*Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances.Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v.**$7. Scribner.
Mrs. Brookfield, the charming, witty and beautiful niece of Hallam, the historian, and her well known husband, William Henry Brookfield, fashionable preacher and ready writer, were the center of an exclusive intellectual circle and numbered among their friends Thackeray, Carlyle, FitzGerald, Tennyson, Mrs. Proctor, Lady Ashburton and many other interesting people. In this account of them which has been prepared by their son Charles and his wife, extracts from letters and diaries aid in furnishing much chatty information and many anecdotes concerning the social and literary London of their time.
*“This is one of the most delightful books of memoirs which we have seen for many years.”
*“As illustrative of a great and vigorous age which has passed away, these letters possess no inconsiderable value.”
*“We close the volumes, feeling that it is well to have been admitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and joyous company of a merry-hearted husband and wife and their brilliant circle of high-souled friends.” Percy F. Bicknell.
*“The letters and anecdotes which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brookfield have here collected are so rich and abundant that the most copious extracts must give an inadequate idea of what they contain.”
*“Whether it be grave or gay, the book is always interesting, and we are peculiarly grateful to it, for it has added to our literary acquaintance one of the best men who ever published a book, and a lady whose charm of manner and quick sensibility are evident in every letter she wrote, in every line of her diary.”
Brooks, Elisabeth Willard.As the world goes by.†$1.50. Little.
Bohemia with much of its usual abandon is pictured here, but there is reared in its surroundings a clever, philosophical girl who after eighteen years of loyal devotion to her worldly actress mother none the less finds it natural to fit into the cultured corner of her father’s world. Her romance forms the undercurrent of the story—a romance of the intense subjective order which thru its misunderstandings tries and purifies.
“It’s rather a dim, inconclusive sort of story, the heroine being particularly dim.”
“The author ... keeps a quiet control over her material, and produces a decidedly interesting and valuable study of character development.”
“The lack of a villain, the complex psychology and rarefied philosophy carry no great appeal to the multitude, but the reflections will attract the thoughtful, and the musical interpretations charm the initiated.”
Brooks, Geraldine.Dames and daughters of the French court.**$1.50. Crowell.
These women, who for brilliancy, courage, charm, and occasionally intrigue, cannot be surpassed have been much written about as salonists, and literary successes, but the personal side of their lives has been omitted. These sketches aim to supply the inner view, and trace the motives and formative influences from their source. In the group are Madame de Sevigné, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël, Madame de Rémussat, Madame Le Brun, Madame de Lafayette, Madame Geoffrin, Madame Recamier, and Madame Valmore.
“About these women ... much has already been written, and better written than in the present volume.”
“Readable sketches of Mesdames de Staël, de Lafayette, Récamier, Le Brun, and other notable French women. Charmingly written.”
“Interesting and instructive volume.”
Brooks, Rt. Rev. Phillips.Christ the life and light.**$1. Dutton.
“A group of selections from the writings of Phillips Brooks, chosen and arranged with reference to their use for Lenten readings, the whole collection having as its keynote Christ as the life and light of the world.”—Outlook.
Brooks, Sarah Warner.Garden with house attached.$1.50. Badger, R. G.
It is of a Cambridge garden that the author writes which “for twenty years was the property of one who had in the Harvard botanical garden ‘a friend at court,’ and was able thus to obtain choice shrubs and herbaceous plants. The author describes the rose, foxglove, iris, Canterbury bells, violets, hollyhock, and other plants in this garden.” (N. Y. Times). “The general theme is plant and plant-life. It contains good suggestions in regard to the cultivation of flowers.” (Bookm.)
“The style is somewhat diffuse and parenthetical, except where direct advice is given, in which case it is clear enough.” Edith Granger.
“Writes in a semi-practical, semi-meditative manner in regard to the comforts and enjoyments of a small country home.”
“Instructive and entertaining. The healthy love of nature which outdoor life awakens in most of us has pervaded it and has transferred itself to the reader.”
*Brooks, William Keith.Oyster, The; a popular summary of a scientific study.*$1. Hopkins.
“Fourteen years ago Prof. Brooks made a rational appeal to Marylanders on the subject of oyster culture, in the hope of reviving a decaying and contentious industry. His tract ... failed, as he sorrowfully admits in his preface to a second and revised edition, to penetrate the ignorant conservatism of a State ruled hitherto by Gorman. However, in returning to the fray, he adds a chapter on the peril of the oyster as a vehicle of collection for cholera and typhoid germs, and perhaps this aspect will do something to help the economic reform.”—Nation.
