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“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’ and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as ‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.
“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of information about the status and development of American architecture and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”
Baker, Louise R.Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.
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A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk. It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.
“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”
Baldwin, James Mark.Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.
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Third edition with improvements and enlargements.
“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.
“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”
“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work is of distinctive and permanent value.”
Baldwin, James Mark.Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.
“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and cannot well be hastily scanned.”
Baldwin, James Mark.Thought and things: a study of the development and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.
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The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological, genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”
“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we close it with a feeling of disappointment.”
“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.
“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.
“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious, systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical doctrine in the form of error.”
“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”
“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a notable one.” A. W. Moore.
“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner ring.”
“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A. Tawney.
Baldwin, May.Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50. Dutton.
The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of the particularly undisciplinarypensionnatin which she is placed, and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)
“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”
“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained through all its 400 pages.”
“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the ground.”
Balzac, Honore de.Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L. Sanderson. *80c. Heath.
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A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.
Banks, Louis Albert.Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.
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This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’ mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.
Barber, Edwin Atlee.Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.
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An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham, Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N. Y. Times.
Barber, Edwin Atlee.Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.
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The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable information based on the latest discoveries relating to various industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”
“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first complete work on the subject.”
Barbour, Ralph Henry.Crimson sweater.†$1.50. Century.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and will certainly be liked by boys.”
“The best he has done.”
*Barbour, Ralph Henry.Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2. Lippincott.
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A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop, thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold binding.
“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless ‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”
Barbour, Ralph Henry.Maid in Arcady.†$2. Lippincott.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking in suggestive quality.”
*Barbour, Ralph Henry.Tom, Dick and Harriet.†$1.50. Century.
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The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play, and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the winning of a much needed endowment fund.
“The book is worth reading.”
Barclay, Armiger.King makers. †$1.50. Small.
The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons, undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before all this is safely brought about.
“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is worth while.”
Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).Life of Alfred de Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.
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“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters, rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.
“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”
“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”
Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).Princesses and court ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.
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The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s sister; and “An Arab princess.”
“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of translation now prevalent.”
“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion of cheapness or superficiality.”
“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many interesting pictures.”
“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of biography as we have seen for some time.”
“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately represented in the translation.”
Barker, Ernest.Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50. Putnam.
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“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the spirit within the letter.”—Nation.
“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of his subject.”
“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s bookis much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory, both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.
“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and fantastic analogies.”
“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The universities to which we look for future statesmen may be congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for political studies.”
“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.
“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic, but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”
“Illuminating volume.”
Barker, J. Ellis.Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.
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“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party government, and especially against the particular form of government which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and army.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which Mr. Barker denounces.”
“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large proportion of chaff.”
“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”
“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too long.”
“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot Griffis.
“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”
“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he dogmatizes.”
“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”
“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on, and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”
“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic of popular government and all its ways.”
“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have read for some time.”
“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr. Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”
“The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations, and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”
Barksdale, Emily Woodson.Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.
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Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.
Barnes, Howard Turner.Ice formation, with special reference to anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.
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The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.
“The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest, and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the moreconsideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”
Barnett, T. Ratcliffe.Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ... who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”
Barr, Martin W.King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.