“There is, indeed, not one dull page in the book, and the numerous illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
“She deserves her readers’ thanks for having filled the record carefully, while avoiding the reproach of overexcitement and an exaggerated sense of the import of her task.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup 25. N. ’06. 710w.
=Birdseye, Clarence Frank.= Individual training in our colleges. **$1.75. Macmillan.
A study of a college student’s problems from the standpoint of the graduate. In his discussion the author deplores the loss of the direct personal influence exerted by professors and instructors over the students of fifty years ago. He deals with the fraternity question and its related problems.
“His book shows more knowledge, clearer vision, deeper devotion, and more rational hope regarding the American college, than any other book we know of.” Edward O. Sisson.
“Upon his own ground the place in our educational machinery which the Greek letter fraternities have already taken and the higher place which, thru the influence of their alumni, they may be made to take, on this ground, Mr. Birdseye speaks with the authority of the constructive reformer and for this reason, if for no other, his book deserves and should receive the careful study of every man who has at heart the welfare of the American college.” F. P. Keppel.
“The book is too long-drawn out, and in parts is repetitious; but it contains much important material in the form of documents and reports, as well as of the author’s own observations.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 190w.
“To make his study effective, the author undertakes to enter the student’s college home life. He searches diligently for facts and deals frankly and candidly with the facts as he finds them.”
=Birukoff, Paul.= Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. v. 1. **$1.50. Scribner.
“If we are to take ... [the translation] seriously as an attempt to give English readers as intelligible a narrative as that enjoyed by readers of the original, we have to point out that the work has been carelessly done, and that the English reader often finds himself mystified where the Russian finds himself enlightened. When in his old age Tolstoy tells us what he thinks we ought to know of his reminiscences, no one has any right to interpose between him and the English reader. Least of all, has anyone a right to do this anonymously and secretly.”