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Sabatier, Paul. Disestablishment in France. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–21194.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book lacks unity but presents the material in a style both instructive and clear. It is especially valuable for its presentation of the causes underlying the contest.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 222. Ja. ’07. 820w. |
Sabin, Louis Carlton. Cement and concrete. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–14245.
“The second edition has been enlarged from 507 to 572 pages, two pages of which have been added to the chapter on ‘Definitions and constituents,’ 12 pages to the chapter on ‘Manufacture,’ and the remainder to a new chapter on ‘Concrete building blocks; their manufacture and use,’ and to three appendices giving the standard specifications for cement.”—Engin. N.
“The book as it now stands is an admirable treatise on concrete as a material, but must be taken in connection with some reference book of design and construction to make a complete survey of the field of what may be called concrete engineering.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 450w. |
Sage, William. By right divine. †$1.50. Little.
7–21363.
Two men contend for political supremacy in their state and for the love of the heroine, in this political romance. One is the old Senator, the boss of his state, and the girl he loves is his daughter. The other is a young man of rigid principles who has been elected governor, whose growing power with the people menaces the older man’s prestige, and whose manly courage bids fair to supplant him as first in his daughter’s heart. The contest is bitterly fought, until honesty and youth and love triumph.
“Though the element of improbability is at times present, the book as a whole is very true to life, and as a present-day political study it ranks with the best romances of recent years.”
| + + − | Arena. 38: 348. S. ’07. 970w. |
“Mr. Sage handles his stock situation skilfully, and gives his story a certain freshness by various accessory devices.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w. | |
| Ind. 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 220w. |
“It should be noted that all the love passages have a convincing, manly air, while an underlying sincerity runs through the book and makes it a most readable and wholesome novel of its class.”
| + | Lit. D. 36: 489. O. 5, ’07. 340w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 220w. |
Saglio, Andre. French furniture. (Library of applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
W 7–141.
A general history of the subject from the time of the Gauls down thru the Empire. There are ninety full-page plates, reproduced from photographs.
“This volume has not many obvious faults, and constitutes a fairly accurate guide to a study which, however, requires knowledge of the French tongue.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 172. Je. 1. 300w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 252. S. ’07. 100w. |
“He has wished perhaps to make a thoughtful and readable book. The result is that we are presented with an essay upon the decorative art of many periods of French history, without being enabled to grasp firmly the manufacture and the design of any one period.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 289. S. 26, ’07. 510w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 446. Jl. 13. ’07. 430w. |
* Sakurai, Tadayoshi. [Human bullets: a soldier’s story of Port Arthur]; introd. by Count Okuma; tr. by Masujiro Honda and ed. by Alice M. Bacon. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–31244.
The actual experiences of the author who was a lieutenant in the Japanese army. One feels the personal responsibility which every soldier assumed for the outcome of the war, “the determination, the devotion to duty and the adaptability which won for the Japanese soldier such general sympathy and admiration in this country.” (Bookm.)
“Not only is the work ... the best that we have on fighting, but it also forms a valuable study of the relations between Buddhist and Shintu or official Japanese doctrine. The translation appears to be thoroughly competent.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 820w. |
“A curious study in race psychology is afforded by this ‘soldier’s story of Port Arthur’. The book furnishes a striking picture of what war actually is, even under its most humane aspects. And at a time when the eyes of the whole world are on Japan, it is worth while to be told so authoritatively just what manner of fighting man the Japanese soldier is.” Ward Clark.
| + | Bookm. 26: 414. D ’07. 580w. |
“Considering the great difficulty of finding English phrases to give the exact meaning of the original, the translation has been very well done, though occasionally the choice of words is not happy. No review of the work would be quite complete without some reference to the colored frontispiece, reproduced from a drawing made by the author with his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.”
| + | Dial. 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“The essential interest and the real value of the little book is its record of the writer’s inner man, not merely of what his bone and flesh and blood and nerves did and suffered, but of his essential personality, perfectly exemplified that ‘as a man thinketh so he is.’”
| + | Nation. 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 400w. |
Salaman, Malcolm Charles. Old engravers of England in their relation to contemporary life and art. *$2. Lippincott.
7–6389.
“In a brief compass the author cannot do more than glance at many of the two hundred and more engravers whom he mentions, but his description of the principal characters is adequate, and the whole army is marshalled before the reader in strict relation to the object of the book.”—Acad.
“This is a novel, interesting and almost romantic book. It clothes the dry bones of black-and-white prints with human attributes, and makes them live. The illustrations considering the low price of the book, are exceptionally good; in fact, some of them may be said to be remarkably beautiful.”
| + | Acad. 72: 117. F. 2, ’07. 700w. |
“His pages flash with coronets, and sentimental rapture.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 310w. |
“The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served. Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles Henry Hart.
| + | Dial. 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 540w. |
“The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice and a companion of the already wise.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 336. O. ’07. 300w. |
“The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a more grave and orderly treatment.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 940w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 490w. |
“If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At last it has come.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w. |
“Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers, and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1090w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 200w. |
Saleeby, Caleb Williams. Worry, the disease of the age. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–16990.
“Dr. Saleeby apparently conceives worry as a sort of an entity, and he seems to hold to the old distinction of body and mind. Worry, for him, can be a cause, and one may gather is rather a cause than a mere result. And so he gives us instances of how worry can ruin one’s digestion, with it one’s temper as well, and make one thoroughly and really ill. This seems to the writer a curious reversal of the familiar relations of the cart and the horse.”—N. Y. Times.
“A new volume of double usefulness: from the practical side offering serviceable hints for what he considers the disease of the age, and from the theoretical setting in their proper, light the current notions as to the healthful relations of mind and body.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 410. D. ’07. 1950w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w. |
“A profoundly serious medical consideration with much that is philosophical in the most practical and helpful way.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w. |
“He has read widely, he has studied deeply, he has thought out things for himself, and these are the fruits. Dr. Saleeby is a true philosopher.” Carl Snyder.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2110w. |
“This is a good book on a grave subject, which it treats in an all-round discussion on causes and effects, physical and psychical, from scientific and practical, moral and religious points of view.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
“A noteworthy volume of sociological as well as scientific import.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 70w. |
“A most capable and thoughtful series of essays.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 1110w. |
Salisbury, Rollin D. Physiography. (American science ser., advanced course.) *$3.50. Holt.
7–16499.
An important text-book achievement which provides a complete course for those “who have no purpose of pursuing the study of physical geography beyond its elements, but who are yet mature enough for work beyond the grade appropriate for the early years of the secondary schools.” It outlines the work covered in the University of Chicago in a twelve weeks’ course.
“The field is thoroughly and consistently explored.”
| + | Nation. 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 200w. |
“Teachers of physiography will welcome this new book, not only on account of the large amount of fresh material and the fine illustrations that it contains, but also because it represents the accumulated experience and the method of a scientist whose skill as a teacher is well known and widely appreciated.” L. H. Wood.
| + + | School R. 15: 621. O. ’07. 1230w. |
“Professor Salisbury’s book meets a real want and the character of its compilation, based as it is, on many years of experience in teaching, gives the book a completeness far beyond any other physiography published up to this time.” George Burbank Shattuck.
| + + | Science, n.s. 26: 830. D. 13, ’07. 510w. |
Salmon, George. Human element in the gospels: a commentary on the synoptic narrative; ed. by Newport J. D. White. *$4.50. Dutton.
“By ‘the human element’ is meant, in distinction from divine revelations, ‘things that can be proved by ordinary historical testimony’—including, as Dr. Salmon assumes, the miraculous element in the gospels. His work is essentially devoted to an investigation of the sources of the gospel story, conducted with a purposed independence of traditional opinions.... ‘Editorial blunders’ are found in Matthew, and Luke is found to have ‘taken liberties with the earlier tradition’ of the resurrection. The Greek text only of the gospels, substantially that of Wescott and Hort, is given in parallel columns, beginning with the entrance of Jesus on his public career.”—Outlook.
“While the reader comes upon interesting and suggestive remarks, he meets with no real or consistent solution.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 640w. |
“It is a striking fact that a scholar of the breadth and thoroness of Dr. Salmon, who gave so many years to this problem, apparently paid no attention whatever to the works of continental scholars.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 696. S. 19, ’07. 540w. |
“The chief usefulness of Dr. Salmon’s book lies in the acumen with which he discusses particular passages.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 1060w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 600w. |
“The critical commentary upon it shows a cultured scholarship and freedom which prompt to agreement with the author’s regret that he had not undertaken the study till late in life.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 260w. | |
| Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 200w. |
Salmon, Lucy Maynard. Progress in the household. **$1.10. Houghton.
6–38548.
Ten essays entitled Recent progress in the study of domestic service, Education in the household, The relation of college women to domestic science, Sairey Gamp and Dora Copperfield, Economics and ethics in domestic service, “Put yourself in his place,” Our kitchen, An illustrated edition, and The woman’s exchange.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 71. Mr. ’07. |
“While the author does not offer any universal agent for a lightning change she does write with knowledge and ability, and her opinion should have weight with thoughtful women.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 130w. |
Saltus, Edgar Evertson. [Lords of the ghostland: a history of the ideal.] *$1.25. Kennerley.
7–14564.
The history of the ideal, the genealogy of its overlords, Brahma, Armuzd, Amon-Râ, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter and of the Christ himself, is here given in a spirit which lifts the veil without rending it.
“His treatment of each subject is a deft mingling of historical knowledge, philosophical method and poetic feeling.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w. |
* Sanday, Rev. William. Life of Christ in recent research. *$1.75. Oxford.
7–33561.
“Certain recent lectures, reviews, and sermons of Professor Sanday’s have been combined into this volume. It presents a survey of the most important literature of the past twenty years upon the life and person of Christ with a special chapter on miracles.”—Bib. World.
“Professor Sanday’s well-known scholarly moderation characterizes the whole.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w. |
“As a matter of fact, we have another preliminary essay—a survey of the chief tendencies and the more important conclusions of the criticism to which the evangelic narratives have been subjected in the last twenty years. No English writer is so well qualified as Dr. Sanday to make such a survey. Not only is he himself one of our most thorough and most cautious critics, but his appetite for German brochures is insatiable. The charm of the whole book lies in the receptiveness of its author’s mind.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1270w. |
Sanders, Frank Knight, and Fowler, Henry Thatcher. Outlines for the study of Biblical history and literature; with maps and charts. (Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 9.) **$1.25. Scribner.
6–39458.
“Intelligent direction for systematic and discriminating study” is the aim of this book. It meets the needs of four classes of student: (1) the college student, (2) the graduate student in oriental history, (3) the student of theology, and (4) the general student of the Bible. The book covers both the Old and New Testaments, and is divided into four parts: (1) Hebrew literature and history, reaching from the beginning to the fall of Jerusalem (586 B. C.); (2) early Jewish history and literature (586–168 B. C.); (3) later Jewish history and literature (168 B. C.–135 A. D.); (4) early Christian history and literature.
“If there is one point in which the work does not come up to the standard laid down by the authors, it is that of answering the requirements of the graduate student. Otherwise, by a wise use of the literature assigned and a classification of the material thus procured there is little doubt that the book will prove very useful and helpful in filling the blanks in many students minds which should be occupied by Biblical history.” Ira M. Brice and John M. P. Smith.
| + + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 141. Ja. ’07. 260w. |
“A valuable outline with useful bibliographies which would help small libraries in purchasing the best books on the subjects treated.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 71. Mr. ’07. S. | |
| + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w. | |
| + | Dial. 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w. |
“As is the case with most works in English covering both the Old and the New Testaments, the treatment of Old Testament subjects is much superior.”
| + | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w. |
“They give ample direction to the most recent works of Biblical scholars, with strict impartiality toward the supporters of divergent conclusions.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w. |
Sanders, Wilbur E.; McDonald, Bernard; Parlee, Norman W.; and others. Mine timbering. $2. Hill pub. co.
7–19426.
A collection of papers which form a series of essays emphasizing many important details rather than a complete treatise on the subject.
Reviewed by E. J. McCaustland.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 880w. |
Sanderson, Edgar. Great Britain in modern Africa. $1.75. Scribner.
7–10993.
“A volume which gathers into easy compass the history and geography of all the present divisions and governments of Africa.... It treats of Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy in Africa, as well as of Great Britain. The only parts left untouched are the western countries in the Mediterranean.... It is a handbook of information concerning Africa, including statistics of imports and exports, revenue, population, and other matters.”—Nation.
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 640w. |
“Mr. Sanderson’s history ... is told with vivacity and exact detail.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 460w. |
“Mr. Sanderson’s account of recent events is admirably concise and comprehensive, and affords an excellent idea of the many-sided activity of Great Britain from the Cape to Cairo and from Nigeria to Uganda.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 170w. |
Sanford, P. Gerald. [Nitro-explosives: a practical treatise] concerning the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances, including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid. 2d ed. *$4. Van Nostrand.
War 7–20.
A work which “for ten years has been a standard authority, and now is revised and brought up to date. It describes the processes of manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, picrates, and fulminates, and gives the methods of analyzing them and testing their strength.”—Nation.
“The text is too much like the old, with some slight changes and explanations, and not at all enough reference to the progress in the manufacture of smokeless powders and insensitive blasting powders.” Charles F. McKenna
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 860w. | |
| Nation. 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 130w. |
Santayana, George. [Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.] 5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
5–5419.
“This book is so wanting in clearness of thought that I doubt whether it can be of much use to anyone. Throughout the book, Mr. Santayana makes a great many scattered remarks, which are certainly ‘suggestive,’ and perhaps (as he himself declares to be his object) ‘stimulating,’ but what he says seems to be always mixed with a great deal that is definitely erroneous, and always imbedded in a mass that is greatly wanting in clearness.” G. E. Moore.
| − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 248. Ja. ’07. 2500w. (Review of v. 1–5.) |
“These later volumes, though containing much that would be interesting, if Professor Santayana had not already made us familiar with his point of view and characteristic method of treatment, are something of a disappointment. It is not easy to see exactly for what class of readers they are intended. Unfortunately the last volume ‘Reason in science’—the only one of the last three volumes in which the author enters a new field—is perhaps the most disappointing of all.” Ernest Albee.
| − | Philos. R. 16: 195. Mr. ’07. 3980w. (Review of v. 3–5.) |
Sargent, Dudley Allen. Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–37870.
An attempt “to place the training of the body upon the same educational basis as the training of the intellect.” There are chapters upon The physical training of the American people; Physical exercise and longevity; Physical education in colleges, in secondary, and in elementary schools; and ideals in physical education.
“A valuable contribution to the subject.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 48. F. ’07. S. |
“There is much of interest in the volume.”
| + | Nation. 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 50w. |
Sargent, Herbert Howland. Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.
7–29604.
A full summary in three volumes of the campaign of our army and navy at Santiago in 1898. It is compiled from official documents, contains twelve maps which show the scene of fighting, and above all is fearless in its “criticism of American arms and in its tributes to the feats of Spanish valor.”
“The first thorough and complete account of the war between the United States and the Spanish in Cuba.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 140w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 510. O. ’07. 190w. |
Saunders, Margaret Marshall (“Marshall Saunders”). [Beautiful Joe]; with an introd. by Hezekiah Butterworth. il. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
7–28456.
A new and enlarged edition of this companion to “Black Beauty.” It is a dog’s autobiography which teaches a lesson of kindness not only to dogs but to the entire animal kingdom.
Savage, William G. Bacteriological examination of water-supplies. *$2.50. Blakiston.
Agr 7–1421.
By eliminating elementary matter, and by omitting a part of data early collected, the author has made his treatise one which covers only the pertinent phases of the subject.
“Among the many books which have been recently written on the bacteriology of water, this latest one ... is by all odds the best. Although it is a comparatively small book, it covers the ground more thoroughly than any other.” George C. Whipple.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 1040w. |
“The chapter on the interpretation of results is particularly to be recommended. The medical officer of health, and the analyst, and the bacteriologist will find this book a trustworthy and useful guide.” R. T. Hewlett.
| + + | Nature. 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 120w. |
Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry. Archaeology of the cuneiform inscriptions: Rhine lectures. *$1.75. Gorham.
The volume “opens with a brief, but excellent account of the method of decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, describes the nature of the inscriptions found, shows the relation of the Sumerians to Semitic people, that of the Egyptian to the Babylonian civilization, that of Palestine to Babylonia, the character of the Hittite people of Asia Minor, and describes the condition of Canaan before the Exodus.”—Ind.
| + | Acad. 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 850w. |
“The whole forms a sufficiently compact and readable account. Both these faults (the habit of stating conjectures as facts, and of catching at any parallel, however wild, which seems to bear out preconceived conclusions) are very much in evidence in this volume, and go some way towards spoiling what is one of the most interesting books that Prof. Sayce has written.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 296. Mr. 9. 1590w. |
“Like all of Professor Sayce’s writings, it is very suggestive, broad in treatment, and the conclusions sometimes rest on insufficient evidence.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 90w. |
“Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 753. Je. 15, ’07. 1040w. |
“The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not by any mean finished.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 340w. |
Schaff, Morris. Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.
7–32862.
While there is a personal note sounded thruout this autobiography, it chronicles the universal experiences of all West Point cadets and so is important as a historic document. The early experiences of the newly-arrived youth through physical hardening processes to which he is subjected give way to the months of patriotic endeavor which result in the “ever-enduring virtues that characterize the soldier, the Christian and the gentleman.”
“His love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse with life and feeling the inanimate objects about him, his fondness for drawing spiritual truths from material facts give to his narrative a higher beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont to find in a soldier’s reminiscences.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43. 310. N. 16, ’07. 1500w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 410w. |
“This book presents an interesting and vivid description of this discipline, physical, mental, and moral, by which a boy acquires ‘the ideals of the soldier and the gentleman.’”
| + | Nation. 85: 499. N. 28, ’07. 920w. |
“A volume that has both historical value and picturesque interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 748. N. 28, ’07. 140w. |
“Throughout the volume the element of human interest strongly predominates.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 754. D. ’07. 120w. |
Schaff, Rev. Philip. History of the Christian church. 5v. v. 5, pt. 1. **$3.25. Scribner.
v. 5, pt. 1. The middle ages from Gregory VII., 1049, to Boniface VIII., 1294, by David S. Schaff. “The period of the present volume is that of the papal theocracy and the scholastic theology, the ‘Blüthezeit’ of Catholicism, when it would hardly do to laugh in one’s sleeve at an encyclical. It was the time also of the rise of the universities, of the enthusiasm of the crusades, and of the noblest development of church architecture. The coming historian who writes a really great history of this period will find the ground well broken by this honorable endeavor of a son to complete a father’s unfinished task.” (Ind.)
| Dial. 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.) |
“General libraries, as well as those of ministers and ecclesiastical institutions will find the work invaluable for reference.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 420w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.) |
“A narrative interestingly put, well arranged and with copious references to the original sources. This volume is valuable both for the general reader and for the special student.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.) |
“It is conspicuous for the qualities which secured to his father international fame.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.) |
* Scharff, R. F. European animals. *$2.50. Dutton.
