Chapter VII: Section 2: relates to generators, stationary transformers and station (1)

instruments.” (Elec. World.)

* * * * *

“To the student or the designer of electrical transmission systems,
the book will prove particularly valuable.”

+ =Elec. World.= 51: 266. F. 1, ’08. 270w.

“An authoritative book. The treatment is vivid for the theory is
applied in every case to the problem at hand.”

+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 80w.

=Bergh, Louis de Coppet.= Safe building construction, a treatise
giving in simplest forms possible practical and theoretical rules
and formulae used in construction of buildings and general
instructions. **$5. Macmillan.

8–12772.

After twenty years this book has been thoroly revised to meet modern
needs. It is “practically a treatise on engineering, dealing
especially with those problems which the architect is called upon to
solve. Its simple rules for ‘those who do not understand
trigonometry,’ its diagrammatic illustrations, and its pages of tables
will be attractive to many an architect and builder.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“There is such unmistakable flavor of its early origin as to arouse
regret that the revision did not extend to scrapping the old text
entire.”

− =Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.

“There are a great many useful tables and diagrams, but it is a pity
that so many of them relate to wrought iron, a material no longer
employed in building.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.

=Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 90w.

=Berglund, Abraham.= United States steel corporation: a study of
growth and influence of combination in the iron and steel
industry. *$1.50. Macmillan.

7–36147.

A study of the organization, the development and the policies of the
steel corporation. “Mr. Berglund’s important conclusions are: that the
company has never had—and is not likely to have—more than a qualified
monopoly of the steel trade; that its policy in respect to prices has
been one of moderation, but would probably not remain so moderate if
monopoly were ever assured; and that such control over markets as the
organization may wield in the future will probably be exercised ‘in
association with independent producers’ through such agencies as pools
or price agreements.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Berglund not only gives an excellent analysis of the world’s
greatest industrial combination, but also gives many interesting
points concerning the present and future of American iron and steel.”
W. S. Tower.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 350w.

“The book is a valuable one, in that it treats the well known facts in
a different light than they have been treated in most works on the
subject.” J: C. Duncan.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 127. Je. ’08. 450w.

“There is often a vagueness of statement when he is writing of the
plants and of labor at the furnaces. Dr. Berglund is on much surer
ground when he is dealing with conditions in the iron and steel
industry which led to the organization of the Steel corporation in
1901; and when he is tracing with much detail, and with admirable
clearness, the developments which have marked the history of the trust
in the first six years of its existence.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 819. O. 3, ’07. 580w.

“It is the sort of detailed study that should be made of each of the
great industrial combinations—study that should have preceded much of
the generalizing in which economists have indulged.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 159. F. 13, ’08. 200w.

=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal,
professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4.
Appleton.

7–34323.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 140w.

“Versatile, whimsical, egotistic, vivacious, eccentric, singularly
sincere, and always interesting.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08.

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

“These memoirs leave us with a very vivid sense of the qualities that
made their author what she was.” H. S. Krans.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 748. Mr. ’08. 900w.

“The vividness of the narration, the sure sense of what was worth
telling and what was not, the sharp, salt vivacity of the style (which
not even the slip-shod English of the translator can obscure)—all
these virtues have to some pedants seemed incompatible with
authenticity.” Max Beerbohm.

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 693. D. 7, ’07. 1650w.

=Bernier, Louis Leon.= Autogenous welding of metals. $1. The boiler
maker, N. Y.

8–17741.

“This work is translated from reports of the National school of arts
and trades of France, and describes the application of autogenous
welding to the manufacture of tanks, boilers, piping, etc., together
with its application to the manufacture of steel, brass, bars, plates,
etc.”—Elec. World.

* * * * *

“The book lacks specific instructions on how to perform the welding
operations and inasmuch as the oxyacetylene flame can be used for
repairing and cutting metals, such information would be of value.”

+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 1296. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.

“There is much useful matter in the pamphlet, but it is all on
European practice. No mention is made of American apparatus and
methods. In view of this fact and the size of the pamphlet the price
seems far beyond reasonable bounds.”

− + =Engin. N.= 59: 648. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.

* =Bertrin, Georges.= Lourdes: a history of its apparitions and cures; tr. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$2. Benziger.

A book whose purpose is to set forth “with invincible clearness, the
evidence that exists to prove, in the first instance, the indisputably
miraculous character of the visions of Bernadette; and, in the second
place, the equally miraculous nature of some of the most remarkable
cures which have taken place at the Grotto of Lourdes, and in one
instance, at a shrine of our Lady of Lourdes in Belgium. His method is
to state the facts that are known to have occurred, to cite the
eyewitnesses who testified to them, and then to take up successively
the various explanations offered by those who refuse to believe in any
miraculous intervention.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“In many respects ... the most satisfactory work that we possess on
the subject. In many others an excess of emotionalism spoils the value
of their evidence to the miraculous.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 254. N. ’08. 820w.

“We shall say no more than that the book is a remarkable one from any
point of view.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 250w.

* =Besant, Sir Walter.= Early London: prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman. *$7.50. Macmillan.

8–28407.

