness to each other” which
“circulate in our midst today.”

* * * * *

+ =Current Literature.= 42: 96. Ja. ’07. 1780w.

“The distinguished German biographer brings to his task not merely
literary style and imaginative qualities, but a technical and intimate
knowledge of science in its latest development.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 160w.

“This is an unusually successful work in a difficult field. While we
must give credit to the author for teaching us a great deal of zoology
in a pleasant manner, the most difficult part of his task, he has
hardly done justice to an exceptionally interesting individuality.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 392. Ap. 25, ’07. 790w.

“Prof. W. Bölsche’s study of Ernst Haeckel is, like the frontispiece
of the book, a picture in warm colours. The author is nothing if not
enthusiastic, and indeed no one can think over the achievements of
Haeckel’s life without sharing the author’s admiration for his hero.”

+ =Nature.= 74: 26. My. 10, ’06. 680w.

“In the nature of things—and the German professional point of view and
literary manner—the total is rather hard reading. Yet there is much of
real interest.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.

“Is a model biography for the unprofessional, but cultured reader.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 110w.

“Very lucid and interesting account of this veteran biologist’s life
and work.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

7–22912.

A detailed account of this important diplomatic incident, which is
based upon the Monroe papers and gives the inner history of the
mission, definitely establishing the circumstances and the motives of
the actors.

=Bonner, Geraldine.= Rich men’s children; il. by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–37925.

A western story in which a multimillionaire’s son marries an
adventuress, takes to the mountains to win back his peace of mind,
falls in love with a bonanza king’s daughter and hopes for
developments that will permit an honorable marriage. The way appears
when the former husband of the unfit wife appears, and is a welcome
factor in straightening the tangle.

* * * * *

“Is one of the strongest romances of the year.”

+ + =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’06. 280w.

“All things considered, it is rather the best piece of fiction that
has yet come from Geraldine Bonner’s pen, the clearest character
drawing, the strongest situations, the most thoroughly human appeal
from first to last.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 78. S. ’07. 710w.

“Miss Bonner’s book is primarily about the children of two of these
bonanza families, but its best and most interesting, parts are those
that treat of the parents.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 460w.

=Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington.= Twilight fairy tales. **$1.25. Putnam.

6–38892.

Mrs. Booth’s tales follow the fortunes of a little boy “who found the
magic land of ‘Maybe’ the more readily for faithfulness in the land of
‘Is,’ and so lived cheek by jowl with fairies when he had behaved
himself properly.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The stories are new and ‘different.’”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 70w.

=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 22, ’06. 20w.

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.

“Mrs. Booth writes fluently and gracefully. The pictures are somewhat
strained in effect and badly drawn.”

+ − =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 70w.

=Booth, William H.= Water softening and treatment, condensing plant, feed pumps, and heaters for steam users and manufacturers; with figs., diags. and tables. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

7–4532.

The work is divided into five sections as follows: 1, Treatment of
water by softening, together with the separation of oil and
filtration; 2, Air pumps, condensers, and circulating pumps; 3, Feed
heating and stage heating; 4, Water cooling; and 5, Feed pumps and
injectors.

* * * * *

“From those portions of the book more closely related to its title the
American engineer will learn but little. The methods of analysis given
are inadequate and the forms of softening apparatus described are
evidently less efficient than those in common use in this country.”
George C. Whipple.

− =Engin. N.= 56: 187. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.

“Altogether, the book contains complete information with respect to
the purification and supply of water to steam boilers, which will be
valuable to users of steam; whilst the first portion on water
softening, will be very useful in indicating the methods by which hard
water may be rendered available for various manufactures requiring
pure water.”

+ + =Nature.= 74: 464. S. 6, ’06. 570w.

=Booth, William Stone.= Practical guide for authors in their relations with publishers and printers. *50c. Houghton.

7–14814.

“A clear and terse exposition of ‘those questions and difficulties
which may arise during negotiations for the sale of a manuscript to a
publisher, or in the relations which exist between a publisher and an
author after a work has been accepted.’”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Booth writes with authority, having full and very helpful
knowledge of his subject.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 80w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.

