Chapter VIII: Preface (8)

“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the
years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to
light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s
researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be
expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of
Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M.
Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this
country.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without
the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint.
The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on
the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w.

“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a
sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work
can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon
will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w.

“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of
high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer
to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early
in 1813.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.

“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of
proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these
singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w.

“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a
pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision
would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we
say, over-facile composition.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w.

“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the
extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w.

“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for
some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book
shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other
matters.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w.

“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much
mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.

“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in
any library of Napoleonic literature.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w.

=Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough.= Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.

6–46250.

The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the
negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart
of the black belt of Alabama.”

=Bruce, George A.= Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.

6–18330.

Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men
just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of
the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements
especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’
battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and
Spottsylvania.

* * * * *

“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full
of valuable sidelights.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w.

“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it
offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy
tale, without an index.”

+ + − =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w.

=Bruce, Jerome.= Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.

6–43783.

The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the
lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and
white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in
antebellum days.

=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

7–29102.

More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional
struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents
Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions,
and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were
conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of
the past.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07. S.

“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of
constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the
readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the
United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the
northern army of invasion.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w.

“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents
in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world
history.” W: E. Dodd.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w.

=Brunetiere, Ferdinand.= Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.

6–43793.

The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature
what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters.
The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s
life, as with the elemental points that define, explain and
characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy
that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.

* * * * *

“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w.

“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable.
Not equally well translated throughout.”

+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without
discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific
judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too
arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière
confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w.

“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w.

“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following
the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s
‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with
all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w.

=Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w.

“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it
frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and
comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater
distance of time.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w.

+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w.

“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially
illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and
in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s
narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.”
James Huneker.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w.

“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole
chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the
author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of
his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel
that it would have carried farther had its author never become
involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.

+ + − =No. Am.= 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w.

“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of
literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so
decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”

+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and
partial.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w.

=Sat. R.= 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w.

* =Bryant, W. W.= History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.

“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and
primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely
historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho
Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational
astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational
astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments
of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then
successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and
instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial
evolution.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from
inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w.

“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so
short as to be unsatisfactory.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w.

=Bryce, James.= Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50. Oxford.

A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British
embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there
runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law
of Rome and the history and law of England.”

* * * * *

“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”

+ + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w.

“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of
the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the
sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches
them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the
house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of
extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book
by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as
himself.” Edward Cary.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w.

=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.

Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth
with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified
with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the
relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not
one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of
commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has
not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is
tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable
materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation,
heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it
in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about
its decay.”

* * * * *

“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr.
Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous
expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w.

“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption.
On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.

=Buckell, G. T. Teasdale.= Complete English wing shot. *$3.50. McClure.

A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons
old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds
of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives
valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game
birds.

* * * * *

“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its
title would lead one to expect.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w.

“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs,
seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long
and practiced experience, and will, no doubt, win the attention they
deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to
justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural
style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its
limits.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any
sport about which much has already been written, is the direct
personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing
about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of
bringing up pheasants and partridges.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w.

=Buckham, James.= Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.

7–23873.

The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages
learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them.
Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders
among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true
nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of
forming an acquaintance with nature.

* * * * *

“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these
meditations.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

* =Budge, E. A. T. Wallis.= Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.

7–24130.

A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan
from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of
independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of
the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological
expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their
natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose
ancestors built them and worshipped in them.

* * * * *

“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and
opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the
Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and,
whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination
or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The
arrangement of the book also might have been better.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w.

“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a
quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is
essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known
about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism
and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of
prosperity.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel
with information concerning archaeological research and history, these
books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the
student.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w.

“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w.

=Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Reinforced concrete. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.

6–41296.

This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely
accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their
application.

* * * * *

“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The
index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank
among the standard books and should continue to be of service to
designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.

+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w.

+ + =Nature.= 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w.

=Bullen, Frank T.= Frank Brown, sea apprentice. †$1.50. Dutton.

7–25665.

“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady
progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the
lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of
force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The
privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no
glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little
literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young
hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more
than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.

“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have
the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures,
lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners,
and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”

− =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.

“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea
yarns, will find the book entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.

“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and
construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on
board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might
easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be
relished by young readers.”

+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w.

“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”

+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w.

=Bullen, Frank T.= Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.

W 7–129.

Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal
observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and
the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the
British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into
the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the
British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be
maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage
and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the
author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously.
Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great
profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he
gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity
and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and
enjoy his early works.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.

“A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once
scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic
without being at all a romance.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w.

“Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable
companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”

+ =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.

7–31981.

A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course
of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon
all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to
provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and
theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”

* * * * *

“The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should
respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate
library facilities.”

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w.

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

6–6286.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value
alike to teachers and students of public finance.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w.

=Bulpett, C. W. L.= Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50. Longmans.

7–19053.

“The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the
Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between
that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to
have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the
journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful
information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of
launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and
Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then,
bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and
interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a
great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the
most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with
Abyssinia.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

“The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and
straightforward way.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w.

“They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably
upon their progress and adventures.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w.

=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5. Pott.

Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian
church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern
Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded
by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and
Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona,
Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in
all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored
reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described
therein.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to
collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to
explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to
understand.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w.

“Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or
artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and
instructive book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w.

“He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous
ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in
ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full
of spirit and vigour.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w.

=Burbank, Luther.= Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.

7–15628.

Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms,
modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending
still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between
the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant
needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he
discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It
is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.

* * * * *

“Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to
recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment,
differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application
of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.

“The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned
Sunday school libraries.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w.

“It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every
page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would
be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it
to our readers.”

+ + =Arena.= 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w.

“The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it
should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and
fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”

+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w.

“Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well
deserved separate publication.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.

=Burgess, Gelett.= Heart line. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–32840.

If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over
certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant
makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it
is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to
enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as
much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings
of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the
girl he loves.

* * * * *

“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of
the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums,
‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w.

=Burgess, Gelett.= White cat. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–10048.

A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual
personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and
hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist
who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from
her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is
thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor
car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of
destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower
personality.

* * * * *

“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.

“The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr.
Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.

“His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly
entertaining, nevertheless.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w.

=Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w.

=Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton.= Cotton; its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

6–26066.

The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in
section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows
and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price
of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed
selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools
required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the
cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w.

“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American
cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of
England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the
British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’
derision.”

+ − =Nature.= 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w.

“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the
staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w.

“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book
contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of
the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful
by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less
full and satisfactory.”

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w.

“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a
popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with
interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”

+ − =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w.

=Burkitt, Francis Crawford.= Gospel history and its transmission. *$2.25. Scribner.

7–31392.

“Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of
the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon,
delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires
to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet
it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done
much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w.

“Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his
conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high
praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w.

=Bib. World.= 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w.

“The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of
information concerning the life of Christ.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

“The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”

+ =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.

“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower
minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but
in this book he is on the whole conservative.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w.

=Burland, J. B. Harris.= Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.

6–42432.

“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it
said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little
metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting
cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young
Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to
his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the
possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full
chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and
material power.

=Burne, Sir Owen Tudor.= Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.

7–28493.

Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at
the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The
reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to
the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during
a long period of years.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one
who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better
for reading.”

+ − =Acad.= 72: 185. F. 23, ’07. 1760w.

“From first to last there is not a disparaging remark or unkind word
about anyone. The author in looking back on his eventful life has
managed to remember only the pleasant incidents, and the consequence
of this general good feeling is that his ‘Memories’ will be read with
unqualified pleasure by those who do not share his political views, as
well as by those who do. The book is certain to secure a wide public.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 247. Mr. 2. 1690w.

“In some respects it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the writer
has missed a great opportunity of producing a really valuable book,
the great authority of which could not have been denied.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 1, ’07. 620w.

“A welcome addition to the numerous works of the same nature which
form so important a part of our modern literature.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 510w.

“We wish that he had been content to avoid a fashion too common in
published diaries, and had not scattered so many ancient jokes and so
much indifferent poetry about his pages. The whole tone and spirit of
the book, in its optimism and kindliness, is instinct with charm, and
there can be no lack of interest in the details of a life so full and
distinguished.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 450w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Cozy lion. †60c. Century.

7–29094.

A continuation of the magic of Queen Silverbell which in this instance
reforms a lion and makes him a fit companion for the village
youngsters.

* * * * *

“By far the most delightfully spirited story for young folks.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

“A nice little children’s story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 120w.

“A jolly invention.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.

=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= The shuttle. †$1.50. Stokes.

7–29574.

There is much that is food for thought in this tale of the socially
elect of the England and America of today. Reuben Vanderpoel of New
York has added greatly to the millions his father wrested from the new
world, and his two daughters carry that wealth to the old world to
re-build two fine old English estates. The elder daughter, Rosie, is
the victim of a dissipated fortune-hunter who abuses her and neglects
his property. It is left for her sister, Bettina, the best product of
American birth and European schools, to come to her rescue twelve
years later with a clear head and a large bank account. While at work
upon this task she finds that all poor noblemen are not mercenary and
that one is both a man and noble.

