Chapter VI: Part II: , ‘Analysis of governmental pressures,’ contains the author’s

substitutes for these mischievous explanations.” (Am. J. Soc.)

* * * * *

“This is a real book. It is more genuine than it would be if it were
more attentive to the minor literary conventions.” A. W. Small.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 698. Mr. ’08. 3600w.

“Of value to the sociologist, but too technical for the general
reader. Brilliantly written.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.

“The second part of the book is more extensive, more readable, and
more useful than the introductory criticisms.” E: C. Hayes.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 13. Jl. 1, ’08. 730w.

“Mr. Bentley’s volume is bulky and diffuse, and its style often
flippant, but its acute and outspoken criticism ... should cause it to
be welcomed by speculative sociologists as at least a rod of
chastening.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.

“Dr. Bentley’s analysis is no more satisfying than that of other
theorists of the ‘group activity’ school, and less satisfying than
some, by reason of its impatient, unjudicial tone, to say nothing of
its utter elimination of the individual and of psychic elements as
causal factors in the social process.”

− =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 350w.

“Mr. Bentley’s attempt to get below formalism into the governing
process as a manifestation of social pressures deserves serious
consideration, even though he is at times tedious and at other times
unnecessarily rude to his predecessors in the field of politics.” C:
A. Beard.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 739. D. ’08. 700w.

=Bentwich, Norman De Mattos.= Law of private property in war. $1.80.
Boston bk.

7–42501.

“In the main Mr. Bentwich’s essay is concerned with private property
in time of war, whether on land or at sea; the writer giving a fair
but not minute account of the present practice. His suggestions as to
the ‘temperamenta belli’ are few and cautious. He expects but little
from the action of conferences or from agreements between
belligerents. He does not countenance either the abolition of the
right of capture of private property or of contraband, the latter an
‘undesirable aspiration’ which, if adopted, would soon be abandoned in
the stress of war. But he makes several suggestions as to minor
changes, one being the establishment of a prize court of appeal,
another the relaxation of the old rule as to enemy domicile and the
adoption of the French rule as to nationality.”—Lond. Times.

* * * * *

“One weakness of this interesting volume is that it slides over many
questions of moment. Another is that it gives paraphrases when a
fastidious reader will ask for texts.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 300w.

“Mr. Bentwich’s volume is quite thick enough to require, and should
have, a general index in addition to its admirable table of cases
cited.”

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+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.

=Berenson, Bernhard.= North Italian painters of the renaissance.
**$1.50. Putnam.

7–36958.

“Except for Mantegna and Correggio, the volume treats of hardly any
artists approaching the first rank.... [Its] importance is that it is
the negative end of Mr. Berenson’s demonstration of his theory of art,
as its companion volumes were the positive end. He is now dealing with
the absence of his three great qualities, tactile values, movement,
and space-composition, as he has before dealt with their presence, and
the burden is ever the same—these are the things that make serious
art, and in their absence art ceases to become serious.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Discriminating, suggestive, stimulating criticism.”

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“The book has all the characteristics of its predecessors, but it does
not deal with so interesting a subject.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 526. D. 5, ’07. 310w.

“[Has] many characteristically keen observations, expressed in a
rather more categorical style than Mr. Cox’s or Mr. Caffin’s.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 180w.

“Mr. Berenson has the artistic and not merely the archaeological
outlook.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 901. Je. 6, ’08. 1550w.

=Berg, Ernst Julius.= Electrical energy, its generation,
transmission, and utilization: lectures given at Union university.
*$2.50. McGraw.

8–1719.

“Applications to engineering problems of the equations deduced from a
theoretical consideration of alternating-current phenomena.... There
are two sections to the book. Section 1 is devoted to the transmission
line, and section 2 to the generating station. The former section
contains what is probably the most easily applied accurate solution of
transmission line problems available in textbook literature....