A Denver murderer who daintily strangles a trio of women and in each case leaves behind thirteen carnations as a clue is sought thruout this detective story. The adventures of a “cub reporter” who becomes involved in the search, the clearing of an innocent man by a skilful lawyer who holds a mob at bay to protect his client, and the influence of Elise, the wicked and beautiful woman of the French quarter, are vividly drawn.
“The gloom is not lightened by any gleam of humor, but the style has the force which comes from a lurid intensity of feeling.”
“Local color has been laid on here in great crimson splashes.”
“A rather clever detective story couched in somewhat overwrought language.”
“The tale is lacking in action, compactness, and sequence.”
“Lacks neither freshness nor power.”
Bertouch, Beatrice, Baroness de.Life of Father Ignatius, O. S. B.*$3. Dutton.
The life of this “devout but pugnacious Anglican monk” is interwoven with questions of church doctrine and church union so as to represent an episode in church history. His biographer reveals him as “a son of thunder,” “magnificently human,” and with an “oceanic personality.”
“Will be received with grains by those not of the fold.”
“The story of his life is a curious episode in the history of the modern church, an interesting study for the psychologist, and an instructive commentary on the worth of a formal sort of church union that is too much thought of.”
“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”
Besant, Walter.London in the time of the Tudors.*$7.50. Macmillan.
“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on ‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s ‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book, originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.
“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.” Arthur Howard Noll.
Best, Kenelm Digby.Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary.*$6. Herder.
A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.
“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it with either profit or patience.”
Bevan, Edwyn Robert.Jerusalem under the high priests. $2.50. Longmans.
Five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament. “Into his attractive narrative of political events Mr. Bevan weaves a sketch of the development of Jewish thought, including therein notices of the Book of Daniel and of all the great Apocryphal works of the time except the Wisdom of Solomon.... One of the most noteworthy works of the period is Ben-Sira or Ecclesiasticus.... Mr. Bevan’s account of the book is full and interesting. He properly devotes much space to the invasion of Jewish society by Hellenism, including the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to Hellenize his realm.... Other important points forcibly brought out are: the character of Judas Maccabæus, the results of the Hasmonean rule, the conflicts between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the policy and character of Herod. The volume is provided with an index and tables of the Hasmoneans and the Seleucids.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Bevan’s picture of the period, while popular in style, is thorough and accurate in matter.” C. H. Toy.
“The style is clear and sympathetic, and occasionally even brilliant. The topics dealt with by Mr. Bevan are so successfully worked out that we should have liked to see the book enlarged so as to embrace other pertinent points as well.”
“It is not a comprehensive work; but a scholar who knows a period of history deeply and scientifically, can put a great deal of information into a small book. And beyond doubt, Mr. Bevan’s acquaintance with his subject is thorough and methodical. We only regret that he did not add a little bibliographical detail to his interesting pages.”
“The author has certainly succeeded in his purpose of giving ‘in a few strokes the general outline and colour’ of the period.” G. B. G.
Beveridge, Albert J.Young man and the world.**$1.50. Appleton.
“The young Indiana senator writes of young men from the point of view of a young man who has found success coming his way. These papers are collected from the periodical in which they first appeared.... Learn your limitations, and start out in the direction for which you are fitted, is his first suggestion. Also keep working, and working hard, and don’t worry. Read, and mingle with people, and cultivate nature. Take vacations. Courage, nerve, faith in one’s self are necessary. Mr. Beveridge has given a great deal of good advice that ... will stimulate and help to strengthen.”—N. Y. Times.
*“It is all on good, safe, and sound commonplace ground.”
*“His book covers a great deal of ground, and covers it well; it contains sayings to think over, sayings to remember, sayings to follow; it is a book decidedly worth having.”
“The writer’s terse, vigorous style is well suited to his text.”
*“Will occupy a permanent place with books of their general character.”
Beveridge, W.History of the Westminster assembly.*$1. imp. Scribner.