*“It is written in an interesting manner. An index would increase the value of the book many times; it deserves to have one.”
Broughton, Rev. Leonard Gaston.Soul-winning church.**50c. Revell.
Some of the most effective addresses of the well-known revivalist are found in this volume. They have been delivered here and in England, and concern the work and workers of the church to-day, its doctrine and its hope.
“They are plain, pungent, and spiritually quickening, though blended with archaic matter that is intellectually offensive to the educated.”
*Broughton, Rhoda.Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
The waif is a young minx of eighteen who, learned in the ways of the French demi-monde, is brought to England on her mother’s death and saddled upon the relatives of her father, a lax lord. She creates havoc in the straight-laced families which shelter her, but the end of all her schemes being to win a permanent home or to make a creditable match, she finally marries a peer, the widower of her first hostess.
*“Her new novel shows the old daring and spirit in the dialogue, though not quite the old raciness and spontaneity that kept everything and everybody alive.”
*“Miss Broughton herself is more puzzled to know what to make of her and what to do with her than all the people in the book put together.”
*“While not up to her best work, it is still Rhoda Broughton—and that is a guarantee of interest and of quality unusual and piquant.”
*“A good many of the details introduced to complete the picture are frankly repellant. It is rather melancholy to see Miss Broughton’s fine talent wasted on the conscientious delineation of ineffectual or uncomely types of goodness and decadence.”
Brouner, Walter Brooks, and Fung Yuet Mow.Chinese made easy; with an introd. by Herbert A. Giles.*$6. Macmillan.
“This is a handsomely got-up book, with a red cloth cover and a gilt dragon impressed on it. The title-page is on the right hand and the pages of the book follow from right to left as in a Chinese book.... What ‘Chinese made easy’ teaches is one of the dialects spoken in the Canton province.... To be pronounced useful the book should have for title ‘Cantonese made easy,’ and the spelling should be made to correspond with that adopted in all other works on the subject, local deviations and solecisms being changed into their proper equivalents in standard Cantonese.”—Nation.
“Only those who are to work among the Cantonese natives, including many of the Chinese residents in the United States, may find it of some use.” F. Hirth.
*Brown, Abbie Farwell.Star jewels, and other wonders.†$1. Houghton.
“A collection of original, modern fairy stories, with the starfish as the theme—five stories, five little poems, and five pictures, like the points of the starfish.”—Critic.
*“Will be liked by children.”
*“A collection of wonder stories told in a simple and familiar way, but with a touch of poetry, a little play of imagination, and a refinement of feeling which separate them from most works of the same kind.”
*Brown, Alice.Paradise.†$1.50. Houghton.
“Here, in a little story of country life and country character, we have at least five personalities clearly and entertainingly sketched, with a story of love, disappointment, and sacrifice, at times poignant in its depth of feeling, but nevertheless always treated with an underlying sense of humor.... Almost all of the characters are quaint and in a gentle way queer.” (Outlook.) The heroine is an orphan, who, after a varied experience is trying to train herself as a nurse.
*“The end rallies to a justification of the beginning, and stamps the whole as a little human document of fine quality.”
*“The present story is not quite as ambitious to fill the place of a fully rounded-out novel as some of its predecessors, but it is perhaps none the less acceptable for that reason.”
Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.).Wine-press.†$1.50. Appleton.
The daughter of a New England mother and an Italian poet who deserted his wife for an actress who could interpret his dramas, meets her irresponsible half sister, the child of her father and this actress, at a woman’s college, and after graduation takes charge of her and witnesses her tragic end. Disillusioned, disgusted with both men and women, she is brought back to a normal attitude thru the influence of a nice young doctor.
“It is a study in feminine psychology carried out with uncommon insight, and deserves to be read with attentive interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“The book is unconventional in its interest, and above the average of contemporary fiction.”
“It is due to Miss Brown to say that she has been most conspicuously successful where her task has been hardest; namely, where the homely and the tragic confront one another. Where weakness chiefly lies is in the limp into commonplace situation which all her ability has not averted.”
“The author has developed an idea, not novel in itself, in a striking and unusual way.”
Brown, Arthur Judson.New forces in old China: an unwelcome but inevitable awakening.**$1.50. Revell.