An introductory chapter treats of general matters affecting zoological distribution and the value of land mammals and molluscs as a basis for zoological geography. Then “beginning with Ireland he describes some of the most characteristic animals—and, in spite of his title, the plants—and by tracing them to their original homes, he, little by little, reveals the past geological changes which have affected that island.” (Nation.)
| Ath. 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 80w. |
“For thoroughness and general scientific worth in its restricted geographical field, Dr. Scharff’s volume will long remain unequalled.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 550w. |
“The volume should be in the library of every naturalist.” R. L.
| + + | Nature. 76: 441. Ag. 29, ’07. 790w. |
“Dr. Scharff’s work contributes to the science a great wealth of facts and observations collected from many sources. The general reader will find the subject treated in a manner that is rather beyond him; for the book is one that must be read with care and concentrated attention.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 450w. |
Scherer, James Augustin Brown. What is Japanese morality? *75c. S. S. times co.
6–43772.
Five essays which discuss Japanese morality. While they do full justice to Japan’s lofty idealism, they also point out the weak points in the Oriental code.
“On the whole Dr. Scherer is reasonable and judicial.”
| + | Ind. 62: 328. F. 7. ’07. 510w. |
“Has been able to cram an astonishing amount of information into a little volume.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 370w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott. Studies in humanism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–25524.
“This volume is the most comprehensive and far-reaching exposition of the new humanism that has appeared, yet the possibilities it suggests are more fascinating than the theories it definitely develops.” (Ind.) “What is humanism? And what its Transatlantic cousin, pragmatism? Have we in either of them a logic or a metaphysic, or both, or neither? Dr. Schiller does not shirk these questions.” (Ath.) His best constructive work is the essay on “The making of truth” in which he “disclaims the notion that truth is created by us out of nothing.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 281. Mr. 9. 2020w. |
“Whatever we may think of Dr. Schiller’s theory, he has given us an attractive and stimulating book—marked by acuteness and lucidity.” Herbert D. Stewart.
| + + − | Hibbert J. 5: 938. Jl. ’07. 2320w. |
“Is largely controversial. Unfortunately only one side is given, so the effect is like listening to a man talking into a telephone. Our enjoyment of the author’s wit is often restrained by the question whether it is properly deserved.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 797. Ap. 4, ’07. 880w. |
“His criticism is always well worth reading. On the other hand, his own system contains not a few features which will give many pause.”
| + − | Nature. 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 560w. |
“Yet with all his noble rage for concrete truth he is one of the must abstract of writers. This characteristic makes his latest work ... pretty stiff and not extravagantly fruitful reading.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 190w. |
“The finished and attractive literary style in which he presents the new humanism manifests its identity, notwithstanding difference, with the old.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 360w. |
“Not only is Dr. Schiller, as we infer, young himself, but he is also writing for the young.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 420. O. 5, ’07. 2170w. |
Schillings, Carl Georg. In wildest Africa. *$5. Harper.
7–35387.
Encouraged by the reception of his “With flashlight and rifle,” the author offers this fresh series of sketches and impressions of Africa’s wild life, illustrated by 300 photographs or what Dr. Heck chooses to term “Nature documents.” The chapters reproduce in description and picture animals of jungle and plains, aiming to impress readers with the importance of taking active steps to prevent the complete extermination of wild life.
“For the most part well written, and, we think, particularly well translated; the style is often narrative, which is specially attractive to young people, but besides tales of adventure there is much that deserves serious attention.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 620w. |
“It brings the lives of African birds and beasts before us with almost startling accuracy. As a matter of fact, there is a wide divergence between title and text in this volume; the larger part of the text deals with matter entirely foreign to the title.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + − | Dial. 43: 371. D. 1, ’07. 510w. |
“The power of the photograph in revealing the marvels of tropical scenery has never been so clearly demonstrated as in this volume, wherein the spirit of adventure is blent with the scientific spirit of investigation.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 440w. |
“Mr. Whyte’s part in the preparation of this volume is admirably done. So easy is his style and so free from the traces of a foreign language that one hardly realizes that the writing is a translation.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 333. O. 10, ’07. 620w. |
“It is a pity the text—though it contains much information and some really important matter—is not of commensurate worth. But Dr. Schillings is a photographer—not a writer.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 595. O. 5, ’07. 1380w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 130w. |
“The illustrations in this book are just as notable as those in ‘With flashlight and rifle.’ And the spirit of the book is the same.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 572. O. 19, ’07. 1550w. |
Schmid, Rudolf. Scientific creed of a theologian; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by J. W. Stoughton. *$1.50. Armstrong.
A plea for a mutual understating between science and Christianity in which the author takes up successively “the subjects of Creation, Providence, Prayer, Miracles, and the Person of Jesus Christ, he argues that science and religion nowhere collide, and that the Christian view is entirely compatible with all proper claims of science, to which he makes large concessions.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by Charles R. Barnes.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 357. Ap. ’07. 450w. |
“His book is mediating in a good sense of the word, and its pages inspire the reader with a feeling of confidence in the justice, if not always in the persuasiveness, of the writer’s intellect.” James Moffat.
| + | Hibbert J. 5: 468. Ja. ’07. 720w. | |
| Ind. 63: 516. Ag. 20, ’07. 60w. |
“On the whole it is a useful book to credit to a country which has sent us too much of the contrary kind.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 377. F. 16, ’07, 190w. |
“May be recommended as an admirable handbook on its subject.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 410w. |
Schmidt, Ferdinand. [Gudrun], tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–36031.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
Schmidt, Ferdinand. Herman and Thusnelda; tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–31226.
This story of the hero of Tuetoberg forest extends from his early days to his defeat of Varus, the Roman general, in that year which his victory has celebrated, 9 A.D., and to his union with Thusnelda, daughter of Segest. With the thrilling incidents of Herman’s life are side lights upon the customs and superstitions of the day.
Schmidt, Johann Kaspar (Max Stirner, pseud.). Ego and his own; tr. from the German by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
7–13485.
“The book ... is divided into two parts: first, The man; second, I.... Goethe’s ‘I place my all on nothing,’ ... is Stirner’s keynote to his egoistic symphony. His ego and not the family is the unit of the social life.... The world belong to all, but all are I. I alone am individual proprietor.... He repudiates all laws. Repudiates competition.... Socialism is a new god, a new abstraction to tyrannize over the ego.... Stirner was a foe to general ideas. He was an implacable realist.”—N. Y. Times.
“What interests one in Stirner is not his argument, but his audacity. The book is involved and incoherent, and even curiosity to see what can be said by an advocatus diaboli will not tempt many to read it.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1091. My. 9, ’07. 860w. |
“The English translation of ‘The ego and his own’ is admirable; it is that of a philologist and a versatile scholar. Stirner’s form is open to criticism. It is vermicular. His thought is never confused, but he sees too many sides of his theme, embroiders it with so many variations, that he repeats himself. He has neither the crystalline brilliance nor poetic glamour of Nietzsche.” James Huneker.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 249. Ap. 20, ’07. 5430w. |
“Max Stirner may shock, may amuse you. But he is bound to set you thinking.” James Huneker.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 332. Je. 7, ’07. 2340w. |
Schmidt, Nathaniel. Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
5–39858.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is difficult to take Schmidt’s arguments seriously. A perusal of recent studies of the life of Jesus is an instructive discipline in the estimating of critical theories. Few of them, indeed, can be accused of the baseless extravagances which appear on the pages of Professor Schmidt.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
| − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 155. Ja. ’07. 930w. |
“A very scholarly, scientific, and iconoclastic, yet reverent, volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 117. Je. ’07. 160w. |
Schnabel, Carl. Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It will be seen that the criticisms made are all with the style and arrangement, rather the matter itself, which is copious and well and judiciously collected.” Bradley Stoughton.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2) |
“The description of the alloys is usually rather meagre, with curiously slight regard to the work of the last twenty years. In general, however, the information is full, accurate, and up to date, and is conveyed in a pleasant, readable manner.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 486. Mr. 21, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Schofield, Alfred Taylor. Home life in order. $1.50. Funk.
“This book deals with the anatomy and physiology of the human body, the elements of hygiene, sick nursing, and first aid. It is written by one who has had a long and successful experience as a lecturer on all these subjects, and who is therefore able to speak with authority. The information conveyed is just of the right sort, and expressed in the simplest language.”—Ath.
“A few strokes of the pen will easily remedy these small mistakes, and the book is good and trustworthy in every other respect.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 310w. |
“As the work of a physician of eminence in London, it has scientific value, but its greater merit is the charmingly intimate and humane spirit in which it is written.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 80w. |
“Filled with solid and reliable information useful to all who desire a knowledge of their physical nature and needs.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 80w. |
Schofield, William Henry. English literature, from the Norman conquest to Chaucer. *$1.50. Macmillan.
6–36418.
This is the first of a two-volume work covering the literary history of England from the Norman conquest to the time of Elizabeth. “The book differs in plan from the other volumes in the series, and indeed from most histories of English literature, in that the author does not deal with the whole production of each successive period. Instead, he treats his material according to the different ‘genres,’ tracing separately the evolution of each.... In the main division of the work—that which deals with English literature proper—the chapter on the romance takes the leading place.... The chapters on the tales, historical, religious, and didactic works, and lyrics in the vernacular, are thorough and adequate—like the excellent bibliography which concludes the work.” (Nation.)
“Both the strength and the weakness of Prof. Schofield’s work may be expressed by saying that it is written from the point of view of a ‘Professor of comparative literature’ rather than from that of an expert in the special literature of Middle English.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 94. Ja. 26. 1540w. |
“The shortcoming is not in scholarship, for the book is a marvel of labor both close and discursive, but in maturity.” Frank Jewett Mather, jr.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 617. Ag. ’07. 1670w. |
“It offers an exceptionally thorough treatment of its period, done in the light of a scholarly tradition that runs from Gaston Paris to Child, and from Child to Professors Kittredge and Norton.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“Whatever the merits of Professor Schofield’s book, it is not particularly clear or easy reading.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 540w. |
“Tho of less interest to the general reader than to the special student, is to the latter fairly indispensable, in spite of its decided unevenness, as a contribution to the history of a period which has never been treated either quite thoroughly or satisfactorily.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Schofield has not always succeeded in keeping the illusion of life and progress: we imagine that his work will be found more interesting as a book of reference than as a history to read through. The book is full of instruction, written with a delight in learning which comes out more clearly the more the argument is tested,”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1240w. |
“In literary execution there is considerable unevenness. Parts are admirably written; for example, the introduction, distinguished by its freshness of treatment and breadth of view, the general discussion of the matter of Britain, and the chapter on religious works. On the other hand, the style, as we have intimated, betrays lassitude in the concluding sections of the chapter on romance and in some pages of the chapter on Anglo-Latin literature. On the whole, however, the work is excellent.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 443. N. 22, ’06. 1530w. |
“To most readers the most interesting part will be the romance, Arthurian and other; but whatever the subject it will be found adequately treated.”
| + | Spec. 97: 792. N. 17, ’07. 230w. |
Scholl, John William. Ode to the Russian people. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10040.
An ode to Russia’s millions which cries not only “evolution” but “revolution.”
Scholz, R. F., and Hornbeck, S. K. Oxford and the Rhodes scholarships; with list of Rhodes scholars and other information complete to the end of January, 1907. *85c. Oxford.
7–26974.
Information of a statistical nature required by those who contemplate trying for a Rhodes scholarship.
| + | Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w. |
“A useful little volume.”
| + | Spec. 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Schuen, Rev. Joseph. Outlines of sermons for young men and young women. *$2. Benziger.
6–23286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“They treat important topics in a practical fashion suited to the needs of the people.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
Schultz, James Willard. My life as an Indian: the story of a red woman and a white man in the lodges of the Blackfeet; il. from photographs mostly by George B. Grinnell. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–6737.
“An intimate revelation of the domestic life of the Blackfoot Indians by a man who married into the tribe and lived many years with them. Reads like a romance from beginning to end, not the least interesting part of it being the traditions and bits of old stories retold by the author with simplicity and real charm. Published originally as a serial in ‘Forest and stream,’ under the title of ‘In the lodges of the Blackfeet’ and the pseudonym W. B. Anderson.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. Ap. ’07. S. |
“The value of the book is its record of a state of society which has now passed.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 280w. |
“The author has inherited the Indian’s native eloquence along with his tastes and ideals, and his story is one of the most authoritative and interesting revelations of Indian life that we have seen.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 330w. |
“This trader is evidently plagued, like many others, by the presence of a secondary personality under imperfect control. His narrative is perpetually disturbed by the emergence of an invader, an unclean spirit in the shape of a literary person, a lover of the heroic, the romantic, the Arcadian, quite a gifted literary person too.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 970w. |
“Through the straightforward and unaffected manner in which he pictures his life, the reader learns more about the nature of the Indians among whom Mr. Schultz has lived than in the most elaborate scientific treatises.”
| + | Nation. 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 220w. |
“Should be widely circulated, if only to correct mistaken impressions of what the Indians were before the buffalo disappeared; and what they still may be under the guidance of honest and generous Indian agents.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 490w. |
“There are all sorts of humorous and other anecdotes, told in a literary manner.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 426. Jl. ’07. 130w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 730w. |
“Furnish the truest and most sympathetic records of the inner and domestic life of the Indian of the plains.”
| + | Spec. 99: 134. Jl. 27. ’07. 350w. |
* Schurz, Carl. Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. il. 2v. **$6. McClure.
7–36232.
Reminiscences that are important for their German-American quality. “There are two characteristics of this attractive autobiography which should commend it to the study of the general reader. It is in the first place the account of an individual brought up with all the advantages of German education, amid all the associations of monarchism, and with prospects of success in his own country, whose convictions and predilections drove him into the arms of American republicanism.... In the second place, it throws a new light on the events of recent American history.” (Lit. D.)
“With the externals of this work one might easily pick a few quarrels. Either the proofreading has been lamentably careless in a considerable number of instances, or else bad editorial judgment has religiously followed mere slips of the pen in the original manuscript. All this, however, cannot seriously detract from the value of the really great biographical works of recent years.” W. H. Johnson.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 413. D. 16, ’07. 2320w. |
“The whole character of the work is one of frank and easy self-revelation. It is full of personal anecdote, personal adventure, personal opinion. Those who take it up are not likely to put it aside until they have read the whole of it, and, indeed, it is well worth reading both as a source of interest and an inspiration.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 950w. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 120w. |
“They throw much light on the stormy politics of the time, on the characters and attainments of the leaders on either side, and on the temper and methods of party action. It is not too much to say that Lincoln cannot fully be known without this study.” Edward Cary.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 832. D. 14, ’07. 1900w. |
“To most of us this book reveals a new phase in his character in that it is pervaded with a gentle humor, with a shrewd discrimination as to men’s character and motives, and a power of direct and forcible narration which is rare indeed. The work will take a high place in the literature of biography and reminiscence.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 230w. |
“He enjoyed intimate personal acquaintance with a remarkably large number of American soldiers and statesmen. For that reason and because of the clarity and grace of his literary style these volumes of reminiscences by Mr. Schurz are of surpassing interest.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 753. D. ’07. 250w. |
* Schuster, Ernest Joseph. Principles of German civil law. *$4.15. Oxford.
7–26411.
Here Dr. Schuster has presented to English readers the entire private or civil law of the German empire. “The immediate and practical purpose of the book is to aid the English lawyer in dealing with conflicts of law; and for this reason the German rules of international private law are set forth and compared with the English in connection with the matters in which choice of law has most often to be made. The author’s chief purpose, however, is ... to aid in placing the study of the English law on a higher plane.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
“This is an admirable book, well calculated to promote the serious study of comparative law and to give a trustworthy account of the great work accomplished by the juridical science of Germany. He has carried out his purpose with great acuteness and learning.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 1370w. |
“Dr. Schuster has done his work so well that his book is to be recommended to English, American and German lawyers. In helping Anglo-American and German lawyers to understand one another Dr. Schuster has not only facilitated the exchange of useful ideas, but has enabled the lawyers of each country to gain a better understanding of their own technical terms.” Rudolph Leonhard.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 723. D. ’07. 530w. |
“One of the most useful of studies for the young lawyer whose interest in law is not yet confined to turning up books for his cases, would be to read Mr. Schuster’s admirable book.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w. |
Schuyler, Montgomery. Westward the course of empire: “out West” and “back East” on the first trip of the Los Angeles limited; reprinted with additions from the N. Y. Times. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42436.
An account of a trip across the continent in less than a fortnight, to which the author has added under the head of “Consideration by the way,” four suggestive chapters upon: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Triumphant democracy.
“Writes philosophically and out of a full mind.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 80w. | |
| Putnam’s. 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 160w. |
Schuyler, William, tr. and ed. Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
6–36184.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is all done reverently enough, and can be read; but there is an effort at modernization in the attitude of the characters, and in the style there is more than one elapse of taste.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 240w. |
“Considering the perennial interest of the subject and the skill and discretion of this treatment, one would expect for ‘Under Pontius Pilate’ a success, from the publisher’s point of view, by no means likely to exhaust itself with the season of the first publication.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 886. D. 22. ’06. 1130w. |
Scollard, Clinton. Easter-song; lyrics and ballads of the joy of springtime. $3.50. George W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
6–11539.
A collection of half a hundred lyrics and ballads, all of which sing of the gladness which comes in “The green o’ the year.”
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| Dial. 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 180w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. |
“It is gentle April verse, not riotous nor riant ... full of delicate perception and expression.”
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 121. Ap. ’07. 200w. |
Scott, Dixon. [Liverpool.] il. (Color books ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
Liverpool is described by Mr. Scott and pictured by J. Hamilton Hay. It is “an attempt to mirror the vital aspect which the city presents to the world today rather than to offer a rechauffé of the past.”