“In a very clear and orderly manner, within a brief compass, this volume sets forth the events leading up to the calling of the assembly, its character, deliberations, and findings.”—Bib. World.
“The calling, the personnel, and proceedings of the assembly are concisely related.”
“Of the many histories of the assembly this seems to us best suited to the needs of the general reader.”
Bharati, Baba Premanand.Sree Krishna, the Lord of love.*$2. Lane.
This work prepared by the distinguished Brahman of Calcutta, who was recently elected vice-president of the Peace congress, is intended to interpret the Hindu belief as to the origin and meaning of life and the evolution of the universe. It purports to be “the history of the universe from its birth to its dissolution. Baba Bharati has aimed to impress his readers with the substance of Hindu thought on religion and philosophy, in purely Eastern dress. The volume is really a clear history of the origin, nature, and evolution of the universe as the Oriental mind perceives it; it is a clear statement of the doctrine of Karma; an exposition of the caste system; a beautiful story of the Oriental Christ, and perhaps the clearest statement ever published of the Hindu cosmogony.” (R. of Rs.)
“Style is direct, simple, and clear, and his thinking high and sane. It is an extraordinary book,—the fascinating exposition of an exalted philosophy.”
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“A rhythmical rendering and rearrangement of the contents of Ecclesiastes, involving many transpositions of verses and many excisions of glosses. The notes are numerous and suggestive. The book belongs to the ‘Polychrome’ series.”—Bib. World.
“A highly valuable companion to the popular versions.”
Bible, Twentieth century New Testament*$1. Revell.
“‘The twentieth century Testament’ is a translation into modern English made from the original Greek by a company of about twenty scholars representing the various sections of the Christian church.” (N. Y. Times). In spite of the radical efforts of religious and literary formalists the world over to oppose modernizing the form of the Scriptures, “the demand of the people for a Gospel in their own tongue is too strong to be checked.” (Ind.)
“There can be no question that this work is equaled by few, if any, in its earnestness, scholarship, and success. It deserves to be studied and publicly read, not in the place of, but along side of, the American standard revision.” C. W. V.
“The most popular [modernized translations], and in our opinion deservedly so, is the Twentieth century New Testament. It is not an old version patched up so as to last a little longer, but a new rendering expressed in words and style such as might be used if it were written for us of to-day, as, indeed, we believe it was. The translators write idiomatically, not pedantically.”
“There need, we suppose, be no real fear that this book will make any progress in displacing that of which it is in effect a part burlesque, or that it will be otherwise valued than as a literary curiosity.”
Bicknell, Edward.Territorial acquisitions of the United States, 1787-1904: an historical review. 3d ed. rev. and enl.**50c. Small.
“A clear and concise statement of the superficial facts concerning our accessions of territory.”—Am. Hist. R.
“It contains a few errors. The style is too colloquial, but as a whole the book is better than many more pretentious ones.”
*Bigelow, Poultney.History of the German struggle for liberty. v. 4.**$2.25. Harper.
With the appearance of this fourth volume of its series the “History of the German struggle for liberty” stands complete from the battle of Jena in 1806, to the rebirth of national spirit in 1848. This latest volume contains a spirited account of the stirring events in Germany during 1844-1848, culminating in the declaration of Frederick William IV. and the meeting of the German national assembly at Frankfort. It brings out the similarity in the character of the Vienna, Berlin, and Munich revolutions, and discusses the growth of the influence of the laboring classes, and of socialistic doctrines.
*“Is refreshingly unconventional, spasmodically clever, and interesting throughout. Taken as a whole, this latest piece of work of Poultney Bigelow’s is most stimulating, breezy, entertaining, and yet instructive as well.” Wolf Von Schierbrand.
*“Comprises a succession of vivid pictures of persons and events rather than a sober, detailed, and connected history.”