“He writes of the practical side of things with sanity and clearness.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 50w.

“The best book of its kind we have seen, both for its simplicity and
its comprehensiveness. It is in reality an excellent ‘style-card’ for
printers and proof-readers, as well as a book of directions for
writers.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 359. Ap. 18, ’07. 40w.

“Should prove of great service in making the creators and publishers
of books more often walk the primrose path.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 160w.

“Aside from the scholarly work everywhere evident in the book, there
is an interest not usually associated with books of a similar kind—in
fact Mr. Booth’s book makes entertaining instruction of a very dry
subject.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =School R.= 15: 556. S. ’07. 270w.

=Borden, Spencer.= Arab horse; with preface by Prof. Henry Osborne; il. **$1.20. Doubleday.

6–36199.

“An interesting history of the animal, both on his native heath and in
the countries to which he has been exported. Considerable space is
given to the Arabs in America; and their pedigrees and history are
interesting to the lovers of the breed.”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 50w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 110w.

=Borden, Stephen Whiley.= How to check electricity bills: containing methods of charging for electricity with directions for reading and testing electric meters. *50c. McGraw pub.

7–31191.

“The first part of this little volume is given over to a non-technical
definition of a watt, by considering how many watts the common forms
of apparatus use. Chapters are included on general principles of
meters, troubles and systems of charges and discounts.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

=Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet).= Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.

7–11569.

“This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is
clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the
history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas.
In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various
forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs.
Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is
quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The
second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function,
its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.

* * * * *

“Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not
the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the
family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.

+ − =Acad.= 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w.

“Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view.
Written in a luminous, easy style.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.

“The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results
of the most careful investigators into the early history of the
institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg
Meade.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w.

“With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a
warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its
close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable
contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.

+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w.

Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.

=J. Philos.= 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w.

“Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere
on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very
profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the
conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being
platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral,
only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks
notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are
delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the
eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if
not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to
which the latter is apt to be blind.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w.

“It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of
rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real
and spiritual entity of the family.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w.

+ + =Outlook.= 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w.

“It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of
family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we
are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its
materialised form that she traces for us.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w.

“Mrs. Bosanquet’s book is remarkably restrained and uncontroversial in
tone.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 825. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.

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

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A biologically equipped reader with no special knowledge of plant
physiology will experience dazzled admiration for the logical,
progressive way in which the author builds up, not in words, but
actually experiment on experiment, a complete functioning plant from
three simple conceptions. A student of plant physiology, who has some
acquaintance with the main classical ideas of his subject, will feel
at first extreme bewilderment as he peruses this book. It proceeds so
smoothly and logically, and yet it does not start from any place in
the existing ‘corpus’ of knowledge, and never attaches itself with any
firm adherence. This effect of detachment is heightened by the
complete absence of precise references to the work of other
investigators.” F. F. Blackman.

+ − =Nature.= 75: 313. Ja. 31, ’07. 2170w.

=Bottome, Phyllis.= Imperfect gift [a novel]. †$1.50. Dutton.

“The author has taken for her central characters two sisters, one of
whom is obviously and remarkably beautiful; the other is beautiful in
her heart and mind, whilst far from impeccable, and lovably human. The
lives of these two girls are traced from their early childhood, with a
widowed mother in Italy, to their establishment in life in London; and
their characters are developed before our eyes with subtlety and
skill.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The whole book is very unequal and unfinished; the people do not live
or gain the reader’s sympathy, and difficulties are avoided at the
expense of truth.”

− + =Acad.= 72: 393. Ap. 20, ’07. 480w.

“There are 340 pages in it, and not one of them is a page wasted or
spoilt. It is a fine sober piece of literary workmanship, as well as
an entertaining novel.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 220w.

“The story is smoothly and competently told, and while its basis lies
in the realm of mediocre, respectable fiction, the observation of
detail, if a shade shopworn, is always sufficiently correct and
agreeably expressed to make the whole fairly readable—if no better
novel be at hand.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07, 260w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.