* * * * *

“The present author has quite frankly adopted the method of the
chromo-lithograph, with its violent contrasts and over-colored
brightness. But, in spite of the method used, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has
succeeded in at least endowing her work with some semblance to life.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 145. N. 16, ’07. 600w.

“The last chapters fall off deplorably, being both sentimental and
sensational.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

“Here and there we notice discrepancies chronological and otherwise.
The story, though rather long drawn out, maintains its interest well.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 140w.

“Fundamentally ‘The shuttle’ is ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ over again.
And be it understood that this is said in a spirit, not of
disparagement, but of candid admiration. For as ‘Little Lord
Fauntleroy’ was good, this book is good, and added to the ‘Fauntleroy’
idea there is a great deal more.” Beverly Stark.

+ + =Bookm.= 26: 272. N. ’07. 1150w.

“The story is a long one, and might be shortened to its advantage.”
Wm. M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 400w.

“The force of Mrs. Burnett’s book lies in its detail. There is
detailed pathos, detailed joy and grief, detailed melodrama even; but
it is all frankly discussed and accounted for, and the writer’s
knowledge of various kinds of life serves her in good stead.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 325. O. 25, ’07. 550w.

“It is a story which would have a mild interest for most people and
about which nobody could conceivably have much to say. Exception might
be taken to the villain as a shade more diabolical then even the code
of melodrama permits. He is an extravagant caricature of the
sufficiently absurd wicked baronet of legend.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 430w.

“Mrs. Burnett’s plot is stark nonsense, her American father a wierd
exaggeration, her villain a Jack-in-the-box goggling on a coil of
wire—but what of that? She is so kind, so honest, so free and splendid
with her fairy gold, she loves her heroine, she admires her hero with
such thoroughgoing ardor, that we want with all our hearts to make
believe with her.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 625. O. 19, ’07. 1330w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“Mrs. Burnett is a born story-teller, and her best is very good
indeed; it is a pity that her judgment as to what is true art in
fiction is sometimes seriously at fault.”

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 220w.

“The book indeed is over-loaded with the sociology of two countries,
and we hear far too much about the power of the everlasting dollar.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 190w.

=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Opened shutters. †$1.50. Houghton.

Mrs. Burnham has chosen her favorite summer haunts, the islands of
Casco Bay, for the setting of this story. Silvia Lacey, orphaned and
bitter against her relatives, finally accepts the hospitality of her
mother’s cousin “Thinkright” Johnson, so called because of his faith
in a happy solution of all life’s problems if only one’s thoughts are
right and harmonious. Under the influence of Thinkright’s fine example
of brotherhood love, Silvia scripturally finds herself, thru losing
her rebellious vanity and self-love. An old disused tide-mill with its
closed shutters is symbolic of Silvia’s discordant outlook on life,
but with her transformation even the shutters open and let the
sunlight in.

* * * * *

“It can no more be called a novel than a plate of bread and butter can
be called a meal—even though the bread and butter be good of its
kind.”

− + =Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 245. D. ’06.

“The heroine of the novel, Sylvia, is one of Mrs. Burnham’s best-drawn
figures. There are some amusing situations in the book, and the humor
is plentiful and genuine.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

“Is surpassed by none which she has produced in her twenty-five years
of work.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 691. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

“It Is written in her own pleasant style, with a strain of symbolism
which reminds one of Mrs. Whitney.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton.

This story intense as it is from the human interest standpoint has a
more vital significance in the warfare between a clergyman who permits
the cloth to shield dishonesty and a frank youth who knows no religion
other than that of high thinking and right living. Bennet Sherrington
conniving with the intimidated Reverend Wynchell tampers with death
records to throw a fortune into the hands of Wynchell’s granddaughter,
Diana Jessop. Anthony Brayne, Sherrington’s secretary, unable to
endure his employer’s trickery leaves him and becomes the champion of
justice through whom the girl’s dignity and honor are spared, the
grandfather’s weakness revealed and Sherrington’s villainy punished.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

=Burrage, Champlin.= True story of Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious views. *85c. Oxford.

7–6783.

Some lately discovered manuscripts throw new light upon the history
and views of the founder of Congregationalism which the author offers
as corrective and supplementary to the work of older biographers,
especially Dr. Henry M. Dexter.

* * * * *

“The whole monograph is painstaking and workmanlike.” Williston
Walker.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 419. Ja. ’07. 360w.

Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.

=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 346. Ap. ’07. 110w.

“Has the merit of modesty in tone and of brevity and clearness in
method.”

+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 210w.

=Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

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

6–34848.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is clearly written, and should be of much interest to those
who have taken part in the preservation of our most famous
battlefield.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 140w.

+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.

=Burrill, Katharine.= Loose heads. *$1.25. Dutton.

In these chatty essays “every-day matters, and some others, are
treated with good sense, cheerful philosophy, and literary skill.”
(Dial.) “Rusty needles, Chloe in the kitchen, Joys forever, People who
have nothing to do, are among the titles.”

* * * * *

“Fresh and bright and eminently readable are most of the little
essays.”

+ − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.

“The style is agreeable, but it might be wished that there were fewer
split infinitives.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 103. F. 16, ’07. 230w.

=Burroughs, Dwight.= Jack, the giant killer, jr.; being the thrilling adventures, authentically told, of a worthy son of the celebrated Jack, the giant killer. il. †$1. Jacobs.

7–31422.

The mantle of the traditional Jack falls to a worthy successor whose
adventures are no whit less thrilling, only more wholesome. The
adventure entitled “The automobile race” suggests the modern note in
Jack, junior’s experiences.

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

6–10676.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.

=Burroughs, John.= Camping and tramping with Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.

7–31186.

A two-part sketch, the first of which being an account of the camping
trip in the Yellowstone which the President and Mr. Burroughs made
together in the spring of 1903, the second being an account of a visit
to Oyster Bay in which the author gives his impressions of the
President as a nature-lover and observer. He shows how Mr. Roosevelt
can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, with
the same quality of coolness and determination with which he confronts
predaceous corporations and money powers of the country; he claims for
the President the power of observation “to see minutely and to see
whole;” above all, shows how his interest in wild life is at once
scientific and thoroughly human—making of him the rarest kind of
sportsman.

* * * * *

“The book is as sincere as it is frankly the work of an admirer, but
it is such a tribute as any man might be proud of.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 340w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 712. N. 9, ’07. 1170w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 110w.

=Burrows, Ronald M.= Discoveries in Crete, and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation. *$2. Dutton.

7–37534.

Professor Burrows’ book becomes an “Ariadne’s thread in a bewildering
labyrinth.” He “has rendered signal service not only to the public at
large, but also to the cause of archæological research by his little
book. He has read, as it would seem, everything which has been
published concerning the Cretan discoveries, and has had access to a
great deal of information at first hand which has not yet found its
way into print at all. And from this enormous mass of material, which
has been the bewilderment even of many of the elect, he has drawn out
the main threads of argument and has woven them into a work which has
more than the mere colour of cohesion and continuity.” (Acad.)

* * * * *

“It is ungracious to cavil at Homeric criticism in a book whose main
object is so well and so modestly achieved. We can say without
hesitation that this little work is almost a necessary introduction to
the unwieldy mass of material with which the author has had to deal.
And if the illustrations are few and far between, they are admirably
chosen.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 674. Jl. 13, ’07. 2140w.

“Prof. Burrows, like Ariadne, offers to the adventurous a clue through
the labyrinth. But, to avail ourselves of it we need the labyrinth
itself—the archæological library.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 1380w.

“Will be welcomed to a limited circle for its painstaking summary of
the present situation, its impartial balancing of probabilities, and
its valuable bibliography.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.

“It is presumed that his main function is to set forth the results
achieved by the workers; but no man with such a theme can bridle his
tongue, and we may be glad that Burrows has not done so.” Rufus B.
Richardson.

+ + =Ind.= 63: 755. S. 26, ’07. 1170w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 130w.

“It must be also said that those readers who are not able to procure
access to the dozen or more volumes referred to will find this book of
very little use, while those who open it in hope of gaining a
preliminary idea of the subject at small cost of time and money will
almost certainly be disappointed.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 1650w.

“Two criticisms may fairly be made upon the book. The English
expression is often careless, and the tone in which the author refers
to views with which he disagrees is unpleasant; what might pass in a
familiar lecture is out of place here.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 2000w.

“He is like editors who write for one another instead of the public.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 518. Ag. 24, ’07, 1300w.

“The book contains much valuable and carefully thought out
ethnological speculation, and, by dint of what he modestly terms
‘balancing probabilities and opening up lines of inquiry,’ Mr. Burrows
gives in practicable volume that adequate guidance which is so
necessary to a study of the complicated racial problems with which the
history of Aegean civilization is bound up.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 330w.

=Burton, Theodore E.= John Sherman. (American statesmen, 2nd ser.) **$1.25. Houghton.

6–43551.

A close acquaintance with Sherman, also a full understanding of the
public measures with which Sherman was identified lie back of Mr.
Burton’s sketch.