*“A return to the orderly arrangement of the earlier volumes of the history would afford a deserved relief to those who have been forced to flounder about in the disorder, back tracks, and false leads of Mr. Bigelow’s fourth volume.”
Bigg, Charles.Church’s task under the Roman empire.*$1.75. Oxford.
The four lectures brought together here are “Education under the empire,” two on “Religion under the empire,” and “Moral and social conditions of the empire.” The object is the directing of attention “to the extreme importance of studying the relation between the Empire and the Church even in those days which preceded the recognition of Christianity by Constantine, and further, of ascertaining as clearly as possible the conditions, intellectual, moral and material of the people who filled the rank of the church.”
“Written with an ease of style which at times almost disguises the author’s profound knowledge and with a charm that rarely falls to the lot of scholarly writers.”
“Dr. Bigg is, of course, master of his subject, and able to handle it with lightness of touch, breadth of sympathy, and gentle humour.” Alice Gardner.
Bilse, Oswald Fritz (Fritz von der Kryburg, pseud.).Dear fatherland. $1.50. Lane.
“The story of a young lieutenant in the German army, from the time he entered the service to his downfall, the result of a debt brought upon him by the false standard of living prescribed by army life. The novel is a pen picture of the evil social and moral effects of army life existing in Germany.”—Bookm.
“Besides being an interesting story of the realistic school, the work has a two-fold value. It presents a striking picture of present-day garrison-life in Germany and illustrates how degrading and subversive of all that is worthiest in man is such an existence.”
“The chief interest and the strongest conviction are found less in the story than in the talk.”
“Its revelations are sordid and sickening to the last degree, and there is no obvious excuse for its English publication, except as that of giving an awful warning to the English-speaking nations to guard their own war machines from ever sinking into such abysmal depths of immorality and inefficiency as are here charged against the soldiery of Germany. The book seems to be written by a man of devoted and intelligent patriotism, who has risked what he prized most in order to remedy the evils which he deplores. To say that the narrative is of any value as an example of the novelist’s art would be a decided stretching of the truth.”
Bingham, Joel Foote,tr. SeeManzoni, Allessandro.Sacred hymns and Napoleonic ode.
*Birrell, Augustine.Andrew Marvell.**75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, contains a biography of the man who is remembered as “a colleague and friend of Milton, a wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and a member of Parliament from the Stuart Restoration until his death in 1678.... But ... ‘a more elusive non-recorded character,’ laments Mr. Birrell, ‘is hardly to be found.’ Consequently, it is not surprising to find the biographer dwelling mainly on his subject’s writings, quoting from them freely, and relating much of the history of the day necessary to explain them and assist in forming some idea of the writer’s personality.” (Outlook.)
*“On the whole, it may be said that ‘Andrew Marvell’ holds its own successfully against any other volume in the new series of Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘English men of letters.’”
*“We have not space here to enter into his treatment of Marvell; it is admirable; we should end by quoting too much from Mr. Birrell himself, as a delightful performer in the intimate style.” H. W. Boynton.
*“But the book is not a good one for it falls between two stools. If it was to deal only with the permanent part of Marvell’s charming poetry it is nearly two hundred pages too long; if it was really to explain the politics of his day (which heaven forbid!) it is not long enough. And we resent some of the conversational ease of Mr. Birrell’s manner.”
*“Whatever may be thought of the truth of this style of biographical writing, it must be admitted that Mr. Birrell is master of its art, and that when provided with a favorable opportunity he is at least invariably entertaining.” Wm. A. Bradley.
*“A study which is not so much a biography as a contribution to the history of English politics and literature. As such it deserves a cordial greeting, for it is scholarly and sound.”
*“A pleasant ramble with an intelligent and illuminating guide through a time of great interest.”
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold von.Bismarck’s speeches and letters; by Herman Schoenfeld.*$1.50. Appleton.