The last volume in Sir Walter Besant’s “magnum opus.” He began with
London of the eighteenth century and in six volumes has traced back to
prehistoric times. This volume deals with London from the remotest
times to the middle of the twelfth century, and contains numerous
illustrations and a chapter on the geology of London by Professor T.
G. Bonney.

* * * * *

“The work is thoroughly readable. Doubtless Besant, if he had lived to
give the finishing touches to his book, would have made considerable
alterations and he would have prevented his work from appearing with
numerous misprints, especially in the Latin quotations, which are
badly mangled.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 91. Jl. 25. 830w.

“The illustrations are numerous, and for the most part excellent,
largely from manuscripts of the period described.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, 08. 1300w.

“It is naturally full of out-of-the-way matter, giving an idea of the
beginnings of the greatest of cities, which no Londoner at least can
help but study with the most curious attention.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 56. Jl. 11, ’08. 450w.

“The story is made, as we might expect, highly interesting.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 474. O. 3, ’08. 440w.

=Beven, Thomas.= Negligence in law. 3d ed. 2v. $18. Canada law bk.

8–15769.

This third edition not only brings the material of former editions up
to date but includes 1465 new cases. “A large proportion of, though
not nearly all, the new cases introduced into this book, is due to the
expansion of the subject and is the growth of ten years of active
legal work. The residue is to be put down to what was improvidently
omitted before, or what is material for new exemplification or is of
historical interest.”

=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= Meaning of the times, and other speeches. **$1.50. Bobbs.

8–12769.

A volume of Senator Beveridge’s addresses made during the past ten
years. “Most of the subjects are current political topics, capital and
labour, the trusts, the Philippines, forestry, child labour,
nationalism and state rights. Mr. Beveridge’s main idea is an
unlimited, unsectional United States with Indiana as the centre and
the Republican party over all.” (Bookm.) See Cumulative book index for
contents.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.

“The work is full of ingenious pleas for the corporation interests
that are calculated to throw dust in the eyes of unthinking and
undiscriminating readers who are prone to accept without question
presentations when made by statesmen who pose as Christian gentlemen.”

− =Arena.= 40: 389. O. ’08. 500w.

“If Mr. Beveridge knew what his words mean and if he meant what they
say, he would be a promising young writer.” J: A. Macy.

− =Bookm.= 27: 490. Jl. ’08. 970w.

“A reading of it is a tonic of citizenship.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 140w.

“The extracts from the debate in the Senate on child labor form one of
the most interesting parts of the book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 358. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 260w.

=Bianchi, Martha Gilbert.= Modern Prometheus. †$1.50. Duffield.

8–7596.

A story in which a Jesuit priest tries to draw into the Catholic
sisterhood an American girl saddened by an unfortunate marriage. “The
background is like other Umbrian backgrounds of story, with its many
touches of Italian life and its many figures of peasants, priests, and
tourists, its incidental legends, art-histories, and church dogma, its
landscape and birds, its fruits and flowers and stars.” (Nation.) The
author “develops two concurrent ideas: faith through blind
acquiescence and obedience conferring spiritual peace; doubt,
accompanied by sturdy resistance, and independence condemning to
internal tumult.” (R. of Rs.)

* * * * *

“The story itself is not commonplace, and the interest holds to the
end.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.

“The writer of this book has succeeded in creating an atmosphere, an
atmosphere strong enough to distinctly affect the reader with its
dreamy softness, its vague color.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 280w.

+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 50w.

=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the
German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam.

5–36314.

=v. 3.= This concluding volume covers the period of Goethe’s life from
the Congress of Vienna to the poet’s death, 1815–1832. “The biographer
makes the daring assertion that without Goethe the Germany of to-day
would not exist. ‘Without Goethe, no Bismarck; without Goethe, no
German empire.’ He made the whole people feel spiritually one nation.
But Prof. Bielschowsky does not claim his hero exclusively for
Germany. He exists, beside Homer and Shakespeare, for the whole
world.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Considered on the whole the most valuable biography of Goethe.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 167. Je. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“Containing much excellent matter together with a good deal of
indifferent work.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 301. S. 12. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

“He fails too ... in humor or decorum; the two are one in this sense.”

+ + − =Ind.= 65: 150. Jl. 16, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)

“We note a serious defect in Bielschowsky’s plan; there has been no
provision for a separate chapter upon Goethe as critic.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Bigelow, William Sturgis.= Buddhism and immortality. (Ingersoll
lecture for 1908.) **75c. Houghton.

8–30599.

An epitome of the teaching of the two Buddhist sects, the Tendai and
the Shingon in regard to the immortality of man.

* * * * *

“The lecture is a simple and lucid exposition of the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 100w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= By right of purchase. †$1.50. Stokes.

8–24466.

“Mr. Bindloss starts with a very hackneyed theme and familiar dramatis
personae, the haughty well-born girl with the impecunious father and
brother who force her into a marriage with a rich man of the honest,
simple, rugged type. By degrees of course the honest farmer wins the
love of the haughty wife, who endures in the most amazingly brave way
the appalling dullness and monotony of life in a remote and lonely
Canadian farm.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“Is little more than a replica of his earlier stories of life in the
American Northwest.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 240w.

