Chapter IX: Section 2: relates to generators, stationary transformers and station (3)

Here are brought together two grandmothers, one sprightly with a
literary bent and the other saintly; Electra, a Puritan in conscience
and a Spartan in control of feelings; Markham McLeod, a
brotherhood-of-man agitator who worshipped Mammon and basked in its
material warmth; MacLeod’s daughter, the heroine, who had been a
victim of her father’s unrighteous theories and who alone understood
his whited-sepulchre practices; and two brothers, one an artist who
temporarily comes under the hypnotic spell of MacLeod, and the other a
gardener who through the purification of honest hard work has a right
perspective of life and straightens out the tangle of doubts and
misgivings.

* * * * *

“A tale of quite unusual workmanship, full of variety and charm.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠

“The book is a most skillful counterfeit of the real thing, and if it
fails of the highest excellence, that is all the more reason for
crediting it with all the lesser excellence that it indubitably
possesses.” Ward Clark.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 494. Jl. ’08. 750w.

“Miss Brown has contributed another distinct personality to the
portrait gallery of American women.” M. K. Ford.

+ =Forum.= 40: 132. Ag. ’08. 950w.

“Is better than merely entertaining.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.

“Miss Brown’s vein of whimsical romance still holds; it may be that
the whimsy gains upon her a trifle. In this story, indeed, it runs
pretty frankly into extravagance.”

− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 550w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.

“It is a notable book and well worth reading, but it ought to have
been better.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.

“The romantic interest of the book is thruout rather cool and thin,
and of far less rich and satisfying quality than its comedy.” O. H.
Dunbar.

+ − =No. Am.= 188: 137. Jl. ’08. 1200w.

“The men in the story are highly vizualized, imaginary male persons.
They live in a rarefied atmosphere and they never by any accident come
to life.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.

“The book has an individuality of its own—a personal freshness in the
point of view that helps to compensate for the lack of personality in
its characters.” E. L. Cary.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 260w.

+ =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.

=Brown, C. Campbell.= China in legend and story. **$1.25. Revell.

W8–68.

Abounding in broad fellowship, this narrative presents China,—“not the
willow-pattern country of our conventional ideas, but the living,
palpitating, human China.” The author’s “standpoint is neither that of
a missionary soliciting pity for an ‘afflicted people,’ nor of a
traveller describing the picturesque peculiarities of an alien and, by
implication, inferior race. It is that of a man who, in the course of
ten years’ residence among the people of whom he writes, has had
occasion to say of many of them, ‘You’re a better man than I am, Gunga
Din.’” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A well-written volume of stories.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 20w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.

“The influence of Christianity on character has seldom been more
impressively exemplified than in the tales which compose the latter
half of the volume.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 540. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.

=Brown, Charles Rufus.= Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: an American
commentary on the Old Testament. *$2. Am. Bapt.

7–18189.

“A concise commentary upon the Book of Jeremiah” which fills “in part
the place of the German _kurzgefasste commentare_, a form of biblical
literature which, strangely enough, is still sadly lacking in our
language.... The book gives in the left-hand column of the page the
text of the authorized version; on the right, the author’s own
translation, the metric passages being presented typographically in
poetical form, but without any attempt to produce the exact rhythm of
the original. The commentary appears below the text.”

* * * * *

“Scholarly in character and structure, and withal adapted to the needs
of the intelligent reader, whether or not he be acquainted with the
Hebrew. The book is to be welcomed as capitally meeting its purpose
and filling a long-felt want.” J. A. Montgomery.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 455. Jl. ’08. 730w.

“The exegesis is sound and judicious. We know on the whole of no
better explanation in English of the prophecies of Jeremiah, and yet
at the same time we feel constrained to point out blemishes in this
work. The commentary seems padded. It is an anachronism also to
reproduce the authorized version—the American revision should take its
place if the author’s new one was not sufficient. The commentary is
also marred by occasional little homilies and common-place
observations which detract from its scholarly dignity. The work also
fails in a good English style.” E: L. Curtis.

+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 396. My. ’08. 520w.

=Brown, Demetra, and Brown, Kenneth.= First secretary: a novel.
$1.50. Dodge, B. W.

7–36248.

Constantinople is the scene of the romance in which Stephen Weir, an
attaché of the American legation, woos surreptitiously the daughter of
a pasha who is the promised wife of a young Turk. America’s red-handed
methods in matters of matrimony are strongly contrasted with
traditional oriental restraint.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 130w.

“It is a book to pass the time and it has the distinct merit of not
pretending to be anything else.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 180w.

=Brown, Gerard Baldwin.= Rembrandt. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.

7–37526.

“Gives a great deal of information about the paintings, etchings, and
drawings, the technical methods, and the qualities of the art of the
great Dutchman, and what is really known or reasonably surmised as to
his life in a shape hardly to be so conveniently found elsewhere.”
(Nation.) “Professor Brown is particularly keen in pointing out the
painter’s arbitrary use of shadow.” (Outlook.) There are over forty
plates, representing every phase of the painter’s work.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.

“Prof. Brown has erred, perhaps, in including too many subjects for
discussion. The selection of illustrations is unconventional and good,
and the book is provided with such critical apparatus in the way of
analysis, notes, and indexes, as is suitable to its scope. It may be
commended as the best book on Rembrandt’s life and art for the general
reader that has been produced in England.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 200. F. 15. 600w.