A worthy addition to historical literature. The introduction is a biography and a philosophic interpretation of the character of Bismarck, and is supplemented by a chronology and a bibliography. The book is indispensable to the study of contemporary history as affected by Germany, but especially to the study of the unification of Germany itself, an accomplishment due, in most part, to Bismarck’s genius. Much has been learned about Bismarck’s personality thru the various biographies by Lowe, Headlam, Stearns, and Jacks by M. Adler, by Herr Busch, thru Mr. Ford’s edition of “The correspondence of William and Bismarck.” and thru Bismarck’s own “Reflections and reminiscences,” above all thru his “Love letters,” but no one serves to sum up Bismarck’s life work as does Schoenfeld’s.
*Blackmar, Frank Wilson.Elements of sociology.*$1.25. Macmillan.
This working manual for students is divided into seven parts: Nature and import of sociology; Social evolution; Socialization and social control; Social ideals; Social pathology, dealing with practical subjects such as charity, poverty, crime, social degeneration; Methods of investigation; and History of sociology, in which are brought out the ideas found in the works of Spencer, Gumplowicz, Schaeffle, Lilienfeld, Mackenzie, Tarde, Le Bon, Letourneau, De Greef, Giddings, Small, Ward, Ross, Ely, Mill, Malthus, Warner, Henderson and others.
*“The chief merit of the book from the theoretical side is that it gives an intelligent statement of the view-points of all the leading sociological writers. The chief merit from the practical side is that it touches upon a variety of vital and interesting problems in such a way as to tempt the student to go forward and specialize. The style of the book is easy, and free from any ambitious flights or phrasing, but clear and agreeable.” Jerome Dowd.
*“It is comprehensive in scope, is written in simple and direct diction, and the arrangement of its parts is sequential and orderly.”
Blackmore, Richard D.Lorna Doone.$1.25. Crowell.
This tale of the deeds of the outlaw Doones sheltered in the depths of the Bagworthy Forest appears in new dress almost every year. Here the reader has it in handy volume form, bound in limp leather, with clear type and thin paper.
Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander,eds.Philippine islands, 1493-1898.55 v. ea.*$4. Clark, A. H.
The purpose of these 55 volumes is to set forth as briefly as possible from original sources the whole history of the Philippine islands and their people, that all who are interested in their future may be able to form their own opinions with a full understanding of the conditions that exist to-day and that have existed since the discovery of the islands. To this end the volumes are mainly devoted to exact translations from rare original manuscripts, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, etc., illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts, portraits, maps, and views. There is an analytical index, and notes and an historical introduction have been provided by Edward Gaylord Bourne, and special contributions by well known scholars and bibliographers. The whole covers the history of the islands from their discovery to the present time, including explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history, and records of the Catholic missions as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the end of the nineteenth century.
“The work of the editors has ... shown steady improvement. The translating staff is, ... as nearly as one may judge without having the original texts for comparison, doing more effective work than at the beginning.” James A. Le Roy.
Reviewed by James A. Le Roy.
“It is an indispensable addition to every large library and collection of American or Spanish history.”
“Much of this matter is by no means light reading, but it is all a valuable contribution to the early history of the islands.”
*Blake, J. M.Reasonable view of life.*35c. Meth. bk.
Essays towards the understanding of the methods and working of eternal love. A late addition to the “Freedom of faith” series.
Blake, Katherine Evans.Heart’s haven.†$1.50. Bobbs.
The Rappite community of celibates first in Pennsylvania and later in Indiana furnishes the setting for this story. It portrays the struggle between the Rappite conscience which repudiates all sentiment relating to ties of flesh, and the natural cravings of the human heart. First in the love of a parent for her child, later in this son’s love for a fair girl, is shown the triumph of governable sanity over religious fanaticism.
*“There are a number of flaws easily apparent in Miss Blake’s scheme of the Harmonists. The author has made the mistake of padding too heavily in spots.”
Blanchard, Amy Ella.Frontier knight.†$1.50. Wilde.
