Chapter III: Front Matter (3)

“Reasonably full, critical, and even iconoclastic in many respects. To
judge then, from vol. I. this history bids fair to become popular in
the best sense of the term. It is certainly not dry—parts of it
reading like a stirring romance. Now and then he goes perhaps a trifle
too far in his impartiality.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1420w.

“He is, then, accurate. He is also the possessor of a very agreeable
style.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 41. S. 2, ‘05. 580w.

Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.

+ + =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 230w.

B

=B., T.= Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.

“To those of us who, with Stevenson, pray for the quiet mind, ‘The
Upton letters’ by ‘T. B.’ are a help in that direction. Simple and
natural, sane and human, these reflective utterances on literary,
moral, and educational themes, and on the commonplaces of daily life,
have the charm that belongs to the genuine expression of a good mind
and heart. They are the letters of a master in an English public
school to a friend (’Herbert’) sojourning in Madeira for his health;
and they run through the year 1904, being brought to a close by the
friend’s death.”—Dial.

“For all its timidity the book is a bugle-call.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 703. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1420w.

“The comments on certain aspects of modern life are always very
readable, sometimes valuable; but the book is notable mainly for its
poetical outlook and unfailing facility of expression.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 1280w.

* “The book is delightful enough to stand on its own merits.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ =Atlan.= 96: 849. D. ‘05. 580w.

“It is an intimate narrative, but the intimacy is of a highly
self-respecting sort, and the picture of the writer which the book
leaves upon the reader’s mind is very winning.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.

“The little volume will create no sensation (heaven forbid!), but it
will greatly content a choice few among the readers of books.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.

* “The letters are truly literature, and every page gives evidence of
broad and careful scholarship, wide reading and a soul concerned with
high and serious things. As a whole the volume is intensely
satisfactory and is one that may be read and read again by those who
care to think and know how to think.”

+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 530. N. ‘05. 310w.

“‘The Upton letters’ makes excellent quiet reading for those to whom
such a mind as the author’s is attractive.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 370w.

“These letters depend solely upon their intrinsic merit. This is
unquestionably high. Without literary affectation, the style is that
of a literary man.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.

“Barring a slight stiffness and an occasional assumption of weariness
and ennui, the letters are as good as anything of the kind that have
appeared since Huxley’s were given to the world.”

+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.

* + =Spec.= 95: 289. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1740w.

=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.= Story of St. Paul. **$1.50. Houghton.

This book is the outgrowth of a series of university extension
lectures delivered at Providence, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. It is a
comparison of the accounts of the life of St. Paul, as found in the
acts and the epistles, and Professor Bacon’s object is to point out
the differences in these two sources in order that the records may
later be harmonized.

+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 542. Jl. ‘05. 920w.

“Excellent book.”

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 704. My. ‘05. 390w.

“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great
apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies
connected with his life.”

+ =Cath. World.= 80: 540. Ja. ‘05. 550w.

* “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by
an American.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr.
Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is
analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get
the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has
to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his
Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but
it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its
appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 192. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w.

“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s
treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of
constructive biography and scientific criticism.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 120w.

“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to
be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted;
while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the
history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very
serious objection to his theory.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 532. O. 21, ‘05. 430w.

“His book will make the student think, and so far will be of service;
but he is not a safe guide.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘04. 420w.

=Bacon, Dolores M.=, ed. Diary of a musician. †$1.50. Holt.

A record of the experiences, hopes, and longings which lie all the way
from the depths to the heights of a genius’ career. Short, terse
sentences that sum up a heart full of joy or anguish, characterized
all thru by Bohemian irresponsibility, are no more brief than were the
moods of this interesting Hungarian. With all his musical power, he is
human enough to say: “I adore my father; but who could keep faith with
his father when such a woman smiles.... It is Marie Alexeievna. There
is no superior allegiance.”

“A decidedly clever and piquant tour de force. In very few books is
the note struck at the beginning successfully kept up to the end, as
here. Of its not ambitious order, the book is admirable.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 110w.

=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= Narragansett bay; its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting. **$3.50. Putnam.

This sumptuous volume is “illustrated by the author’s sketches and a
few photographs, and is well indexed. As the title implies, it is a
collection of superficial descriptions and colonial legends woven into
readable form.” (Nation.)