“The reader will find the story completely satisfactory until the
moment comes when he is told what is the particular talent to which
the heroine is going to devote herself.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.

=Boulting, William.= Tasso and his times. *$2.75. Putnam.

A biography full of side-lights on the history of Italy during the
latter part of the sixteenth century. Tasso’s personal history is a
succession of failures and troubles; it is a record of one too weak to
buffet his way among despots and courtiers identified with Italy’s
decline and corruption.

* * * * *

“We may have appeared to have criticised Mr. Boulting severely, but we
have done so because his book seems to deserve careful consideration,
and we desire to recommend it to many readers whom its more
conspicuous merits will instruct and entertain.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 965. O. 5, ’07. 2080w.

“From every point of view, historical, biographical, literary, and
critical, ‘Tasso and his times’ will be found most satisfactory.”
Walter Littlefield.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 598. O. 5, ’07. 1320w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“It is rather because this volume gives us a clear picture of Italy in
the latter part of the sixteenth century than because it is a
biography of Tasso that it will be welcome to a large circle of
readers.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 220w.

“This book, heralded so loudly, is a popular and superficial account,
not so much of Tasso as a poet as of Tasso at court, without a single
note or an allusion in the text to any authority save a reference in
the last chapter to Professor Solerti. Mr. Boulting mistakes the whole
dream and purpose of the Italian renaissance.”

− − =Sat. R.= 104: 397. S. 28, ’07. 1320w.

“Mr. Boulting does a biographer’s duty without partiality, and makes
an effective picture of the man. On Tasso’s poetry Mr. Boulting gives
us some excellent criticism; this is, we think, the best part of his
book. Of the ‘times’ he has much to say. He has gathered materials
with unsparing industry, sometimes, it may be going too far afield,
and bringing back what it might have been better to leave behind.
Still, he has written a very readable book.”

+ + − =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 230w.

=Boulton, William B.= Thomas Gainsborough, his life, work, friends, and sitters. *$2.75. McClurg.

This is as complete and comprehensive as a study of every bit of
available material can make it. The interesting stages of
Gainsborough’s development are followed, facts concerning his friends
and the subjects of his portraits are recorded, and a good summary of
the achievements of the artist and the characteristics of the man
fills the last two chapters. The evolution of his genius is also
traced in the forty reproductions of his paintings.

* * * * *

“In spite of unavoidable gaps and deficiencies, even the early
chapters of the book are not dull. He has utilized the accepted
sources of biographical material, marshalling his facts in simple
orderly fashion, and dealing with them in a dignified and yet
thoroughly genial and appreciative way.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

+ =Dial.= 43: 247. O. 16, ’07. 1140w.

“Mr. Boulton has a very uneven style, and the proofreader is guilty of
several slips, but these little blemishes do not prevent a reader from
enjoying the absence of dryness, one of the common failings of ‘art
books’ in all ages. He feels that he has come perceptibly nearer to an
understanding of the impetuous yet shrewd, Thomas Gainsborough.”
Charles de Kay.

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 585. S. 28, ’07. 1430w.

=Bourchier, Dr. Helen.= Darry’s awakening. †$1.50. Warne.

A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training
among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the
daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man
unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father
returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown
upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life
whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.

* * * * *

“This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up
their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s
truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 380w.

=Bourke, S. Ten Eyck.= Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.

7–24036.

Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the
swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the
woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the
peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how
the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a
hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.

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

6–21195.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be
constructive, is written in good spirit.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w.

=Bowen, Marjorie.= Master of Stair. †$1.50. McClure.

7–15924.

“A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing
in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more
specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell
and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally
exterminated.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against
[several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters
(those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far
worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w.

“While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett,
she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing
the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women,
long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living
breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w.

“Her second novel is so much more creditable a work that its merits
are in no need of puffery.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 170w.

“While we admire her spirit, it is difficult to feel that all this
‘slightly grandiloquent magnificence’ is satisfactory; it is a rich
cloak, but it does not take the place of bones and flesh.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 380w.