Miss Blanchard’s new “Pioneer series” story follows the fortunes of a young man and his two sisters who emigrate from Kentucky to Texas shortly before the Mexican war breaks out. There is excellent use made of the opportunities to portray border life, in which the Mexican peasant, the rancher, and the Texas ranger all have part.
Blanchard, Amy E.Little grandmother Jo. $1. Jacobs.
A story of school life fifty years ago, when a grandmother of to-day left a happy southern home to endure the hardships of the old-fashioned boarding-school where the methods were cruel, the teachers unjust, and many of the little girls, the products of this system, were spiteful.
Blanden, Charles Granger.Chorus of leaves.**$1.25. Elder.
In this gift-book, artistic and attractive in both print and binding, are to be found some fifty verses very slight and very sentimental.
*“It strikes no lofty note, but it is singularly graceful in rhythm and dainty in conceit, and makes no pretension to be more.”
*“Has written some pleasing verse under the title of ‘A chorus of leaves.’”
Blind, Mathilde.George Eliot.$1.25. Little.
This new edition of Mathilde Blind’s “George Eliot” “has been greatly enhanced in value by the introduction of able and carefully prepared chapters by Frank Waldo, and G. A. Tarkington, in which we have a charming description of the friends and home-life of George Eliot, and a critical estimate of her place in literature, together with an exhaustive bibliography.” (Arena).
“The excellent life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind, will remain a standard biography. It is a volume that we take pleasure in recommending to our readers as a book which should find a place in all well-ordered libraries and a work that every young person should read as a part of his general culture.”
“The very full bibliography, filling some thirty pages, is to be particularly noted and commended.”
Blondlot, (Prosper) Rene.“N” rays, tr. by J. Garcin.*$1.20. Longmans.
A collection of papers communicated to the academy of sciences; with additional notes and instructions for the construction of phosphorescent screens.
Reviewed by John G. McKendrick.
Bloomfield, Maurice.Cerberus, the dog of hades: the history of an idea.50c. Open ct.
“This essay ... is concerned with the origin and meaning, judged by comparative mythology, of Cerberus.”—Acad.
“Interesting and suggestive little essay.”
Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseud.).Dorset dear: idylls of country life. $1.50. Longmans.
“The seventeen tales reprinted here from various periodicals ... embrace a variety ofincidents and emotions, grave and gay, no one trenching upon the borders of another; and the characters are distinct types of Dorset-folk.... ‘Witch Ann’ gives a pretty and touching account of the way a harmless old woman came to be considered a witch.... ‘The spur of the moment,’ and ‘The worm that turned,’ present amusing pictures of unromantic rustic wooings. ‘A woodland idyll’ and ‘Postman Chris’ are charming love-stories.”—Acad.
“There is something in it better than cleverness and skill: the truth, charm, and goodness of it leave a grateful memory of pleasant hours in delightful company.”
“All the stories are well worth reading.”
“They are fascinating from their unpretending simplicity, their pure goodness, and their warm, human interests.”
“The movement of the tale is slight, but not without its dramatic incidents and occasional tragedies.”
“It has a charm and interest.”
“It is a book into which one may dip with pleasure, but the stories are for the most part so slight that it is unwise to handle the whole string of beads at once.”
“Seldom has it been the present writer’s fate to read so delightful a collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell’s new volume of short stories, ‘Dorset dear.’ ... The characters in the little sketches are vividly drawn.”
Bocock, John Paul.Book treasures of Maecenas. $1. Putnam.
“It is rather startling to pick up a volume with this title and open immediately to a poem on ‘Funston of Kansas.’ It appears, however, that the book’s title is that of the first poem, and that the volume includes many fugitive verses on all sorts of topics, which have been welcome to the columns of many newspapers and magazines.”—Outlook.
*Bölsche, Wilhelm.Evolution of man; tr. by Ernest Untermann. 50c. Kerr.