“Is a worthy successor to the author’s attractive work in a similar
style on the Hudson river.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 100w.

“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful
influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the
state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 299. Ap. 13, ‘05. 540w.

=Bacon, Gertrude.= Balloons, airships and flying machines. *50c. Dodd.

“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the
airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any
purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to
the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon
the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such
a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.

“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the
headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in
the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 330w.

“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is
interesting as well.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 320w.

=Baddeley, St. Clair.= Recent discoveries in the Forum. $1.25. Macmillan.

Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing
technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and
spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American
traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but
more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones
and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr.
Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch
with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give
us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the
scenes of transition.” (Dial).

“He is wanting in style and scholarship; almost every page is
disfigured by odd mistakes in English or inaccuracies of reference.”

— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 598. My. 13. 270w.

“The book is interesting beyond the rule of guide books.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 129. F. 16, ‘05. 520w.

“The expression is so poor that one rarely reads so small a book with
such great difficulty.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w.

=Baedeker, Karl.= London and its environs: a handbook for travellers. *$1.80. Scribner.

“The fourteenth edition, fortified with four maps and twenty-four
plans, its list of the principal streets, public buildings, etc. The
total bulk has been but slightly increased. It is almost a pity that
these successive editions could not graphically record the chief
changes in the general aspect of the metropolis, which of late have
been as imposing as they are extensive.”—Nation.

=Nation.= 80: 228. Mr. 23, ‘05. 70w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.

=Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 20w.

=Baedeker, Karl.= Northern France: handbook for travellers. *$2.10. Scribner.

“A new edition (the fourth) of this well-known handbook, brought up to
date with such revision regarding hotels, routes, and places of
interest to travelers as has been made necessary by the changes of the
last four or five years.”—Outlook.

=Nation.= 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

=Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 40w.

=Bagley, William Chandler.= Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.

A lucid exposition of the basal principles of pedagogy with
illustrative matter showing the limits and methods of the application.
“Its fundamental theses are, that the function of the educative
process is to secure the transmission to each generation of the
experience of the race, and that its end in view is to secure the
development of socially efficient individuals—an end inclusive, as
here defined, of livelihood, knowledge, culture, harmonious
development, and morality.” (Outlook.)

“His exposition of the responsibilities and duties of parents and
teachers can be accepted with little or no reservation, but some of
his illustrative statements and subsidiary generalizations are open to
question.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1080w.

“All in all, it must be considered one of the best contributions of
its kind to the literature of educational theory and should find an
extensive use as a text-book in normal schools and colleges for
covering the ground of general method.” Guy Montrose Whipple.

+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 418. N. ‘05. 1650w.

“While Dr. Bagley is mainly concerned to teach the principles of
pedagogy he has not failed in adequately illustrating the limits and
methods of their rational application.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.

“In spite of these and some other less important mistakes and
misplacements of emphasis, the book is a fresh, stimulating and
generally correct organization of the principles of education.” Wilbur
S. Jackman.

+ + — =Science.= n.s. 22: 565. N. 3, ‘05. 1730w.

* =Bagot, Richard.= Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.

“In the pages of this beautiful book there have been gathered enough
pictures of the Italian lakes ... to make those who read ... realize
at least somewhat of the wonderful beauty of the lakes of Italy, even
when they have not seen them.” (Ind.) “The lakes of Como, Lugano,
Lecco, Maggiore, Orta, Isco, and others of northern Italy are
described and painted.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The illustrator ... has given us a series of pictures which, though
quite pretty, do not help the reader to realise the general character
of the North Italian lakes. The material with which Mr. Bagot had to
deal was far too extensive for the space at his disposal; and on the
whole he has made a wise selection.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 1236. N. 25, ‘05. 340w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ‘05. 470w.

=Bagot, Richard.= Passport. †$1.50. Harper.

“Mr. Richard Bagot has written a stirring melodrama of love and
intrigue. He has laid on his colours with a trowel. He gives us the
lovely maiden wooed by the handsome lover whose suit is forbidden by
the stern stepmother. He tells of wicked priests, cynical and scheming
villains, faithful servants, secret hiding-places and sliding
panels—all the stock-in-trade of regulation melodrama.... The scene of
the book is laid in Rome and the ‘local colouring’ is admirable.”—Sat.
R.