“Seldom in a popular monograph does one meet with such scholarly
treatment, combined with breadth of vision and catholicity of
judgment.”

+ + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 420w.

“That clearness about things which reigns in the author’s own mind is
communicated to the reader.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 169. Ap. ’08. 100w.

“Especially for purposes of reference or for systematizing one’s
acquaintance with the known and inferred facts of the painter’s
career, this book is to be highly commended.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.

“Without being a specially illuminating piece of criticism it is a
capable bit of work, and a pretty complete one.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 44. Ja. 9, ’08. 130w.

=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.

=Brown, Horatio F.= Studies in the history of Venice. 2v. *$6.
Dutton.

8–15744.

From the study of a bewildering mass of archives the author has
produced a work on the diplomacy, the constitution, and the finance of
Venice in relation to the republic’s formation, growth, and decline.
“The studies fall under two types,—the investigation of the
constitutional and economic policy of the State, and the retelling of
some of her famous tales.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Brown’s book is to be commended for its various light on our own
living problems.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1095. My. 14, ’08. 550w.

“We think it is a mistake that he introduces into his text
untranslated passages in Venetian or Latin; but this is a slight
blemish on so valuable a work.”

+ + − =Nation.= 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 900w.

“These admirable volumes might well take the place of a more formal
history of Venice.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 900w.

=Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w.

“Mr. Brown’s essays are on wisely chosen subjects, and illustrate
almost continuously the development and growth of the city.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 81. Ja. 18, ’08. 1400w.

“Mr. Brown’s scholarship is profound, but he wears his learning
lightly, and these essays are as remarkable for their grace of style
and vivid portraiture as for their sound historical judgment. The book
will be prized by all lovers of the enchanted city as an illuminating
guide to the essentials of her past.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 337. F. 29, ’08. 1700w.

=Brown, Rev. J. Wood.= Builders of Florence. il. *$6. Dutton.

8–35375.

“A scholarly study and interpretation of Florentine architecture as an
expression of the character of the Florentine people, illustrated more
in detail and specifically by the examination of twelve important and
monumental buildings possessing both architectural and historic
interest, ‘and such as lend themselves readily as illustrations of the
city’s life, whether commercial, ideal or political.’ An introductory
part, before taking up the characteristics of Florentine architecture,
provides an exposition of the ‘Substance of Florence.’”—Ind.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 128. My. ’08.

“An art treasure as well as a delightful account of some aspects of
Florentine life and thought as expressed most vitally and most
permanently in the city’s buildings.”

+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 160w.

“Among architectural treatises this work must take rank at once as
noteworthy for breadth of vision, insight and erudition. It is packed
with a wealth of historical material and that material is skilfully
used.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 620w.

“The whole book is indeed instinct with the very spirit of Florence.
As compared with the scholarly text with its impression of reserved
power the drawings of Mr. Railton cannot fail to appear sketchy and
inadequate.”

+ + − =Int. Studio.= 34: 344. Je. ’08. 300w.

“Not less valuable than his more elaborate studies are the stimulating
thoughts he sprinkles over his pages.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 650w.

=Brown, John.= Letters of Dr. John Brown; with letters from Ruskin,
Thackeray, and others; ed. by his son and D. W. Forrest; with
biographical introductions by Elizabeth T. M’Laren. *$4.
Macmillan.

8–2410.

The letters of a hard-working doctor, a practitioner of no little
fame, “with a great capacity for friendship and delight in simple
things.” His “Rab and his friends” immortalized him. His letters are
supplemented by nearly a hundred written to him by Ruskin, Thackeray,
Gladstone and others.

* * * * *

“Gaiety and gravity are alike characters of this good physician’s
mind, and neither is the gravity gloomy nor the cheerfulness tedious
or strained.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 720. D. 7. 1870w.

“In the near view thus afforded of a tender and beautiful, rather than
a brilliant and powerful, character the book is all that could have
been expected, and nearly all that could be desired.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 171. Mr. 16, ’08. 1950w.

“In spite of the three collaborators in the work of editing, very
little has been done either in the text or footnotes to connect the
letters, or to make the allusions to people and events intelligible.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 410w.

+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.

“A general human and healthy interest in the things of the mind Dr.
Brown’s letters abundantly evince. A ‘rounded intelligence,’ the
correspondent of one of his correspondents called him.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 103. F. 22, ’08. 2850w.

“Dr. Brown’s comments upon literary men, women, and their works are
keen and most engaging.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 793. Ap. 4, ’08. 1450w.

“Brown’s letters are just what one would expect—direct, terse,
humorous and tender. The collection has been well arranged and
edited.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 150w.

“It is very good fare which his son and Dr. Forrest have provided for
us. These three hundred and twenty-seven letters are like a
continuation of the ‘Horae.’ The style is precisely the same,—the same
use of italics (dating from his twentieth year), the same rusty
rhetoric, the same careless phrases, as exquisite in their simplicity
as any you will find in Lamb.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 928. D. 7, ’07. 1420w.

=Brown, Sir Robert Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice
as a branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.

8–4027.

Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“The book reflects wide reading on the part of the author and is
written in exceptionally good English for an engineering work. The
subject matter, on the whole, is logically and pleasingly presented.
The irrigation engineer will find pleasure and value in reading the
book but not in studying it. The engineer in other branches of
engineering will be able to obtain a comprehensive view of the subject
of irrigation from this book, and it is in this field that the
usefulness of the work mainly lies.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 539. My. 14, ’08. 800w.

“Standard books, indeed, have been previously issued dealing with
irrigation works on their grandest scale, in ‘The irrigation works of
India,’ by Mr. Buckley, and ‘Egyptian irrigation,’ by Sir William
Willcocks; but the book under review will be very valuable for all
persons interested in irrigation, by dealing in a single volume with
and contrasting the principal works and systems of irrigation in these
two great countries, and thus presenting a very comprehensive view of
that most important subject of irrigation for the development of arid
regions.”

+ + =Nature.= 76: 513. S. 19, ’07. 1500w.

=Brown, Stewardson.= Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky mountains.
**$3. Putnam.

8–310.

A student’s manual of plants to be found in the region of the Canadian
Pacific railway between Banff and Glacier. “Mr. Stewardson Brown,
curator of the herbarium at the Philadelphia academy of natural
sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged in accordance with
their scientific relationships, and there are keys to the genera, a
general key to the families, a glossary, and an index to both common
and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, about half of
them in color, ... are the work of Mrs. Charles Schäffer, who proves
herself a botanical draughtsman of much ability.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Mrs. Schäffer has shown exceptional skill in drawing and in
reproduction of color.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 497. Mr. ’08. 90w.

“A complete and beautiful guide to the flora.”

+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.

“It will prove a vade mecum for the botanically inclined visitor to
the resorts along the Canadian Pacific railway, between Banff and
Glacier.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 120w.

“Mr. Brown’s descriptions appear to be clear and helpful, but it is to
be regretted that he has made use of a provincial nomenclature, which
is not in accord with the conclusions reached at the International
congress of botanists.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 240w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 40w.

=Browne, Abdullah, Haji.= Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of
to-day. *$3. Scribner.

7–42482.

A volume which aims “to familiarize Englishmen with the Egypt of
to-day, to outline its history, and to present its problems. Intimate
acquaintance with the oriental nature and mode of thought has begotten
in the author a keen sympathy with the people he is describing, though
he retains the broad outlook and enlightenment of the European.” (N.
Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The story of Bonaparte in Egypt is excellently told, and gives one to
understand, better perhaps than any other of the many books on the
subject, the trend of his policy, especially as it was altered and
modified to suit the exigencies of the situation. The account is
naturally from the Egyptian point of view, but the conclusions are not
unfair, neither are the deductions unwarranted.”

+ + =Acad.= 73: 865. S. 7, ’07. 570w.

− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 642. Ap. ’08. 550w.

“This is indeed a book that can hardly be taken seriously by anyone
but its author; as a whole, the work is worthless to the scholar, and,
for the most part, wearying to the general reader.”

− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 300w.

+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 357. S. 28. 1900w.

“In spite of its numerous faults, the book has distinct value.”

+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.

“We can recommend this book for the perusal of all who are interested
in the British occupation of Egypt.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 284. S. 20, ’07. 1200w.

“Haji Browne’s point of view is too personal to find a large audience,
too heterogeneous to convince, and too discursive to please. His hold
on fact is slight. There is further ground of complaint against the
Haji; his style is tedious, his egotism insistent.”

− =Nation.= 86: 39. Ja. 9, ’08. 500w.

“A remarkable work on modern Egypt.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 61. F. 1, ’08. 300w.

“We fancy that Haji Browne could have written a fascinating personal
record, and we would willingly have forfeited for it all the not very
important stuff he has written about Bonaparte.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 362. S. 14, ’07. 1750w.

=Browne, Edith A.= W. S. Gilbert. il. (Stars of the stage.) *$1.
Lane. 7–32813.

“Interesting in the details which it gives of the brilliant humorist’s
youth and up-bringing, his early literary and theatrical tendencies,
his career at school and the London university, and his various
disappointments in seeking distinction in the army, the law, and civil
service. In these diverse pursuits he acquired the varied experience
of life which he was to put to such admirable satirical purpose later
on.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Of the man she paints so truthful and kindly a picture that we seem
to know Gilbert as we have never known him before; to be in touch with
him, to be holding a warm, generous hand that it is most pleasant to
grasp, but with the delineation of the author we have some quarrel.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 724. Jl. 27, ’07. 850w.

“Is not altogether destitute of sound critical appreciation, but is
written too much in the style of the feminine newspaper interviewer to
be quite worthy of its subject.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 370w.

=Bruce, Edwin Morris.= Detection of the common food adulterants.
*$1.25. Van Nostrand. 7–38618.

To aid in the pure food cause this little book brings together the
best and simplest qualitative tests for all the common food
adulterants. It contains a brief statement of the adulterants likely
to be found and the reason for their use.

* * * * *

“As a collection of recipes the work is good; in other respects it
commands but qualified admiration. As a compendium of some of the best
qualitative tests for ordinary food-adulterants the book will be
useful, especially to the man who already knows how to apply the
processes.”

+ − =Nature.= 78: 28. My. 14, ’08. 400w.

=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Historic ghosts and ghost hunters.
**$1.25. Moffat.