“This is a little work of real value in which an able German scholar gives a succinct, graphic and general outline of the evolution of man. It contains in the briefest possible compass a summary of the demonstrations brought out by the revolutionary school of physical scientists.”—Arena.
*“The subject matter is presented in lucid style, easy of comprehension, and the book is valuable as a short exposition of a subject about which no well-informed man of the present day can afford to be ignorant.”
Bolton, Charles E.Harris-Ingram experiment.$1.50. Burrows.
By far the greater portion of Mr. Bolton’s book is devoted to an account of the domestic, social and financial affairs of the Harris and Ingram families. The process of accumulating millions, descriptive journeys thru Europe, matrimonial schemes, a strike which involves the use of dynamite and firebrands furnish subjects for the first 395 pages. The remaining forty pages are occupied with the “Experiment,” a Utopian scheme for establishing mills on the co-operative plan to demonstrate that capital and labor can unite on a common basis. The reader is introduced to a “Utopian mill in a Utopian village where there were no politicians, no saloons, no graft, no crime, nothing but that which was serene and restful and frightfully educational and instructive ... in that land of Somewhere to which there are no railroad guides.” (N. Y. Times).
Bolton, Henry Carrington.The follies of science at the court of Rudolph II., 1576-1612.*$2. Pharmaceutical review pub. co., Milwaukee.
A book which “occupies itself with a medley of charlatans and charlatanism in the sixteenth century and with the most splendid patron of such matters, Rudolph II., King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Emperor of Germany.” (N. Y. Times). This ruler, a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, neglecting his royal duties, drew around him a strange company of men, more or less learned in the occult sciences. These various personages, couched in the oriental luxury of the court, work amazing tricks of alchemy, discover formulas for wonderful elixirs, and claim a recipe for the philosopher’s stone. Incidentally, there is given much information concerning the manners of the time, the people, and their mental characteristics.
“Rather extraordinary volume. Altogether the book contains a deal of queer information about queer people and things of a time (in some ways) more credulous than ours. Readers with a taste for the out-of-the-way, for historical junk, in short, will find much to entertain them.”
*Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton).Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.
These essays were first published in 1887, and they are now re-issued “in a handsomely bound volume with two dozen illustrations portraying in fine half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes of six representatives of the old New England school, ... Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.” (Dial.)
*“Aside from its literary interest, it ought to be popular as a holiday gift-book.”
*“She manages to tell the familiar facts in a genial, lively way, interlarding them with anecdotes or personal impressions, and making her main theme in every case the essential quality of the author discussed.”
*Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature.**$3 Lippincott.
“Forty-five years ago Dr. Bombaugh published the first edition of his famous book, ‘Gleanings for the curious.’ ... An entertaining collection of curious things in letters. His book lasted for nearly fifty years; it would have lasted longer had not its plates been destroyed by fire. Instead of merely resetting the book, Dr. Bombaugh has made a second volume along the same lines only with more recent matter.... The new volume contains the results of the most recent discoveries in many branches of literature ... and presents various jokes that have a very recent ring.”—N. Y. Times.
*“The total amount of curious information is so vastly greater than the amount compressible within a single volume that a book of this type is more useful for random reading than for reference purposes.”
Bonner, Geraldine.Pioneer.†$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the early days of California and Nevada when fortunes were made and unmade daily among the mines. There are many characters typical of those mixed times, but the real hero is the old colonel, who for the sake of his love for the woman who jilted him twenty years before, devotes himself to her two daughters, and allows their weak father to unscrupulously rob him. He finds happiness in serving the girl who resembles her mother, and seeing her safely thru a heart crisis.
“Though her treatment is perhaps too conventional to please the realist the story is thoroughly unhackneyed, while the human interest is strong throughout.”
“It is an unpleasant and rather sensational narrative.”