“It is a pleasure to read so well-conceived and well executed a tale
as this. This is a book that will certainly bear reading twice.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 200w.

“Frankly, the story makes rather better reading than an epitome of it
would warrant one to expect.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 280w.

* “A conscientious, elaborate and able narrative. Within certain
limits, ‘The passport’ may be honestly commended.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 90w.

“The characters in ‘The passport’ stand out very well in the Italian
‘atmosphere’ which Mr. Bagot has the secret of portraying.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 330w.

“The book is one of much interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 420w.

“Is unusual in the strength of its plot and the artistic and
continuous development of the story. Here, as in former books, Mr.
Bagot occasionally offends the taste of his readers quite
unnecessarily.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 100w.

“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization,
although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 90w.

* =Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin.= Peter Newell Mother Goose. †$1.50. Holt.

A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby,
“a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and
sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She
meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie;
Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are
modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children.
There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.

* “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way
first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the
combination forms a most happy volume for children.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to
picture.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 540w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for
nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to
modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what
is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing
text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and
city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.

“They exhort to public-spirited endeavor in the cause of rural
education and they tend to foster a wholesome love of the soil and to
replace the restlessness and discouragement of the country-bred boy
and girl with a reasonable contentment and an impulse to improve
existing opportunities.”

+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 330. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

“Some of the passages are delightful. Nor is it a one-sided view of
life that is presented.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 250w.

* “If there is nothing altogether new in the book, there is nothing
that is not sensible, and very little that is not also inspiring.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 590w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 500w.

“His exhortations ... are hearty, spontaneous, and optimistic, and
full of the love of nature which he wants all the world to share.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 120w.

=Bain, Alexander.= Autobiography. *$5. Longmans.

“The autobiography, as Professor Bain left it, ended with an account
of the events of the year 1890; a supplementary chapter, relating to
the last thirteen years of his life, has been added by his literary
executor, Prof. W. L. Davidson. The chief feature of interest in this
volume is its clear and candid account of the stages in the writer’s
mental growth, under the circumstances of the time.” (Int. J. Ethics).
His early religious life was one of unrest and doubt, but coming under
the influence of Comte’s teachings, he soon rejected all theology, and
found himself a thorogoing empiricist. His greatest originality lies
in the realm of analytic psychology, and his works on this subject are
among the classics. In logic, he was a close follower of Mill, also
his two volumes show some important advances on the Mill method. In
ethics, too, he is consistently empirical and utilitarian, believing
that “General happiness or welfare is a sufficient statement of the
final end.”

“The plan is logically formed and elaborately carried out.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 150w.

“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for
literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a
dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about
the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a
record of his intellectual history first of all.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 94. F. 1, ‘05. 440w.

“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university
education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in
the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the
author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his
native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H.
Mellone.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 241. Ja. ‘05. 1600w. (Abstract of book.)

“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is
overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 720w.

=Bain, F. W.= Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo. $1.50. Putnam.

“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the
sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this
volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to
have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat
greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds
in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)

“The fascination of the stories lies in their almost hypnotic slowness
of movement, their lavish use of color, and the delicate mixture of
wit and sentiment that animate them.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 90w.

“The native atmosphere has been rather cleverly caught, and the author
has adopted several Hindu tricks of story-telling. Many persons will
deem his stories charming. At any rate, they are touchingly
sentimental and written in extra-florid English.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 290w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 453. Jl. 8, ‘05. 380w.

“The stories have an undeniable charm both of matter and of language.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w.

“Are characteristically Eastern in delicacy, tenderness, vividness,
gorgeousness of imagination, and floridity of language.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.

“Mr. Bain has made us all his debtors by presenting us with this
book.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.

=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= First Romanovs, 1613-1725. *$3.50. Dutton.

An account of “the rise of socialism in Russia in its early days,
coming down to the end of the reign of Peter the Great. So far as we
know, the book takes new ground in that it is less a history of war
and political convulsions than of the underlying conditions—social,
racial, and moral as well as political—which give shape and form to
the Muscovite civilization. Dramatic episodes and incidents have large
place in the narrative.... There are several portraits and
maps.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Nisbet Bain is too faithful a chronicler. He tells his story in
such detail that we miss the broad features and lack some perspective
of Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 799. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1010w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 940. Jl. ‘05. 40w.