“The plates in colour are far above those usually found in books of this series, and while not doing full justice to Mr. Hay’s powers, they at least attest the quality of his colour and the purity of its application. Mr. Scott’s style, unlike his Liverpool, though ‘variegated and distracted,’ fails to be ‘puissant and concerted.’”
| + − | Acad. 73: 840. Ag. 31, ’07. 760w. |
“We cannot call the book a success, for it conveys nothing very definite to the mind of the reader.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 308. S. 14. 810w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The book is somewhat fatiguing. Sometimes, too, it lapses into something that a hostile observer might call silliness.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 400w. |
Scott, Ernest F. Fourth gospel: its purpose and theology. *$2. Scribner.
7–36975.
A work which “is wholly concerned with the literary form, the purpose, and the theology of ‘John.’... A twofold purpose is seen in it; primarily, the expression of a profound personal religion, and at the same time the adjustment of it intellectually to a new age and environment, in the reconciliation of Hebraic with Hellenic ideas.”—Outlook.
“Thoughtful and stimulating book.” James S. Riggs.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 535. Jl. ’07. 1280w. | |
| Ath. 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 760w. |
“A thorough study.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
“Perhaps it is best to take Mr. Scott as he has taken John (whether rightly remains to be seen)—a combination of streams of thought which can hardly be harmonized, and which leads to inconsistencies of thinking and direct contradictions of expression.” Frank Grant Lewis.
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 235. S. ’07. 1180w. |
“A more complete and enlightening presentation of the Johannine theology has not been produced in recent years, and to one who would work his way into the thought and spirit of the fourth gospel no better guide could be recommended.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w. |
“The most valuable treatise on the Gospel of John that has appeared in recent years.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 100w. |
“It is the merit of Mr. Scott both to have made clear the profitable line of study in connection with the Gospel of John, and also to have exhibited some valuable results of endeavor of this sort.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 540w. |
“This is a fresh work of the first rank among the many on its subject.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 450w. |
“We think that it is hardly possible for the case to be put more fully, more clearly, or more temperately than in the volume before us; and though we may disagree with its arguments and conclusions we cannot but admire the admirable way in which they are presented.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 1410w. |
Scott, G. Firth. [Romance of polar exploration; interesting descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic adventure from the earliest time to the voyage of the “Discovery.”] *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–35304.
This book ably sustains the claim of its title. It gives the story of the explorations toward both poles in a fashion not only interesting but historically exact.
“Is a slight affair, milk for babes.” E. T. Brewster.
| − | Atlan. 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 40w. |
“We may compare Mr. Scott’s book on polar exploration with the original records, and it will stand the test. It covers both the arctic and antarctic regions, and may be commended to any reader as a compilation that tells in a way that interests the story of many leading incidents in polar research.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 50w. | |
| Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 40w. | ||
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 657. N. 2, ’06. 180w. |
Scott, John Reed. [Beatrix of Clare.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18101.
England in the time of Richard III, forms the setting for this tale of romance and adventure which takes place close about the throne. Beatrix, beauty, heiress, and countess of Clare is won by the young knight and courtier De Lacy beneath the friendly smiles of both king and queen, while their love affair is troubled by abduction and bloodshed, and influenced by the great events which stir the kingdom and even threaten the crown.
“Rather better than the average of its kind.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. |
“Done with a freshness and a verve that makes one forgive the familiar situations, and well-worn devices, and for an idle hour quite enjoy the knight’s tempestuous wooing of his wilful lady.”
| + − | Bookm. 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 320w. |
“In manner and sentiment is poor stuff, and about as unreal as possible.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 130w. |
“The book abounds in royal gossip.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 402. Ag. 15, ’07. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“It is a good story, as historical romances go.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 525. Ag. 31, ’07. 820w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w. |
Scott, John Reed. [Colonel of the Red huzzars.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–21386.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is impossible but more readable than most, and it is well printed and illustrated, full of bright dialogue, and has for heroine the most outrageous flirt since Rosalind.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 192. F. 23, ’07. 140w. |
Scott, Leroy. [To him that hath.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23303.
“The story turns on the heroic self-sacrifice of a young man, David Aldrich, who, at the death of his best friend, the Rev. Philip Morton, finds out that the latter was hopelessly in the toils of an adventuress, who had blackmailed him out of $5,000.... Aldrich assumes the theft himself and goes to prison for four years.... It is a tract on prison discipline, the reformation of the criminal, the uplifting, physical, mental and moral of the masses, and the greed of wealth, thinly veneered with ‘heart interest.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is the simple directness of the narrative, as well as the reality of the types depicted, that holds you to the end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 164. O. ’07. 310w. |
“The plot of the novel is forced ... and the action is over melodramatic, but it is a particularly striking production for all that, and its essential pathos is relieved by much subsidiary incident, and even by touches of genuine humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“Mr. Scott is a hero worshiper of martyred manhood among the poor and unfortunate, a writer who compels admiration and attention by his friendliness to the friendless and by the sanity of his conclusions concerning some sociological problems, rather than by literary ability.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 817. O. 3, ’07. 620w. |
“Far more important than its literary merit implies.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w. |
“It is written with much effort and earnestness; and it is fairly entertaining. The author is not without a sense of humor. But when all is said, fiction makes a poor appearance in the pulpit; and most books of this sort are neither good stories nor good sermons.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“That which gives Mr. Scott’s book the vitality and strength which it unquestionably possesses is his ability to make one see these luckless types ... as his hero saw them.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 450w. |
“It is good story-telling genius to get theory into the reader without his knowing it.”
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 238. N. ’07. 710w. |
Scott, M. H. Baillie. Houses and gardens. *$12. Scribner.
7–33972.
“We have here the fruits of an exceptionally wide and varied experience in the planning, decoration and equipment of houses of all dimensions, from small week-end cottages to large country houses both in England and abroad. This volume testifies eloquently to the fact that, besides being an architect equipped with an ample fund of scientific knowledge, Mr. Scott is also an artist possessing a mature understanding of the proper relations of use and beauty; and the aim of this work is to show what possibilities of beauty are present in the construction of a house.”—Int. Studio.
“In many ways this is a surprising volume. Its most striking feature is the skill of the draughtsmanship, particularly in the coloured plates. Much of it is well written, with eloquent passages and not a few well-turned epigrams, but more is equally dull, with the same idea reiterated in chapter after chapter in almost identical words.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 360w. |
“It is to be hoped that a valuable treatise such as this will meet with that wide recognition which it deserves.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: 83. Mr. ’07. 200w. |
“There is, on the whole, so much of good suggestion; of good taste, and of common sense in the book, that one easily overlooks minor deficiencies.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 106. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w. |
Scott, Sir Walter. [Quentin Durward]; ed. by R. W. Bruere. *50c. Ginn.
7–7198.
An edition designed for the use of high schools and academies. It is equipped with ample editorial helps.
Scratton, Howell. Fortuna filly. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
The Fortuna filly is a horse of rare promise and this story, while it is a romance, centers about the race track and the training stables, and concerns races and trainers so exclusively that the love affair of the owner’s daughter and the young lawyer who in the end wins his wife and a fortune on the Fortuna filly, is thrust into the background.
“Food, drink, and horse are the delightful ingredients of this innocent idyl.”
| − | Nation. 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 570w. |
Scripture, Edward Wheeler. Researches in experimental phonetics; the study of speech curves. (Carnegie inst. of Washington. Pub. no. 44.) pa. $2. Carnegie inst.
7–2321.
“The groundwork of the results of Dr. Scripture’s recent work abroad, in the laboratories organized at Munich, Berlin and Zurich. Save for illustrative examples from the records, the present volume deals almost exclusively with methods; nearly all of the last fifty pages are taken up with tables, some of which appear for the first time, and should prove most helpful to other investigators along these lines.”—Science.
| Ind. 63: 223. Jl. 25, ’07. 420w. |
“We congratulate Dr. Scripture on the production of a splendid monograph. It might have been improved by fuller bibliographical details, and perhaps by a more adequate recognition of the work of others.” John G. McKendrick.
| + + − | Nature. 75: 392. F. 21, ’07. 2530w. |
“Perhaps the main objection to the work is that the correctness of the original gramophone records has been taken too much on faith.” Frederic Lyman Wells.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 740w. |
Scudder, Vida Dutton. Disciple of a saint: being the imaginary biography of Raniero di Landoccio dei Pagliaresi. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–125.
“This ‘imaginary biography’ of Neri di Landoccio, secretary of Saint Catherine of Siena is ... a book full of human interest.... Of story, in the ordinary sense, except such as is furnished by the background of actual recorded events, there is little.... The drama is a drama of ‘soul-states.’ Yet, if the chief interest is psychological, this is not through inability on the part of the author to present the material side of things: Siena in the throes of the plague-epidemic and the papal court at Avignon are vividly set before the reader.”—Ath.
“The author’s familiarity with her period is pleasantly apparent, and her characters, although they speak a language happily free from deliberate archaisms, fairly represent their century.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 240w. |
“Perhaps, despite the author’s deft allusions and unmistakable accuracy, the historian will not be content.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 825. S. ’07. 710w. |
“A noteworthy success in a most difficult form of writing. In the dialogue, the most difficult part of an historical romance, Miss Scudder has achieved a distinct success. Her diction, however, is at times decidedly overstrained.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07, 640w. |
“All through the exquisitely elaborated story there are a reserve, a dignity of expression, and a comprehension of the required attitude of mind that are refreshing to the thoughtful reader.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w. |
Sea stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29583.
Jack London, Güstav Kobbé, George Kennan, Tudor Jenks and a good many others tell of exciting sea-happenings with a good bit of general information about divers, light-houses, tidal waves, etc.
Seabrook, Phœbe Hamilton. Daughter of the Confederacy: a story of the old South and the new. $1.50. Neale.
6–43778.
“Unlike the majority of novels of the war period, this one does not dwell upon the horrors of camp and field, of prison and hospital, but upon the daily life of a family left to the so-called slighter horrors of inactivity, anxiety and starvation.”
Seaver, Richard W. To Christ through criticism. (Donellan lectures, 1905–6.) **$1.50. Scribner.
The burden of these lectures is “Justification of the new theology and defence of critical principles and results as not hostile to devout life.” (Nation.)
“A reverent and thoughtful discussion of the Gospel miracles in the light of modern criticism.”
| + | Ind. 62: 390. Mr. 14, ’07. 40w. | |
| Nation. 84: 265. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w. |
Seawell, Molly Elliott. Loves of the lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs:
6–36177.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A readable enough little tale.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 62. F. 2, ’07. 500w. |
“This old-fashioned romance, with its familiar types and conventional action, is charming because of its literary style and generally artistic workmanship. Mr. Underwood’s illustrations are a little stiff, and crude in color.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 30w. |
Seawell, Molly Elliott. Secret of Toni; il. by George Brehm. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5687.
“The story of a dirty, lazy, little boy whose only friends are a nice clean little boy and a tin soldier to whom he tells all his trouble. The boys grow up as friends, and both become soldiers who have ups and downs enough to interest the reader to the happy end.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
“The plot is absurd, but there is a certain freshness about it that many fiction readers will enjoy.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠ |
“A rather thin, unsubstantial little tale. But ... one feels no resentment toward it, for the childhood portion is really quite enjoyable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 270w. |
“Toni, the hero of the present novel, need not fear comparison with any of the cherub group that we heretofore have met in Miss Seawell’s pages.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 310w. |
“A sprightly story, well constructed and vivaciously told. Notwithstanding the numerous books which Miss Seawell has written, she has not yet learned what literary virtues are to be gained by an occasional due reserve of statement.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 270w. |
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. [Fountain sealed.] †$1.50. Century.
7–30436.
A character study of three distinct types. A mother whose peace of mind was constantly assailed by a selfish husband exploiting all the proprieties of life decides to live apart from him. She goes abroad and makes a cozy drawingroom the center of a warmth which she radiates after the fashion of her own serenity, sincerity and dignity. The daughter, devoted to the father, furnishes the second type. At his death the mother returns to find her daughter an arrogant, selfish, heartless girl unable to detect values. The third type is honest Jack Pennington whose integrity but reveals more convincingly the girl’s shallowness and the mother’s patient unselfishness.
“The workmanship is excellent and to those readers who enjoy a ruthless dissection, skilfully done, the book will be worth while. Of plot there is scarcely anything.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. |
“The best of many good qualities is the spirit in which it is written. A finished piece of true comedy.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 550w. |
“The plain citizen, the clamorer for a simple story, will not take kindly to ‘A fountain sealed.’ On the other hand, the reader who is attracted by the subtle in style and substance, who likes a maximum of soul-searching with a minimum of ‘scene,’ will find it a mine of interest, and will have the further satisfaction of perceiving that a novel may deal with the subtleties, yet be unquestionably clean.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 580w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“It is such a moving, vivid, illuminating picture of the kind of tragedy that everywhere dignifies human life, that it can but make a wide appeal.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 694. N. 2, ’07. 560w. |
“It will add to Miss Sedgwick’s already secure reputation, and give much real pleasure to thoughtful readers.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 340w. |
“Its admirable character-drawing, and its distinction of style, will add to a reputation already secure.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 40w. |
“Well-wrought and engrossing story.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 780. N. 16, ’07. 1200w. |
Sedgwick, Mrs. Mabel (Cabot). Garden month by month. **$4. Stokes.
7–15329.
A new plan is employed in this practical volume. “On each page there are six vertical columns under the month in which the flower blossoms. The first column gives the color, the next the English name, the next the botanical name, the next the description and method of culture, propagation and origin, and then the height and situation in the garden, and finally, the duration of the blooming. These are illustrated by over 200 ... engravings from photographs of growing plants.” (Ind.)
“The index is full and carefully made. Altogether. this is a most valuable book for the shelves devoted to one’s garden library, in a location handy for reference.” Edith Granger.
| + | Dial. 42: 368. Je. 16, ’07. 590w. |
“There is in it no nonsense of fine writing and poetical quotations.”
| + | Ind. 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w. |
“We should suppose it might remain a standard for many years.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 110w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 110w. |
“It is an intelligent and amplified catalogue of the plants described, and its painstaking sincerity and infinite care of detail should give it a place on the reference shelf of garden books.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 1060w. |
“The beginner in this delightful pursuit would probably find some of the simpler and less exhaustive garden books more helpful and not so bewildering.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 200w. |
Segur, Marquis de. Julie de Lespinasse; tr. from the French by P. H. Lee Warner. *$2.50. Holt.
7–37963.
The letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse not only form a human document that reveals a tortured existence but are a symbol of the revolution accomplished in contemporary thought during her period, viz., “the change of the age of reason into the age of passion and sentimental license.” The author had access to archives heretofore unattainable which cleared up facts regarding the early life of Mademoiselle Lespinasse, her education, relations with the Marquis de Mora, and the public and worldly side of her character. The sketch embodies its negative lesson chiefly in this intense woman’s blind adoration for Count de Guibert. Her suffering strikes the universal note, and she pays the full retributive price for her wrong-doing.
“The book is a model of wise biography. The translation is on the whole, good and clear; but it is marred by occasional lapses which should certainly be amended before the second edition is produced.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 770w. |
“[The translation] is characterized ... by inelegance, and not infrequently by mis-representation of the original.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 177. Ag. 17. 190w. |
“At last we have an authoritative, and, it would seem, a definitive life of that most interesting [Julie de Lespinasse].” S. M. Francis.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 491. O. ’07. 280w. |
“The Marquis de Segur has brought enough personal interest and enthusiasm to his work to counteract largely his lack of constructive literary ability.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 360w. |
“Though ample and interesting, contributes but little of real weight to a familiar story.”
| + | Nation. 84: 503. Je. 30, ’07. 420w. |
“Probably comes as near telling the truth about this remarkable woman as any sentimental biography written long after the death of the subject can be expected to come.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 1100w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 300w. |
“More than one book has been written around her, but this simple record of her life by the Marquis de Segur is by far the most interesting of them all.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 80w. |
“This book was really worth translating.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 110w. |
Seignobos, (Michel Jean) Charles. History of ancient civilization; tr. and ed. by Arthur Herbert Wilde. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–32375.
v. 1. An English version of a well-known French text book designed for use in secondary schools. Volume 1 covers a period from pre-historic times down to the third century of our era.
| Am. Hist. R. 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.) | ||
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 72. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Is the most satisfactory history of civilization that has yet appeared.” J. W. Moncrief.
| + + + | Bib. World. 30: 238. S. ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“A plain straightforward account.... The translation seems to have been carefully made, and the editor’s notes, though not numerous, are of distinct value. Nevertheless, the book is something of a disappointment. In his effort to cover the entire field the author has naturally been compelled to include a great deal that is already found in the high-school text-book.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It is a sorry, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, and unprofitable compilation.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Seitz, Don Carlos. Discoveries in every-day Europe. **$1.25. Harper.
7–29537.
Little details that eminate from the store of a traveler’s latent impressions, the sort that fill the chinks of the memory but that are seldom offered to the stay-at-home tourist. In his shrewdly observant fashion, entertainingly humorous, the author tells the reader things worth remembering, and things that can be remembered for their very epigrammatic clearness. For instance, he says, “Ice is regarded with superstitious reverence in Italy, France and England. Common waiters are not allowed to touch the precious product. Instead, the head waiter hands it out in infinitesimal fragments with a pair of sugar-tongs.” The marginal illustrations are suggestive of the book’s humor.
“The ordinary reader will find in it a great deal more about Europe that would interest him than he gets in the usual ponderous book of travel.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 160w. |
“Alert, humorous, and irrepressible.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. Principles of economics; with special reference to American conditions. 2d ed. *$2.25. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the present reviewer’s opinion, Professor Seligman’s volume is likely to prove of more value to the teacher of economics than to the beginner in the subject for whose benefit primarily it was written. This is not because of any lack of clearness or other defects of style. It is due rather to the fact that the author has attempted to cover too much ground and to introduce the student to too great a variety of subjects.” M. B. Hammond.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 36. Ja. 16, ’07. 2910w. |
Selleck, Willard Chamberlain. New appreciation of the Bible: a study of the spiritual outcome of Biblical criticism. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–11195.
An attempt to popularize some of the results of scholarship. It aims to do three things: first, to state, briefly but clearly and accurately the principal conclusions of modern learning regarding the Bible; second, to show the enhanced values, ethical and religious, which the Bible exhibits thru the new views of its nature thus developed, and lastly, to point out practical ways in which it may be used in consonance with such conclusions and such views.