“The characterization is of the crudest simplicity.”

− =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 280w.

“There is no lack of action in Mr. Bindloss’s story, but we know so
well what the ending will be that we do not very much care what
happens along the road.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 120w.

“He is a better observer of nature than of men and women.”

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

“The story is made readable, though only mildly interesting, by
pictures of Canadian life.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 90w.

“Mr. Bindloss is always interesting on the subject of his own country,
but his present book does not quite reach the level of some of his
former works.”

+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 110w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Delilah of the snows. †$1.50. Stokes.

8–15298.

“The nucleus of this story ... is the blindness of a young man to the
sterling worth of a girl in his own class, his mad infatuation for
another girl socially beyond his reach, and his final awakening to his
folly when the other girl betrays him, as wantonly as Delilah betrayed
Samson, into the hands of the authorities who demand his life. The
scene of the story, at least of such part of the story as really
counts, is the Klondike.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“The author’s power and grip of his subject seem to have deserted him,
and we miss his descriptions of colonial scenery and more particularly
of colonial life and character.”

− =Acad.= 73: 905. S. 14, ’07. 270w.

“The story begins at the wrong point; in other words, the lace pattern
of his plot lacks symmetry.” F: T. Cooper.

− =Bookm.= 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 300w.

“The narrative is vigorous and straightforward, without nicety of
style, but wholesome in tone, and moderately interesting.” W: M.
Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 88. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.

“In spite of a heavy-footed gait and a superfluity of scene, the book
is worth reading for the sincerity and picturesqueness of its
adventure.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.

“One expects picturesque incident, thrilling adventure, novel
characters in a story that takes Northwest Canada for its setting, but
one will scarcely find these necessary qualities in ‘Delilah of the
snows.’”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 250w.

=Bindloss, Harold=. For Jacinta. †$1.50. Stokes.

8–2379.

A story of love and adventure which portrays “the savagery, fever,
damp heat, and general hatefulness of the coast where the hero is
trying to get by salvage the cargo of a wrecked steamer, and thereby
prove in his lady’s eyes his capacity to be something more than a
dawdler and dilettante.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Well told and wholesome.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 110. Ap. ’08. ✠

“An excellent story of incident and adventure, reminiscent in plot of
Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s ‘The wrecker,’ and in scene and
treatment of Mr. A. J. Dawson’s ‘In the bight of Benin.’ But Mr.
Bindloss apparently will not take the trouble to do justice to his
undoubtedly lively invention, and distinct feeling for the picturesque
and romantic side of open-air life.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 23. 170w.

“The story is capitally told, and takes us to an interesting part of
the world not much frequented by novelists. As in all the books by Mr.
Bindloss that we have read, the money motive is forced a little too
much, jarring the romantic sensibilities to which he particularly
endeavors to appeal.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 133. Mr. 1, ’08. 280w.

“Certain passages are written with the requisite fire, but there are
dead levels where the attention flags.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.

“An almost too realistic and minutely drawn picture. The narrative of
this adventure is too long drawn out, but there is some sincere effort
at character depiction.”

− + =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.

“It is a straightforward, absolutely wholesome story of love and
adventure. And neither the love nor the adventure is in any way
commonplace.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.

=Bindloss, Harold.= Long odds. †$1.50. Small.

8–32330.

The hero of this tale is dismissed from colonial military service for
a fancied offence, and becomes stranded in the wilderness of
Portuguese West Africa. His perilous adventures in righting the wrongs
of a native bondswoman reveal many of the commercial and official
conditions in that country which hamper good deeds and generous
impulses.

* * * * *

“The vagueness of the descriptions and the want of individuality in
the characters betray the writer, who depends upon his reading and his
imagination to furnish forth his material.”

− =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 150w.

“He has not a little of the incisive power of Mr. Conrad in dealing
with this tropical material.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 340w.

“It is to be regretted that the style is marred by mannerisms
evidently the result of sheer carelessness.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 200w.

“The love story is of minor importance and is not well managed,
lacking warmth and color and impressiveness. But the story of the
wilderness and the brutal things that harbor there and of the man’s
grim fight with them is strong and realistic and vital.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.

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

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“It is a stirring story of real men and women, full of incident, and
fairly well written, although the style is now and then disfigured by
a slovenly touch.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 230w.

=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. *$1.50. Dutton.

8–14339.

An intimate picture of Lincoln with only enough political history
included to interpret his character and development.

* * * * *

“A valuable presentation of the life and character of the man.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.

“One of the best-balanced and sanest of the innumerable lives of
Lincoln.”

+ + =Dial.= 44: 249. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.

“Must therefore take its place among the essays rather than the lives.
As such, and as the work of an Englishman, it is not uninteresting.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 600w.

“It is Mr. Binns’s merit that he has shown so clearly how firmly,
reasonably, patiently, bravely, and wisely in the flood of these
controlling events the President steered.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 127. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.

“Mr. Binns has done a very creditable work in welding into a connected
popular biography existing material about Lincoln’s life and career.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 380. F. 15, ’08. 130w.