“But is perhaps unfair to carp at these minor inaccuracies (as they
seem to us), and it is a more congenial task to praise this
interesting book for the many pictures of old Russian life with which
it abounds.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 133. Jl. 29. 1770w.

“It is seldom that a book combines in so high a degree the charm of
imaginative writing with the graver interest of history.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 246. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2040w.

“‘The first Romanovs’ is a work which covers less ground than is
traversed in the Scandinavian volume, and is marked not only by a
greater fulness of detail, but by greater concentration of purpose.
The present volume is in many respects the best he has given us.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 530w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 390w.

“It is a conscientious, well-balanced history of that remarkable
century. The whole story is well and interestingly told in fluent and
often pictorial English.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w.

“The work is essentially readable. Such a book as this is valuable as
affording insight into what was really a formative period of European
history.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w.

“Upon the reader’s acceptance or rejection of Peter’s role as a mighty
regenerator will necessarily depend the value and interest of Mr.
Bain’s work. At the same time we fail to find that he brings any
really new light to bear upon the subject.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1330w.

=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= Scandinavia: a political history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. $2. Macmillan.

The period from 1513 to 1900 is treated in this volume which deals
with the rise, decline, and fall of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as
powers.

“The most comprehensive that has yet been written.”

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 1000w.

“In his conclusions he frequently differs from earlier writers, but,
though his generalizations are often dangerously bold, his statements,
as a rule, are well supported.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 190. O. ‘05. 470w.

“We have found Mr. Bain’s narrative clear and very readable. It is
throughout a scholarly production.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 773. Je. 24, 2120w.

“Mr. Bain’s narrative, however, is usually vivid and sometimes even
eloquent. Inaccuracy rather than obscurity is the fault of the book.
As is natural when the scope of the work is so wide, many of the
author’s views are open to question.” W. F. R.

+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 608. Jl. ‘05. 590w.

“His epitome of Scandinavian annals is clear and well arranged giving
about equal prominence to Denmark and Sweden.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w.

“Mistakes are rare, and those that may be found are too insignificant
for exposure. And he tells a good story. This failure of Mr. Bain to
enter into the spirit of the time is glaringly apparent in his
treatment of Christian II. of Denmark. On the whole his judgments of
present-day men and measures are correct and well balanced.” Edwin
Bjorkman.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 508. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1760w.

“Keen insight into causation is manifest; social as well as political
movements are studied, not a little light being thrown on hitherto
neglected phases of Scandinavian history; and the facts presented have
been carefully verified. The style, without being impressive, is
fluent and agreeable.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 290w.

“A very useful historical volume.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 230w.

“Mr. Bain’s story is, by force of circumstances, highly compressed,
but he has succeeded in making it both clear and attractive.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 170w.

=Baker, Cornelia.= Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.

This story is all about Pedro and Petronilla, twins of Béarne, who at
the start could not understand why when Aunt Catalina said that they
had some blue blood in their veins should see only red blood start
from a knife wound. They themselves thus remind the reader that they
are very much flesh-and-blood little mortals. Their experiences at the
court of Francis the First, and their travels and adventures are full
of interest for the young reader. The illustrations are the clever
work of Fanny Y. Cory.

“A pleasant way for any boy or girl to get acquainted with the
sixteenth century is to read ‘The queen’s page.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.

=Baker, George P.= Forms of public address. **$1.12. Holt.

This little volume is offered by Mr. Baker as a needed supplement to
the ordinary oratorical work done in colleges. It is designed for
school use, and sets forth its purpose in an introduction addressed to
teachers. The book consists of famous historical letters, both private
and open, editorials, inaugural addresses, speeches of eulogy,
commemoration, dedication, welcome and farewell, and after-dinner
speeches. There are an appendix and explanatory notes.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 550w.

“The selections presented as models give a value to the volume that
the general reader, as well as instructors and students, will
appreciate for their historical or personal as well as literary
worth.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 120w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 50w.

=Baker, Henry B.= Relation of preventable disease to taxation. Michigan State board of health.

“We have here a valuable analytical study of local expenditures in
Michigan during 1903 on account of indigent sufferers from dangerous
communicable diseases: also computations of the money values of the
lives apparently saved in 1903 through the lowered death rate from
smallpox, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and consumption since the
organization of the State board of health.”—Engin. N.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 210w.

=Baker, Louise R.= Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.

