“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of information about the status and development of American architecture and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”
=Baker, Louise R.= Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.
A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk. It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.
“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Mental development in the child and the race: methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25. Macmillan.
Third edition with improvements and enlargements.
“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.
“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.
“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work is of distinctive and permanent value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Social and ethical interpretations in mental development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.