Chapter V: Preface (4)

+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

“An interesting narrative, of a very real value, because in a considerable measure it is a history of the customs and people of the South during the long period through which the university has passed.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Battle= for the Pacific, and other adventures at sea, by Rowan
Stevens, Yates Stirling, jr., William J. Henderson, George E.
Walsh, Kirk Munroe, F. H. Spearman, and others. il. †$1.25.
Harper.

8–12227.

This little volume contains short stories by many writers. They treat
of imaginary battles upon the sea in which the United States has for
an antagonist sometimes Japan and sometimes England. They are the
purely fanciful creations of an active imagination.

* * * * *

“Thrilling enough to satisfy any appetite for the spice of
excitement.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 130w.

=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Ignaz Jan Paderewski. *$1. Lane.

8–35168.

A sketch of the musical career of the great pianist together with a
temperate interpretation of his genius. “The author considered
Paderewski’s technique not always clear; he found ‘too many spots of
virtuoso exaggeration of contrast,’ and so on. Yet, in spite of
shortcomings, Paderewski is for him ‘the greatest of living pianists,’
for in addition to strong individuality and ripe musicianship, he is
strongly emotional, and possesses that ‘curious magnetism which always
enchains the attention of the public.’” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“A good brief biography.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.

“In judging Paderewski as a composer, the critic is very guarded in
his language. He finds, as many others do, much to praise in the
various works, yet he suspends judgment.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 203. F. 15. 250w.

=Nation.= 85: 524. D. 5, ’07. 800w.

“Mr. Baughan’s critical attitude is judicious. He recognizes the
greatness of Paderewski, but he puts in clauses of limitation.”
Richard Aldrich.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 300w.

=Bax, Ernest Belfort.= Roots of reality; being suggestions for a
philosophical reconstruction. *$2. Dodge, B. W.

8–8287.

From the idealist’s standpoint, Mr. Bax outlines the directions that
future philosophic thinking must take. The central topic of his book
is that in all mind and consciousness an alogical element stands out
against the logical element and can never be merged therein. The four
modes of opposition between the logical and alogical are the
antitheses between the universal and the particular, being and
appearance, infinite and finite, and chance and law.

* * * * *

“Professionalism is just as odious in philosophy as in athletics;
wherefore, if Mr. Bax handles metaphysics decidedly ‘en amateur,’ his
conscientious effort to get to the bottom of things merits respect and
attention none the less.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908. 1: 160. F. 8. 700w.

“As to the manner of exposition, most readers will probably complain
of a certain slowness in getting down to real issues; and the frequent
repetitions rather obscure the argument. Mr. Bax also has the rather
irritating habit of now and then patronizingly foisting his own
triumphant opinions upon Plato, Kant, or Hegel. As a whole, however,
the book is both timely and suggestive.” M. R. Cohen.

+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 78. Ja. 30, ’08. 1400w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 180w.

Reviewed by A. R. Gifford.

+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 162. My. 15, ’08. 1600w.

“The reader who is not to be daunted by a formidable phraseology will
find this book worth reading. But the author’s professed ‘purpose of
reaching the average intelligent man’ would have been better served by
his adopting a simpler style of diction.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 115. Jl. 27, ’07. 1250w.

=Baylor, Mrs. Edith M. H.= Little prospector. il. †$1. Lothrop.

7–23301.

The adventures of a patriotic little American who goes with his family
from Boston to the mining regions of Nevada. Pioneer life with its
fascinations and perils is portrayed in a manner to interest juvenile
readers.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.

=Bayne, Samuel Gamble.= Quicksteps through Scandinavia; with a
retreat from Moscow. **$1.25. Harper.

8–18339.

A short illustrated account of a trip thru Scandinavia and Russia
presented with the hope of aiding the tourist in selecting what to see
and what to avoid.

* * * * *

“Mr. Bayne is apparently an intelligent and well-informed man, as he
has the requisite facility for mental kodaking, and a share of a sense
of humor—the American kind—his book turns out to be a diverting affair
on the whole.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 630w.

=Bazin, René.= Coming harvest (Le blé qui levé); tr. by Edna K.
Hoyt. †$1.25. Scribner.

8–25122.

“A picture of some aspects of peasant life in France to-day ... the
hate of the laborer for the man of family and for the man of wealth,
the unreasonable demands which socialistic agitators have taught him
to make.... The chief character, an honest upright pagan, after a
varied experience of injustice and disloyalty at the hands of his
fellows, of ingratitude from his child, is, when he has almost fallen
into despair, drawn to religion, where he finds peace.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“In his own restrained, forcible manner, with a realism that convinces
but never descends to the repulsive, he allows us to see with our own
eyes, the narrow, hopeless, sordid view of life which unbelief and
materialism has forced upon the humbler rural class in France. The
translation is correct and idiomatic.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 258. N. ’08. 360w.