A pretty story of a little orphan, Mary Daingerfield, who is separated
from her sister and brothers and adopted by the rich and kind-hearted
Pinners. Thru her sweet unselfishness she succeeds in bringing home to
them their son, Dave, and also in reuniting her orphaned family—Kit,
Buz, the baby, and their faithful old black Aunty.

=Baker, Moses Nelson.= Sewerage and sewage purification. 50c. Van Nostrand.

A second revised and enlarged edition of this valuable little volume
which was first published in 1895.

=Baker, Rev. P.= Short instructions; or, Meditations on the Gospels for each day in Lent; ed. by Rev. W: T. Conklin. 75c. Christian press.

“These instructions were first published in 1834 ... [and] are based
on the holy Gospels for every day in Lent. The Gospel for the day is
given; then follows a short instruction on the same, concluding with a
prayer.”—Cath. World.

+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 691. F. ‘05. 180w.

=Baker, William Henry.= Cement-worker’s handbook. 50c. W. H. Baker, Wadsworth, O.

More than 50 most important subjects on cement and its uses in
construction are covered in this volume, which is compiled to meet the
requirements of the common workman.

“The description of the proper way to make cement walks is the best
that we have seen in print.”

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 200w.

=Baldwin, Charles Sears,= ed. American short stories. See Wampum library of American literature, v. I.

=Baldwin, Charles Sears.= How to write, *50c. Macmillan.

Taking the English Bible as a model of style, the author has written a
practical little book which tells “plain people” how to prepare
essays, how to tell stories, and how to describe.

“The book will be very useful as a practical rhetoric.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 150w.

“The author has succeeded in making his directions practical and
untechnical enough really to help the people for whom they are
designed.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.

* =Baldwin, May.= Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.

“A sprightly story of the experiences of an English girl of fourteen,
who spent two years at a convent school in the north of France, on the
Belgian frontier.... The heroine’s interests were varied by the
neighborhood of a French uncle with a haunted château.... There are
illustrations and a good deal of minor detail of the life of a French
country house.”—Nation.

* “The tale has incident enough to make it good reading for any girl
under eighteen.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 130w.

* “The theme is a good one, and well worked out.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.

=Baldwin, Simeon Eben.= American judiciary and judicial system. *$1.25. Century.

This is the sixth volume in the “American state series” whose object
is to describe “comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental
agencies of the American state are organized and administered.” The
subject matter falls under two heads: Part 1. The nature and scope of
the judicial power in the United States, and Part 2. The organization
and practical working of American courts.

* “So far as description goes, it is here and there loosely written.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 310w.

“His work maintains the high standard set by the other published
volumes of the ‘American state series.’” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 600w.

“Is characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and readableness. Laymen
and jurists alike will find this book interesting and helpful.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 390w.

“He has accomplished his difficult task admirably.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 140w.

=Balmforth, Ramsden.= Bible from the standpoint of higher criticism. 2v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.

Two volumes devoted respectively to the Old and New Testament, which
discuss in popular and non-technical form the results of the higher
criticism. “The true basis of religious union is shown to be where
Jesus put it, not in the speculative doctrines which divide men, but
in the moral effect which unites them.” (Outlook.) Illustrations are
drawn from the various classes of literature and periods of history.

“Its object is to show that, after all, the Bible is worth studying.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 742. O. ‘05. 190w.

“Some of the principal facts brought to light in recent study are
presented fearlessly and with no little skill.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Mr. Balmforth’s discussions are bold, almost blunt, but they are
reverent and well considered, and they will do good service in
promoting familiarity with the achievements of Biblical scholarship in
its most important field.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)

“A lucid and popularly written account of the results of modern
critical study.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Bandelier, Fanny,= tr. Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. **$1. Barnes.

A new volume in the “Trail-makers library” which narrates the
experiences and adventures of the first white man to cross the
continent. “His journey begun in Florida in 1528 ended on the Pacific
in 1536. The translator and editor have had a valuable idea in
extracting from the original confused and garrulous narrative what was
essential and important.” (Outlook.)

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 60w.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w.

=Nation.= 80: 458. Je. 8, ‘05. 90w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.

“The work is edited by no less an authority than Ad. F. Bandelier, the
foremost in this line, and the translation is by his wife, whose quick
intelligence and absolute familiarity with the Spanish language has
enabled her to fathom many intricacies of the vague and confused
record.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 509. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2070w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.