8–24447.

“A collection of fascinating and strange stories relating to famous
mysteries. Thus we have the tale of the ‘Devil of Loudun,’ of ‘Lord
Brougham’s ghost,’ of the ‘Drummer of Tedworth,’ of the ‘Cock Lane
ghost,’ in which Dr. Johnson was interested, and the less known story
of the relations to ghostland of the Wesleys; while coming down to our
day, the marvels alleged to have been done by Mr. Home (Browning’s
‘Mr. Sludge, the medium’) are related, and a chapter is devoted to
‘Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day,’ including a rather slight
sketch of what has been told more fully elsewhere by Mr.
Bruce.”—=Outlook.=

* * * * *

“The ghost stories he has told us are interesting and not easily
attainable.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.

“Many of the conversations and descriptions with which he enlivens
these tales, while increasing what may be called the interest of the
narratives, are so obviously imaginary as to detract somewhat from
their value. With this much of adverse criticism out of the way, it is
pleasant to admit that the author has done his work extremely well,
and certainly he is not to be blamed for attaining his intended object
instead of another.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 552. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.

“Such a volume could hardly fail to be readable, and the author has
been successful in putting his narratives into a semi-fictional form
which has spirit and entertainment.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.

=Bruce, Henry Addington B.= Riddle of personality. **$1.50. Moffat.

8–6655.

See Cumulative book index for contents. “Mr. Bruce sketches the
progress of the problem from the magician Mesmer and his ‘doings’ down
to the latest American explorers of the sub-conscious world. His
account of the work of the Society for psychical research is
particularly interesting. His own conviction of departed spirits under
the theories of ‘spiritism’ (a more exact term than spiritualism) can
be equally well explained by the theory of telepathy.”

* * * * *

“The book may be ranked between the ultra-scientific and the ‘crank’
theories, and is of special interest as summing up what the scientific
study of personality has contributed to therapeutics and as an
estimate of the work of the Society for psychical research.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 255. N. ’08.

“Obviously, a safe elementary guide is needed for the study of a
subject so full of pitfalls for the uninstructed; and the need has
been admirably supplied by Mr. Bruce. He will be criticised by the
specialist, of whatever school, for a somewhat dogmatic method of
statement, for occasional simplification by the expedient of ignoring
troublesome factors.” E: C. Marsh.

+ − =Bookm.= 27: 278. My. ’08. 900w.

“The man of science ... takes what comfort he can in the fact that the
presentation is temperate and not extravagant, and he finds further
comfort in the guidance offered by the author to prospective students,
who, if they follow it, may find the path toward an understanding of
personality, not as a mystery but as a profound natural development.”

+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 350w.

“No other volume of its size gives such a complete survey of this
debatable ground or tells in such an interesting way of what is being
done to explore it.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 120w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 25. Jl. 4, ’08. 400w.

“The worth of Mr. Bruce’s book is much increased by a critical
bibliography of his subject, admirably written and covering the whole
field fairly well.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 900w.

“The book is one of great value, and written in a style that will
bring enlightenment to many readers.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 796. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.

=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Social life of Virginia in the
seventeenth century; an inquiry into the origin of the higher
planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs,
and diversions of the people. *$1.50. Bell bk.

7–21275.

A supplement to the author’s “Economic history of Virginia in the
seventeenth century.” It is an “attempt to reconstruct the social life
of Virginia during the seventeenth century. To the origin of the
higher planting class, and the causes of social distinctions, he
devotes more than half of his small volume; the amusements and
pastimes of his people occupy the remainder.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“The reader will gain from the work a more vivid and adequate
understanding of the beginnings of the upper classes of Virginia
society in the period of lowland ascendancy.” F. J. T.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 609. Ap. ’08. 1100w.

“A careful piece of minute research, based throughout on original
authorities.” C. H. Firth.

+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 155. Ja. ’08. 760w.

“His picture of colonial life is clearly drawn, and his thesis of the
essential similarity between English and Virginia conditions well
maintained. At times Mr. Bruce’s local pride gets the better of his
logic, as when he follows up a statement of the superiority of
Virginia sobriety over that of England, with a series of quotations
and incidents which seem to us to point to the reverse of his
conclusion. In more serious matters his judgment is excellent.”

+ − =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 350w.

“Mr. Bruce’s scholarship is well known, and this volume, like his work
in general, shows wide reading, an appreciation of historical values,
and a faculty for presentation.”

+ =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 410w.

=Brudno, Ezra S.= The tether. †$1.50. Lippincott.

8–20348.

A subjective study of a Jewish boy’s struggle for education, freedom,
and the love of a Gentile maiden, while the inexorable prejudices and
decrees of his race withhold them from him. He goes the length of the
tether which the grim leniency of his race allows, and then is brought
to a standstill which is symbolized by a mortal sickness.

* * * * *

“The most dramatic and forceful parts of the book are those which deal
with the Hebrew relatives and friends of the hero, among whom the
author describes many varieties of the Jewish immigrant.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Brudno writes with an ardent spirit, curbed by intelligence, and
effective to the end he seeks.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 270w.

=Bruner, James Dowden.= Studies in Victor Hugo’s dramatic
characters; with an introd. by R: G. Moulton. *$1. Ginn.

8–8836.