“Of the literary art of the novel it is necessary to speak highly.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 820w.

“A powerful novel of life in the country in France to-day, full of
picturesque incidents, vivid characters, and descriptions of the
country.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 20w.

* =Bazin, René.= Italians of to-day; tr. from the French by William Marchant. **$1.25. Holt.

Keen observation and unprejudiced reflection characterize this
presentation of the Italian of to-day. A chapter on The northern
provinces—provincial life shows cause for the great poverty of the
Italian peasant, discusses his national characteristics of
hospitality, affection for home, his educational opportunities, and
literature. Other chapters are: Roman houses, and the Roman Campagna:
Southern Italy and A corner of Sicily—Aetna in eruption.

=Bazin, René.= The nun (L’isolée). $1. Scribner.

8–15729.

The story of five nuns living in a convent in Lyons. When the order
comes to disband their religious community, they abandon their work
among the children of the town and cast themselves upon the world.
Pascale, the youngest, prettiest and least experienced of them is
betrayed and is cast low in sin and suffering.

* * * * *

“The picture of convent life is vivid, and the characterization is
good, but the book is weakened by some exaggeration.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.

“The book is excellent, but marred by exaggeration.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 100w.

“We forget we are reading, and we actually see the drama pass us.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 679. Ag. ’08. 730w.

“The book is typically French in its clear construction and dramatic
curtness. The indicative mood prevails—things are explained,
demonstrated, or reasoned out rather than acted; and the
characterization is clever, but compressed for each individual into a
page or so of initial biography. It is probable that the large success
of ‘The nun’ abroad is due to a sympathy for the plight of the church,
impossible for many American readers to share.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.

“The picture of convent life is one well worth reading. Realism of
this kind can only do good.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 600w.

“Has been excellently translated.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.

“No one but a Frenchman could have written this ... remarkable book.
It is a pitiful and poignant story, rich in real drama and arresting
by its fidelity to the truths of life.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 300w.

=Bazin, René.= Redemption. (De toute son âme); tr. by A. S.
Rappoport. †$1.25. Scribner.

8–30021.

Out of a background of shop women and fishermen, thick with the
atmosphere of unleavened toil there gradually emerges a saint-like
woman whose mission is to love much, to minister to the sin-burdened,
to console the misery-stricken, and to sacrifice self-gratification
for the sake of fellow mortals. The development of this character is
the serious business of the author thruout the story.

* * * * *

“The story is sweet, wholesome and worth while.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠

“The book, so full of honesty and kindliness, lacks conviction to the
Anglo-Saxon.” G: Middleton.

+ − =Bookm.= 28: 48. S. ’08. 750w.

“Even in English, after much of its exquisite aroma has,
notwithstanding the high quality of the translator’s work, been,
necessarily, lost, it is a fascinating story. Simple in construction,
commonplace in incident, it is a superb delineation of the glory of
consecration and sacrifice exemplified in the life of a young girl of
the people.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 838. S. ’08. 1100w.

+ =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.

“His logical French mind avoids the pitfalls of the too literal
realist, and co-ordinates the various facts and appearances that come
within his chosen field, presenting as a result a coherent and
expressive picture. The translation is clear but not distinguished.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 399. Jl. 18, ’08. 1350w.

“The translation of this book, though marred by one or two blemishes,
is sufficiently flowing for the reader’s enjoyment of the story.
Remarkable novel.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 302. Ag. 29, ’08. 160w.

=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Barrier: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

8–10616.

A miners’ trading post in the Alaskan gold region is the scene of this
story which is not so full of brutality as “The spoilers.” Yet it has
its hard side, with rough, unscrupulous men in the background, against
which is enacted a drama of love and its hardships. The hero is a
Kentuckian, a young lieutenant, stationed at the post with some
soldiers; the heroine is a beautiful girl supposed to have Indian
blood in her veins which forms the barrier to marriage. The discovery
of who she really is sets matters straight in spite of the fact that
her foster father and her own father had been enemies for life.

* * * * *

“The main narrative is not obscured by a complexity of minor
characters as was ‘The spoilers,’ by the same author, nor does it
present quite so brutal an aspect of life.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠

“This is a virile story. Mr. Beach is here to confute the critic, with
a book innocent of construction, scornful of grammatical propriety,
callow and jejune in sentiment, but none the less successful in its
kind, because it is ‘elemental.’” Burton Bancroft.

+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 282. My. ’08. 500w.

“It is all good thrilling conventional melodrama, written by a man
with an eye for actuality and a sense of dramatic fitness.” W: M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.

“All the descriptions are given with a very evident knowledge of the
details, and information about the laws and customs of the land is
imparted in an interesting way.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 866. Ap. 16, ’08. 270w.

“Readers will begin the book in confident expectation of getting
another installment of glorified frontier history, and most of them,
it is to be feared, will lay it down with that natural, though
slightly unfair, expectation disappointed.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.