* =Bangs, John Kendrick.= Mrs. Raffles; being the adventures of an amateur cracks-woman narrated by Bunny. †$1.25. Harper.

“In his well-known humorous style Mr. Bangs has portrayed
Mrs. Raffles, the widow of the famous cracksman, and her
never-to-be-consoled admirer ‘Bunny.’ The yarns ... contain material
for detective stories that quite surpass the plots invented for the
original thief by Mr. Hornung.”—Critic.

* “The yarns one and all are amusing.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur
cracksman, very badly done.”

— =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.

=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. †50c. Harper.

Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get
even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They
construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A
certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he
becomes an unmanageable flirt.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 349. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.

=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 80w.

=Banks, Nancy Huston.= Little hills. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in
a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to
her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her
husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother
“austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all
around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a
triumphant turn out into the open.

“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an
interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs.
Banks introduces us are not convincing.”

— + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 260w.

“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are
quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or
burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole
together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile
delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an
almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 21: 599. Ag. ‘05. 510w.

“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an
over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 90w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.

“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its
characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read
with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the
freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 230w.

“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and
always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is
rather faint.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.

“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation
is not very successful.”

— =Sat. R.= 100: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.

=Barbour, Ralph Henry (Richard Stillman Powers, pseud.).= Orchard princess. †$2. Lippincott.

How Miles Fallon, bachelor, becomes a ready target for Cupid’s dart
when April sunshine and the scent of apple blossoms lure him on to the
orchard princess is lightly sketched in this love tale with a pastoral
setting. The man is a novelist, and the girl is an artist, yet these
two idealists are very human in the “little nothingnesses” that pave
the way for their romance.

* =Critic.= 47:577. D. ‘05. 10w.

* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 160w.

* “The heroine is a real girl, which cannot always be said of romantic
heroines.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 10w.

=Bard, Emile.= Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

Viewing China and the Chinese “with the eyes of a man of affairs,” and
avoiding “exaggerated optimism”, the author has treated of Chinese
traits, customs and character, of their religions, education,
government, history and economic and social life. The book is concise
and interesting, and contains over a dozen illustrations and a good
index.

“Altogether this is a clever and readable book.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 266. S. ‘05. 160w.

“The book has no air of hasty generalization; the chapters, though
brief, are full of information, set forth in the clearest possible
manner.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 200w.

“The characteristic and chief value of the book is its freedom from
bias. The little volume is singularly free from inaccuracies.”

+ + + =Ind.= 59: 753. S. 28, ‘05. 210w.

“The translation, or rather adaptation, is one that takes away all
stiffness and puts the reader at his ease. With index and
illustrations, this makes one of the books on China most pleasant for
reference and reading.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 227. S. 14, ‘05. 1210w.

“He is a kindly, though just, observer.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 2100w.

“The translation seems well done.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w.

“He has come as near to an understanding of the Chinese character as
is possible for an occidental.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.

=Barnes, James.= Blockaders. 60c. Harper.

Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is
a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the
Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are
stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa,
where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story
of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to
save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently
inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others
equally varied.

“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the
boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style
is crisp, direct, and natural.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 408. Je. ‘05. 130w.

“The sort of thing boys like to read.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.

“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all
good.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w.

=Barr, Martin W.= Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and training. *$4. Blakiston.

An interesting and practical treatment of the subject by one who has
had long and successful experience in the training of the mentally
deficient. The modern methods of sifting and classifying these
children, are given in detail, and the work suitable for each class is
described. It is an interesting book for everyone, but is intended
primarily for teachers and parents. There are 152 illustrations.

“In his interesting study, Dr. Barr has spoken to an audience of
teachers and parents, rather than to scientists.” Albert Warren
Ferris.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 65. Mr. ‘05. 700w. (Abstract of book.)

“It is by all odds the most thorough and well written treatise upon
the subject with which we are familiar, not excepting those of
Ireland, Doun, or Seguin; besides it is modern.”

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 210w.

+ + =Nation.= 80: 524. Je. 29, ‘05. 460w.

=School R.= 13: 649. O. ‘05. 10w.

=Barr, Robert.= Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.