“Mr. Binns has evidently taken great pains to sift his facts, and has
given a very full picture of Lincoln’s life before he became
president.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 300w.

=Birch, Walter de Gray.= Seals. (Connoisseur’s lib., v. 19.) *$7.50.
Putnam.

8–2185.

The author, a fully trustworthy guide in the field of antiquities,
confines himself mainly to a consideration of the heraldic seals of
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; several concluding chapters turn
to the Byzantine empire, Italy and France. “There is no mention of the
seals and stamps of the remote East, so much in question in studies of
Chinese painting and bronze casting; nothing about the engraved gems
of Greek and Greco-Roman antiquity, except as they appear in a few
mediæval settings.... The book [fully illustrated] has only four pages
of index for over three hundred of text. There is a glossary, but the
heraldic terms are not made plain—to the layman.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The book is so handsome and well produced as to make us regret that
it was not written on a more definite plan.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 75. Jl. 18. 340w.

“The complete history of the engraved stamp remains to be written; but
to that history Mr. Birch’s volume is a very notable contribution.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 80. N. ’08. 430w.

“The vast deal of interesting information in this work is limited in
range and hardly made accessible.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 20. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.

“The only defect one notes is that excessive attention is paid to
English, or at least British examples, in contradistinction to those
of the continent.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 280w.

=Birt, Rev. Henry Norbert.= Elizabethan religious settlement: a
study of contemporary documents. *$4.50. Macmillan.

8–13679.

Six hundred pages of careful discussion resulting from the digesting
of a huge mass of Elizabethan manuscripts, papers and documents,
showing the true relation which the church held to the social
development of the sixteenth century. The general purpose of the
volume is to put the best face possible on the Roman side, and the
worst face possible on the Protestant side, of the Elizabethan
controversy.

* * * * *

“We should recommend those who desire to know the truth with regard to
that memorable period to place this volume on their shelves by the
side of those of Bishop Creighton and of Dr. Gee, and to use all three
of them as correctives to Froude’s glowing, but untrustworthy
volumes.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 574. N. 9. 2350w.

“Of first-class value, and must be given a place among books to be
read and studied on the subject.” W. H. Frere.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 571. Jl. ’08. 2450w.

“Mr. Birt’s volume should be read side by side with Froude’s work on
the same period. Mr. Birt is far more accurate than his brilliant
predecessor in the field.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.

“Welcome study.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 630w.

“His historical treatment of the Elizabethan settlement must be
reckoned with by all careful investigators of that period.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 300w.

“Dom Birt’s volume might be a good deal more one-sided than it is, and
it is a solid contribution to the literature of the subject.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 18. Ja. 4, ’08. 1220w.

“Mr. Birt has conducted his inquiry [in] a manner which we had hoped
was obsolete. Mr. Birt writes history as Johnson wrote his
Parliamentary debates, with a determination that the Protestant dogs
shall not have the best of it. Mr. Birt is a controversialist first,
and an historian only in the second place. His methods all through are
those of the special pleader.”

− =Spec.= 100: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 1850w.

=Bishop, Avard Longley.= State works of Pennsylvania. (Publications
of Yale university.) $1.50. Yale univ., New Haven, Ct.

“The monograph contains six chapters and an equal number of
appendices, and there is also a good bibliography. The several parts
of the study deal, in turn, with the transportation improvements made
before 1823, with the popular agitation resulting in the state’s
adoption of the policy of public works, with the activities of the
state in constructing and financing the canals and railroads, with the
many corrupt practices connected therewith, and with the difficulties
in selling out the state works after they had shown themselves to be a
burden instead of a profit to the state.”

* * * * *

“It has been carefully done, and the result is a chapter in our
economic history which should prove very instructive reading to those
now interested in the problem of government ownership.” C. W. Wright.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 172. Mr. ’08. 470w.

“Dr. Bishop has made good use of the original material, still to be
found in Pennsylvania.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 561. S. ’08. 160w.

“The author has done his work thoroughly and most impartially. The
sources of information have been amply drawn upon, and the subject has
been presented with due conciseness and with good sense of
proportion.” E. R. Johnson.

+ + =Yale R.= 17: 239. Ag. ’08. 360w.

=Bisset, Peter.= Book of water-gardening. *$2.50. De La Mare.

7–22907.

Mr. Bisset, superintendent of Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard’s estate, Twin
Oaks, Washington, D. C., places within the reach of amateurs the
information necessary to establish and conduct an inexpensive
water-garden. “It gives directions also for the cultivation of aquatic
plants upon the large scale demanded by parks and estates.” (Nation.)
“A chapter is devoted to gold and other fish for ponds, the different
types of fish being carefully described and illustrated.” (N. Y.
Times.) The book is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“The value of a book of instruction and reference like this is much
enhanced by a full index, and perhaps one may be given in a second
edition.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 250w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 110w.

=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Christ’s service of love. **$1.25. Revell.

7–28618.

Urges Protestants to make more of the sacrament especially as a mark
of Christian unity. “While Priestism makes too much of this sacrament,
Protestantism makes too little of it, and is weakened thereby.
Sensible of this, Professor Black lays needed emphasis on various
aspects of the sacramental rite to secure it a more appreciative
observance.” (Outlook.)