“Mr. Beach did much better in his first novel of Alaska.”

− =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.

− =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 100w.

=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Dan Beard’s animal book and camp-fire
stories. il. **$1.60. Moffat.

8–3274.

“This is not a natural history, neither is it a so-styled nature book.
It is simply a book of animals and is made up from the author’s
personal notes and sketches made in the fields and forests for his own
amusement and not with a view to publication; here and there scattered
through the volume will be found a few short camp-fire stories and
legends, some of which have already appeared in print.... These are
not intended to be taken as either strictly or scientifically true,
but the notes and sketches are as accurate as the author could make
them.”

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 55. F. ’08.

“A spirit of kindness and gentleness pervades the book and cannot fail
to exert a helpful influence on the minds of those who read it.”

+ + =Arena.= 39: 502. Ap. ’08. 700w.

“A curious hodge-podge—a mass of undigested information about all
sorts of creatures ... the whole presented in a style a good deal of
which would be none the worse for a little editing. The entire spirit
of his book makes it a capital one to put into the hands of any boy.”
G: Gladden.

− + =Bookm.= 27: 607. Ag. ’08. 860w.

“This new volume will also undoubtedly hit the mark. The numerous
sketches by the author, some in color, are the most original and
valuable feature of the book.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

=Bearne, Mrs. Catharine Mary.= Sister of Marie Antoinette: the
life-story of Maria Carolina, queen of Naples. *$3. Dutton.

8–11809.

In the main a sketch of Maria Carolina. It also furnishes side lights
on the history of the times. “The heroine herself is, in any
presentation, a striking type of woman in politics. Her hatred and
dread of Napoleon, the trouble she managed to give him, and her
embarrassment when she became his grandmother-in-law, form a dramatic
theme which hardly needs the enlivenment furnished by her entanglement
in the affairs of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. In her realm, as in that
of Prince Otto, politics and love affairs were hardly distinguishable
in method, in content, or in importance.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“An interesting and not uninstructive piece of historical biography,
which may easily be supplemented or corrected by those who wish to
pursue the subject further. The index is ludicrously inadequate.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 94. Ja. 25. 1250w.

“A story full of intrinsic interest is told in a style of vivacious
dulness, with a syntax of its own.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.

“A good book of its class.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 200w.

“Valuable in more than one way.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.

=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1754–1765. **$2.
Macmillan.

7–30451.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“A thorough, concise, scholarly piece of work; for the larger
libraries or special collections of history.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 99. Ap. ’08.

“The book is very carefully written, but the style is not so
entertaining as one might desire.” E. R. Johnson.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 514. Mr. ’08. 550w.

“His book is not without defects, chiefly due to the fact that, in his
reaction against the school of Bancroft, he does rather more than
justice to the mother country and rather less to the colonies.” W. L.
Grant.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 371. Ap. ’08. 1050w.

“No one before him has ever attempted to examine in detail or
systematically the evidence which the British archives furnish. Mr.
Beer has had the courage and patience to undertake a systematic search
of the British departmental records, volume by volume, page by page,
in the effort to discover exactly what ‘colonial policy’ meant to
those in whose hands lay its enforcement.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 1300w.

“Here and there are theses which challenge discussion, and details
which may be questioned. The essential thing is that Mr. Beer has
given us a well-reasoned, and in the main convincing, study of
eighteenth-century imperial problems. The book shows throughout
unusual mastery of printed and manuscript sources.” E. B. Greene.

+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 326. Je. ’08. 750w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 489. Jl. ’08. 650w.

=Beers, Clifford W.= A mind that found itself: an autobiography.
**$1.50. Longmans.

8–7899.

A record of the author’s own experience in a private sanitarium and in
an insane hospital. “The purposes of Mr. Beers’s book as he sets them
forth are three in number: to rob insanity of its terrors; to correct
existing abuses and to elevate the standard of treatment; and to
induce the benevolent rich to aid state and nation in supplying funds
for the erection and maintenance of model institutions for the care of
the mentally diseased.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.

“The book naturally carries with it ... much of the intensity of an
irritable temperament; yet with ample allowance for this trait, the
account rings true, and should do much to enlighten the public in
regard to what is needed in the way of practical reforms for the work
of ministering wisely to minds diseased.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w.

“A striking psychological monograph.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 663. S. 17, ’08. 450w.

“Here are furnished the most invaluable data for a new order of social
reform.”

+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.

“Mr. Beers has written a readable book. If he has failed to
subordinate the personal element to his ‘cause,’ he can be pardoned
because of his desire to stir up popular indignation for current
asylum abuses as he views them.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 700w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

“A most fascinatingly written human document.” Adolph Meyer.

+ + =No. Am.= 187: 611. Ap. ’08. 1400w.

“The volume is, both dramatically and psychologically, one of great
interest.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.