John Steele, the hero of this story, runs the entire gamut of
financial adventure. He starts as station master in the “lone shanty”
known as Hitchen’s Siding where his bravery in side-tracking a freight
train without the dispatcher’s orders, thus averting a collision, was
the beginning of a series of promotions. He becomes the owner of a
railroad, dabbles in wheat, loses a fortune, wins it again with the
woman he loves thru a coup de force.

=Barrett, Mrs. Charlotte,= ed. See =Burney, Frances.= Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay.

=Barrington, Mrs. Russell.= Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5. Macmillan.

Conversational reminiscences of the sculptor-artist jotted down by one
who was his friend and neighbor. Many interesting details are given,
which reveal his character and his attitude toward his own work and
the work of other artists.

“An extremely readable story of her long and intimate friendship with
Watts.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 790. Je. 24. 1820w.

“Comprehensive volume.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 170w.

“At times it must be admitted she rather overloads her pages with
minor details. The book is written pleasantly, interestingly, tho
without any great distinction of style—but it is only fair to add that
there is no pretension to style.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 809. O. 5, ‘05. 800w.

* “The most important book about that painter yet published.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

* “Mrs. Barrington combines in an unusual degree the literary and
artistic gift.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 181. D. ‘05. 390w.

“We cannot help thinking that the author would have done better to
hand over her notes to the biographer who, under the general direction
of Mrs. Watts and with access to the painter’s private papers, is at
work upon a complete biography.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 720w.

“Mrs. Barrington’s book, with all its enthusiastic fervor and intimate
outpourings, adds practically little to what has already been
published.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 367. N. 2, ‘05. 830w.

“Mrs. Barrington’s is not a biography, but a personal work, which
incidentally reveals a good deal of the writer’s personality.” Charles
de Kay.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 2230w.

* “A noble biography of a noble man.”

+ =Outlook.= 81:703. N. 25, ‘05. 420w.

* “This volume, while perhaps not exhaustive, is certainly accurate.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 150. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1110w.
=Spec.= 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 210w.

=Barritt, Leon.= How to draw. **$2. Harper.

The author “here sets forth, in a simple and practical manner, the
basic principles of illustration in pen and ink and pencil.” After
describing fully the materials necessary, he outlines the steps of
procedure. The first lesson is on a block letter alphabet. Next are
rules for drawing the human head and features, the hands, feet, and
the human figure. “How to measure an object by the eye” is followed by
an explanation of how to draw from life, studies in expression, animal
drawing, perspective, landscape drawing, spatter work, water studies,
comics, cartoons, wash lampblack drawing, drawing on silver prints,
distemper drawings, lettering, foliage study, and the reproduction of
drawings. The last part of the book is devoted to the well-known
American illustrators and cartoonists.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 22. Ja. 14, ‘05. 260w.

=Barren, Leonard,=, ed. Roses and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.

Omitting everything that does not bear directly upon the subject of
practical rose growing, this manual teaches the American amateur all
that is necessary for him to know “in order that he may intelligently
make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow a harvest of bloom.”
A number of half-tone illustrations accompany the text. The book
belongs to the “Garden library.”

“The book is freely and attractively illustrated, most of the
inscriptions being amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures.”
Edith Granger.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“To those who desire roses and know nothing about them this little
volume will be an especial boon, so precise and unveiled by the
drapery of unnecessary words are the instructions.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 537. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.

=Barry, Richard.= Port Arthur: a monster heroism. *$1.50. Moffat.

Under such chapter headings as, The city of silence, A battle in a
storm, Cost of taking Port Arthur, and A contemporary epic, are told
the horrid things, pitiless and true, which the author saw in the East
on the field and in the trenches where the little brown men fought so
bravely.

“Barry knows how to tell a story in words and sentences that seem part
of the war itself.” William Elliot Griffis.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.

“This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly and sympathetically
impressed, still young enough to have every impression deep and clear,
and old enough to set it down justly and vividly.” Wallace Rice.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 900w.

“Not strictly a well-written book, this is nevertheless full of the
vitality of the field, and the impression that it gives of a record
made on the spot is heightened by the numerous illustrations from the
author’s own camera.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w.

“The book is on the whole more to be commended for its material than
the manner in which the material is used.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 470w.

“He gives a series of vivid pictures of Japanese methods of warfare,
of life in the besieging trenches, of the characteristics of the
Japanese soldier and his commanding officers.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 120w.