=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 675. O. ’08. 20w.

=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 30w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 40w.

+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 170w.

=Blackie, John Stuart.= On self-culture. 75c. Funk.

Three scholarly essays written by the professor of Greek in the
University of Edinburgh. They are The culture of the intellect, On
physical culture, and On moral culture.

=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= Lorna Doone; with introd. and notes
by H. Snowden Ward. (Doonland ed.) $2.50. Harper.

8–28992.

An edition in which the principal new interest is topographical. Both
introduction and scenic illustration afford the reader an opportunity
to know his Doone-land well.

* * * * *

“Apart from the notes on the Doone controversy, this is an excellent
edition of a favourite book.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1350w.

“It is hard to see how the work could have been better done. The
numerous views, even the wide landscapes, have an admirable clearness
and finish. The editor’s lore will please the curious, and will be at
least skimmed by the indifferent and careless.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.

“This edition is particularly excellent.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 692. N. 21, ’08. 270w.

=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Stuff of a man. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

8–8301.

A drama enacted among southerners, dealing with the negro question and
revealing in the climax the “stuff of a man” which the negro possesses
in common with all humanity. Mrs. Blake peoples her stage with a
delightful group of men and women, whose inherited courtesy, grace,
hospitality and sincerity of heart are capable of expansion into
brotherhood magnanimity with which they face the vital racial problem.
The phases of this problem set forth and analyzed are the phases
confronting the entire South—negro lawlessness and crime that result
in mobs and lynchings. Mrs. Blake’s solution is found in the
development of the superman in black as well as white.

* * * * *

“It is one of the most wholesome, charming and human love romances of
the year, while at the same time it is the best study of the negro
question that has been made in fiction.”

+ + =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 660w.

“An example of what Mr. Thomas Dixon, jr., might have accomplished had
he possessed poise and the ability to present with equal judgment both
sides of a question.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.

=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Enchanted castle.
†$1.25. Harper.

8–15327.

A fairy tale in which a group of natural, fun-loving children of very
up-to-date characteristics discover an enchanted castle and a magic
ring, instead of an Aladdin’s lamp, which once in their possession
makes possible a round of most exciting adventures.

* * * * *

“In its general character it is decidedly above the average run of
so-called juvenile literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.

=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 130w.

=Bland, Hubert.= Happy moralist. *$1.25. Kennerley.

Seventeen short chapters containing comments and opinions on
literature, art, music, socialism, love, marriage, manners, ethics,
with a concluding chapter on Ibsen and Mr. Shaw.

* * * * *

“His work is characterized by a lightness and a certainty of aim which
make it invariably pleasant reading, even when it is most frivolous.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 320. Mr. 14. 230w.

“Mr. Bland’s style is piquant, now and then a little cynical,
characterized throughout by this-worldliness rather than
other-worldliness, but never other than light and bright and breezy
and thoroughly readable.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 450w.

“His chapters amuse a little, persuade a little, but refuse to nourish
and leave us somehow feeling emptier than we were before we read
them.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 184. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.

“Each of the essays will have its charm for readers and particular
ones their special appeal to the individual.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.

=Bleackley, Horace William.= Story of a beautiful duchess; being an
account of the life and times of Elizabeth Gunning, duchess of
Hamilton and Argyll. *$5. Dutton.

8–15741.

A sketch of the life of the good and beautiful Elizabeth Gunning whose
story is to a great extent the story of English society during the
latter half of the eighteenth century. “Her life, with a minute
account of the famous Douglas cause and a fair picture of the times,
is clearly end comfortably given in this volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“He is particularly to be commended for his researches into the
journalism of the eighteenth century, since, though his gleanings may
not contribute much to the elucidation of truth, they show, at any
rate, what was being said and thought by people like the ‘Tertium
quid’ of ‘The ring and the book.’”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 822. D. 28. 600w.

“After completing the book the reader is likely to ask if the author’s
efforts have really been worth while.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 120. S. 1, ’08. 240w.

+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 330w.

“It is a pity that honest industry should be marred by such ill taste.
So many anecdotal memoirs of the eighteenth century are turned out
these days upon the most superficial preparation that we should be
glad to commend more heartily a book that is, at least, thoroughly
documented, and, in its substance, not without human value.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 460w.

“Mr. Bleackley gives us a good portrait of his heroine, enthusiastic,
as behooves a man writing of a beautiful woman, but careful, and based
on thorough research.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 450w.

“The story which extends to upwards of three hundred and fifty pages,
is not unusually enthralling or entertaining. However, it is better
than the ruck of modern six-shilling novels.”

− + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 90w.

“The book, though written in a too ornate and often awkward style,
gives a spirited picture of a time abounding in curious interest. The
book is very handsomely got up, and the portraits of the Duchess and
members of her family are charmingly reproduced and most attractive.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 270w.

=Bligh, William George.= Practical design of irrigation works. *$6.
Van Nostrand.

Agr 8–246.