“A most useful and valuable book.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. F. ’07. S. | |
| Bib. World. 29: 159. F. ’07. 90w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w. |
“Readers of his careful chapters will have little to unlearn if they pursue their studies further.”
| + | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 210w. |
“The book is an excellent combination of the conservative spirit with the radical method in a constructive treatment of its subject.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 180w. |
Selous, Frederick Courteney. Recent hunting trips in British North America. *$5. imp. Scribner.
“Mr. Selous divides his book into short chapters, each dealing with an expedition to various parts of the country. Thus he begins with a moose hunt in the forests of Central Canada, goes on to Newfoundland after woodland caribou, and visits St. John’s lake, the Macmillan river, Yukon territory, and other places, finding sport, and adding trophies to what must be one of the largest collections ever made by a single person.” (Ath.) “One last chapter is devoted to outfit, food, etc., all excellent practical hints.” (Nation.)
“Is sure of a cordial welcome for many reasons.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 680w. |
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 630w. |
“There is one quality about all Selous’s books which will win the attention of his readers: he is preeminently honest and sincere. There is no fine writing, no exaggeration: all his descriptions of adventures bear the hall-mark of truth.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 189. Ag. ’07. 1340w. |
“The book at large, while, of course, of much more interest to the British (or American) sportsman than to the casual reader whose tastes have not been developed that way, has a good deal, of the charm of its kind.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Mr. Selous’s account of his daily doings is a plain, straightforward narrative which will be invaluable to those who follow him, into these northern wilds. He also gives much interesting information about the aspect of the country, the fauna, the habits of beavers, the races of wild sheep in North America, and the big game generally.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 520w. |
* Seneca, Lucius Annæus. Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index. by Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
Aside from the fact that Seneca’s tragedies serve as the only connecting link between ancient and modern tragedy, the plays are of value and interest as independent dramatic literature of merit, and also as an illustration of the literary characteristics of the age of Nero. The author has aimed to present to the English reader all of the values accruing from a study of these plays except the benefit to be derived from reading them in the original.
* Sergeant, Philip Walsingham. Last empress of the French. **$3.50. Lippincott.
A contribution to history. “The book begins, as careful biographies should begin, with a due account of Eugénie’s grandparents, leading up to the birth of Eugénie, her early days, and eventual marriage with Napoleon III., through the machinations of her mother and the help of her own beauty.” (Acad.)
“The present book is a painstaking collection of facts about the life of the Empress Eugénie, written without enthusiasm and without distinction. From one point of view it is an improving book, from another a very blasphemy against that most mysterious, most sacred of all things—life.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 841. Ag. 31, ’07. 960w. |
“If not treated as history may be commended.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 2: 208. Ag. 24. 910w. |
“Agreeably written, clearly printed, and handsomely illustrated, the book is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care and painstaking research in its preparation; but one might have expected that the restraint imposed upon the biography by the Empress Eugénie’s being still alive would have been offset by the advantage of some little help from her in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her eventful history.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w. |
“The book is well done, and the portraits and views are well selected.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14. ’07. 90w. |
“It is, as may be supposed, a difficult subject which Mr. Sergeant has elected to treat; and he must be allowed the credit of having accomplished his task with success.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 180w. |
Seton, Grace Gallatin Thompson (Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton). Nimrod’s wife. **$1.75. Doubleday.
7–18186.
An account of the author’s life in the open while accompanying her artist-author husband on his trips in search of copy rather than game. Many interesting feminine side lights are thrown upon experiences of camp and travel while there is much good advice to women as to proper dress and equipment.
“This is a book to read; if you like books about hunting, without any adventures which give a distinct thrill.”
| + | Acad. 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 250w. |
“Written in a spirited manner, pervaded by enthusiasm for outdoor life, a love of adventure, and a cheerful, wholesome philosophy.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 181. O. ’07. |
“It is bright, unconventional narrative, and would be better if the writing were more coherent and less ‘highfalutin.’ But it is agreeable enough.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 130w. |
“Offers another study of feminine self-consciousness, superimposed, in this instance, upon a perverted and, and at times, amusingly naïve hero-worship.” George Gladden.
| − | Bookm. 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 140w. |
“We can unreservedly praise her for her quick wit and catching humor, for her thorough-going sportsman-like manner, and for the literary graces of good composition.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 380w. |
“The views of Nimrod’s wife partake still of the charm of comparative novelty.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“Certainly with safety and entire truthfulness it may be affirmed of Mrs. Thompson Seton’s animal anecdotes that they are at least good reading—and that in these intimate and formal records of camp life and travel she has so well preserved the atmosphere of close companionship with woods and waters that, even to the uninitiated, what is after all the chief charm of sport with gun and rod is made quite clear.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 210w. |
Seven sages of Rome, ed. from the manuscripts with introduction, notes and glossary, by Killis Campbell. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–5077.
Besides the text, which follows the Cotton MS., this volume, one of the “Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry,” contains an exhaustive introduction which discusses the early history of The seven sages, the Oriental, European, and English versions, and gives a list of originals and analogues. Full notes, a glossary and index complete the volume.
“We congratulate Prof. Campbell on the skill and care displayed in this edition, which students of ‘comparative literature’ will find of great use.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 370w. |
“The text is an important one in the history of stories and a new edition was obviously needed. This want has just been supplied in a thoroughly satisfactory manner by Prof. Killis Campbell.”
| + | Nation. 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 280w. |
Severy, Melvin Linwood. Gillette’s social redemption. Il. **$2.50. Turner, H. B.
7–18591.
A review of world-wide conditions as they exist to-day, offering an entirely new suggestion for the remedy of the evils they exhibit. Mr. Severy but gives expression to Mr. Gillette’s ingenious plan for the amelioration of the ever-increasing ills of the existing social system,—a plan which combines the best of the single tax scheme, the best of socialism with the best part of our present system as it exists to-day.
“Sensational ‘stories’ from daily newspapers, even of the ‘yellow’ type, are seriously treated as historical materials, without rational criticism. All the muckrakers are here invited to unload their unsavory burdens, and the result is a sort of literary dumping-ground.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| − | Dial. 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 190w. |
“One could wish, however, for less material and a better sorting of what is used.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 250w. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 410w. |
“It may be that some of the world’s scandals are omitted from this large and handsome book, of whose paper and print it is possible to speak well.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 500w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 160w. |
Sewell, Tyson. Construction of dynamos, (alternating and direct current): a textbook for students, engineer-constructors, and electricians-in-charge. *$3. Van Nostrand.
A text-book for students and apprentices in electrical engineering as well as helpful to civil, mechanical and other engineers. The earlier chapters are devoted to an exposition of the fundamental principles of direct and single phase alternating currents, and their bearing on the subject, of dynamos; the effects of polyphase currents being treated later on as an introduction to polyphase alternators.
“A great deal of good information is given, but there is a lack of perspective the reader being left in doubt as to what is the standard practice.” Henry H. Norris.
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 423. O. 17, ’07. 370w. |
“A perusal of Mr. Sewell’s book will leave the reader with the impression that the designer of dynamos will learn nothing from it, and that the student may with equal advantage read any of the previous publications treating of the dynamo in a popular style.” Gisbert Kapp.
| + − | Nature. 76: 217. Jl. 4. ’07. 1190w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 582. D. ’07. 160w. |
Seymour, Frederick H. A. Saunterings in Spain. **$3. Dutton.
7–35147.
The “saunterings” include Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville, and Granada. “The introduction giving an historical sketch of the Moorish occupation of Spain is a noteworthy tribute to remarkable people who shed light upon European art and science at a time when Europe was ‘in that slough of despond which we term “the dark ages.”’” (Sat. R.) “The book is essentially for the journey and not the fireside.” (Nation.)
“The historical sketch is good and concise, the description commonplace, superficial and too personal.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 72. Mr. ’07. |
“[The reader] should guard himself against too implicit an acceptance of all the dicta it contains. A spirit of recklessness may be found at work at various points in the main narrative.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 980w. |
“The book is more deeply laden with useful knowledge than most, the studies of the art galleries in Spain being particularly close and appreciative.” Wallace Rice.
| + | Dial. 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 210w. |
“The illustrations are so fine that they almost make up for the shortcomings of the text.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 170w. |
“Perhaps the most interesting chapters of the book, in which there is not one dull page, are those on the Alhambra.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 280w. |
“Mr. Seymour ... is not a saunterer at all, but the cicerone, with much of the dryness and ponderosity of the guild, but informing, and if not so suggestive as Mr. Williams, far more valuable as a guide.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 1040w. | |
| Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 270w. |
Seymour, Frederick H. A. Siena and her artists. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38017.
A dissertation upon Sienese art as exemplified in her architecture, sculpture and painting. “General Seymour does not write as a specialist. He eschews technical language, and contents himself with setting down in simple terms the impressions produced upon him by study of the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti, Taddeo di Bartolo, and their disciples and successors. It is interesting to note, from the records of these impressions, how strong an appeal to the modern mind may be made by an art which has deliberately adhered to a set of rigid conventions, if only it possesses the fundamental qualities of beauty and sincerity.” (Ath.)
“A book for the amateur—yes! Unimportant, but redeemed by enthusiasm and headlong interest in the subject.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 673. Je. 15, ’07. 310w. |
“The unpretending volume before us contains nothing for the scholar or the art-critic, but it will be welcome to the ordinary traveller visiting Siena for the first time, and desiring counsel as to how he may most profitably spend his leisure there.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 440w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 60w. |
“Another book which will be useful to the visitor to Italy who wishes for criticisms of pictures not too learned or technical.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 27, ’07. 30w. |
Seymour, Thomas Day. Life in the Homeric age. *$4. Macmillan.
7–36949.
Based upon a study of the Homeric poems, this book deals with the life and times as reflected in the poet’s language. Hence it is philological rather than archaeological. The importance of the undertaking to the modern reader lies in the fact that Homer’s picture of the life of his age is the earliest account extant of the culture from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The cosmography and geography of the country are studied, the family, education, dress, food, slavery, trade, sea life and ships, agriculture, animals, worship, arms and war.
“Very learned and extremely readable book, which we heartily recommend both to scholars and to the general reader.” R. T. Tyrrell.
| + + − | Acad. 73: 181. N. 30, ’07. 1250w. |
“Is an admirable addition to a scholar’s bookshelves. There is little doubt that this work is exhaustive and accurate enough to satisfy all but the keenest departmental specialists.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 510. O. 26. 1530w. |
“The work seems too detailed for a younger student, while for the advanced worker it ought to embody more results from archaeology and the increasingly important science of anthropology. Again, one is compelled to notice a regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of repetition that might be called otiose if one did not know the over-conscientious author, and a constant recurrence of a negative method elucidation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
| + − | Dial. 43: 311. N. 16, ’07. 3100w. |
“No one can doubt that it is definitive.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1059. O. 31, ’07. 680w. |
“A more complete guide to the knowledge of life’s externals in the Homeric age we have never met with.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 320w. |
“There is all through a certain lack of precision of view in this book.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 420w. |
“The present volume will be an indispensable work of reference in public and college libraries and a handsome ornament to private collections. But we fear that it is too bulky and too expensive for the students who need it in their reading of Homer.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 472. N. 21, ’07. 2220w. |
“In a broad sense one might call this work of opulent learning a sociological commentary upon the Bible of ancient Greece.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 290w. |
Shackleton, Robert, and Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth. Quest of the colonial. **$2.40. Century.
7–30414.
While the chapters of this book are the personal experiences of two enthusiastic homemakers in quest of the useful, beautiful and interesting articles of colonial furniture and bric-a-brac, they afford generous information concerning colonial furniture of every kind, and offer helpful suggestions in the matter of selection.
“It contains a great deal of definite and accurately stated information for the amateur collector, besides many anecdotes calculated to quicken his enthusiasm and arouse his envy and admiration.”
| + | Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“It is rare that one finds a book that deals so accurately with facts pertaining to the furnishing of our forefathers and at the same time uses dry data with sufficient cunning to make a charming readable tale.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 170w. | |
| Lit. D. 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“No one who has the slightest love of the old could fail to gain sincere pleasure from the reading of this book.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |
Shakespeare, William. Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. from the text of the early quartos and the first folio by William A. Neilson. $3. Houghton.
6–38336.
Uniform with “Cambridge poets,” this volume shares with the others of the series the excellencies of book making. Professor Neilson’s “radical procedure in frankly adopting a modern punctuation will probably please readers, if they notice it, and raise questions among scholars. His rearrangement of the plays according to chronology within the three well-recognized divisions of comedies, histories, and tragedies, by which ‘Tempest’ appears as the seventeenth instead of the first play, is likely to give qualms to readers rather than to scholars. Both innovations seem to me to be worth trying, and it is needless to approve the small amount of textual apparatus in such an edition and the consequent saving of space for a good glossary.” (Forum.)
“We recommend it most cordially to the scholar, the student, and the general reader.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 262. My. ’07. 170w. |
“Calls for a word of hearty praise.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w. |
“Professor Neilson ... has done a real service in his one volume of Shakespeare. His critical introduction and textual notes are very admirable.”
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 210. S. ’07. 50w. |
“No more attractive single-volume edition exists.” W. P. Trent.
| + + + | Forum. 38: 379. Ja. ’07. 480w. | |
| + + + | Ind. 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 270w. | |
| + + + | Lit. D. 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w. |
“This new edition by Prof. Neilson is easily the best single-volume edition that has yet been published.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1340w. |
“In every way the volume is suited for the use of the general reader and for a place on his library shelf.”
| + + + | Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 210w. |
“These textual variations are the merest trifles after all, and detract nothing from the general merit of the book, which is unquestionably the best one-volume edition of Shakespeare that has appeared—so nearly perfect in its way indeed, that its supremacy is not likely to be disputed for many a year.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 723. S. ’07. 840w. |
Shakespeare, William. [First folio Shakespeare]; ed. with notes, introd. glossary, list of variorum readings, and selected criticisms, by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, ea. 75c. Crowell.
—As you like it.
6–42340.
This volume shares with the volumes that have gone before the excellencies of the carefully compiled editorial matter.
—Henry the fifth.
6–45068.
The characteristic features of this entire series are found in this volume.
—Much ado about nothing.
7–11050.
Uniform with the “First folio edition,” and the twelfth to be issued. It is supplied with the full editorial equipment characteristic of the edition.
“The reading public cannot be too grateful to the editors and publishers of this Shakespeare for bringing within their easy reach that which has hitherto been accessible only to millionaires and scholars.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 220w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 25. Ja. ’07. |
“Altogether the editors deserve to be warmly complimented on the thoroughness of their work, which must have cost them abundant time and labour.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 798. D. 22. 630w. | |
| + + | Nation. 83: 533. D. 20. ’06. 50w. |
“There is nothing better at hand for the genuine student of Shakespeare and the development of the English language.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 340w. |
“We have no hesitation in saying that this is as great a help to Shakespearean study as has been produced for many years.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 190w. |
Shakespeare, William. Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra; ed. by Horace H. Furness. *$4. Lippincott.
7–28476.
“Antonie and Cleopatra” complete with the unsparing equipment of the “Variorum edition.”
“Differences of opinion with regard to the soundness of Dr. Furness’s original contributions, do not affect the high value to be placed upon the main purpose of his work and the splendid manner in which he continues to carry it out.”
| + + + | Nation. 85: 356. O. 17. ’07. 1100w. |
“To exactness and fullness of knowledge the editor of the ‘Variorum edition’ has added the wisdom which is born of a great love.”
| + + + | Outlook. 87: 329. O. 19, ’07. 620w. | |
| + + + | R. of Rs. 36: 640. N. ’07. 80w. | |
| + + + | Spec. 99: 535. O. 12, ’07. 180w. |
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. From old fields: poems of the civil war. **$3. Houghton.
6–39442.
A collection of poems chiefly about civil war topics.
“In a way, Mr. Shaler was the Crabbe of the battlefield. He saw the sordid, tragic commonplaces of war with an undeluded eye, and portrayed them with a firm and vivid pen.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 290w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 253. F. ’07. 60w. |
Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page. Masters of fate; the power of the will. **$1.50. Duffield.
6–32864.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 72. Mr. ’07. S. |
Shand, Alexander Innes. Soldiers of fortune in camp and court. **$3. Dutton.
Phases of history “as it was built up by personal gallantry.” The author begins with the mediaeval Condottieri and ends with the Indian adventurers, the modern representatives of the Condottieri.
“We have said that this is an interesting book, and apparently Mr. Shand, to judge by his reticence in the matter of dates and stern exclusion of references, does not mean it to be more than simply interesting. That, however, should not preclude a little care in the writing. The style, on the whole, is not unattractive, but it is sometimes careless.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 9. O. 12, ’07. 940w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“‘Soldiers of fortune’ is very different from the kind of sham history we are often given under such a title. It is not tawdry or sensational; the author observes it as a point of honour with himself never to make what seems to him the truth lopsided in order that it may be more exciting.”
| + | Spec. 99: 482. O. 5, ’07. 1440w. |
* Shaw, Albert. Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
In five chapters, as follows, Dr. Shaw discusses the relation of the average man to present social, economic, and political conditions in the United States. The average man under changing economic conditions, Present economic problems, Our legacy from a century of pioneers, The business career and the community and Jefferson’s doctrines under new tests.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 762. N. 30. ’07. 180w. |
Shaw, Albert. Political problems of American development. (Columbia university lectures George Blumenthal foundation, 1907.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22104.