Following the method of sympathetic induction in his investigation,
the author has collected, arranged, weighed and harmonized into a
unity all the details of each character studied. He includes Hernani,
Don Ruy Gomez, Don Carlos, Doña Sol, Ruy Blas, the villain in “Ruy
Blas,” and Lucrezia Borgia.

* * * * *

“A volume of deeply interesting literary criticism.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 70w.

“A volume to which the word charming may properly be applied. The author has very genuine insight into the creations of Hugo’s genius, and his own style is attractive and readable.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 50w.

“It must be scientific literary criticism, for it betrays no sign of
literary taste, no insight, no humor, and no charm.”

− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 400w.

− =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 370w.

“The Introduction contributed by Professor Moulton illuminates the
entire field.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 180w.

=Bryant, Lorinda Munson.= Pictures and their painters; the history
of painting. *$3.50. Lane.

7–21729.

A book which appeals to the student, to the professional, or to the
lay reader. “The volume begins with the work of the ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Italian painting
from Cimabue to Giotto down to Vasari and Baroccio is then considered,
followed by several separate chapters on Venetian painters from
Giorgione and Titian down to Salvator Rosa. In the second part of the
book we are given the story of Irish painting and of the work of
Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, French, English and American
artists.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Throughout the book will be found bits of anecdote, history, and
legend giving additional interest to an artist, his painting, or the
times he worked in.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 230w.

“Is a compact series of notes on the art of the world with the stamp
of personal familiarity with the pictures discussed and with an
unusually keen sympathy with early schools.” E. L. Cary.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 90w.

=Bryant, Walter William.= History of astronomy. *$3. Dutton.

8–9045.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“It covers a wider range of time than Miss Clerke’s ‘Popular history
of astronomy,’ and though a good piece of work, hardly equals that
book in intrinsic merit.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08.

“Terseness and sanity of scientific statement characterizes the work.
It is amply worth buying, reading and keeping.”

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 295. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.

“The work is descriptive, and is characterized thruout by clearness
and directness of statement.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.

“The book contains a few inaccuracies. Occasionally, too, there is
lack of lucidity of style, and a use of cryptic expressions or
unexplained technical terms. But in general the author’s opinions are
clearly expressed and are also sound.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 593. D. 26, ’07. 500w.

“To the more advanced reader it is likely to appear superficial, as
only touching with notelike brevity a few of the many chapters of the
science; to the reader merely interested in astronomical development,
however, it should appeal as a popular and very attractive account of
many interesting sections of nature-study.”

+ − =Nature.= 78: 193. Jl. 2, ’08. 1450w.

“The subject is treated by one well able to deal with a wealth of
material almost overwhelming.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 460w.

“We have every reason to think Mr. Bryant an accomplished practical
astronomer, but he has not the gift of lucidity, and above all he is
no historian.”

− =Sat. R.= 105: 632. My. 16, ’08. 900w.

“He writes lucidly enough, and his book may be recommended to the
beginner.”

+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 124. Ja. 25, ’08. 170w.

=Bryson, Charles Lee.= Tan and Teckle. **$1.25. Revell.

8–23922.

Tan and Teckle are field mice, and these stories of their adventures
with neighbors, both friendly and hostile, will prove fascinating as
well as instructive to young readers.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 100w.

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

7–38524.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠

“The chief impression left by Mr. Buchanan’s ‘Real Australia’ is the
cleverness of the author. The book is undeniably interesting. It is a
book that, once begun, will be read to the last page; but when the
reader has finished, while he will certainly know a great deal more
about Mr. Buchanan, his views of life, and his powers and ability, it
is doubtful whether he will have a much better or fuller knowledge
than he had before of the real Australia.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 350w.

“A welcome offset to the books which have dealt with the subject in
detached phases, more particularly with the political history of the
country and the socialistic experiments made there.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 156. F. 13, ’08. 500w.

=Buckman, David Lear.= Old steamboat days on the Hudson river.
(Grafton historical ser.) il. **$1.25. Grafton press.

7–36976.

Tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the
introduction of steam navigation. It records “not merely a picturesque
episode in local experience, but the very beginnings of steam
navigation.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“On account of the lack of references the work can hardly be classed
among scholarly books. Furnishes pleasant reading and will prove a
useful book of reference for particular phases of the local life of
which it treats.” E. K. Alden.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 656. Ap. ’08. 350w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 171. Je. ’08. ✠

“Is a book which one only wishes were longer, more lavish both of fact
and of legends.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 90w.

“An interesting account.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“This volume is full of entertaining reminiscences and anecdotes
relating to the development of steam navigation, with full
descriptions of the various mechanical improvements that have been
introduced in recent years.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 170w.

=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Call of the deep; being some further
adventures of Frank Brown. †$1.50. Dutton.

8–30939.

“The writer professes to record incidents of actual sea life aboard
British sailing vessels twenty-five years ago. The rise of the hero
from common sailor to the rank of captain is the unifying element. The
narrative contains the usual wicked commanders, outrageous mutinies,
storms, and hair-breadth ’scapes, wherein our sense of security is
rarely joggled, because the idea that fair play ultimately succeeds is
early premised.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“The spirit of manliness, the healthy contempt for ‘girls and
tea-parties,’ and the equally healthy love affair which crowns Frank’s
good fortune, will compensate, in the youthful minds, for a decided
lack of literary finish, and novelty of plot. The masters are
challenged, but they may rest easy.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.