“The object of this work is the presentation of the principles which
govern the design of irrigation works in such a manner that engineers
not specifically conversant with this branch of practice may, by means
of the information thus afforded, be enabled to solve suitable plans
for such improvements. In order to accomplish this the author has
adopted a novel procedure, which consists of analyzing the plans of
existing and projected works, pointing out their good and bad features
and then developing alternative plans in which improvements suggested
by the critical study are incorporated.”—Engin. D.

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 3: 191. F. ’08. 250w.

“The book is comparatively free from errors of consequence, except
possibly in the complicated formula given for submerged orifices (p.
116), and the incorrect reference to orifice formulas (p. 139), and in
the omission of an appropriate index. The author deserves the high
appreciation of the profession, however, as having published the most
important work yet issued on the design of irrigation works, and his
book should find a welcome and useful place in the library of every
engineer, and especially every designing engineer interested in the
subject of irrigation.” F. W. Hanna.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 1700w.

=Bliss, William Dwight P.=, ed. New encyclopaedia of social reform;
ed. by W: D. P. Bliss, ed.-in-chief, and Rudolph M. Binder,
assistant ed., with the cooperation of many specialists; new ed.
*$7.50. Funk.

8–13953.

A new edition of a work which includes all social-reform movements and
activities and the economic, industrial, and sociological facts and
statistics of all countries and all social subjects. “This is a
completely new book, save for a few purely historical economic
articles, the subjects of which need no new treatment, but many even
of these are either revised or completely rewritten. A comparison of
this new edition with the old shows at once that a great improvement
has been made. Every article has been written by some specialist on
its particular subject.” (R. of Rs.) “The information is, as a rule,
remarkably comprehensive, accurate, recent, and judicial.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 168. Je. ’08.

“It is in fact an evolution, being a far more comprehensive and a
vastly superior work to the preceding edition.”

+ + =Arena.= 40: 120. Jl. ’08. 500w.

“It is useful in many cases, and we propose to mention, with a view to
future improvement, only a few points in which it falls short.”

+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 761. Je. 20. 330w.

“Clippings have been too freely used. Articles evidently compiled some
years ago have not been revised so as to bring their dates up to the
approximate present. It would be much more highly valued if it were
really expert thru and thru.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 420w.

“All the excision, though at times detracting from the more permanent
value of the volume, has made room for a great deal of new and
up-to-date material, such as will greatly increase its usefulness for
reference on all present-day social reform.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 636. N. ’08. 160w.

“In pithiness and objectivity the work shows a distinct improvement
over the first ‘Encyclopedia of social reform’ prepared by Dr. Bliss
several years ago. It ought to have a place in every reference
library.” E. A. Ross.

+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.

“In its way will prove as serviceable as its predecessor.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 9. Jl. 2, ’08. 420w.

“The book fills a special place regarding subjects in the thoughts of
almost everybody in active life.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.

“It is true that in some cases what we might reasonably expect to find
is wanting. We can think of no reference library to which it would not
be an addition.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.

“Altogether, this book is invaluable to the journalist or the writer
upon sociological topics, and all who have occasion to read widely in
this field will find its bibliographical references indispensable.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 120w.

=Blok, Petrus Johannes.= History of the people of the Netherlands;
tr. by Oscar A. Bierstadt. 5 pts. ea. $2.50. Putnam.

=pt. 4.= Deals with the period intervening between the renewal of war
with Spain in 1621 and the death of William III. in 1702.

* * * * *

“We are glad that Professor Blok shows throughout great judicial
poise. His work is on the whole admirable.” W: E. Griffis.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 573. Ap. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 4.)

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 4.)

“Dr. Blok is neither a Motley nor a Macaulay, but for trustworthiness
he is a leader beyond these masters of rhetoric and erudite
scholarship. Happily, too, Dr. Blok’s decidedly modern Dutch style is
strongly and felicitously rendered by the translator, Mr. Oscar A.
Bierstadt, who, with his former collaborator, Miss Ruth Putnam,
deserves very high praise.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 103. F. 16, ’08. 840w. (Review of pt. 4.)

“Professor Blok is an authority on questions of fact, and those in
search of information can get it from him. But one needs to employ the
cyanide process in extracting the ore.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 250w. (Review of pt. 4.)

“Altogether this is an admirable piece of historical work well
deserving of being reproduced in English, as has been done by Mr.
Oscar A. Bierstadt in a very adequate manner.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w. (Review of pt. 4.)

“As a rule, Professor Blok’s judgments on men, measures, and events
are conspicuously fair and sober, though occasionally, in writing, of
foreign relations, he is a Dutchman first and a historian afterwards.”

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 4.)

=Bloomfield, Maurice.= Religion of the Veda: the ancient religion of
India, (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads). (American lectures on the
history of religions, 7th ser., 1906–1907.) **$1.50. Putnam.

8–5569.

Sketches “the motives and principles that underlie the remarkable
chain of religious ideas that leads from the ritual worship of the
great nature-gods of the Rig-Veda to the high theosophy of the
Upanishads.” The author gives an account of the gods worshiped, gives
various translations of Vedic hymns and philosophical works, then
turns to the Upanishads or philosophical writings, of the seventeenth
century B. C., and gives a description of the early search for truth
in the development of the monistic idea.