“The book as a whole is a study of national development, dealing not with the questions of constitutional law that vexed the minds of the fathers, but with the practical difficulties that democracy has continuously encountered in its attempt to realize the national ideals in the American environment. Immigration and race questions, problems relating to our public lands, party machinery, the regulation of the railroads and the great industrial trusts, the tariff, the currency, foreign policy, and territorial expansion are all discussed from the point of view of the journalist and man of affairs.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is so valuable as to deserve a second edition.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1372. D. 5, ’07. 620w. |
“We cannot feel that this work will add to Mr. Shaw’s reputation either as a writer or as a student of American problems. The whole volume smacks of the haste of journalism. It is frequently repetitious, and is not lacking in that dogmatic finality of opinion which is a pitfall for all editors.”
| − | Nation. 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 750w. |
“His views in their entirety are not always ours. But we may say that in no instance does he fail to illumine his subject for the great general public to whom he addresses himself; and that his little volume is an admirable textbook for the use of those who would pursue intelligently and conscientiously the schooling that makes for an efficient and triumphant democracy.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 540. N. 9, ’07. 1040w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 230. N. ’07. 750w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 383. S. ’07. 180w. |
Shaw, George Bernard. Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
6–39443.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A combination of acute and searching criticism of modern plays and players with unlimited flippancy and egotism. Deliciously entertaining, if not altogether profitable, reading; for those familiar with the plays and the actors.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 72. Mr. ’07. |
“Mr. Shaw is at his sanest in the dramatic criticisms contributed weekly to the ‘Saturday review.’” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Atlan. 99: 553. Ap. ’07. 5910w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 71. Ja. ’07. 2050w. |
“They made sparkling reading in those days, but that is hardly sufficient to justify the preservation of such current chroniclings in permanent form.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 13. Ja. 1, ’07. 120w. |
“If there is anyone surviving at this time of day who thinks Mr. Shaw merely a crank or merely a ‘farceur’, these collected dramatic criticisms ought to open his eyes. They are, on the whole, tremendously earnest and absolutely sane; the work of a man who obviously longs to leave not only the stage, but the world, better than he found it.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 117. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 280w. |
“These criticisms of Mr. Shaw’s have had, and we believe are likely to have, a wholesome effect upon the contemporary stage, but whether such be the case or no, they must at least be allowed this great virtue—they are tremendously entertaining.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 754. Mr. ’07. 620w. |
“Mr. Huneker has chosen the criticisms for republication, and written an heroic, gunnerlike preface, full of explosions and boomings, which is, perhaps, suitable to so gallant an occasion.”
| − | Spec. 98: 567. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w. |
Shaw, George Bernard. John Bull’s other island and Major Barbara. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
7–21528.
There are three plays included in this group: John Bull’s other island, How he lied to her husband, and Major Barbara. There are the usual characteristic prefaces, and for an introduction he makes use of his “First aid to critics.”
“Both ‘John Bull’s other island’ and ‘Major Barbara’ are ill put together. They share with the ‘Doctor’s dilemma’ the defect of straggling on after the play is really at an end.” St. J. H.
| − | Acad. 72: 621. Je. 29, ’07. 1120w. |
“It is only by the ideas which they embody that Mr. Shaw’s stage-works will live. Should those ideas ever become commonplaces—an unlikely contingency!—his plays possess, apart from their humour and wit, no quality which can save them from the doom of oblivion. They contain but the smallest amount of story, no plot worth speaking of, and very little emotional stress or conflict; any catastrophe they set forth is of a strictly intellectual sort.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 107. Jl. 27. 1500w. |
“The latest is the most interesting volume of Brentano’s new edition of Shaw, because none of the three plays in it has appeared in print before and only one of them has been played often enough in this country for many people to see it.”
| + | Ind. 63: 879. O. 10, ’07. 860w. |
“If only to find the secret that is in Mr. Shaw’s heart, his prefaces are to be read. There are the plays to be read, as well—two of them as good plays as Mr. Shaw has ever done, and all three as amusing and stimulating in print as on the stage, all three brilliantly successful devices for compelling you to swallow the powder of the ‘paper-apostle’ in the jam of the ‘artist-magician.’”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 1890w. |
“As a study of actual social conditions, or as drama, [Major Barbara] is quite worthless, being wholly unreasonable and packed, as is the writer’s habit, with all kinds of false and reckless generalizations, cynical extravagancies, and perverse misrepresentations; but it is, nevertheless, highly entertaining in its witty, bumptious, paradoxical and wholly irresponsible fashion.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 350w. |
“The present writer is considering not Mr. Shaw the playwright, but Mr. Shaw, the clairvoyant, the acute observer and the critic of things as they are in the year of grace, 1907, the philosopher, if you will, of the open eye and mind. He is, as a matter of fact, the very inspiration of critics whether of literature or of life, for he is inexhaustively suggestive because he is marvelously perceiving.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 437. Jl. 13, ’07. 2370w. |
“In these two more substantial plays, as always, Mr. Shaw makes it plainer than ever, as has already been said, that he is first the determined moralist, the servant of his profoundly passionate convictions; then the architect of what happens to be their vehicle: in this case, satiric and imaginative drama. But scarcely less notable is the demonstration which is here furnished of that other inconvenient and embarrassing fact which Mr. Shaw is at such elaborate pains, when he is on his guard, to conceal: the fact that he is, ‘au fond’ and incurably a poet.” Lawrence Gilman.
| + | No. Am. 186: 284. O. ’07. 2000w. |
“Not even Mr. Bernard Shaw’s wit and paradox can make his play about Ireland ... altogether easy reading.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w. |
“The three plays show Mr. Shaw’s characteristic genius.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 383. S. ’07. 100w. |
Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M. Briefs for our times. **$1. Whittaker.
6–31412.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The literary quality of the book is very good indeed; and, while the author does not pretend to original thinking, he has the knack of putting ancient truth in a fresh and pleasing, as well as convincing, manner.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w. |
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Early essays and lectures. *$1.60. Longmans.
7–11584.
A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and Irish youth and high ideals.
“In many places, the essays would have been improved by the application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”
| + − | Cath. World. 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w. | |
| Dial. 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w. | ||
| + | Spec. 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w. |
Shelley, Henry C. John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.
7–34809.
The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the “young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and The praise of John Harvard.
“Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.
| + | Bookm. 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w. |
“Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious possibilities.”
| + | Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the first twenty years of its history.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w. |
“In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”
| + | Nation. 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w. |
“Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“Mr. Shelley is entitled to the honor due a pioneer and to the satisfaction of feeling that he has produced a book interesting in itself and bearing the promise of fruitful results.” Elisabeth L. Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 679. O. 26, ’07. 1600w. |
“It is no detraction from the supplementary value and interest of Mr. Shelley’s work if we recognize at once that his is a secondary book.” Ripley Hitchcock.
| + | No. Am. 186: 611. D. ’07. 1830w. |
“As the life of John Harvard it can only be described as conjectural biography carried to the nth degree. Its sole distinction is its attractive reconstitution of the environment in which John Harvard was brought up, and the people he possibly knew.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 300w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 755. D. ’07. 50w. | |
| + | Spec. 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 250w. |
Shelley, Henry C. Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
6–34854.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 73. Mr. ’07. |
“Mr. Shelley is in many respects quite the ideal guide, unassuming, sympathetic, and exceedingly well informed. He refreshes vague memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to poetic shrines, but—and it is a serious but—for the clumsy proportions and gross material weight of the volume.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 390w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
Shelton, Louise. Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of information and instruction for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
6–19004.
(2d ed. rev. and enl.
7–18184.)
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 14. Ja. ’07. S. |
* Shepard, William Kent. Problems in strength of materials. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–30998.
“A collection of nearly 600 specific problems or exercises in the strength of materials ... [which] confines itself strictly to the statement of problems, and with one exception, eight pages on the design of riveted joints, avoids explanatory interjections.”—Engin. N.
“In the absence of either explanation or cautionary reference, the student is likely to go astray, even when the book is being administered by a teacher. Regardless of this, however, we welcome the appearance of such a collection of problems.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 537. N. 14, ’07. 620w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 584. D. ’07. 100w. |
Shepherd, Henry Elliot. Life of Robert Edward Lee. $2. Neale.
6–46779.
Not so much a biography as a characterization. The conditions under which Lee lived and worked and the results he achieved are outlined, as well as his ideals, motives, genius and character. The author says “It is my distinctive purpose to exhibit the life of our hero in those critical and all-pervading relations which constitute the abiding test of true greatness.”
Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder. Running horse inn. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18182.
George Kennett, a soldier in the Peninsular campaign, returns to Running Horse inn in a little town in the south of England upon the day that his brother, believing him dead, weds the girl who had promised to wait for him. At first the returned soldier succeeds fairly well in accepting the inevitable, but when financial hardships come, and his old love for Bess masters him, he turns scoundrel, and brings misery to his brother’s home. He pays the penalty for the guilt which he was morally responsible for, although he is innocent technically of the charge that hangs him.
“A really fine historical novel.”
| + | Acad. 71: 479. N. 10, ’06. 190w. |
“His military experiences show more power than any other portion of the book.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w. |
“The tender character studies of rural English folk, the captain’s yarns, the homely life within the Inn, and the eternal scenery along the downs, and, above all, the solemn tread with which all events seem to march toward the final, inevitable tragedy gives the book power.”
| + | Ind. 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 140w. |
“Has set himself a difficult task and if he has not fully succeeded it is fair to recognize the ambition.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 250w. |
“The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole, interest is fairly well maintained.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w. |
“The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the best part of it is near the close.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w. |
“The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr. Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w. |
“It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w. |
Sheppard, S. E. and Mees, C. E. Kenneth. Investigations on the theory of the photographic process. *$1.75. Longmans.
A theoretical rather than practical work whose subjects are dealt with from the point of view of what is now understood as physical chemistry and are described in the language of that branch of science.
“This volume will find a place, which it will worthily fill, in the libraries of all who are interested in the scientific aspects of photography.” C. J.
| + + | Nature. 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 700w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 70w. |
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Twenty years in Paris; being some recollections of a literary life; 2d ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
6–18833.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 85. Mr. ’07. |
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Major dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The rivals, The school for scandal, The critic; ed. with introd. and notes by George Henry Nettleton. (Athenaeum press ser.) *90c. Ginn.
6–43927.
A school edition with abundant editorial matter.
“He succeeds, not only in giving all the information needed by beginners with sterling fulness and accuracy, but in adding a great deal that will interest those who have already a good working knowledge of the plays.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 112. F. 2, ’07. 1310w. |
“Is by far the most pretentious attempt yet made to edit these masterpieces of English comedy. It is to be regretted that the apparatus is more evident than the criticism. The several sections in which Professor Nettleton discusses Sheridan’s position in the English drama display no real insight into the art of dramaturgy.” Brander Matthews.
| − + | Educ. R. 33: 318. Mr. ’07. 1200w. |
“A compact and careful piece of work, containing a considerable amount of useful information in small compass.”
| + | Nation. 84: 251. Mr. 14, ’07. 310w. |
“We do not know any other book on Sheridan which crowds so much information into so small a compass.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 130w. |
“Admirers of Sheridan’s [plays] may now have their favorites printed (for the first time in America) from the authentic text of Sheridan’s plays taken from the original manuscripts and edited (for the first time anywhere) with complete annotation.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | School R. 15: 625. O. ’07. 350w. |
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley B. [Rivals]; with an introduction by Brander Matthews. il. $2.50. Crowell.
7–24460.
A de luxe edition illustrated by a series of five drawings, the work of Mr. O’Malley, which are reproduced in full-page photogravures. The drawings, the introduction by Brander Matthews and the excellent workmanship of the book make it a choice holiday offering.
“Mr. Power O’Malley has illustrated the play for the present edition in a fashion to emphasize both its old-time quaintness and its sparkling humor.”
| + | Dial. 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w. |
“The notes are of little value.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 110w. |
Sheridan, Wilbur Fletcher. Life of Isaac Wilson Joyce. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–20972.
A biography of Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church which reveals him as preeminently the man of action, a man “too busy making history to record it.” His missionary zeal at home and in foreign fields sounds the strongest note in the sketch.
Sherman, Ellen Burns. Words to the wise—and others. **$1.50. Holt.
7–36126.
A dozen delightful essays upon social and literary subjects such as: The root and foliage of style, Our kin and others, A plea for the naturalization of ghosts, Ruskin, Modern letter-writing, and Our comédie humaine. In each we find a discriminating taste for the best works of God and man.
| + | Outlook. 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w. |
Sherring, Charles A. Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6. Longmans.
7–19489.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It comes too late, and it is far too bulky.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w. |
“The best parts of Mr. Sherring’s volume are the chapters devoted to the legends and myths of the natives especially the Bhotia tribes of the frontier, and to the quaint customs and manners of the British borderland.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 580w. |
“The present volume is one of the most valuable works that we have seen upon the subject.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 410w. |
“Mr. Sherring is much to be congratulated upon the way in which he has acquitted himself of his task.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1030w. |
“Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist, botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”
| − + | Sat. R. 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w. |
Sherrington, Charles Scott. Integrative action of the nervous system. **$3.50. Scribner.
6–38912.
“The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness.... The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc., illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.
| J. Philos. 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w. |
“We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”
| + + − | Nature. 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w. |
* Sherwood, Margaret Pollock. [Princess Pourquoi.] †$1.50. Houghton.
7–31285.
The five tales in this volume are wonderstory fables. “The ‘Princess Pourquoi’ represents, let us say, the modern spirit of feminine inquiry in its dignified aspect; ‘The princess and the microbe’ and ‘The seven studious sisters’ represents the same spirit in an amusing light; and ‘The clever necromancer,’ its pathetic side. ‘The gentle robber’ is a more pungent satire upon the theoretical and the actual attitude of the world toward greed and dishonesty on a large scale.” (Nation.)
| Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w. |
“They are very gracefully written, and the effect of each is something like that of an old piece of richly colored embroidery.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 649. O. 19, ’07. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Shoemaker, Blanche. Woven of dreams. **$1.25. Lane.
7–10279.
Under the four headings, Sonnets, Youth’s journey, Gathered petals, and Woven of dreams, are gathered more than a hundred exquisite verses, full of the joy of life and the depths of its emotions.
“The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian Gauss.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w. |
Shoemaker, Michael Myers. [Winged wheels in France.] **$2.50. Putnam.
6–42912.
The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 129. My. ’07. |
“He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w. | |
| Nation. 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w. |
“The descriptions are graphic, and there is a wise avoidance of the geographical details.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 899. D. 22, ’06. 360w. |
“Mr. Shoemaker writes with sympathy, although his pages might well have been more picturesque and luminous considering his subject matter.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 230w. |
“A good bit of descriptive travel writing.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
“It is a succession of rapid impressions, which seems to require eyes and a brain especially made for the purpose, if any fixed recollection is to be carried away. Yet these impressions are clear, in spite of their quickness and slightness.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 360w. |
Shorter, Dora Sigerson. Through wintry terrors. $1.50. Cassell.
“A struggling clerk and his silly young wife, a vicious little poet, an old maid, and a few of the submerged—these are the characters in ‘Through wintry terrors.’” (Lond. Times.) The tragedy of a hasty marriage is enacted in which misunderstandings lead to separation, and this, for the wife, to the sober trouble of London’s darker side. “The simple story moves straight to its end through troubles very real and affecting, shaped by the hand of an artist and touched with the spirit of a poet.” (Lond. Times.)
“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst, that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”
| − | Acad. 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w. |
“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w. |
“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has the qualities of a work of art.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
Shurter, Edwin DuBois, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.
7–3094.
A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a view of offering them to students as models for study.
“Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”
| + − | Educ. R. 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w. |
“Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task well.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | School R. 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w. |
Sichel, Walter Sydney. Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new letters. *$5. Dodd.
6–1105.
The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.
“Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman; it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his capacity for taking pains is great.”
| + | Acad. 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w. | |
| + − | Ath. 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w. |
“There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson.” W.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w. |
“His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and not very often quite convincing.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w. |
“His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period, not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that robs the book of value.”
| + | Nation. 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w. |
“He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”
| + − | Sat. R. 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w. |
“This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”
| + − | Spec. 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w. |
Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur Sidgwick). Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
6–18307.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.” F. Melian Stawell.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w. |
“It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w. |
Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann. Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–4161.
Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak, pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.
“An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠ |
“The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but is wholesome and mildly amusing.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w. |
“A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w. |
“An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w. |
“Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be an excellent thing of its kind.”
| + | Nation. 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w. |
“An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being read and of no consequence afterward.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w. |
“Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce, yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and chivalrous sentiment.”
| + | Spec. 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w. |
Siegfried, Andre. Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.
7–22822.
Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1, considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y. Times.)
“His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject full of interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w. |
“This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w. |
“This is an interesting book.”
| + | Spec. 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w. |
Sigerson, George. Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.
A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than, that of the Greeks.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w. |
“A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w. |
Silberrad, Una L. [Good comrade.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–30840.
An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for “shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb, sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.
“She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both vivid and true.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w. |
“The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and has produced an exceptionally good novel.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w. |
“In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of the hero the book is not a silly one.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w. |
“The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor gentle and pleasing.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w. |
“Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”
| + | Spec. 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w. |
Sill, Edward Rowland. Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
6–35717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 15. Ja. 07. |
Simpson, M. W. Hilton-. Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.
The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate. He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a useful and practical sort.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w. |
“What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very agreeably set forth.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”
| + | Spec. 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w. |
Sinclair, May. [Audrey Craven.] †$1.50. Holt.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w. |
Sinclair, May. [Helpmate.] †$1.50. Holt.
7–25509.
While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one, and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.
“It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w. |
“Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse for the small library putting money into it, first because it has appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore, accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the small library.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 181. O. ’07. |
“Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w. |
“This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w. |
“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w. |
“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w. |
“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the year comes from May Sinclair.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w. |
“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and admirably distinguished in expression.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w. |
“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British convention.” Eleanor Cecil.
| − + | Living Age. 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w. |
“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w. |
“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of understanding.” H. I. Brock.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w. |
“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a great story.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w. |
“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a powerful study of temperament.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w. |
Sinclair, May. [Tysons.] $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the relations of an ill-assorted pair.
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Industrial republic: a study of the America ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–18298.
It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the presidential election of that year, that after that will be established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.
“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which deal with the present and not the future.”
| − + | Acad. 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w. |
“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer. His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of his own judgment.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w. | |
| − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w. |
“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the worst together, and makes the most of it.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w. |
“His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the social and political conditions of the moment.”
| − − | Spec. 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w. |
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. [Jungle.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–6264.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 27. Ja. ’07. |
“If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w. |
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
| + − | Charities. 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w. |
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Overman. 50c. Doubleday.
7–30837.
A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual world.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr. Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural. And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and convincing.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Singleton, Esther. [Dutch and Flemish furniture.] **$7.50. McClure.
A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)
“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and its material adjuncts in the low countries.”
| + | Acad. 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w. |
“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w. |
“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it. Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared for.”
| + | Spec. 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w. |
Singleton, Esther. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–38380.
“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is persistent enough in search.”—Ind.
“Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 49. F. ’07. S. |
“Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”
| + | Dial. 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w. |
* Singleton, Esther, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
7–35639.
“The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.” (Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, and others.
| + | Dial. 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w. |
“On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a place in a collection of this character.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w. |
Singleton, Esther. Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–40554.
“The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week, the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr. Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.
