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An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.
Brown, Kenneth.Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
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“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’ and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country, it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.
“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities, not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”
“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”
Brown, William Adams.Christian theology in outline. **$2.50. Scribner.
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A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties, while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)
“It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern doctrine.”
“Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the place of thought.”
“This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”
Browne, Edward G.Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di. (Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
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The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,” the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.
“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of letters.”
“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and bounteous exposition.”
“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but light reading.”
“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in years.”
“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits. The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly scholarly spelling of the names.”
“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader] comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s book.”
“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even from an Eastern.”
Browne, George Waldo.Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in Venezuela. 75c. McKay.
A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.
Browne, J. H. Balfour.Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5. Longmans.
The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the “Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The “Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo, Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and Macready.
“A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”
“The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular value in this twentieth century.”
“The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”
“Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of literature.”
Browne, Sir Thomas.Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.Complete poetical works; with a prefatory note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp leather “Thin paper poets.”
Browning, Oscar.Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.
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“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M. Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this country.”—Acad.
“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint. The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”
“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early in 1813.”
“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.
“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we say, over-facile composition.”
“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”
“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other matters.”
“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”
“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in any library of Napoleonic literature.”
Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough.Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.
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The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart of the black belt of Alabama.”
Bruce, George A.Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
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Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’ battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania.
“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full of valuable sidelights.”
“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy tale, without an index.”
Bruce, Jerome.Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.
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The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in antebellum days.
Bruce, Philip Alexander.Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
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More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions, and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of the past.
“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the northern army of invasion.”
“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world history.” W: E. Dodd.
Brunetiere, Ferdinand.Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.
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The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters. The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s life, as with theelemental points that define, explain and characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.
“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”
“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable. Not equally well translated throughout.”
“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”
“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”
“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s ‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”
“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater distance of time.”
“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.” James Huneker.
“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel that it would have carried farther had its author never become involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.
“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”
“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and partial.” Horatio S. Krans.
*Bryant, W. W.History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.
“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial evolution.”—Ath.
“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”
“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.”
Bryce, James.Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50. Oxford.
A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law of Rome and the history and law of England.”
“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”
“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as himself.” Edward Cary.
Buchanan, Alfred.Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.
Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation, heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about its decay.”
“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr. Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”
“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”
“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption. On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”
Buckell, G. T. Teasdale.Complete English wing shot.*$3.50. McClure.
A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game birds.
“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its title would lead one to expect.”
“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs, seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long and practiced experience, and will, nodoubt, win the attention they deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its limits.”
“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any sport about which much has already been written, is the direct personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of bringing up pheasants and partridges.”
Buckham, James.Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.
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The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them. Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of forming an acquaintance with nature.
“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these meditations.”
*Budge, E. A. T. Wallis.Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
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A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose ancestors built them and worshipped in them.
“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and, whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The arrangement of the book also might have been better.”
“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of prosperity.”
“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel with information concerning archaeological research and history, these books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the student.”
“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”
Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.Reinforced concrete. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.
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This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their application.
“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank among the standard books and should continue to be of service to designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.
Bullen, Frank T.Frank Brown, sea apprentice.†$1.50. Dutton.
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“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”
“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures, lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners, and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”
“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea yarns, will find the book entertaining.”
“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be relished by young readers.”
“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”
Bullen, Frank T.Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.