*Bonner, Robert John.Evidence in Athenian courts.*75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Mr. R. J. Bonner, ‘formerly of the Ontario bar,’ deals with the subject from the point of view of a man trained in English law. The material is classified accordingly under such heads as Irrelevant, Hearsay, Written, Oral, Real, and Expert evidence, Evidence of slaves, Competency of witnesses, Challenges, Oaths, etc. In a number of cases the view presented in Meier-Schömann’s ‘Der Attische process’ is disputed.”—Am. Hist. R.
*“The work is carefully done, and will be found interesting and suggestive by teachers who have not had the advantage of a legal training.” A. G. L.
*“Mr. Bonner seems to have exhausted his sources, both original and secondary. He has shown acuteness in his deductions. The only real doubt as to his conclusions arises from the fear that he was overzealous in his search for a body of law on evidence in Athens.” Clarke B. Whittier.
Boole, Mrs. Mary E.Preparation of the child for science.*50c. Oxford.
The author’s purpose thruout this volume is to offer “suggestions as to the means by which the scientific condition of mind can be induced” in children. Five chapters deal respectively with the scientific mind, the unconscious mind, hygienic sequence in development, mathematical imagination, and ethical and logical preparation.
“Information and salutary wisdom are to be drawn from it everywhere.”
“Her book may be warmly recommended to parents anxious to adopt sane methods of educating their children and to teachers responsible for the training of the lowest classes of schools.”
Booth, William H.Steam pipes: their design and construction. $2. Henley.
“This book ... is a compilation of various formulas and tables having to do with steam piping, together with such individual practice or designs as have been adopted by several large English corporations or manufacturers.... The author does not attempt to give any but English practice, and the book would not necessarily meet the exact demands of American engineers.”—Engin. N.
“For the American engineer the perusal of the book, considering that the title seems to promise well, leaves a keen sense of disappointment, and a feeling that little of value has been added to our scanty knowledge of steam piping.” Charles K. Stearns.
Borrow, George.Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or English-Gypsy language.$2. Putnam.
“‘Romano lavo-lil’ contains not only Borrow’s remarks on the history of Romany, and his vocabulary of the language, occupying fifty-odd pages, but a batch of Gypsy proverbs, in Romany and English, some scraps of the scriptures rendered into Gypsy, the “Book of wisdom of the Egyptians,” a list of favored Gypsy names of countries and towns, and many quaint odds and ends of folk-lore.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is in fact, a book in which the admirer of Isopel Berners may find much to entertain him for an hour or so.”
“A very serviceable edition in size, weight, and typography.”
Bosanquet, Rev. Bernard Hugh, and Wenham, Reginald A.Outlines of the synoptic record.*$1.70. Longmans.
This volume “sets forth present opinion as to the synoptic question, and gives an outline of the life of Jesus and a summary of his teaching according to the first three gospels.”—Ind.
*“The object of the writers of the book was to prepare a narrative based strictly on the three gospels which would embody the results of recent investigations in England unobtrusively and impartially, and their efforts have been successful.”
“A reticence is observable in dealing with miraculous narratives which contrasts with the freedom exercised in the non-miraculous. With this limitation, the book, while not professing to be a life of Jesus, is a good critical outline of his career as exhibited in the first three Gospels.”
Bosworth, Edward Increase.Studies in the life of Jesus Christ. 90c; pa. 60c. Y. M. C. A.
“In two parts: the first based on the synoptic Gospels, following Mark with supplementary references to the other two Gospels; the second based on the fourth Gospel, well planned, neglectful neither of the historical growth of Judaism nor of the literary character of the different Gospels.”—Outlook.
*Boulton, William B.Sir Joshua Reynolds.**$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Boulton’s work is the fullest in biographical interest of any of those which have appeared since Leslie and Taylor in 1865. To the students of technical processes of Reynolds’ art the book makes but slight appeal.... Reynolds entered very fully into the social and intellectual life of his time, and the wealth of anecdote of contemporary diarists and letter-writers has been aptly laid under contribution.... The illustrations ... are well selected and excellently reproduced.”—Ath.