“The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to the librarian in reference work.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S. |
“The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive information, well distributed between topography, history, architecture, and manners and customs.”
| + | Dial. 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w. |
“Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too, is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or publisher.”
| − − | Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w. |
“Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to authors.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w. |
* Singleton, Esther. White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.
Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.
| Dial. 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w. | ||
| + | Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w. |
Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de. History of the Italian republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by William Boulting. $2. Dutton.
Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.
“The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things Italian can do without it.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w. |
“The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w. |
Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto. Pagan races of the Malay peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.
7–11553.
The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr. Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)
“The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved by our authors.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w. |
“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs with which they are illustrated.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w. |
“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w. |
“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more graphic by reproductions of photographs.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w. |
“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature of much that has been written as well as by the length of the bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.
| + + | Nature. 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w. |
“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w. |
“It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”
| + + | Spec. 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w. |
Skinner, Robert P. Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of Kings. *$3. Longmans.
7–7544.
The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces, elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization and equipment of a caravan.”
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 129. My. ’07. |
“He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’ which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that needs one.”
| + − | Ath. 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w. |
“Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his lively, entertaining account of his travels.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w. |
“The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w. |
“Excellent book.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w. |
“This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and contains some profitable suggestions.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w. |
Sladen, Douglas. Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5. Lippincott.
7–37968.
The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is “guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w. |
Sladen, Douglas. Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–145.
“It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle, sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments, curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the country.”—Ind.
“So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”
| + + | Cath. World. 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w. |
“The book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good advice.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w. |
“Very practical book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w. |
Slater, John Rothwell. Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–29757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis. Master of the world: a study of Christ. **$1.50. Longmans.
6–45051.
“The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have grown up around his person.”—Nation.
“Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”
| − | Ind. 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w. |
“The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical judgment.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w. |
“Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w. |
Slicer, Thomas R. Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6629.
The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book. The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship: happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home; The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.
“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”
| + − | Cath. World. 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w. |
“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than to the flesh.”
| + | Dial. 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w. |
“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the wall.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w. |
Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee. Text-book on the strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
6–35989.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.
| − + | Engin. N. 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w. |
“It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in engineering design.”
| + | Nature. 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w. |
Slosson, Margaret. How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
6–23320.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Nature. 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w. |
Small, Albion W. Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–32182.
A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
“Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w. |
“In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious and severe criticism.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w. |
Small, Albion Woodbury. General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–32452.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
| − | Arena. 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w. |
“In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with imperfect appreciation of real issues.”
| − | Spec. 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w. |
Smalley, Harrison Standish. Railroad rate control in its legal aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.
6–26074.
“This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.
“He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.” William Hill.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w. | |
| R. of Rs. 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w. |
Smedley, Anne Constance. Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–9556.
“The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book, apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.
| + | Acad. 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w. |
“One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w. |
“Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she does not obtrude it.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w. |
“The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had something genuine to say.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w. |
“Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.
| − + | Putnam’s. 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w. |
“The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by the first few chapters.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w. |
Smith, A. Croxton. British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.
“A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments. Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w. |
“The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms criticism.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w. |
“The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very readable, but not very thorough or practical.”
| + − | Spec. 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w. |
Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-. Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.
7–16502.
A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”
Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo. Machine design. $3. Wiley.
5–39881.
“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up.... Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine frames are discussed.”—Nature.
“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.
| + | Nature. 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w. |
Smith, Alexander. [Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country], with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.
A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in 1863.
“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as worth buying and reading.”
| + | Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w. | |
| Spec. 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w. |
Smith, Alexander. Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25. Century.
6–7325.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”
| + − − | Ath. 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w. |
“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill, and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.
| + + − | Nature. 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w. |
Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott. [Montlivet.] †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33573.
“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.
“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting, it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”
| + | Acad. 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 217. N. ’06. |
“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“The book has unusual merit.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w. |
“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s rest from the dread of horrors to come.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w. |
Smith, Arthur Henderson. China and America to-day: a study of conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.
7–26625.
In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)
“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly changing conditions and relations.”
| + | Ind. 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w. |
“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w. |
Smith, Arthur Henderson. Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s missionary movement.
7–38590.
A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the world.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w. |
“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to be found in the same compass.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. |
Smith, Bertram. Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.
“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.
“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written is pleasantly humorous.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
* Smith, Bertram T. K. How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.
A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other matters included in the field of philately.
| + | Ind. 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w. |
“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”
| + | Nation. 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w. |
“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”
| + | Spec. 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. |
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina. Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29156.
The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade). Hill top girl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)
“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w. |
“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in the ‘Hill-top girl.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w. | |
| − | Sat. R. 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w. |
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina. Little school mothers: a story for girls. 75c. McKay.
7–21231.
A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the school-mother of a motherless child.
* Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade). Three girls from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end of complication and humiliation.
Smith, Elmer Boyd. [Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith]; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–42437.
Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)
“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the new volume.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w. |
“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury than a necessity.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w. |
“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text is apparently historically correct.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w. |
Smith, Francis Asbury. [Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the defendant.] Knickerbocker press.
7–8252.
A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.
“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w. |
“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the conditions under which they are probably produced.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w. |
“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading, but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w. |
Smith, Francis Henry. Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.
6–32410.
“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt university maintain.”—Outlook.
“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.
| − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 356. Ap. ’07. 570w. |
“The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close debate.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 581. N. 9, ’06. 160w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E. Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.
7–17373.
“A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity, written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.” (N. T. Times.)
| Lit. D. 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 70w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 200w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–31210.
“In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome, noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past, though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.
“A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠ | |
| Dial. 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w. | ||
| Nation. 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 310w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr. Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds its magic to the end.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 410w. |
“‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and true.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 220w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 20w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Veiled lady, and other men and women, il. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12697.
Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 137. My. ’07. 70w. ✠ |
“There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in ‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1102. Jl. 11. ’07. 180w. |
“For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 130w. |
“It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”
| + | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 300w. |
“The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in them.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 620w. |
“A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 170w. |
“The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but every one will repay the time spent in reading.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 40w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
5–34173.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they seem to be—charming.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 504. Ag. 11. ’06. 240w. |
Smith, Frank Berkeley. In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
6–35588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + | Atlan. 99: 419. Mr. ’07. 510w. |
Smith, George Armitage. Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25. Dutton.
7–6425.
An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on which it is based.
“Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be commended for educational purposes.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 607. My. 19. 510w. |
Smith, Gertrude. Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.
7–36981.
Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their plays and their pleasant surprises.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Smith, Goldwin. Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend. **50c. Macmillan.
7–7165.
A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression. “Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no leaping into the millenium.”
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 647. My. ’07. 60w. |
“The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 80w. |
“A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w. |
“Written in a characteristically clear style.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w. | |
| Spec. 98: 985. Je. 22, ’07. 820w. |
Smith, Rev. Haskett. Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.
7–10989.
“The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.
“Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 061. D. 29, ’06. 120w. |
“The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that subject.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 575. Mr. 9. ’07. 130w. |
“Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 147. F. 2, ’07. 1120w. |
Smith, James Allen. [Spirit of American government]: a study of the constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–16497.
In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way of majority rule.
“Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 620. N. ’07. 620w. |
“It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 560w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w. |
“The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty of the individual as also of the masses.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 1540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 758. Je. ’07. 120w. |
Smith, Captain John. [Generall historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer isles.] 2v. *$6. Macmillan.
7–18581.
An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in convenient form for the first time since their original publication in 1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)
| + | Acad. 72: 310. Mr. 30, ’07. 1070w. | |
| Dial. 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence. J. Burpee.
| + + | Dial. 42: 163. S. ’07. 2290w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | Nature. 76: 26. My. 9, ’07. 1060w. |
“These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w. |
“Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For this there can be no excuse.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w. |
“It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”
| + | Spec. 98: 460. Mr. 23, ’07. 1860w. |
Smith, Justin Harvey. Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.
7–26025.
The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part of his book.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 970w. |
“What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7. ’07. 390w. |
“Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while, on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves the heartiest of welcomes.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 400w. |
“A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be interesting.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 510. O. ’07. 120w. |
“Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable industry.”
| + | Spec. 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 150w. |
Smith, Margaret Bayard. First forty years of Washington society: a portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith; ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–40262.
Letters which until recently have been kept well guarded make available an authentic record of Washington society during its first forty years. Manners and customs, no less than notable political characters, appear in a new and intimate light.
“The editor has furnished a satisfactory index and the notes necessary to explain the text.” Montgomery Blair.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 669. Ap. ’07. 760w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 73. Mr. ’07. |
“The editor’s notes are always to the point.” S. M. Francis.
| + | Atlan. 100: 494 O. ’07. 480w. |
“Upon the deeper character and influence of the many notable men about her, Mrs. Smith’s comments are of no great value. But a clever woman is often able to see and portray the peculiar characteristics of an individual or an event in a way that is illuminating and valuable. It is this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayard Smith that makes their publication well worth while.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 139. Mr. 1, ’07. 1620w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 280w. |
“The book is too long ... but when we lay it down we feel as if we had been at a pleasant gathering, where no evil was spoken, and every one had a moderate old-fashioned enjoyment of life.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 83. Mr. 15, ’07. 1220w. |
“Possessing no special charm in themselves, they will be often resorted to for color by other writers. The editorial work is competently done by Gaillard Hunt. His candor in preserving the simplified spelling of the writer, and certain even more simplified grammatical constructions, contributes to the impressions of essential veracity.”
| + | Nation. 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 600w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 270w. |
“This collection of letters ... is a distinct and valuable contribution to the completeness of the historical pictures of life in the highest political circles in the first half century of the American republic.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 870. D. 15. ’06. 1740w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 340w. |
Reviewed by John Spencer Bassett.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 255. My. ’07. 100w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 140w. |
Smith, Marion Couthouy. Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger. R. G.
6–25984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and unusual feeling for rhythm.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w. |
Smith, Mary P. Wells. Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.
7–31225.
Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships, their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal to young readers.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending chapter.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w. |
Smith, Richard. Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
6–32121.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness. Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too, calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray, was it not strictly alphabetical?”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w. |
Smith, Rodney. Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1. Revell.
“This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.
“An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by unmistakable sincerity.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w. |
Smith, Ruel Perley. Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.
7–5061.
A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757, after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety animate the pages.
“A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old age,” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w. |
“If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy him.”
| − | Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w. | |
| Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w. |
“In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w. |
“All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w. |
Smith, Ruel Perley. [Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill.] $1.50. Page.
7–30991.
This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill, in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w. |
Smith, Rev. Samuel George. Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours, increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control, state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty, freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w. |
Smyser, William Emory. Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.
7–6733.
This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.
“The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”
| + | Ind. 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w. |
“Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w. |
Smyth, Eleanor C. [Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform]: told by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.
The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous detail concerning the originator’s home life.
“This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w. |
“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake to apply to the past the standards of the present.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w. |
Smythe, William Ellsworth. Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
5–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the conquest of arid America.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w. |
Snaith, John Collis. Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–14547.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the ultra-cynical scene at the end.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w. |
“Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of mediocrity.” Mary Moss.
| + + − | Atlan. 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w. |
“Is a book to be reckoned with.”
| + | Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w. |
“Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”
| + − | Ind. 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w. |
“The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr. Snaith.”
| + + − | Putnam’s. 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w. |
Snaith, John Collis. Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd. by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
6–37964.
A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.” (Nation.)
“The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the mind of the man involved.”
| + | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w. |
“A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”
| + | Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w. |
“The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due admixture of fire.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w. |
Snider, Denton Jaques. American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.
6–34283.
The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.” (Outlook.)
“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”
| − + | Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w. |
“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read these illuminative and instructive chapters.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w. |
“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is negligible.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w. |
“It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w. |
Snider, Guy Edward. Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.
6–46362.
A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w. |
“This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w. | |
| Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w. |
Snyder, Carl. World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism. *$2.50. Longmans.
W 7–93.
When complete there will be three volumes under the general title, “The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection, into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 129. My. ’07. | ||
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w. |
“It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the general reader more information on the history of science than he can find anywhere else in a readable form.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w. |
“He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash prophecy.”
| − | Nation. 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w. |
“The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.
| − | Nature. 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w. |
“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of assured facts.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w. |
“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w. |
“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout, and, at times, picturesque.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w. |
“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing character.”
| − | Sat. R. 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w. |
Sociological society, London. Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their meaning very obscure.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Soden, Hermann, baron von. History of early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
6–11299.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w. |
“A good English translation.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w. |
Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of. Correspondence of two brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.
“This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.
“Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a competent and conscientious piece of work.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w. |
“The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for the characters revealed by it.”
| + | Ind. 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w. |
“To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in a very high degree.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w. |
“If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w. |
“These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students of the Waterloo period.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w. |
“The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the modern Athens.”
| + | Spec. 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w. |
Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin). [Some Irish yesterdays]: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ. Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–35223.
“A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.
“These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish R. M.’ have ever done.”
| + | Acad. 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w. |
“Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 130. My. ’07. |
“The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w. |
“One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle expression in the brogue.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w. |
“The book is seldom interesting, often dull, and sometimes almost unintelligible.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 617. N. 17. ’06. 220w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 624. O. 27, ’06. 1420w. |
Soothill, W. E. Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.
“A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author tells of the difficulties of establishing a mission, of its daily work, of the travels of the missionary about the country and the multitude of varied things his hands find to do, of the Chinese converts to Christianity and the aid they give, of the work that is done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese education.”—N. Y. Times.
“His book is vigorously informative, shot thru and thru with human interest, and made attractive with wit and humor.”
| + | Ind. 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w. |
“It is an entertaining volume, brimful of information about the life and work of the missionary, and vivid with pictures of the daily life of the Chinese.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w. |
“With many interesting descriptions and touches of humor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
Sorrel, Moxley. Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2. Neale.
Not so much of a narrative as a series of pictures of “camp and field and of the more striking personalities of the Southern armies.” (Ind.) The reminiscences begin with the battle of Manassas, and continue thru Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.
| Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w. |
[Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas.] (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29580.
A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times, The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.
Souttar, Robinson. Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.
7–25500.
“Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress of the Roman empire from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that, notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of little use even to the historian.’”
| + − | Acad. 72: 312. Mr. 30, ’07. 2140w. |
“The reader appears to be in safe hands, however, for the current modern opinion is not departed from, unless the author takes occasion to differ with some one as to the causes of the decline and fall of the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 175. O. ’07. 470w. |
“He has used in his book what may be regarded as respectable authorities but he shows no knowledge of the special literature concerning the topics which he treats. The author is seen at his best in his chapters on the early emperors, whom he treats with both fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w. |
“Granting Mr. Souttar’s method, he has chosen his material with skill and knowledge and described it with as much vividness as his method will allow.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 230w. |
“The whole thing is certainly not the work of a thorough scholar, or of a literary man with any cultivated skill in his craft.”
| − + | Sat. R. 104: 114. Jl. 27, ’07. 1370w. |
“The truth of the matter is that Dr. Souttar is not sufficiently armed with authorities to reverse the judgment of history. Dr. Souttar’s inability to deal with the more obscure problems of history is shown by his treatment of the subject of Roman persecution of the Christians.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 399. S. 21, ’07. 1340w. |
Spargo, John. [Bitter cry of the children.] **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–5679.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work is a masterly volume marked by a firm and comprehensive grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the hour.”
| + + + | Arena. 37: 205. F. ’07. 5540w. |
Reviewed by Mary Willcox Glenn.
| Charities. 17: 497. D. 15, ’06. 1610w. |
Spargo, John. Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.) 50c. Kerr.
7–23082.
The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor Goldwin Smith’s attacks on socialism in his book “Capital and labor;” the second, a lecture on “Modern socialism,” delivered to the students of the school of philanthropy, New York City.
Reviewed by Albion W. Small.
| Am. J. Soc. 13: 272. S. ’07. 110w. |
“The paper will be especially valuable to the average reader whose acquaintance with socialism consists chiefly of a bundle of misapprehensions.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 150w. |
Spargo, John. [Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles.] **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–22326.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w. |
“Mr. Spargo’s views, which if not authoritative are representative, have the merit of being those of a socialist who is an educated man commanding a clear and temperate style, accustomed to dealing with actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene Balch.
| + | Charities. 17: 464. D. 15, ’06. 2030w. |
“In spite of the brevity of his work—the result of conciseness rather than of superficiality—Mr. Spargo gives a satisfactory general view of his subject, and his book is to be recommended especially as a foundation for a more detailed knowledge to be afterwards acquired.” Eunice Follansbee.
| + | Dial. 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 300w. |
“As an elementary presentation Mr. Spargo’s work is distinctly meritorious, in spite of undoubted faults of style, exposition, and reasoning. Economically it need mislead no one. Sociologically it will prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing, though it adds nothing to the specialist’s knowledge of socialist history or theory.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 122. F. ’07. 540w. |
“It is to be regretted that in preparing such an able hand-book for the propagation of socialistic ideas, the author did not give more serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought and thus bring the ‘economics of socialism’ into closer harmony with the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 166. Mr. ’07. 960w. |
Sparhawk, Frances Campbell. Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples ser.) †75c. Crowell.
7–26624.
Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the little boy in the lonely woods into Lincoln the patriot, the lover and friend of his whole country. The sketch has been prepared especially for boys and furnishes the keynote to a successful life in any place or station.
“Adapted to the understanding of the young. At the same time, it is not written in a tone of condescension, an attitude which boys are sure to resent. Adults might well read it and be instructed.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 70w. |
Sparling, Samuel Edwin. Introduction to business organization. (Citizen’s lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) $1.25. Macmillan.
6–43943.
“This book is another indication of the growing interest in the systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work definitions and analysis of business organization are given with considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization. After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization, Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and collections.”
“The only book on the subject.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. Ap. ’07. |
“So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.” Charles Lee Raper.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w. |
“The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own business.” Wm. Hill.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w. |
Spears, John Randolph. Short history of the American navy. **50c. Scribner.
7–12867.
Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of America’s history.
“This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 172. O. ’07. S. |
“Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim consideration as a serious historical study.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w. |
“This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so labeled.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w. |
Speed, Capt. Thomas. Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–14671.
A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active participant.
“The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the best available source of information about the Union cause in Kentucky.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w. |
“The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and events, sometimes only locally interesting.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w. |
“It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w. |
Speer, Robert E. Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–16361.
The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects, Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.
Speicher, Jacob. Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.
7–20641.
A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in southern China.
“Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training the missionary needs.”
| + | Ind. 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
* Spinners’ club. Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.