* * * * *

“A worthy successor to the list of notable volumes thus far included
in the series.”

+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 40w.

“The lectures, on the whole, while offering little that is new to the
scholar, will prove a readable book to any one desiring to know the
latest opinions on several points connected with the history of Hindu
religion, and references are sufficiently frequent to enable the
reader to find out for himself in what particulars Professor
Bloomfield’s views differ from those of other scholars.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 500w.

“In his interpretation of the Vedic hymns the author is inclined to
see only one side of religious expression. In the final lectures he
gives a good account of the Hindu’s religious life and the goal of
religious aspiration.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 700w.

“Unlike many scholarly discussions, these lectures have a personal
charm, for the author, despite the fact that he has devoted a lifetime
to research, has not lost his common sense, his humanity, or his sense
of humor. His quotations and his comments on them are always
delightful.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.

“The latest volume of a series of standard works [by] a foremost
authority on his subject.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 656. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.

=Bodine, William Budd.= Some hymns and hymn writers; representing
all who profess and call themselves Christians: short studies in
the hymnal of the Episcopal church. **$3. Winston.

7–38889.

A book of hymns and information about them. “While the material is not
sought outside of the choice hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal
church, this is sufficiently representative of the church, ancient and
modern, in the service of sacred song, in which all sectarian
distinctions are ignored.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“The book contains much that will interest a lover of hymns.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 234. O. ’08.

“His grouping of the writers under the different denominations is not
a wise grouping. It does not give a clear principle of division. But
the book contains a great deal of material that will be prized by the
lover of hymns.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 500w.

+ − =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 100w.

=Bogart, Ernest Ludlow.= Economic history of the United States. *$1.75. Longmans.

7–41061.

Written for “high-school as well as college students.” The book
contains four parts: (1) Colonial development, (2) The struggle for
commercial and economic independence (1763 to 1808), (3) The
industrial revolution and the westward movement (1808 to 1860), and
(4) Economic integration and industrial organization (1860 to 1906).
“The characteristics of the successive periods, the forces at work in
them, and the various phases of this mighty development, which, as the
author remarks, is the keynote of all American history, are saliently
outlined.” (Cath. World.)

* * * * *

“For the general student it is the best on the subject yet published.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 100. Ap. ’08. ✠

“To the student specializing in any particular branch of economic
history, the book is of less value than many others. Its value lies in
that it presents, in a connected form, the chief events which
constituted the economic development of the United States.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 350w.

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 113. Ap. ’08. 200w.

“Is the best text-book in its field. It stands the test of class-room
use.” C: H. Hull.

+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 26. Ap. ’08. 1000w.

“Certainly great credit is due to Professor Bogart for having made a
distinct advance over anything yet written.” C. W. Wright.

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 458. Jl. ’08. 800w.

“The treatment as a whole is unduly objective, burdened by a multitude
of details, and it fails to convey the impression of organic
development.” Katharine Coman.

− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 332. Je. ’08. 450w.

“We may particularly mention the author’s treatment of the question of
slavery, which seems to us admirably concise and illuminating.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 792. My. 16, ’08. 250w.

“The book is greatly needed. While there are certain respects in which
it may show deficiencies, the wonder is that these are so few. It is
the best history of its kind for college classes. The style is simple
and plain, the explanations clear.” E. D. Fite.

+ − =Yale R.= 17: 352. N. ’08. 740w.

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

=v. 3.= This last volume describes the latter part of the reign of
Louis XVIII. and that of Charles X. and gives a first-hand account of
the revolution of July, 1830, which made Louis Philippe king. The
Comtesse de Boigne was closely associated with the courts of these
times and writes interestingly of such men as Talleyrand,
Chateaubriand, Guizot, the French royal family, Metternich, the Duc de
Richelieu, and other important personages.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 7. Ja. ’08. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“The translation is generally competent, although it might in many
passages be improved.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1, 700w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The entertaining author is wont to clothe the baldness of fact in the
embroidery of fancy. Much, therefore, that she records is to be taken
with reservations.”

+ − =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dial.= 44: 278. My. 1, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 3.)

“She is so obviously honest a witness, so clearly desirous of telling
the truth, that her inaccuracies, though abundant, do not detract from
the value of her evidence. Her political sympathies were not strong
enough to blind her to facts nor to tempt her to misrepresent them.
The English translation is respectable and accurate. A book so
interesting in substance remains attractive even when it has lost the
graces of style and manner which charm us in the original.” P. F.
Willert.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 179. Ja. ’08. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)

“The author carefully restricts herself to being ‘the careful
chronicler of the impressions of the moment,’ and resists the
temptation to interpret events in the light of after history.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“The third volume, completing the work, deserves less consideration
[than the second]. The most vivid pages are those describing the
circumstances connected with the death of the Duc de Berry, but for
the larger part the volume is made up of small talk.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“They are all very charming and told with that intimate touch which
French writers alone seem capable at all times of imparting to their
narratives.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 125. Mr. 7, ’08. 2100w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)

“There is a good deal of padding for a little lightness in these
volumes, but on the whole one is repaid.” G. I. Colbron.