=Barry, William (Francis).= Life of Ernest Renan. **$1. Scribner.

Beginning with a chapter which discusses the widely known scholar and
writer as “The Breton peasant,” Mr. Barry traces the career of Renan,
describing his youthful struggles to understand the Catholic faith,
his giving up the priesthood, his lectures as a teacher of Hebrew, the
influence of his sister, his travels and his work upon his “Life of
Jesus,” and his other books.

“Is in many respects an excellent and most instructive biography, but
he is somewhat too prone to argue with Renan’s opinions without trying
to ‘place’ him amid the powerful influences of the nineteenth
century.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w.

“It chiefly consists of translation or paraphrase of books within
reach of every one, and the moment Dr. Barry essays to be original he
falls into blunders.”

— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26, 1000w.

“This work is finely wrought as a piece of literature, is judicious,
brave, and reverent.”

+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 527. Jl. ‘05. 1220w.

“From the able pen of a keen and sympathetic critic.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w.

“He has written a superficial book on a subject worthy of more
intelligent treatment.”

— =Lond. Times.= 4: 169. My. 26, ‘05. 650w.

“The thesis is cleverly maintained, and the book, in spite of its
obvious dogmatic purpose, is interesting throughout.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w.

“Falls several points short of being satisfactory as an exposition of
the reality behind the man who was an atheist, ‘devoutly and with a
sort of unction.’”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1220w.

“Interesting, well written, appreciatively critical.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 120w.

=Sat. R.= 100: 278. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1290w.

“It says much for the wealth and variety of Dr. Barry’s resources,
both as a scholar and as a literary artist, that he has achieved this
task with eminent success.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 526. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w.

=Barton, George Aaron.= Year’s wandering in Bible lands. *$2. Ferris.

This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the
American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry
archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the
author and his party, and a description of the localities visited,
including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land,
Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in
half-tone, from views taken during the trip.

Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.

+ + =Ind.= 58: 901. Ap. 20, ‘05. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 350w. (Survey of
contents).

“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a
pictorial companion book to the Bible.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 40w.

=Barton, Samuel Marx.= Elements of plane surveying. *$1.50. Heath.

To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught
in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the
author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into
the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses;
(2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas;
(5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111
pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of
squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia
tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric
functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary
table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion
of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time
and labor.

“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose
interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the
strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels
he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are
supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s
point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of
the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.

+ + =School R.= 13: 85. Ja. ‘05. 550w. (Detailed statement of
contents.)

=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.

“This little volume tells simply and clearly how to locate and build a
country house to insure the most healthful conditions, how to provide
a pure water supply, and how to dispose of the waste in an economical
and sanitary manner.”—Outlook.

“The suggestions that he offers to the prospective builder of a
country house are eminently practical, based on a scientific study of
rural conditions.”

+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 80w.

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 40w.

* =Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone.= Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“A French romance of the time of Louis XIII. The scene is partly
placed in a retired garden belonging to the King and entered by a
‘little green door.’ The book is not of the swashbuckling type,
although there is an occasional clash of swords.”—Outlook.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 557. Ag. 25, ‘05. 220w.

* “The attempt is for quiet charm rather than for strenuous dramatic
effect.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 50w.

=Bate, Percy.= English table glass. *$2.50. Scribner.

“The early pages tell of the author’s own proceedings as a collector
and his growth as a connoisseur.... There are 254 separate glasses
illustrated, all arranged upon the black backgrounds of sixty-seven
half-tone plates.... There are many historical curiosities among these
pieces, and of course Jacobitism in abundance.” (Nation.) 1586 is the
date of the earliest glass shown.

“A book at once pleasing and packed with information, personal and yet
of broadest application.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 440w.

“The author is very enthusiastic, and has much knowledge of his
subject, and his guidebook will be a welcome help to the large body of
students of an attractive subject. We rarely find Mr. Bate at fault.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 510w.

“As far as it goes, however, the book is a careful account, rather by
way of classification than of historical or technical discussion, of
English table glass up to 1800.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 219. Jl. 7, ‘05. 260w.

“Full of the knowledge and the insight of the enthusiastic collector.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 530. Je. 29, 05. 1130w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.

=Bates, Oric.= Madcap cruise. †$1.50. Houghton.