“Written in Mr. Bullen’s unaffected, breezy way, with capital
descriptive passages and an abundance of exciting incidents.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.

“This will entrance all the youngsters, and as many of their elders as
love the smell of salt water.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 30w.

“Mr. Bullen’s new book is written avowedly for boys, and the more of
them who read it the better—it will do them nothing but good—but it
will please their elders too.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 200w.

“The story is full of real life from beginning to end. Long ago John
Newton remarked that he did not know of any books ‘suitable for
mariners.’ Well, here they are; wholesome to the core; the work of an
expert, but with nothing which would ‘warn off’ the most absolute
landsman.”

+ + =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

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

7–31981.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“Admirable judgment has been shown in choice of subject and of
authorities.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠

“One feels in reading each of the various chapters that he has before
him the last thing that has been said on the particular subject under
discussion. Such a book cannot fail to fill an important place in the
thorough presentation of a course in economics.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 498. Mr. ’08. 200w.

“The selections might have been made to better advantage and might
more thoroly represent the best modern reading on economics in England
and America, but just as it is, the book is useful.”

+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 70w.

“The most serious omission appears to be the virtual neglect of the
more recent developments in economic theory commonly associated with
the Austrian school. It is doubtful whether any other equal group of
selected readings would prove more generally acceptable or
serviceable.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.

=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 191. Mr. ’08. 50w.

“Every teacher will find in the book some material that he will be
very glad to have available for the use of his students.”

+ =Yale R.= 16: 443. F. ’08. 200w.

=Bumpus, Thomas Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy,
their history and their architecture; together with much of
interest concerning the bishops, rulers and other personages
identified with them. (Cathedral series.) $2.50. Page.

8–21818.

An introductory chapter gives some insight into the principles which
guided the progress of North Italian church art, and describes some of
the distinguishing marks of the various schools. The body of the
volume is concerned with the cathedrals themselves, their
architecture, history and associations; while a concluding chapter
gives a list of the most remarkable pictures and wall paintings found
in the churches described. The book is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 410. D. ’08. 160w.

“Might be described as an ornate hand-book, so closely does it combine
the useful and the ornamental.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 260w.

“To the reader interested in architecture, especially if he be able to
follow the author’s commentaries ‘in situ,’ this volume will prove a
valuable aid to intelligent comprehension.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 502. N. 19, ’08. 580w.

“An interesting as well as a handsome book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.

=Burba, George Francis.= Our bird friends: containing many things
young folks ought to know—and likewise grownups. *$1. Outing pub.

8–14714.

Aside from four chapters devoted to facts about birds, how birds fly
and sing, and bird migration, each of nineteen short chapters deals in
a popular descriptive manner with a familiar bird neighbor. Facts
concerning appearance, habits, nest placing and building are
supplemented by full-page colored illustrations of ten birds.

* * * * *

“As a condensed account of interesting facts the book is well worth
one dollar and the time required to read it.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.

“The poorest and most colorless nature book that could well be
imagined. The illustrations so offend the artistic sense, the diction
is so flippant and uninteresting and the facts are thrown together in
such a purposeless, haphazard way as to repel the reader of any age.”

− − =Nation.= 87: 78. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.

“Breezy and enthusiastic, with no sentimental twaddle, the volume is a
delight.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 50w.

=Burgess, Isaac Bronson.= Life of Christ; adapted from the life of
Christ by Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Mathews. $1. Univ. of
Chicago press.

8–29368.

An aid to constructive and historical Bible study for classes in
secondary schools and in the secondary division of the Sunday school.

=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Leaven of love: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.

8–23559.

A story full of spiritual enlightenment whose situation grows out of
the separation of a jealous wife from her husband. The scene shifts
from Boston to Regina Beach, at which latter place the leavening work
progresses, presided over by a young girl whose activities are
marshalled into heavenly order by demonstrable principles of life. How
she shows the misery-burdened wife a sure way back to happiness, how
she stimulates and encourages the husband to hope and work for the
reconciliation, how the evil woman in the way vanishes, and how life
may be a living example of limitless freedom—are all shown with
reasonableness and skill.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 120w.

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.

“Rather amusing story.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.

=Burns, James.= Christ face in art. *$2. Dutton.

8–14762.

A survey extending from St. Luke to Ottilie Roederstein which traces
the growth and historical development of sacred art as expressed in
the face of Christ as conceived by the greatest painters of each age
and country.

* * * * *

“The criticism is superficial, and of little value to serious students
of art, but Mr. Burns has one indispensable qualification for the task
he has chosen: he writes always in a spirit of seriousness and
devotion.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 260w.

“A valuable book.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 160w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 240w.

=Spec.= 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 180w.

=Burns, Rev. James Aloysius.= Catholic school system in the United
States; its principles, origin and establishment. *$1.25.
Benziger.

8–18343.

A coherent view of the Catholic parish school movement in the United
States from the earliest times down to the great immigration period,
which began in about the year 1840. The author dwells upon the steady
effort to build and equip schools, to provide teachers and overcome
fundamental difficulties both from within and from without.

* * * * *

“A very attractive and instructive historical study.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 548. Jl. ’08. 840w.

=Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone.= Search for the western sea. *$5.
Appleton.

8–23910.

The story of the exploration of Northwestern Canada during a period of
about three centuries. Mr. Burpee’s examination of manuscripts in the
Canadian archives has been painstaking and exhaustive. “The story
begins with the Northmen who a thousand years ago pushed across the
Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and America, ‘where they stood the
first of the white men on the shores of a new world,’ and
appropriately it ends with the Northmen who, still by Greenland,
Baffin bay and King William Land, succeeded where so many gallant
spirits had failed. Mr. Burpee does not confine himself to men like La
Verendrye, Jonathan Carver, Alexander Henry, Mackenzie, Fraser,
Thompson, and the rest whose work was mainly overland; he tells also
of the men who ‘with characteristic obstinacy’ clung to the idea that
the Western sea might be approached through Hudson strait.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Contains much of permanent interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 430w.

“He writes with very full knowledge of his subject and presents his
facts in a very pleasing fashion.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 400w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24. ’08. 20w.

“Mr. Burpee puts before us vividly the personality and the
achievements of the pathfinders of the Canadian west.” James White.

+ =Ottawa Evening J.= 4. Je. 27, ’08. 1000w.

“Valuable contribution to geographical knowledge.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.

=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton. 7–34309.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“The book is an example of that best type of realism, the type that
one instinctively accepts as plain, unvarnished reality.” F. T.
Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 672. F. ’08. 780w.

“It is a well-written story in point of style, but exhibits a low
degree of vitality, and is burdened with much inconsequential detail.”
W: M. Payne.

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

“She has invented an ingenious plot, with a daring point of departure,
and peopled it with rather interesting, if not strikingly original,
characters, but her atmosphere is provincial, like her setting.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.

“A novel may be without especial originality or significance in
itself, and yet possess interest as permitting the reader, as he
fancies, a peep into the psychic processes of the writer.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 140w.

=Burrell, Rev. David James.= Lure of the city: a book for young men.
**$1. Funk.

8–28413.

Twenty-three talks to young men, including the following chapters: The
call of the city; Going into business; The poor boy’s chance; The ten
o’clock man; The choosing of one’s friends; Amusements; Books and
reading; Dreams; Voices; How to spend Sunday; Temptation; The code of
honor; The doubter; The Christian; The quitter; The honest man; and
Opportunity. They aim to help the city youth to “tighten a buckle of
his harness.”

* * * * *

“Is not only full of good Christian sense, but is readable and lively,
just such talk as would appeal to those to whom it is addrest.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 70w.

“Admirable series of essays, which make up a readable, wise, and
helpful volume, half homiletic, half of a guide-book character.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 270w.

“He writes here with his well-known vigor.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 60w.

=Burroughs, John.= Leaf and tendril. **$1.10. Houghton.

8–11501.

A book of essays a part of which are nature sketches symbolized by the
“leaf,” and a part nature sermons in which Mr. Burroughs teaches the
trimming and high-culture gospel of the vine-dresser. The opening
essay on The art of seeing things imparts to the reader some of the
secrets of observation inherent in the “eye and ear, yea, in the mind
and soul” and presided over by a great love of nature.

* * * * *

“Written in the author’s usual pleasant style and characterized by
careful observation and sympathetic treatment.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 172. Je. ’08.

“His philosophy is of the wholesome and kindly sort which we like to
think belongs to those who live much out-of-doors.” M. E. Cook.

+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.

+ =Ind.= 64: 1297. Je. 4, ’08. 320w.

“As a country summer companion, it will set one to study nature with
sharper and kindlier eyes. We may add that Mr. Burroughs’s
observations on natural history are of distinctly more value than his
utterances on philosophy and religion.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 350w.

“And those men and women who grow doubtful or bitter, scornful or
hopeless as the result of too much contemplation of man and his works,
can not find better medicine for their souls than these calm and
trustful pages, filled with the maturest thought of a venerable man
who loves and believes in life, his fellow-man, and the universe.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 300w.

=Burt, Mary Elizabeth=, ed. Prose that every child should know; a
selection of the best prose of all times for young people;
decorated with photographs by Eve Watson Schütze. (Every child
should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.

8–11736.

This volume goes to increase the responsibility already rather
arbitrarily imposed upon children by the foregoing volumes in the
“Every child should know series.” None the less here are prose gems
for a child’s thought worth reckoning with. The selections range from
Homer and Esop to Lincoln, Ruskin, Cable, Stockton, Markham and
others. Articles are furnished on the absorbing questions of the
day—money, labor, reforms, etc.—so providing material for oratorical
and debating societies.

* * * * *

“An excellent collection of quotations.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 160w.

=Burton, Frederick Russell.= Strongheart: a novel; founded on
William C. De Mille’s play. †$1.50. Dillingham.

8–24461.

A story based upon the drama which adheres to the scheme of De Mille’s
play, while extending and broadening the treatment. The Strongheart of
the novel is identified with the Ojibways, about whom and whose tribal
characteristics the author has sound, first-hand knowledge. The
extending of the drama story consists of a prologue showing
Strongheart’s Ojibway surroundings and an epilogue in which Dorothy
wins the hearts of the Indians thru missionary work and gains their
consent to marry Strongheart.