“It aims to be constructive, and therein lies its superiority over
many other criticisms or defenses of existing conditions. To do this
and yet to retain the reading quality of a story is a feat denoting a
decided literary talent.” A. M.

+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 283. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.

=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.

=Begbie, Harold.= Tables of stone. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“Mr. Begbie’s hero is a young man from the country whose remarkable
simplicity engages the amused attention of fashionable people in
London, with the result that he is launched by means of a tutorship on
a successful career as a social philosopher. Having by somewhat
unsportsmanlike means obtained the hand of a girl immeasurably his
superior ... he proceeds to break her heart by his colossal
priggishness and egoism.” (Sat. R.) “Finding the task of spending a
lifetime with the Wrong Man too hard for her, she deliberately betrays
him, and on being discovered, kills herself and her child.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“The story is thoughtful and interesting, but obscure in purpose.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 160w.

“A somewhat ponderous, conscientious piece of fiction. Altogether a
cheerless and unprofitable sort of book.” F: T. Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 360w.

“As a piece of literary work the ‘Tables of stone’ is extremely
creditable to its author, but it is not a pleasant story, and, so far
as is evident, there is no important lesson taught by it.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Begbie has grasped neither the tone of the political society
which he endeavours to portray, nor the character of the supra-mundane
problems which he handles so glibly.”

− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 260w.

=Begbie, Harold.= The vigil. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–9173.

A story in which a young clergyman, secure in the strongholds of
intellect and tradition and bound to celibacy by an oft-renewed vow,
learns thru the suffering of humanity that his religion is Christless.
A woman, the embodiment of love in its purest sense, keeps vigil over
the soul of the man knowing that in time the dawn will come. A number
of theological doctrines are advanced, prominent among them the belief
that a human being cannot sense the reality of Christ until he
realizes the enormity of hell.

* * * * *

“Mr. Begbie believes that the world is a wicked one and that few men
live as they should in the fear of the Lord. He is very much in
earnest and he makes his appeal with eloquence but not as it seems to
us with great success.”

− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 400w.

“There is a good deal of sound theology as well as genuine human
nature in ‘The vigil.’” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 397. Je. ’08. 500w.

“A combination of the shrewd observation and humor of Dickens and
George Eliot is noticeable in many places, and makes the book worth
while, despite its heavy load of theological verbiage.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 200w.

“The trouble with the whole affair is that the man is a weakling. Also
the woman is a prig, with a horrid habit of being right. Several of
the minor figures, on the other hand, possess a good deal of vitality,
especially certain rustics, male and female, worthy to keep alive the
memory of Tabitha Bramble and Mrs. Poyser.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 500w.

“Mr. Begbie has given us a very good piece of religious fiction, which
should be interesting to persons of all creeds.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 350w.

“It is a strong story, and, for the general reader, is dexterously
managed.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.

“The book is a rare one in its quiet atmosphere, in its serene gaze
into eternity.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 640w.

“Mr. Begbie is ambitious, but does not convince us of his ability to
teach a philosophy of life through the medium of fiction. It is all
very painstaking and unconvincing.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 274. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.

=Bell, Lady Florence (Mrs. Hugh Bell).= At the works: a study of a
manufacturing town. 3d impression. $2. Longmans.

8–3942.

“The author has ‘put a piece of prosperity under the microscope,’
giving a detailed account of conditions obtaining in a community of
ironworkers situated in the north of Yorkshire. The material for the
several descriptive chapters—dealing with The genesis of the town, The
process of ironmaking, The expenditures of workmen, Illness and
accidents, Old age, Recreation, Drink, Betting, Gambling—has been
gathered during a period of nearly thirty years’ intercourse with the
population, during which period ‘more than a thousand working-men’s
homes have been visited, many of them on terms of friendly and
continuous intercourse.’”—J. Pol. Econ.

* * * * *

“Possibly not so valuable a book as Rountree’s ‘Poverty’ but new,
sane, authentic.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 75. Mr. ’08.

“She has done the patient, impartial investigation, the ordered
collection of results. She has at least stated the problem which needs
solution.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 930w.

“The study is of permanent value for those interested to know the
everyday life of a typical wage-earning community.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 130w.

“We note some omissions. The two subjects on which Lady Bell throws
most light are reading, and wives and daughters.”

+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 109. Ap. 5, ’07. 800w.

“This book is emphatically worth reading; it is clear, restrained,
straightforward and sympathetic; no social reformer should be without
it, and still less any economist who wishes to see book terms
translated into facts of life.” H: W. Macrostv.

+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 526. S. ’07. 940w.

“It is essentially a social and domestic study of the working classes,
very sensible and sympathetic and founded on real knowledge.”

+ =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.

“The student of social problems cannot possibly afford to miss it,
while the romance of industry has never been more vividly painted than
in her pages.”

+ + =Spec.= 98: 534. Ap. 6, ’07. 1800w.

=Bell, John Joy.= Thou fool! †$1.50. Baker.