A study of the new forces now developing in China. The work “has for its object the description of those features which he thinks are to effect changes in China, and this will be due to Western trade, Western politics, and Western religion. D. C. Boulger’s words are: ‘the grip of the outer world has tightened around China. It will either strangle her or galvanize her into fresh life.’” (N. Y. Times). “Dr. Brown deals with many timely points in this book. Among them are the stupendous proportions of the economic revolution in China; the growth of the newspaper, of which there were none a decade ago and nearly a hundred to-day; Japan’s plan to arouse, organize and lead China; a question as to the responsibility of the missionaries for the trouble in China; the rapid development of American trade with China; an up-to-date statement of the Chinese railway system, and many other salient points.” (Bookm.)
“In rapid and highly interesting style, and in compact form, he arrays the evidences that make for the preservation, on a nobler plane, of the best ideas and the nobler outlook of the oldest of empires.”
“Mr. Brown’s volume deserves general reading.”
“This is a volume which will well repay careful study.”
Brown, E. Burton-.Roman Forum,*$1. Scribner.
“A popular account of the excavations in the Roman Forum from 1898 to 1904 in handy form.... The book is intended not only to present information concerning the excavations, but also an account of the light they have thrown upon the religion and history of the Romans and through these upon the character of the people.... Well-known facts contained in the many previous publications about the Forum have been omitted; but the monuments that were not recently excavated have been noticed in their place, in order to make the little volume a complete handbook.”—N. Y. Times.
“Summarises in a clear, methodical and scholarly way all the latest discoveries.”
Brown, G. Baldwin.William Hogarth.*$1.25. Scribner.
“A fresh and independent treatment of Hogarth’s life and art.” As his life was spent at his work save for his runaway marriage, his French visit and arrest at Calais, and some sharp political controversy, the book deals chiefly with his paintings, their value, influence and humor. There are many illustrations.
“Mr. Brown gives a fairly satisfactory and correct summary of the leading incidents in the painter’s life but he has little that is original or enlightening to say concerning his art.”
“Concise, yet, within its necessary limits, really admirable monograph.”
“Professor Baldwin Brown has written a very good book on Hogarth, and one which, in spite of its moderate size and price, will give the general reader a juster understanding of the true nature of Hogarth’s art than he is likely to get elsewhere.”
“The volume is much better than the average of the series to which it belongs.”
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes.In and around Venice.*$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Brown’s new volume has characteristics in common with his “Life on the lagoons,” viz., full sympathy with the people, love for their customs, their legends and their life. “The short papers vary as widely in subject as in treatment. Here one finds a careful account of the Campanile of San Marco and theloggettaof Sansovino, followed by a diagrammed description of the columns of the Piazzetta, which an architect might prize.... His trips to the mainland, including a voyage to Istria, furnish several papers on out-of-the-way places, which one is glad to see through his eyes.” (Nation.)
*“His book is compact enough to be taken abroad as a companion to the ordinary guidebooks, and may be heartily commended to the tourist as well as the general reader.”
“Has made a charming book out of a number of facts about Venice, soberly told.”
“Some of his papers are slight, and in others there are repetitions; but, taken as a whole, this volume is a worthy successor to ‘Life on the lagoons.’”
“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents, its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”
Brown, John.SeeMacBean, L., jt. auth. Marjorie Fleming.
Brown, Katharine Holland.Diane.†$1.50. Doubleday.
“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side. Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.
“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery. The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment and surroundings. They have charm.”
“But the tale, though full of faults, is a creation, and not a mere echo.”
“Diane is thoroughly lovable; other characters are vividly drawn and full of genuine pathos. The book is well written.”
“There is, altogether, a great deal to read in ‘Diane,’ and although it suffers a little from faults of construction, it is on the whole a very good story.”
Browne, George Waldo.St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque.**$3.50. Putnam.
The great river is described from the ocean to the lake, and the men who were connected with it are brought in in chronological order, Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, LaSalle, Wolfe, Montcalm, and the early voyageurs. There is an account of Indian wars, and a fine blending of past scenes and present scenery. There are one-hundred full page illustrations.
“The text appears not to be inadequate, ... but no one can think the style good or graceful.”
“Within its limits the book is satisfactory, and a good map adds to its value.”
“The author of the book before us has told the story of the St. Lawrence and of early Canada in a most interesting manner.”
“Mr. Browne manifests no great originality or literary power, but he weaves together history and geography, legend and description with sufficient skill to make it all readable to one who has any interest in the subject.”