* * * * *

“As a history of national politics in the last quarter-century, the
volume is highly creditable. Criticism is directed against the
editorial plan of the publishers rather than to individual
shortcomings of Mr. Burton.” Davis R. Dewey.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 905. Jl. ’07. 540w.

“A brief, scholarly, readable and wholly admirable work. Ranks as one
of the best accounts of reconstruction finance.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

“The book is rather hard reading for the ordinary person who has no
great liking for figures and financial history. But it gives a good
account of a real statesman, and a history of several important phases
of our national development during the last half century.”

+ + − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.

“It is creditable biography, written by one in full sympathy with the
political ideas of Mr. Sherman, but free, on the whole, from undue
bias.” Eugene B. Patton.

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 311. My. ’07. 680w.

“Candor is perhaps the most noteworthy quality displayed by Mr.
Burton—a candor which personal friendship was powerless to eliminate.
And yet the book is sympathetic and its attitude that of one who
sincerely admired Sherman.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.

“Mr. Burton’s plain and unimpassioned style does little to make
Sherman interesting, and his book will not, we fancy, be much read
except for reference.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 660w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 102. O. ’07. 560w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 150w.

=Buskett, Evans Walker.= Fire assaying. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.

7–7504.

A practical treatise on the fire assaying of gold, silver and lead,
including description of the appliances used.

* * * * *

“This little book has nothing against it except its brevity. It is
clearly and concisely written and well illustrated.” Bradley
Stoughton.

+ =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.

=Busquet, Raymond.= Manual of hydraulics; tr. by A. H. Peake. *$2.10. Longmans.

7–28954.

Rather ancient theories and discussions are included upon such
subjects as Fundamental laws, Flow of liquids in delivery pipes, Flow
of liquids in open canals, Hydraulic engines, and Construction of a
waterfall.

* * * * *

“In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for
both students and engineers.”

− =Engin. N.= 56: 639. D. 13, ’06. 280w.

“The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given
the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer
does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical
a way as the one under notice.”

+ + =Nature.= 75: 29. N. 8, ’06. 390w.

=Bussell, Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress; the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.

7–12985.

“The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more
fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest
which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The
writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the
goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital
force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian
faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive
power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such
are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s
opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been
published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways
more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and
more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other
‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though
independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and
ill-arranged.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 434. Ap. 13. 1740w.

“Is the ripe fruit of prolonged reflection and often learned
investigation.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 220w.

“Throughout the book—the original and supplementary lectures—Mr.
Bussell speaks as a scholar, albeit a true churchman, and in discourse
of great charm.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.

Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 1410w.

“The whole is a finely wrought piece of literature rather than of
dialectics. One important point deserves criticism: the priority
ascribed, to rights rather than to duties must be contested as a clear
inversion of the ethical relation between the two.”

− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

“With much that is included in this volume we are already familiar;
but there is originality of treatment which marks it as a valuable
contribution on this side of thought.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 429. Ap. 6, ’07. 1590w.

=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Confessions of a daddy; illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. 75c. Century.

7–18096.

The “daddy,” “a rank amateur in the baby business” confesses the
heart-breaking blow of the first glance at the wrinkled, red little
thing that the nurse brings for his proud expressions of joy. He
further records the agony of the first “spank” administered after the
“98 per cent of sweetness” grown to twenty-two months, cries all day
for “laim,” and the grief that follows when the discovery is made that
the baby only wanted to say “Now I lay me.” It is the common
experience of all parents told simply and to the point with Mr.
Butler’s inimitable humor that makes the book worth reading.

* * * * *

“There is a certain suspicion of obvious humour here and there; and
some notes, which seem taken from child-life, may please. But the book
is a disappointment.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 403. O. 5. 100w.

“If, as a whole, the volume is not as overwhelmingly funny as his
‘Pigs is pigs,’ it is still a delightful bit of humor.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 70w.

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

+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.

=Butler, John Wesley.= Mexico coming into light. *35c. West. Meth. bk.

7–14569.

A brief sketch of the physical conditions, inhabitants, pre-colonial
dynasties, sixteenth century tragedy, reform movements, etc., leading
to the Macedonian cry and the planting of the mission.

=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= True and false democracy. **$1. Macmillan.

7–20888.

Dr. Butler’s aim has been to hasten the day when “every member of a
self-governing community has a clear understanding of what democracy
really means and implies, as well as a character strong enough to fix
his own relations to his fellows in accordance with moral principle.”
The three papers discuss respectively True and false democracy,
Education of public opinion, and Democracy and education.

* * * * *

“Three sane and simple addresses.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.

=Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.

“The papers are admirably phrased and merit thoughtful reading.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07, 150w.