8–23530.

“Tells how a selfish, hard-headed young Scotchman, bent upon getting
on in the world, starts life as a grocer’s assistant, and walks a
straight path to opulence and a baronetcy, only to discover
despairingly that his commercial triumphs are powerless to win him the
woman whom he loves, and that he has missed all the real good in
life.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“It makes entertaining enough reading, for it is agreeably written,
keeps up its interest well, and shows a good deal of pleasant, if
somewhat superficial observation.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 762. D. 14. 270w.

“A strong story, admirably told.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 144. O. ’08. 550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 140w.

“Mr. Bell has greater facility in the creation of character than in
the construction and development of plot. But he has written a good
story and one that is very characteristic of the time.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12, ’08. 450w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

=Benedict, Francis Gano.= Influence of inanition on metabolism.
(Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 77.) $2.75.
Carnegie inst.

8–995.

“The book deals with fourteen fasts in which ten different persons
voluntarily went without food from two to seven days, but mostly only
for periods of two to four days.” (Nation.) “It consists mainly of the
protocols of the experiments, their ultimate valuation, and the
general results to be drawn from them being left for the future.”
(Nature.)

* * * * *

“The observations are given in great detail and with a fulness which
has never been attained in similar investigations.”

+ + =Nation.= 36: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.

“It is a monument of prolonged and patient industry and
self-sacrifice, as well as of admirably planned experiments on a large
scale under careful and coordinated guidance. The book is to be
commended to all interested in physiological work, and especially to
those engaged in a study of nutrition.” W. D. H.

+ + + =Nature.= 77: 610. Ap. 30, ’08. 650w.

=Benedict, Leonard.= Waifs of the slums and their way out. **$1.
Revell.

7–28507.

From this account of Mr. J. F. Atkinson’s work among the waifs in his
Chicago Boys’ club one may catch the spirit of missionary work as
distinguished from social settlement work. Sin and not poverty is at
the bottom of the trouble as the missionary views it. The book
contains statistical matter about the condition of the Chicago slums,
the work and the present outlook.

* * * * *

“A well written book of information.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 52. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.

“The trouble with Mr. Benedict is the lack of that charity which is
almost always lacking in propagandists—even when their propaganda is
charity.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 800w.

=Benham, W. Hamilton.= Trade and trade centers of history. Printed
for H. C. Swords at the DeVinne press.

7–19753.

A monograph which “gives a bird’s-eye view of the rise and fall of
nations as a result of the fortunes of their commerce, rather than of
the vigor or the weakness of their dynasties.” (N. Y. Times.)

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 550w.

“Its only justification is the excuse which it gives for including
some of the remarkable prints of prominent merchants and financiers in
the collection of Mr. Swords. As a contribution to, or exposition of,
the subject of trade centers it is of no significance.”

− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 70w.

=Benjamin of Tudela.= Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; critical
text, tr. and commentary, by Marcus Nathan Adler. *$2. Oxford.

“The ‘Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela’ will always hold a high place
among the records of medieval travellers, and is of much interest not
only to the student of the history of the Jews in the middle ages, but
also to the student of the Crusades.... Mr. Adler was ‘fortunate
enough to be able to trace and examine three complete mss. of
Benjamin’s Travels, as well as large fragments belonging to two other
mss.’ The result of his study of these documents is the present
critical text, the basis for which he has used the manuscript
belonging to the British museum, the variants being noted in all
cases. Mr. Adler has added indexes to both the Hebrew text and to the
translation, the references being in all cases to the pages of Asher’s
edition.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“Ought to prove valuable both to those who use Asher’s edition and to
those unable to have access to it.”

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 634. Ap. ’08. 450w.

“Although it cannot be affirmed that the last word on everything has
now been said, the merit of a distinct advance in the critical study
of the ‘Itinerary’ must be cheerfully accorded to the new edition.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 159. F. 8. 900w.

“In one or two instances Mr. Adler’s notes require correction.” G. Le
S.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 193. Ja. ’08. 450w.

“Mr. Adler gives in a small compass excellent material for the
criticism of Benjamin’s text and of his historical statements.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 250w.

=Bennet, Robert Ames.= Into the primitive. il. †$1.50. McClurg.

8–12557.

A story of three persons, an English gentleman, an American heiress,
and an uncouth engineer, who were shipwrecked on a barren coast in the
tropics. With a rather lurid setting the writer has allowed these
three diverse characters to work out their natural development. The
story shows the effect upon human character of a journey back to
nature. All that is real in each individual comes out. The essential
manliness of the engineer triumphs over his lack of social training;
the Englishman proves himself a cad; while the woman retains her sweet
womanliness to the end.

* * * * *

“The quality of the book is not good enough to hold its own against
the handicap of a much overworked situation.” F: T. Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 400w.

=Ind.= 64: 973. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.