* * * * *

“The chances against a novelised drama being anything more than a
piece of clumsy carpentry, makes it distinctly worth while to say a
few words in praise of ‘Strongheart.’” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 382. D. ’08. 600w.

“Mr. Burton has written an entertaining novel, and he has also given
forcible dramatic and truthful presentation of the surroundings,
conditions, and sentiments of the Ojibway people, and of the
complicated matter of their relations with the whites.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 509. S. 19, ’08. 500w.

“The story is an entertaining one and gives the reader some idea of
the true Indian of to-day and his relations with the white man.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

=Burton, Richard.= Three of a kind. †$1.50. Little.

8–26676.

A German violinist, a newsboy and a cocker spaniel constitute the
“top-floor trinity” of this story that tugs away at the heart strings.
In the foreground are the three comrades, unprosperous, struggling for
daily bread. Uniting the elements of the tale is a romance,
unfulfilled, hallowed thru years of the musician’s unworldly striving.
When the waif was revealed to be the child of the woman of the
violinist’s life of dreams, “he was gathered into an embrace that
reclaimed him forever from his homeless state and set him safe in the
harborage of a good man’s long-starved love.”

* * * * *

“It is good for man or boy; it will insure a happy hour; and it will
appeal especially to every one who loves, or has ever loved a dog.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.

=Bury, Lady Charlotte.= Diary of a lady-in-waiting; being the diary
illustrative of the times of George the fourth; interspersed with
original letters from the late Queen Caroline and from various
other distinguished persons; new ed.; with an introd., by A.
Francis Steuart. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.

8–29183.

A reprint of “a plain record of the follies of a princess.” The
chronicler was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and
traitorously divulged court secrets. “It was history of a sort, the
intrigues of the back stair and the evil or insipid gossip of snobs
and flunkies of all ranks of society. And Thackeray himself, as the
editor, Mr. A. Francis Steuart points out, quoted ‘some of its most
pregnant passages when he desired to use them as brilliant
illustrations of his immortal “Four Georges”.’” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“We cannot help thinking that while Mr. Steuart was about it, he might
have accomplished his editing more thoroughly.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 182. Ag. 15. 360w.

“Of course the work as it stands is not continuously interesting to
readers who have no intimate knowledge of the history of the time. But
there is no livelier, or perhaps truer, picture of the wretched
consort of George IV in existence.” E: Fuller.

+ − =Bookm.= 28: 270. N. ’08. 1400w.

=Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w.

“There is probably no better picture to be found of the social life of
the early years of the last century.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 400w.

“In many ways this edition is improved and made more readable.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.

“It should never have been written, and, having been written, it
cannot be read by the most callous without an absorbing and pitiful
interest.”

− + =Spec.= 101: 197. Ag. 8, ’08. 1550w.

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

7–12985.

The author, rector of Sisland, Norfolk, prepared eight lectures for
delivery in St. Mary’s church, Oxford. These occupy about two-fifths
of the volume; the remaining lectures are eight “Supplementary
lectures.” “Mr. Bussell defends Christian doctrine on the ground of
its utility, seeking to show its value and necessity for the present
age.... He contends that Christian ethics cannot outlast Christian
dogma, and that the general welfare is bound up with the faiths and
hopes of Christian belief.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“He conducts his argument on a high plane, meeting philosophical
objections with no small penetration and skill.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 210. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.

“The discussions are stimulating and suggestive throughout; but owing
to the extent of the ground covered, and the manner of exposition
chosen by the author, it is very difficult to state shortly the exact
drift of the book.” S. H. M.

+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 524. Jl. ’08. 470w.

=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Cheerful smugglers. †$1. Century.

8–11086.

The young parents of a year old baby evolve a scheme to provide a fund
for the child’s college education. A ten per cent tariff is imposed
upon everything that comes into the house, groceries, cigars, candy,
clothes, and even upon the belongings of their guests. The comedy of
the situation reaches its climax when everybody takes to
smuggling,—cook, guests and the parents themselves.

* * * * *

“The little book is very good fun.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 100w.

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

“It is all very cheerful.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.

“Sheer nonsense, but amusing nonsense at least.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 20w.

=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Kilo; being the love story of Eliph’
Hewlett, book agent. †$1. McClure.

7–36094.

Eliph’ Hewlett, the irrepressible, ne’er-to-be-downed book agent,
cannot detach himself from his “Jarby’s encyclopedia” even when he
goes a-wooing. “Peer Gynt did not divert his dying mother’s mind by
their imaginary ride more utterly than did this Iowa book agent with
his enthusiastic recital of the merits of ‘Jarby’s encyclopedia’; her
last words were: ‘Eliph’, you may put me down for a copy.’” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“Certainly it is lively reading; but the persistent effort to be funny
thru 279 pages exhausts author and reader alike, and we may fail to
see some passages of genuine sincerity and a few veritable folks.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.

+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.

* =Butler, Nicholas Murray.= American as he is. *$1. Macmillan. 8–34126.

Three lectures delivered before the University of Copenhagen which aim
to set out some of the aspects of American life and to draw a picture
of that part of present-day civilization which the world knows as
American. The chapters are The American as a political type, The
American apart from his government, and The American and intellectual
life.

=Butterfield, Kenyon Leech.= Chapters in rural progress. *$1. Univ.
of Chicago press.

8–4449.