“Valuable because of its consideration of basic principles, and of conditions attainable by the average householder.”
“For its size this little book contains a great deal of that which tends to raise the standards of the householder and to make the home the real center of national life which the author claims should be its real purpose.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 632. My. ’07. 280w.
=Bevier, Isabel, and Usher, Susannah.= Home economics movement, pt. 1. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
A three-part discussion including Home economics in agricultural colleges and state universities, Cooking schools, and Home economics in the public schools.
Bible. Gospel of Barnabas; ed. and tr. by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, with a facsimile. *$5.25. Oxford.
This manuscript was probably written in the middle of the sixteenth century. It is a “rather careless sixteenth century copy, made by a Venetian scribe, of an earlier and apparently Tuscan document.”
“The editors deserve the greatest praise for the thoroughness and skill with which they have performed their task. They have been extremely careful in editing the text, and they have supplied an excellent translation, for it is accurate and reads as if it were an original work. They have also written a good introduction, which contains all the information that the reader requires.”
“It is to be said that the gospel is interesting reading not only because of its doctrines, as, for example, the view that Paul wrongfully teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus disclaimed Messiahship, that Mohammed is Messiah, not only because of the restraint manifested in the story of the virgin birth, but also because of the positive beauty of some of its sayings and parables.”
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; tr. by W. A. Cooper. 3v ea. **$3.50. Putnam.
=v. 2.= This volume covers the period from the Italian journey to the War of liberation, 1788–1815, comprising the last two chapters of the first volume and the first twelve of the second of the German edition.
“Mr. Cooper is an American, and he writes ‘American,’ or, at any rate, a dialect of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, which is often forcible and picturesque, but is quite as often not pure English.” Rowland Strong.