“That the story is not hopelessly damaged by the coarse
characterization is tribute to the immortal freshness of the
primitive.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“The author’s aim seems to be to prove that culture is a kind of
tommyrot that serves only to ruin a man or woman’s efficiency. But
there is a vital energy about his people and the story as a whole that
makes it unusual, even worth while.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 350w.

=Bennett, Ida D.= Vegetable garden. (Country home lib.) **$1.50.
McClure.

8–19599.

A thoroly practical exposition of vegetable gardening based upon
experiment directed by science and furthered by sound common sense.
Besides dealing with vegetables that form the staple of the small
garden, the book includes chapters on fertilizers, insecticides and
garden tools.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08. ✠

“The selection of vegetables here given might be improved in certain
ways but, on the whole, the choices are good, and the hints for the
kitchen are extremely suggestive.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.

“The last word in vegetable gardening has surely been said by Miss
Bennett.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.

“Many practical directions which will be appreciated by the novice.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.

=Bennett, James Robert S.= Life of William Sterndale Bennett, by his
son, J. R. Sterndale Bennett. *$3.50. Putnam.

8–6997.

The biography of an English musician who, while he does not rank among
the masters, deserves a place among sincere artists. “Bennett was a
man of mark in his time. He had a peculiarly winning nature, a gift
for friendship. He was the intimate of Schumann and of Mendelssohn,
and of many other nineteenth-century musicians, and their relations
with him, their correspondence with him, as well as the part he played
in the musical life of England, give a certain interest to these pages
which the present importance of their subject would not.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“The conversations, letters quoted, and other matters give a picture
of the years especially connected with Mendelssohn more vivid than any
which have been drawn by historians who gathered information solely
from written records.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 138. F. 1. 600w.

“It is interesting at many points, and a contribution to the history
of music in the England of Victoria.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 850w.

“The task has been done once and for all with a discretion and a
delicacy worthy of the subject, and with a filial piety that is never
disfigured by hero-worship.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 1050. D. 21, ’07. 1600w.

=Bennett, John William.= Roosevelt and the republic. $1.50. Broadway
pub.

8–17978.

A sketch of President Roosevelt as a public man and office-holder,
with special emphasis given to the influence of his administration
upon the republic.

=Bennett, Rev. William Henry.= Life of Christ according to St. Mark.
**$1.75. Armstrong.

Aims to present the impression of Christ which would be derived from
St. Mark’s gospel by a reader who has no other source of information
and who knows nothing of Christian theology.

* * * * *

“His book is full of freshness and vigor, and is an interesting essay
in interpretation.”

+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.

“Is written with much of the beautiful simplicity that marks the
gospel narratives themselves.” W. J. Davis.

+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 938. Jl. ’08. 180w.

“Unfortunately the reader is left with questions on every page, and
the problems and difficulties presented by Mark’s Gospel are not
squarely faced.”

− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.

“It is a most interesting and informing volume.”

+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 644. N. 2, ’07. 270w.

=Bennett, William Henry.= Religion of the post-exilic prophets.
(Literature and religion of Israel.) *$2. Scribner.

8–19130.

The first of a series of ten volumes to be published upon the
development of religion in Israel up to the time of Christ. “In the
exemplification of this plan as worked out by Prof. Bennett, the
prophets (Ezekiel, the later Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, etc.) are
first treated individually, in chronological order; and in the second
part of the work the general teaching of the literature described ‘is
expounded in relation to the main subjects of dogmatics.’” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“Professor Bennett is persuasive, candid, critical, and withal never
over-venturesome. He moves along the main line of the most recent
cautious scholarly investigation, but at the same time has special
views of his own on certain matters.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 400w.

“The book is a useful contribution to the popular knowledge of a
period concerning which altogether too little is known by the average
Bible student.”

+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 80w.

“His book will be indispensable to Old Testament teachers, and to
ministers who desire a scholarly treatment of the prophetical
literature in this important period of Israel’s history. There is
nothing however of a technical character in the book to debar its use
from the layman.” Harlan Creelman.

+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 289. O. ’08. 1150w.

“‘Respectable’ is the word for Professor Bennett’s volume. The
occasion being given, the task is diligently and intelligently
performed.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.

“The book is neither exclusively doctrinal nor controversial, and if
not touched by the spirit of the higher criticism tries at least to be
in keeping with the development of scholarship.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.

=Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 250w.

“The chief complaint we have to make is that it is a trifle dull.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 520w.

=Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= At large. **$1.50. Putnam.

8–30590.

At large once more in the realm of thought, Mr. Benson only continues
to apply his well verified principles to new phases of life; achieving
what may be called “Mr. Benson’s view,” for instance, of optimism, of
shyness, of joy. Other essays bear upon contentment, friendship,
humor, travel, specialism, our lack of great men, equality, Kelmscott
and William Morris, literary finish, symbols and the love of God.