+ − =No. Am.= 187: 773. My. ’08. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 476. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Bolton, Reginald Pelham.= Elevator service: operating conditions
and proportions; with diagrams, formulas, and tables for passenger
travel, schedule and express operation, with the relation of the
elevators to the building, and proportions and loads of cars. *$5.
Reginald P. Bolton, 527 5th av., N. Y.

8–7889.

“The book discusses in considerable detail the various features of the
problem of elevator service as it is affected by the floor area of the
building in relation to its height, the characteristic operating
conditions that ordinarily obtain in business buildings and the effect
of the personal equation of both operators and passengers upon the
service, and many suggestions are offered as a result of careful
studies of the problem.”—Engin. Rec.

* * * * *

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 250w.

“It is to be regretted that a work of such range and value should be
marred by minor blemishes which will no doubt be corrected in later
editions. In spite of these the book is deserving of commendation.” W:
H. Bryan.

+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 436. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w.

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.

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

7–22912.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Altogether, it is an interesting bit of history, and the author has
succeeded in shedding new light upon this episode.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 264. Ja. ’08. 220w.

=Bondurant, Bernard Camillus.= Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus: a
historical study. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–28562.

A dissertation offered for a doctor’s degree. “Dr. Bondurant begins by
giving an analysis of the text; then comes a list of dates of
important events connected with the career of Decimus Brutus after the
death of Caesar—i. e., from 15 March 44 B. C. to September 43 B.
C.—followed by a selected list of books, articles, and dissertations,
while at the end of the work there is a good index of proper names.
The work itself is a careful study of the period.” (Eng. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“The work has been carefully done and the results arrived at are, in
general, sound.” H: A. Sanders.

+ =Class. Philol.= 13: 212. Ap. ’08. 440w.

“Dr. Bondurant’s personal affection for Brutus has distinctly injured
his critical faculty. The treatise will be valued by students of this
period, on account of the scholarly care with which the authorities
are given for every statement.” W. A. G.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 192. Ja. ’08. 260w.

=Booth, Edward C.= Post-girl. (Eng. title, Cliff end.) †$1.50.
Century.

8–20677.

A story set among the out-of-the-way cliffs of Yorkshire. To Cliff
Wrangham there comes a young composer bent upon the task of finishing
a concerto. He finds among the diverting natives a wonderful girl,
Pamela Searle, who in babyhood, had been dropped into this corner of
the world, and had grown to reflect, chameleon like, the glories of
sky and sea, and to exult in her elemental strength. She carries the
mail at six shillings a week; is the object of the somber passion of
the schoolmaster. When the “Spawer” comes he teaches her the beauty of
his world, the world of art which she has longed to know. The struggle
between the old influences and the new, the love which comes on apace,
and the mad determination of the schoolmaster to thwart it furnish
elements for an unusually strong story.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠

“The book will suggest Barrie’s ‘Little minister,’ but it is in no
sense an imitation.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 392. O. ’08. 1200w.

“The whole impression that you retain from the book, is of careful
workmanship, sincerity of purpose and that deep insight which comes
from a sympathetic interest in human life.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 300w.

“He has a manner almost Meredithian in its richness, but without the
Meredithian asperity.” W: M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 85. Ag. 16, ’08. 470w.

“The ‘Post-girl’ joins to freshness of atmosphere an artistic touch, a
technical felicity, which, gracefully light in its comedy, lacks
neither poetry nor strength in its sentiment.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 170w.

“There breathes no man or woman—or only the fewest at least admirable
of our race—who will not be glad to read this sweet and tender story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.

“It is surprisingly fresh and fine. To our taste the author lingers
too long over the talk of his characters, and sometimes the flow of
good spirits runs rather thin.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 160w.

=Borsa, Mario.= English stage of today; tr. by Selwyn Brinton.
*$2.50. Lane.

8–9149.

A concise treatment particularly illuminating to foreigners. “Among
the principal subjects which it passes in review, are the nature of
English playgoers, actors, and actor-managers, the leading dramatists
and critics, the Stratford-on-Avon celebrations; the work of the
various independent theatres, the realistic and the literary drama,
the Irish theatre, and the censorship.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Dr. Borsa’s survey of the contemporary British drama is a better book
in its English dress, as edited and translated by Mr. Selwyn Brinton
than it was in its original Italian form as published a year ago in
Milan. There are still some minor inaccuracies which should have been
corrected, but they are not sufficiently grave to destroy the value of
the book as a whole.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 250. D. 14, ’07. 460w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 254. N. ’08.

“Dr. Borsa’s book challenges attention. Dr. Borsa’s chapters are the
merest journalism. Some of his judgments on plays have a certain
piquancy as revealing an attitude of mind and a philosophy of life
other than our own; but the bulk of his matter is ephemeral, while his
criticism is too often marred by his tendency to exaggeration inherent
in ‘impressionism.’”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 204. F. 16. 540w.

“An attempt, on the whole a successful one, to analyze present
dramatic conditions and possibilities in England.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.

“Not for a long time has there been published a more pertinent
treatise on current stage matters in England than that of Dr. Mario
Borsa.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 300w.