=Barton, George.= Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.
A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.
=Barton, James Levi.= Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.
In which the author has brought together a “large number of testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of competence and character.” (Ind.)
“It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.
“Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to the worth of Christian missions.”
=Barton, Mrs. Marion T.= Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.” Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second marriage.
“About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession of a story worth telling.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w.
“The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship between the girls hangs.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
=Bashford, James Whitford.= China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25 to May 6, 1907.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Outlines of practical sanitation, for students, physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.