* * * * *

“His logic is as keen, his irony as delicate as ever; the flowing
cadences of his style woo us like quiet music; and always we are
conscious that our two chairs are quite close together, and that Mr.
Benson has a very friendly and companionable arm thrown lightly around
our shoulders.” M. A. Havens.

+ =Dial.= 45: 342. N. 16, ’08. 1350w.

“The unwholesome element of Mr. Benson’s convalescent optimism is its
intense self-consciousness. He makes the pursuit of happiness a
business. His flowers of felicity, like carnations, demand a hot-house
culture, and exhale their perfume only in a specially prepared soil
and climate.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 280w.

“Whether the essays be called sermons or otherwise, ‘At large’ is
marked by the kindly, deliberate, tolerant wisdom which has already
won him so many friends.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 579. O. 17, ’08. 700w.

“The essays get on pleasantly to the end, eked out with personal
recollections and anecdotes and amusing stories.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 548. O. 31, ’08. 530w.

=Benson, Arthur Christopher.= The schoolmaster: a commentary upon
the aims and methods of an assistant-master in a public school.
*$1.25. Putnam.

E 8–323.

Published for the first time in America this book records frankly and
candidly the results of impressions and observations gained during
twenty years of teaching. Whatever recommendations it offers “have
been deduced from experience and tested by practice.” It treats such
subjects as training of teachers, discipline, teaching, work,
intellect, originality, praise, the boarding-house, athletics, time,
holidays, sociability, religion, moralities and devotion.

“Will prove readable, suggestive and inspiring.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 233. O. ’08.

=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 280w.

“The book is sure to be read with interest and profit on this side of
the Atlantic.” M. K. Ford.

+ =Forum.= 40: 402. O. ’08. 200w.

“Though we have no Etons here, we have many schoolmasters who tend to
fall into ruts, and who may receive from Mr. Benson’s suggestions a
new glow of enthusiasm.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 130w.

“Altogether ‘The schoolmaster’ is a very sensible and at the same time
a very readable book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.

=Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.

=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Blotting book. †$1. Doubleday.

8–23104.

“Describes the devilish ingenuity with which a middle-aged barrister
of hitherto spotless reputation, contrived to cast suspicion upon his
young client of having committed a murder which was in fact his own
work. He was exceeding clever, but, as the event turned out, too
clever for his own safety. Skillful detective work discovered the
truth by means of the very things he had done to conceal his traces.
The story deals chiefly with the crime and the trial.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Develops into a skilful portrayal of the character and self-deception
of a hypocritical egotist.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08. ✠

“Failing to hold us as a mystery, the tale fails of its purpose.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 234. Ag. 29. 120w.

“There is somewhat too much pretense of keeping up the mystery with
the reader, somewhat too strong a contention that a man may lie,
steal, and commit murder, and yet go about his cheerful way not seeing
himself for the villain that he is, but these defects in no wise
interfere with the interest of the story.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 270w.

“We wish the detection of the criminal had been treated in a less
sketchy manner.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.

“The little story is exciting, it marches rapidly to its conclusion,
and, further, it is singularly unlike the usual work of Mr. Benson,
the student of social manners.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 337. S. 5, ’08. 160w.

=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Sheaves. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–29434.

In this story are discussed the problems that arise from marriage
entered into by a man of twenty-four and a woman of forty-two. “In
this union there is perfect harmony of tastes and mind and a
passionate mutual love; there is nothing to prevent its being an ideal
coupling of two human beings except the great gulf between twenty-four
and forty-two—with the seniority on the wrong side.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“He has a definite claim now to be considered among our serious
novelists of rank.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 260w.

“Conversation and incident are alike natural, and the author’s
contribution of comment and analysis is temperate and pleasing. The
story is drawn out to tiresome length, and it demands much judicious
skipping if it is to provide tolerable entertainment.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.

“By the temper rather than the method of his treatment he has given
new life to an old story.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 128. F. 6, ’08. 640w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 12, ’07. 30w.

“Contains a story so full of the lyric joy of love and so strong with
the mightier elements that go to make real love that, swept along in
its fresh and beautiful current, the reader scarcely realizes how he
is being charmed, page after page, by the minor incidents and
characters that help to make the book complete.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 450w.

“Mr. Benson’s most admirable point as a writer is his hatred and
clever setting forth of cant and priggishness and his clear
contrasting of it with the real goodness it attempts to mimic.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 210w.

“Well knit novel.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 40w.

“The author’s treatment of his main theme rises much above the level
of the rest of the book. The humour which he extracts from Mannington
society is very cheap, and he misses there and elsewhere all breadth
of effect by a wearying insistence on insignificant detail.”

+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 112. Ja. 25, ’08. 950w.

“In his present novel he sets a problem, and then runs away from its
solution.”

− + =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 220w.

=Benson, Ramsey.= Lord of lands. †$1.50. Holt.

8–24470.

