Transcriber’s Note:
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This volume is the second annual cumulation of the Book ReviewDigest. In the main it includes the books of 1906 that have been commentedupon by the best critics. It aims, on the one hand, to record truthfullythe scope, character and subject content of books as they appear, and, onthe other, to supplement this descriptive information from month to monthwith excerpts culled from the best current criticism appearing in forty-fiveEnglish and American magazines which make a prominent feature of bookreviews, thus furnishing to the librarian and bookseller a basis for the evaluationof books.
Frequently the best reviews of a book appear during the year followingits publication, so in this volume will be found supplementary excerpts relatingto books which were entered in the 1905 annual.
It will also be observed that a number of entries include only thedescriptive note. These titles look to the year 1907 to furnish the materialfor appraisal, and excerpts will be published in current numbers of the Digestas fast as reviews appear.
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