“It is a choice company of readers who will hail its appearance with cordial greetings.”
“Of course in a book of 365 pages there are some good things; the index, for example, so far as it goes, is one of them.”
Browne, Henry.Handbook of Homeric study.*$2. Longmans.
Opening with a discussion of the Homeric poems this volume contains commentaries on the Homeric bards; historical outlines of the Homeric controversy, chapters on Homeric life, the Homeric people, and “The epic art of Homer.” There are twenty-two illustrations in half-tone, an “approximate” chronology, and an index.
“It is an honest, candid, careful, and within its limits, it is a lucidly arranged book.” Andrew Lang.
“The book would have gained greatly had the author waited a few years to digest his material. We also complain that there is no bibliography.”
“Deserves the highest commendation.”
“An eminently modern, although probably not final, word on the study of Homer.”
“Treated with conspicuous judgment and moderation the complex topic of the Homeric literature.”
Browne, John Hutton Balfour.South Africa: a glance at current conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.
A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and political questions.
“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions, deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate. Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”
“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails either in observation or in accurate description.”
*“Whatever he says is forcible and lucid.”
Browne, Mary.Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by Euphemia Stewart Browne.*$2.50. Dutton.
The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl, who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do, and she could not discover the fact herself.
“This is a perfectly irresistible book, a pure delight to all lovers of children and quaintness.”
*“Incidentally the book is an interesting picture of French life almost a century ago as seen through juvenile British eyes.”
“Since Marjorie Fleming wrote the ill-spelled pages of her delightful journal, no child’s diary has been published more fascinating, because none have been more unconscious or sincere, than ‘The diary of a girl in France in 1821.’”
“Little Mary is an accomplished grumbler.”
Brownell, Leverett White.Photography for the sportsman naturalist.**$2. Macmillan.
A book describing hunting with a camera in all its details, and illustrated with pictures made from life. There is much practical information concerning camera plates, the best methods to use in taking pictures, and the best processes to employ after they are taken.
“In the present work Mr. Brownell has gone into the subject thoroughly. The book may be called a first-rate guide to hunting with the camera.”
“This book is packed full of practical directions.”
“It is essentially a book for the novice.”
“The book is by no means dry reading, the technical details being enlivened with numerous and appropriate anecdotes. Mr. Brownell has, in fact, succeeded in producing a treatise on practical field photography which it will be very hard to beat.” R. L.
Brownell, William Crary.French art; classic and contemporary painting and sculpture.$1.50. Scribner.
This new and enlarged edition contains a chapter on “Rodin and the institute” and the identical text of the illustrated edition of 1901.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.Sonnets from the Portuguese.$1. Century.
These sonnets which have had so large a share in immortalizing one of the “most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge,” once more make their appearance with a few of the love poems of Robert Browning, and this time in the dainty workmanship of the “Thumb nail series.” A frontispiece of Mrs. Browning, and an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder add to the value of the volume.
Browning, Oscar.Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769-1793.*$3.50. Lane.
Napoleon’s boyhood in Corsica, his education at Brienne and Paris, his relations with Paoli, and his career down to Toulon are given in detail. Appendices contain three selections from Napoleon’s writings and some original documents from the British museum concerning the siege of Toulon. The illustrations are largely taken from old paintings and drawings.
“Comparison is inevitable, and recent Napoleonic literature has established so high a standard in this branch of history that Mr. Oscar Browning suffers by being inopportune.”
“In regard to historical accuracy as distinct from literary presentment, the volume is, on the whole meritorious.”
“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B. Bourne.
“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the narrative and in Appendix I.”
“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note of the book.”
“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been told earlier and told better.”
“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight, but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already attained in this field of historical inquiry.”
“Presenting his results in a readable and lively style which marked his ‘Age of theCondottieri’ and his notable little biography of ‘Swedish Charles.’”
Browning, Robert.Select poems; ed. with introd. and notes, biographical and critical, by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
The poems selected here range from “Pauline” to “Asolando”, and are so chosen as to reveal the principles which formed the mind and fashioned the art of Browning.
*“Browning has everything to gain and nothing to lose from such intelligent editorship as that shown in this volume.”
Browning, Robert.Blot in the ‘scutcheon, Colombe’s birthday, A soul’s tragedy, and In a balcony.60c. Heath.
This is a volume in section 3, “the English drama from its beginning to the present day,” in the Belles-lettres series. The texts are those of the latest editions, and there is a scholarly introduction and brief biography, bibliography, and glossary.