Just how one man translated himself and family out of the cramped and
artificial environment which the city on fifty dollars per month
offered, into the free air of new Canadian country where they all
labored and learned to find peace and plenty is told with pioneer
simplicity and courage. The ethical value of country life is
emphasized.

* * * * *

“Its interest as fiction lies in the sustained note of simplicity, in
the fact that it is ostensibly told in the first person by a
workingman, an Irish brakeman, who never rises above a certain honest
and rather primitive outlook on life, and who tells his story with
something of the grave importance that characterises the narrator of
‘The Swiss family Robinson.’” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 330w.

“If any rich man with too many ignoble dollars to his credit wishes to
do the country a real service let him buy a hundred thousand copies of
this book and distribute them among the poor who have not yet
despaired.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 840. O. 8, ’08. 780w.

“Many, too, are the practical hints administered with an Irish
twinkle.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 300w.

“Manner aside, the matter of the story is well adapted to its object.
We congratulate the public upon having secured a bit of literature of
new and not clearly definable flavor.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.

“The book gains its interest from its definite statement of
difficulties encountered and the way in which they were surmounted.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.

=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Lord of the world. †$1.50. Dodd.

8–7386.

A novel with scenes laid partly in London. “Mr. Benson sees the world,
four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels,
and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who
believe in no divinity but that of God.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Judged as fiction, it shows that an emotional brain of a distinctive
character is behind the writing; but its impassioned faith is the
prevalent note, and everything else is subjected to this.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 250w.

“The most interesting story of the ‘Looking backward’ type that has
appeared for years.” M. K. Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 284. My. ’08. 700w.

=Cath. World.= 87: 396. Je. ’08. 700w.

Reviewed by W: M. Payne.

=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 970w.

“The whole thing is very well done and Father Benson is particularly
happy in his graphic and convincing descriptions of the great
inventions, now merely dreamed of, but then in common use.” M. K.
Ford.

+ =Forum.= 40: 404. O. ’08. 260w.

“Mr. Benson may assure us that he knows what he is up to and that he
is doing it with his eyes open, but we are left with the suspicion
that his sensationalism comes more easily to him than it should.”

− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 550w.

“Interesting it must be to all to whom the deepest convictions of a
man’s heart are of moment. And in the artistic balance and taste of
Father Benson’s literary power every reader will find delight.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.

“Notwithstanding the imaginative and literary skill evinced in the
construction of this chimera, it seems hardly more worth while than
the entertainment of the breakfast-table with the report of a
fantastic dream—except perhaps as a revelation of the absurdity of the
Pope’s fanatical campaign against ‘Modernism.’”

− + =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.

“It is the failure to endow all the characters equally with a definite
and vital personality that makes the effect upon the reader somewhat
indefinite. Yet the book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced,
deeply inspired, intelligently executed.” E. L. Cary.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 616. Ag. ’08. 730w.

“His breadth of view really forms the most striking feature of the
book.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 50w.

“The whole story is frankly sensational, and the picture of the cult
of humanity decidedly ingenious.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 350w.

* =Benson, Robert Hugh.= St. Thomas of Canterbury. *80c. Benziger.

A brief life of St. Thomas of Canterbury which forms one of the St.
Nicholas series of Roman Catholic biographies edited by Dom Bede Camm.

* * * * *

“It contains many picturesque touches, and will probably be welcomed
by the younger and less learned members of the Roman obedience. His
whole account is too biassed to deserve serious criticism.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 120w.

“Enlivens the narrative with picturesque details that will impress the
reader with the feeling that he is witnessing real events and
observing real men, in contrast with the dry abstractions of his
historical text-book.”

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 392. D. ’08. 130w.

“Father Benson tells the story of St. Thomas picturesquely and
effectively. His point of view is not ours; but we have no wish to
deny that some of the aspects of character and of principle which he
presents to us accord with the truth.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 204. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w.

=Bensusan, Samuel Levy.= Velazquez. (Masterpieces in color.) *65c.
Stokes.

W 8–31.

A brief but direct sketch including the conditioning facts of the life
and time of this artist. “The author has pointed out that Spain, in
spite of her recent great political decline, still exercises great
influence in the art world thru Diego de Silva Velazquez.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“By merely glancing thru the little volume under consideration it will
be possible to understand something of this influence and the reason
for it.” W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 140w.

“Without pretending to any great critical acumen the writer succeeds
in presenting to the reader a clear notion of the characteristic
qualities distinguishing the art of the great master of portraiture.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 160w.

=Bentley, Arthur Fisher=. Process of government. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.

8–10462.

A study of the theory of social dynamics, whose purpose is to fashion
a tool—“a tool which shall serve to analyze and measure all the
varieties of cause and effect which make up those processes of control
which are indicated approximately by the term government.... The first
part ‘To prepare the way’ arraigns a series of theorists, and charges
them with attempting to put into circulation each a particular variety
of false and futile interpretation of what actually occurs in society.