“If Browning is to be considered as a dramatist, and by an editor who is willing to accept him as a dramatist, perhaps the present edition is all that we have the right to expect.” Brander Matthews.
Browning, Robert.Pied piper of Hamelin.$1.25. Wessels.
Browning’s poem made attractive for children by numerous ingenious colored illustrations, the work of Van Dyck.
Brudno, Ezra Selig.Little conscript.†$1.50. Doubleday.
The little conscript is a Jew pledged to the synagogue whose life is devoted against his will to the service of the czar. A truthful picture of Russia of to-day is presented, including military and peasant life. There is sidelight information on the methods of force and fraud employed in organizing and maintaining the army.
“Throughout his book, Mr. Brudno’s style is deliberately simple at times to the verge of crudeness. It would have been improved by a certain amount of relentless pruning.”
“He is a Russian who has much English yet to learn. Is not a novel, though it may contain some ugly chapters of Russian history.”
“The end is black and depressing but the value of the book as a great human document and as a strong indictment of the political and military methods of a great nation remains with the reader.”
“Is a much more appealing piece of literature than ‘The white terror and the red,’ but not, we suspect, so trustworthy an account of actual conditions.”
Brumbaugh, Martin Grove.Making of a teacher. $1. S. S. times co.
“This book is on ‘How to teach.’ Its emphasis all through is where the emphasis needs to be laid, upon the trained teacher. The first part of the book is a simple, clear series of lessons on pedagogy; then follow chapters on the Teacher, the Courses of study, the Educational principles of Jesus; and finally several wise chapters on the scope of religious education. The illustrative materials, the captions, and the arrangement are excellent, and the book is made admirable as a text-book for normal classes by suggestive questions at the close of each chapter.”—Bib. World.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the book by Dr. Brumbaugh is just now the one most needed in the Sunday-school world.” Wm. Byron Forbush.
“He has done his work well.”
Bryan, Michael.Dictionary of painters and engravers. 5v. subs.*$30; hf. mor.*$50. Macmillan.
The present volume (S-Z) is the fifth and last of the 1904-5 edition of this valuable reference work, and contains over a hundred full-page illustrations. This is the fourth edition of the work which has appeared since 1816 when it was first published, and it includes 1200 new biographies.
“The revision has been very thorough throughout the volume.”
“The dictionary is now as complete as it can be made, and the work has been done with the greatest care.”
“A work which should be absolutely indispensable to every one interested in art or artists.”
*“Another great and invaluable work of historical narrative and critical comment, ranking in its field with Grove in the field of music.”
“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”
“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained. In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”
“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”
“The fifth volume has the merits and defects of the rest.”
Bryce, James.Constitutions.*$1.25. Oxford.
This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions; Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia.
Bryce, James.Holy Roman empire.*$1.50. Macmillan.
“Not only has Mr. Bryce rewritten the work with a view to a clearer presentation of the theories it elaborates, but he has met and admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed—the seeming neglect of certain striking personalities and events, the inadequatetreatment of the Byzantine empire, and the expression of views rendered untenable by the political developments of the past quarter of a century.... The more important changes ... of his work may be briefly summarized. In chapter V. Mr. Bryce, discussing the reluctance of Charles the Great to assume the imperial title, incorporates the theories of Dahn and Hodgkin; in chapter VII, he enters into a broader explanation of the theories that went to sustain the empire through the middle ages; chapter XIII., on ‘The fall of the Hohenstaufen,’ he considerably enlarges by the inclusion of a fuller account of the momentous struggle between Louis IV. and Pope John XXII.; in chapter XIV. he develops the early electoral system under the Germanic constitution; in chapter XV. the theories regarding the source of civil authority, a vexed question subsequent to the struggle of the investitures, are discussed more largely; chapter XVI., ‘The city of Rome in the middle ages,’ contains new studies of Arnold of Brescia and Cola di Rienzo. Chapter XVII. is entirely new, embodying an account of the Eastern empire and affording a comprehensive idea of the impress made on history by the people and rulers of New Rome; finally, in Chapter XVIII., the attempts to reform the Germanic constitution are disclosed in greater detail. To this it should be added that the text is more fully annotated, that greatly needed maps are supplied, and that, in addition to the chronological list of popes and emperors found in previous editions, there is a compact and helpful table of salient events connected with the empire.”—Outlook.