7–32566.
A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb. Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the earth-quake is the first beneficiary.
| + | Dial. 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w. |
“A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w. |
Spinney, William Anthony. Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–2729.
An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.
“There is much ... nonsense in the book.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w. |
Spitta, Edmund J. Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the microscope. *$6. Dutton.
This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates the most recent types.”—Ind.
“We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w. |
“Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume extremely helpful.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w. |
“In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w. |
“The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w. |
Squires, Grace. Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50. Dutton.
6–39753.
The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.
“It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would suggest.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do any girl good to read it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w. |
Stael-Holstein, Mme. de. Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr. from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–29169.
“These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.
“These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest, but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too obviously a translation.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w. |
“The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this publication of new letters.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w. |
Staley, Edgcumbe. Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.
6–37191.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07. |
“It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.
| + − | Dial. 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w. |
“Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”
| + + + | Ind. 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w. |
Staley, Edgcumbe. Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.) *$1.25. Scribner.
“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173 pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity, daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.
“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real quality of the work praised.”
| − | Nation. 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w. |
“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his pictures inserted as marginal notes.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w. |
“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”
| − | Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w. |
Stamey, De Kellar. Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
6–16206.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w. |
Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton. [Story of Bacon’s rebellion.] $1. Neale.
7–20751.
Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been carefully sought out.
“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w. | |
| Ath. 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w. |
“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified with study of the original records and documents, has written a thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w. |
“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case, there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w. |
Standage, H. C. Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.
Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron. Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–28487.
Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and policies.” (Outlook.)
“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and opinions.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w. |
“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no books which are more valuable from this point of view than the biography of Sidney Herbert.”
| + | Ind. 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w. |
“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w. |
“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the space.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w. |
“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work formidable and rather dreary reading.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w. |
“Very interesting memoir.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w. | |
| Spec. 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w. |
Stanton, Coralie. Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.
7–11588.
The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the adventuress.
Starbuck, Robert Macy. Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly by the author for this work. $4. Henley.
7–2755.
A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.
“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably fulfilled.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w. |
“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”
| + + | Technical Literature. 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w. |
Starke, Dr. J. Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the German. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–12259.
A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms, especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that “There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes, exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.
“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in order to influence public opinion more effectively.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w. |
“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in circulation.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w. |
“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are somewhat obscure.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w. |
“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.
| + − | Science, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w. |
Starr, Frederick. [Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles.] $1. Forbes.
7–20882.
An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well illustrated by photographs of the natives.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 172. O. ’07. S. | ||
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w. | |
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w. | |
| Nation. 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w. |
“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on his Congo trip.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w. |
“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy over alleged atrocities there.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w. |
Stauffer, David McNeely. Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
6–7716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.” F. Lavis.
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w. |
* Stead, Richard. Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St. Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w. |
“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to run through the 328 pages.”
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w. |
“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |
Stead, Richard. Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45336.
An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to Klondyke.” (Nation.)
| Ath. 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w. |
“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure and wilder beasts.”
| + | Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w. |
“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w. |
“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think, the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine stories of adventure and exploration.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w. |
* Stead, William Thomas. Peers or people? the House of lords weighed in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.
A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has done, and What must be done with the House of lords.
“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of the problem.”
| + | Nation. 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w. |
Stearns, Frank Preston. [Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne.] **$2. Lippincott.
6–37623.
A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it “contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)
“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w. |
“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the distinctive feature of his work.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w. |
“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his surroundings.”
| + | Ind. 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w. |
“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne should not be.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w. |
* Stearns, Frank Preston. Life and public services of George Luther Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.
7–38430.
A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting sidelights on the civil war and its issues.
Steel, Flora Annie. [Sovereign remedy.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–26482.
“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her, and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but, being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on his lips.”—Spec.
| + − | Acad. 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w. |
“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w. |
“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that, out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w. |
“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian life.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and noble outlook upon life.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w. |
“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w. |
“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”
| − | Nation. 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w. |
“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w. |
“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.
| + | No. Am. 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w. |
“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps. Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w. |
“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”
| − + | Spec. 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w. |
Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.). Naomi’s transgression. †$1.50. Warne.
A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its untangling is deftly accomplished.
Stein, Evaleen. [Gabriel and the hour book.] $1. Page.
6–25686.
“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠ | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w. |
Steiner, Bernard Christian. Maryland during the English civil wars. pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–11189.
pt. 2. Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of 1649.
Steiner, Edward A. [On the trail of the immigrant.] **$1.50. Revell.
6–39003.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon personal experience and investigation.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. |
“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w. |
Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.
| Charities. 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w. |
“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific interest.”
| + + | Yale R. 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w. |
* Stejneger, Leonhard Hess. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. $1. Supt. of doc.
7–35282.
With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to geographical distribution.
“A valuable systematic monograph.”
| + | Nature. 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w. |
“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits, produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w. |
Stelzle, Rev. Charles. Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.
6–20202.
A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment. The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.
“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w. |
“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity, and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”
| + + | Outlook. 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w. |
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
v. 6. English literature and society in the eighteenth century.
The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903, which deal more with the literature of the period than with society. “Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y. Times).
“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the work of his prime.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w. |
“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining style than that in which the average professor delivers the average lecture.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w. |
* Stephen, Sir Leslie. Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.
W 7–196.
Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”
| Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w. |
“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w. |
Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert. Clementina’s highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.
7–27613.
The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century beau.
“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of George II.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w. |
Sterling, Sara Hawks. Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25. Lippincott.
7–31224.
The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.
* Sterns, Justin. Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.
The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing, climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the poem.” (Nation.)
“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”
| + | Arena. 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w. |
“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an admirable promise.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w. |
Stevens, George Barker. Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.
5–32666.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and belief.” W. H. Drummond.
| + − | Hibbert J. 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w. |
Stevens, Horace J. Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.
“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history, biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.
“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w. |
“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful in making the contents accessible.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w. |
Stevenson, Burton Egbert. [Affairs of state.] †$1.50. Holt.
6–34368.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the attention.”
| + | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w. |
“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr. Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of continental politics convincing.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w. |
Stevenson, Burton Egbert. [That affair at Elizabeth.] †$1.50. Holt.
7–34779.
A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and mystery to the last page.
Stevenson, Richard Taylor. John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14592.
A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. [Sea fogs]: with an introduction by Thomas R. Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.
7–33227.
The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful picture all done in silver-gray.
Stewart, Charles D. Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.
7–12003.
In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone, happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance, sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever cheerful philosophers.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠ |
“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as long as his river, and as crooked.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w. |
“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough, the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w. |
“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive one.”
| + | Ind. 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w. |
“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w. |
“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in critical prose.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w. |
Stickney, Albert. Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.
6–37188.
“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.
“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w. |
“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of their value or lack of it.”
| − | Ind. 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w. | |
| Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w. |
“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make his book not uninteresting.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w. |
Still, Alfred. Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.
W 7–56.
“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the rotary converter.”—Engin. N.
“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.
| − + | Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w. |
“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a field.”
| + | Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w. |
Stockton, Francis Richard. Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales. $2.50. Scribner.
6–39760.
The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine, Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The accomodating circumstance.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07. |
“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it is almost in a class by itself.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w. | |
| Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w. |
Stockwell, Chester Twitchell. Evolution of immortality: suggestions on an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.
6–37617.
That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions either suggested or demonstrated.
“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.
| + | Arena. 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w. |
“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.
| + | Philos. R. 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w. |
Stoddart, Anna M. Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.
7–25137.
A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and philanthropist.
“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its usual fine steadiness.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w. |
“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird, and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is that she has written an excellent book.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w. |
“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of her travels.”
| + | Ind. 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w. |
“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w. |
“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w. |
“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer; suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w. |
“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of her accomplishments.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w. |
“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of ignorance.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w. |
“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration which it deserves.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w. |
Stoddart, Jane T. Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
7–26628.
After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents, descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.
“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”
| + | Acad. 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w. |
“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is espoused.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w. |
“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view, however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its subject.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w. |
“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very unsatisfactory.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w. |
“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil, irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w. |
Stoker, Bram (Abraham). Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving. **$7.50. Macmillan.
6–36011.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
Stone, Christopher. Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.
7–12668.
“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’ ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days, ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’ and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty, the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.” (Lond. Times.)
“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships. We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive form of the volume.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 130. My. ’07. S. |
“All that is given here deserves preservation.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w. | |
| Lond. Times. 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w. |
“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as entertaining.”
| + | Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) | ||
| Sat. R. 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w. | ||
| Spec. 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w. |
Stone, Melville E., jr., comp. Book of American prose humor. lea. $1.25. Duffield.
7–25552.
A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes written by the best known American writers.
Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29585.
Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.
“A most attractive series of tales.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w. |
Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *$65c. Century.
7–29582.
Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of war, and their vast commercial importance.
Storm, Theodor W. [Immensee]; translated from the German by George P. Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–33212.
Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of “Immensee.”
“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm and his work.”
| + | Dial. 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w. |
Strachan, James. Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part 2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c. Scribner.
“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib. World.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.) | |
| Bib. World. 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.) |
“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.
| + − | Bib. World. 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.) |
Strang, Herbert. Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–41714.
A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and cruelty.
“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of the triteness of its characterisation.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w. |
“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all Mr. Strang’s books.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w. |
Strang, Herbert. [In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–32681.
Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)
“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to historical setting.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 143. My. ’07. |
“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”
| + | Arena. 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w. |
“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w. |
“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any normal, healthy boy.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w. |
“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and romantic in acceptable proportion.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w. |
“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much when we remember how good his previous work has been.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w. |
“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w. |
* Strang, Herbert. On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–29572.
Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”
* Strang, Herbert. Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31414.
A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec. It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of the story.
| Ath. 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w. |
Strang, William. Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.
It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style, without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w. |
“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of this kind.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w. | |
| Nation. 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w. |
“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w. |
Strange, Edward Fairbrother. Hokusai; the old man mad with painting. (Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.), *$1. Scribner.
6–46317.
Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and ten times more pretentious.”
“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an entertaining and stimulating fashion.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w. |
“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”
| + − | Nation. 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w. |
“Excellent monograph.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w. |
[Strange stories of colonial days.] †60c. Harper.
7–17360.
Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan Stevens and others.
“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w. |
Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.
7–18099.
Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of the Constitution.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 210. N. ’07. |
Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.
7–18097.
The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman, a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe and others.
Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.
7–15588.
This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown. They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis, and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival Redsdale and others.
Strasburger, Eduard. Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
7–4810.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w. |
Streatfeild, Richard Alexander. Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.
6–45303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 131. My. ’07. |
“All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w. | |
| Spec. 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w. |
Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney. Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ: a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
“The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.
“Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further, the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w. |
“The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”
| − + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w. |
* Streckfuss, Adolf. [Lonely house]; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the straightening of the tangle.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
* Street, George Slythe. Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.
With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton, Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.
“On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about the Town.”
| + | Acad. 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w. |
“Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a medium of imaginative talk.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w. |
“Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”
| + | Dial. 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but in installments.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w. |
“Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w. |
“A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for every reader.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w. |
Stringer, Arthur. [Phantom wires.] †$1.50. Little.
7–12004.
A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to turn against them and once more Durkin turns his electrical engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite as novel as they are thrilling.
“We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”
| − | Arena. 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w. |
“The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than ordinary ability.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w. |
“It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with restraint.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w. |
“There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of this intricate and highly sensational novel.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w. |
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. [Wire tappers.] †$1.50. Little.
6–16649.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| − + | Forum. 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w. |
* Stringer, Arthur John A. Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25. Little.
7–37033.
In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the “huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in Leucadia.”
“Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers). Roman sculpture: from Augustus to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.
7–35388.
Based upon a series of lectures delivered at intervals during the past seven years Mrs. Strong’s work is “an exposition of the distinctive character and the evolutionary process of Roman art from the inception of the empire to the official triumph of Christianity.” (Lond. Times.)
“We have criticised this book somewhat closely because it has interested us deeply. Mrs. Strong is a vigorous critic and will not shun criticism. The book is more than a valuable addition to the literature of Roman art. It is practically the first book in this language to give a wide conspectus of the scope and aims of Roman sculpture.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 530. Je. 1, ’07. 2620w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 198. N. ’07. |
“Inasmuch as her ability and attainments are so well known that unfavorable criticism cannot be regarded as unfriendly, we must record the unhesitating opinion that she could have written a much better book.”
| + + − | Dial. 43: 168. S. 16, ’07. 470w. |
“It is no flattery to say that she is foremost among the excellent women now working in the classics. She is, however, hardly justified in saying that it is ‘evidently absurd to talk of a realistic as opposed to an idealistic art.’”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 390w. | |
| Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 40w. |
“Mrs. Strong has thrown down a gauntlet which will doubtless be taken up; but he will be a bold man who does it. Her knowledge is immense, her observation most accurate, her criticism penetrative and fine. There is no one now writing on ancient art with greater insight than Mrs. Strong. The points to which we have demurred are not among the essentials of her book.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 171. My. 31, ’07. 1670w. |
“A volume like this should be welcomed. It should not be concealed that Mrs. Strong hurts her case very often by claiming too much for her works that are cold and clumsy, poorly disposed, and lacking in true distinction.” Charles de Kay.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 1570w. |
“Small blemishes should not prevent us from expressing our deep gratitude to Mrs. Strong for a book produced at the right time and in the right way.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 56. Jl. 13, ’07. 1740w. |
* Strong, Rev. Josiah. Challenge of the city. **$1. Baker.
“The president of the American institute of social service here adds to his widely read and stimulating books one for younger readers.” (Outlook.) He “treats the problem of those churches and parishes which are being crowded out of many city districts by the oncoming of business houses. Eighty-five churches below Fourteenth street have gone out of existence during the last twenty years. The author finds a remedy in the direction of federation. Four chapters of the book appeared previously in a periodical.” (N. Y. Times.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | ||
| Outlook. 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 160w. |
Strong, Very Rev. Thomas Banks, ed. Lectures on the methods of science. *$2.50. Oxford.
6–37941.
Nine lectures by as many eminent lecturers upon such subjects as Scientific method as a mental operation, Physiology, Inheritance in animals and plants, Psychophysical method, The evolution of double stars, Anthropology, Archaeological evidence, and Scientific method as applied to history.
| + | Acad. 71: 59. Jl. 21, ’06. 1840w. |
“The present volume, however, depends too much upon its title and its preface. Uninspired by their suggestions, the reader would not suspect that he was following a course on scientific method. He would rather suppose that he was receiving an amount of very interesting and very miscellaneous information.” Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
| − + | J. Philos. 3: 692. D. 6, ’06. 1820w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 238. Jl. 6, ’06. 2230w. |
“The first two lectures ... which treat explicitly of the subject designated in the title of the book, are in reality the least valuable chapters. The real contributions to the study of method are tacit and incidental features of the other papers, which make the least overt reference to the subject.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 400w. | |
| − | Nature. 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 200w. |
“In this handy form they should do much to teach the ordinary reader what science claims to be and how its operations are conducted.”
| + | Spec. 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w. |
Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Woman’s exchange of Simpkinsville. †$1.25. Harper.
Two spinster sisters, “upon whose frail maiden shoulders had devolved responsibilities hitherto unknown to the women of the name of Simpkins” lose the fortune of their Arkansas forebears and have to face the question of earning a livelihood. They hit upon the idea of a Woman’s exchange, establish it and manage it with credit to the name of Simpkins. Their rather tame existence is broken by bits of town gossip, echoes of sentiment of long ago, and chiefly by a proposition of ten thousand dollars for the collection of birds in the extending of which an only brother had lost his life.
“Mrs. Stuart’s touch is broader than Mrs. Deland’s, and she is more open to the charge of sentimentalism.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 110w. |
Studies in philosophy and psychology: by former students of Charles Edward Garman, in commemoration of twenty-five years of service as teacher of philosophy in Amherst college. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–22901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Dewey.
| + | Philos. R. 16: 312. My. ’07. 4220w. |
Reviewed by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
| Psychol. Bull. 4: 18. Ja. 15, ’07. 2840w. (Review of pt. 1.) |
Reviewed by Charles H. Judd.
| Psychol. Bull. 4: 24. Ja. 15, ’07. 1960w. (Review of pt. 2.) |
Sturdy, William A. (Isaac Didwin, pseud.). Degeneracy of the aristocracy. $1. Pub. by the author; For sale by the Rhode Island news co., Providence, R. I.
7–15554.
“The purpose of this book is to show, by the retrospect of history, that democracy is destined to assert itself in such a positive manner as to overthrow the commonly accepted theories of the past, that are so tenaciously held to, for the apparent purpose of trying to maintain a declining aristocracy.”
Sturgis, Russell. History of architecture. 3v. v. 1. per set. **$15. Baker.
6–45368.
“Mr. Sturgis’s book belongs to the monumental class. It belongs also to the encyclopedic class, except that the arrangement is chronological and by countries instead of by topics arranged in alphabetical order.” (Lit. D.) “An important feature of this work will be the careful study of the climatic influences on architecture and of the relation of the domestic to the monumental architecture in various countries—a field which has been somewhat neglected by architectural writers. The first volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt, Western Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.” (Dial.)
“Masterly work. Beautifully printed and illustrated, but the paper is so heavy and brittle as to be unsatisfactory for library use.”
| + + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 74. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Much of it is brilliantly written, and the whole is evidently the result of wide reading, travel, and study.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 187. Ag. 17. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“As a record of architectural events, this history, as evidenced by the volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. The task of collating and arranging the great mass of detail has been heavy, and the outcome is a work of great value and a matter of congratulation to both author and publisher.” Irving K. Pond.
| + + + | Dial. 42: 137. Mr. 1, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The nomenclature of places is occasionally open to criticism. A book full of information and suggestion, the fruits of a ripe scholarship, and far more readable than most works of this kind are apt to be.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 271. Ja. 31, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The work must at once be accepted as a standard treatise.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Despite these minor blemishes, the work is plainly the fruit of careful scholarship, accurate in all its specific information, and usually sound in all its analysis and criticism. It ought to be of real service in the stimulation of public interest and the training of public taste.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“One need have no hesitation in commending the work as by far the best on its subject and of its scope in the English language. It takes its place at once as an authority.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Half the volume’s value ... is represented by the illustrations.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Sturt, Henry Cecil. Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36468.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Sturt has produced a book of vigorous and suggestive criticism of current thought and especially of the logical and metaphysical doctrine of Mr. Bradley, who has to bear the brunt of the attack upon ‘Anglo-Hegelianism.’ One could wish, however, that the standpoint of personal idealism had been more fully indicated.” A. Mackie.
| + + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 403. Ap. ’07. 640w. |
Reviewed by John Watson.
| − | Philos. R. 16: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w. |
Sue, Eugene. [Wandering Jew.] 2v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
A reissue of, uniform with the limp leather “Thin papers sets.”
Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$7.75. Oxford.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Students of Professor Suess’s masterpieces hardly know whether to admire most his encyclopedic knowledge of the earth’s surface, his familiarity with the literature of his subject, his grasp of detail, his reach of speculation, or his fine poetical feeling and gifts of expression.”
| + + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 77. Ja. 19. 770w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Sumner, William Graham. [Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners; customs, mores, and morals.] *$3. Ginn.
7–21403.
An analytical definition of the folkways and a description of their functions in the formation and integration of society. Folkways are the ways of satisfying needs which become habitual and customary by the uncoördinated coöperation of individuals. The author shows how these uncoördinated acts grow into habits, thence into traditional customs related to social welfare, later have a philosophy and become rules of the life policy.
“Professor Sumner has written a very valuable and timely book, and one involving years of patient research as well as the possession of a ripe and fearless mind. The two most serious defects of ‘Folkways’ are a lack of psychological standpoint and a lack of systematic and complete presentation.” Wm. I. Thomas.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 116. O. ’07. 730w. |
“The data from anthropology and ethnology seem at times to overweigh the book by their sheer bulk and multiplicity, but for the most part they deepen the impression of the main thesis.” George E. Vincent.
| + + − | Am. J. Soc. 13: 414. N. ’07. 2000w. |
“A distinct gap is filled by this dissertation. From the student’s point of view it is not an easy text-book to read or digest. From the standpoint of those of larger growth it appears congested and scrappy, and suffers the penalty of brevity in drifting occasionally into overstatement and uncritical acceptance of evidence. Throughout the book the author hits hard and does not stay to bandy words with his adversary; but, although the reader may not always agree with him, he will find Professor Sumner suggestive and stimulating.” C. H. Hawes.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 666. N. 21, ’07. 640w. |
Sweeney, Mildred I. McNeal-. When yesterday was young; poems. $1.50. Cooke.
7–1960.
Poems descriptive of nature or of places, with a few of legendary, historical or personal character.
“Nearly every one of the poems in the book seems a ‘tour de force.’ A phrase, a line, or, at the most, a stanza speaks: the rest is deliberate verse-making—elaboration.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. |
“Mr. Sweeney’s verse in both conception and phrase is the product more of fancy than of imagination, and a book of the size of this can scarcely be energized save by the latter.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 260w. |
“One will not read far in Mrs. Sweeney’s poems without noting both their delicacy of vision and their reflective mood. Though now and again of blither note, they have, in the main, a thoughtful quality, wistful, but never melancholy.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w. |
Sweet, J. M. Birth and infancy of Jesus Christ. *$1.50. Presbyterian bd.
6–43773.
An exposition of the arguments that tend to prove the historical authenticity of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
“His reasoning is not always cogent, but his research has been patient, his consideration of the subject on all sides thoro, and he has preserved thruout the convincing spirit of inquiry”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 110w. |
“His critical skill and appreciation are not sufficient to allow him to do full justice to his theme, this being especially noticeable in his treatment of Old Testament passages.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 80w. |
“If there is a more thorough and scholarly defense of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ than this monograph of Mr. Sweet, we are not acquainted with it. It is not and does not pretend to be impartial; it is a defense of the orthodox doctrine. But it is fair-minded, erudite, thorough.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 400w. | |
| Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 60w. |
Sweetser, Kate Dickinson. [Boys and girls from Thackeray], il. †$2. Duffield.
7–28978.
A companion volume to “Boys and girls from Dickens” and “Boys and girls from George Eliot.” A volume warranted by the emphasis which Thackeray has placed upon his juvenile sketches, They are reprinted without the adult intrigue and plot surrounding them in the novels from which they are taken.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 110w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 80w. |
Swete, Henry Barclay. Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introd., notes and indices. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Preceding the text and occupying about half the book such introductory subjects are discussed as Prophecy in the apostolic church, Jewish and Christian apocalypses, Contemporary scholarship and thought in western Asia, Origin of the apocalypse of St. John, including a discussion of its grammatical, rhetorical and literary style and an interpretation of the text from the religious, symbolical, mystical, historical and biographical point of view.
“Dr. Swete’s work is marked by all the care, thoroughness, and precision of scholarship in linguistic and grammatical interpretation which distinguished all his work and secure to him his place as a member of the famous ‘Cambridge’ school. But to the present writer he appears, by the complete rejection of the methods applied, e. g., by Boussett, to exclude the only possible means of arriving at an interpretation of the book which is at once consistent and primary; i.e., an interpretation of what was in the mind of the author.” C. Anderson Scott.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 540. Jl. ’07. 1140w. |
“We must be content with adding an emphatic commendation of Dr. Swete’s volume to the attention of our readers.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 420w. |
Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane. British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya. *$4.50. Lane.
7–7542.
Essentially historical. “Of the fourteen chapters, the first deals with the milieu, the next with the early history according to native and European sources; then follow two chapters on the dawn of British influence; they are not always pleasant reading, for our treatment of the Sultan of Kedah was anything but creditable. The next two chapters cover the middle fifty years of the last century. This was a period of anarchy, brought to an end, though not at once, by the appointment of British residents.... Not the least attractive portions of the work are of the author’s testimony to the virtues of the Chinese and his condemnation of the ordinary system of building railways in British colonies.... The final chapter gives us the author’s views on the future of the British colony with some more criticism of irrational methods.”—Acad.
| + + | Acad. 71: 651. D. 29, ’06. 400w. |
“The volume is one which should appeal in an extraordinary degree to American readers, for there is scarcely a page which does not present some problem or recount some incident which throws light upon the peculiar character of the Peninsular Malay who is the first cousin of the Filipino.” Alleyne Ireland.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 154. O. ’07. 970w. |
“If ever we should reach the conclusion that instead of trying to fit people to institutions, institutions should be fitted to the nature and capacities of the people as they develop under the influence of industrial opportunity, our administrators may derive valuable suggestions as to sensible procedure from such books as this one by Sir Francis Swettenham.” Henry Jones Ford.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 663. My. ’07. 1170w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 330w. |
“May well rank as a masterpiece among the host of similar books written by the servants of the British government.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 480w. |
“Will appeal not only to those interested in the geographical and political questions discussed, but also to the comparatively restricted public who delight in Oriental art work unmodified by western influence.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 160w. |
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 351. O. 19, ’06. 2200w. |
“Were the applicants for positions in our Philippine civil service obliged to pass an examination to prove their fitness, ‘British Malaya’ would be an invaluable text-book.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 249. Mr. 14, ’07. 1030w. |
“Sir Frank Swettenham writes always with force, sometimes with humour, very often with charm, with delicacy, and with finish, in spite of an occasional tendency to split a hapless infinitive. It should be read by every Englishman who loves his country, for from Sir Frank Swettenham’s eloquent pages all who read will carry away many beautiful and striking pictures, many facts of great value, and a number of imperial lessons very well worth learning and remembering.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 1730w. |
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. [Poems]: selected and edited by Arthur Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
6–34710.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This admirable little volume brings the cream of Swinburne’s poetry within easy reach of all lovers of poetry, and in a handy-sized volume.”
| + | Arena. 36: 635. D. ’06. 100w. |
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. [William Blake; a critical essay.] 3d ed. *$2. Dutton.
7–35152.
Along with the revival of Blake literature appears a reprint of Swinburne’s essay published forty years ago. “Where Mr. Swinburne’s book is invaluable is in his interpretation of poetry, of symbolism as poetry, of pictorial design as poetry.... In this huge book of criticism, in which the main incidents of the life of Blake are told, and a detailed account is given of nearly the whole of his literary and much of his painted and engraved work, there is not a page—not even in those flaming foot-notes which spire from page to page after the dwindling body of the text—which is not essentially poetry rather than prose.”
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 86. Mr. ’07. |
“It is difficult to think of another book, written by a poet on a poet, which is so generous and so illuminating.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 149. Ag. 11. 1920w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 169. F. ’07 1100w. | ||
| + + | Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w. |
“Allowing for some extravagance of expression, the criticism of the book is both just and profound; and the commentary, whether it be right or wrong on particular points, provides a clear and probably accurate statement of Blake’s ideas and beliefs. It is all written with the confidence and prolixity of youth.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1530w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w. |
“There is never likely to be a work on Blake which will supersede that just, eloquent, generous, and illuminating ‘critical’ essay which Mr. Swinburne wrote forty years ago and has only now reprinted. It is a book marvellous for sanity and insight; it was a defence of Blake at a time when he needed to be defended, and it repeats his praise now, when the praise is no longer startling.” Arthur Symons.
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 231. Ag. 25, ’06. 1840w. |
* Swing, Albert Temple. James Harris Fairchild; or, Sixty-eight years with a Christian college. **$2. Revell.
7–15571.
An intimate sketch of the life of President Fairchild who was associated with Oberlin college in the capacity of student, teacher, president and professor emeritus from 1834 to 1902.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Instead of a real book [this is] a volume that makes its chief appeal to the alumni of Oberlin, by whom it will doubtless be appreciated, in oblivion of the larger public.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| − | Putnam’s. 3: 103. O. ’07. 580w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 381. S. ’07. 120w. |
* Symonds, John Addington. Essays, speculative and suggestive; new ed. *$2. Scribner.
A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.
“On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is certainly full of ideas.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w. |
“Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman, are in his best vein.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w. |
* Symonds, John Addington. [Wine, women, and song]; being an essay on the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il. *$1.50. McClure.
Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)
“Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A. Symonds’s translations and comments.”
| + | Acad. 73: 837. Ag. 31, ’07. 1070w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
Symons, Arthur. Cities. *$2.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Symons’s note is his own.... Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville, Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople are traversed and exposed for us by a temperament at once subtle and impressionistic.”—No. Am.
“Mr. Symons is quite at his best. It is witchery of fine sensations that characterizes Rome or Seville or Prague or whatever city Mr. Symons visits.”
| + | Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 140w. |
“He is the Whistler of critics.” James Huneker.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 205. Ap. 7, ’06. 550w. |
“The book is of a rare charm.” James Huneker.
| + | No. Am. 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 160w. |
“Some of these [cities] he loves; some he hates. In both cases he tells us why and with frank thoroughness.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Symons, Arthur. Fool of the world and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
7–18138.
“The title poem of the volume, a brief Morality play, called ‘The fool of the world,’ employs a style which admirably suits the theme, infusing into the simple colloquy between Man and Death all the dread, the fear, the mystery of mortality as they pervade ‘Everyman’ and other of the old Morality plays. Following this ... Mr. Symons has a group of ‘Meditations,’ poised and passionless as a Buddhistic reverie, fatalistic, ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.’... Contrary to the mood of his prose, the prevailing note of Mr. Symons’ poetry is negative and over his pages futility, and ever futility, is written.”—N. Y. Times.
“[‘The fool of the world’] shows, for all its slenderness, strong dramatic power. It asks a question; it leads you on, as you fancy, ever nearer to the answer, working up your eagerness in every line; and suddenly at the close, in the very last word, it flashes upon you the piteous truth.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 640w. |
“Although Mr. Symons has not mastered poetic forms, his poetry is full of sensitive beauty.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 380w. |
“There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational, and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w. | |
| Ind. 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w. |
“It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w. |
“He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very thing he would escape.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w. |
“His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w. |
“An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and life and death.” James Huneker.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w. |
“He has developed a theory of poetry and the arts; he has found a locality other than London; he has even touched Keltic dreams in Cornwall; in the lyric rather than in the drama lies the value of his new, as his older, tone.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 320w. |
Symons, Arthur. [Introduction to the study of Browning.] *$1.50. Dutton.
7–18128.
A reissue, revised and enlarged. “Mr. Symons discusses Browning’s ‘general characteristics’ and those of each of his poems. In the appendix will be found a bibliography of the poet and a reprint of discarded prefaces to the first issues of some of his works. There is also an index to poems referred to in the text. Like other books of this type, there are innumerable quotations from the writings of the poet. In addition to all these, the footnotes are full and clear.” (N. Y. Times.)
| Nation. 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 320w. |
“In this second edition ... Mr. Symons has been able to add materially to the interest of the book through the publication of comments upon it by three no less authoritative critics than Walter Pater, George Meredith, to whom the book is dedicated, and Robert Browning himself.” A. G.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w. |
“Notwithstanding the appearance of numerous studies of Browning, his introduction remains the best commentary upon that poet’s works.” James Huneker.
| + + | No. Am. 185: 75. My. 3, ’07. 390w. |
Symons, Arthur. [Spiritual adventures.] **$2.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by James Huneker.
| + | No. Am. 185: 77. My. 3, ’07. 300w. |
Symons, Arthur. Studies in seven arts. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–6390.
Containing the following studies: Rodin, The painting of the nineteenth century, Gustave Moreau, Watts, Whistler, Cathedrals, The decay of craftsmanship in England, Beethoven, The ideas of Richard Wagner, The problem of Richard Strauss, Eleanor Dusé, A new art of the stage, A symbolistic farce [Ubo roi, by A. Jarry], Pantomime and the poetic drama, The world as ballet.
“In his last book Mr. Symons has adventured in search of new sensations and new moods into unfamiliar fields of art, where he has occasionally lost confidence in himself and followed the advice of every person of authority he chanced to encounter. When he confides in his own faculty of insight he is still an admirable interpreter of the eternal miracles of beauty: when he mistrusts his own powers he becomes merely a conscientious student of the opinions of other men. Criticism distilled from criticism is wanting in life and personality: it is a branch of the dead sciences.”
| − + | Acad. 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 770w. |
“It is agreeable to read this cunning prose, but we must not be forbidden to challenge some of its pontificial assumptions. The charm, however, of these essays lies not in their critical or technical exactitude, but in their incomparably delicate impressionism.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 1250w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 297. Mr. ’07. 400w. |
“In at least five cases out of the seven (the exceptions being the articles on architecture and handicraft, the first of which is merely descriptive and the second merely a pointed and forcible repetition of standing truths) he has something good, often something profound to say, not merely on points of detail, but on what he conceives to be the principles of the art in question. And after reading his charming, illuminating, often exquisitely written book, we reach instinctively for an antidote—‘The Republic,’ or ‘What is art?’”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1000w. |
“Seven essays ... belong to the best of our time. They are indeed discriminating.”
| + | Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 1000w. |
“Mr. Symons preserves order throughout his book and reproduces for the reader much of his own original aesthetic enjoyment.” Percy Vincent Donovan.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 254. Ap. 20, ’07. 1610w. |
“He has personality, charm, erudition.” James Huneker.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 78. My. 3, ’07. 600w. |
“Each paper is distinguished by a general excellence in the selection of material and by an extreme finish in the manner of its exposition.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 420w. |
“Here is subjective impressionism in the finest flower. As a matter of record few Frenchmen, even, can excel Mr. Symons in subtlety or penetration. A poet first and last, his attitude is always imperiously personal.” Christian Brinton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 180w. |
“Why, then, when we think thus highly of the book, have we spent nearly our whole space in criticising rather than in praising it? On his own terms he comes to us, and on his own terms right glad are we to welcome him. But, to quote the old saying, though Plato is dear to us, Truth is dearer. This too daintily allusive, too artificially picturesque, too laboriously, extravagantly illustrative method of art criticism ... is dangerous: in the hands of the commoner critic it becomes absurd.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: sup. 1. F. 23, ’07. 1930w. |
Symons, Arthur. [William Blake.] *$3. Dutton.
7–37535.
“An enthusiastic interpretation and impassioned defense of the poet and painter whose art still puzzles and fascinates.... Mr. Symons begins by narrating every fact of importance in Blake’s life and achievements, giving his own interpretation of Blake’s intentions. Then comes a verbatim reprint of all available documents, containing every personal account of Blake printed during his life, to which are added references to him in the diary and letters of Crabb Robinson.”—Outlook.
“It will be seen that any new book on Blake must justify its appearance by extraordinary merit, and it cannot be said that Mr. Symons’s work quite stands the test.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 286. S. 26, ’07. 1480w. |
“Mr. Symons has written a book of unusual interest. Absorbed and in accord with his subject, he employs a style elevated and somewhat mystical at times, yet well sustained and peculiarly fitted for the narrative.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 307. O. 12, ’07. 1610w. |
“We did not expect from him the divine energy and insight of Mr. Swinburne; but we did expect scholarship, research, grace and order, and we have them here in a book which we cannot do without.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 1230w. |
Synge, M. B. Short history of social life in England. **$1.50. Barnes.
7–11534.
“A decidedly entertaining account of the growth of social institutions and modern customs in England. The absurdities of bygone fashion, the changes made by scientific inventions, domestic conveniences and inconveniences, old-time gambling, the abolition of dueling, the improvement of table manners, and a hundred other little land-marks of advancing civilization are discussed in an unconventional, amusing way.”—Outlook.
“He has thrown together a mass of details, apparently without being able to determine which facts were worth being told, which were not, nor yet which were actually facts and which were only supposed to be such. He seems to have no well-ordered plan for presenting his material. Finally, he devotes too much space to political history, though he gives notice in his introduction that he will avoid doing so.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
| − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 194. O. ’07. 550w. |
“The author treats the entire subject as one of development, advance, and betterment, and does it very successfully. The work is evidently based on wide reading and research.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 289. My. 1, ’07. 450w. |
“Mr. Synge’s book is exceptionally helpful in giving an idea of the occupations, the pleasures, the manners and customs of the English people of all ranks from the days of the early Britons to the present.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 410w. |
“He tells his story well. It is not a work of original research. The records are all easily accessible. It is not the first work of its kind. But it is one of the most readable books of the year thus far.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 160. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w. |
“A series of shifting society pictures not without significance and with a strong interest to all who like to delve into the quaint, queer, and curious.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 766. Mr. 30. ’07. 80w. |
“This book is pleasant to read, full of sprightly humour, and as far as we have been able to test it, historically accurate.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 212. F. 9, ’07. 2170w. |
Syrett, Netta. Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
6–33579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is brilliantly told, and is a study of ‘temperaments,’ artistic and otherwise, of an unusually readable sort.”
| + | Ind. 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 410w. |
Szold, Henrietta, ed. American Jewish year book 5668, September 9, 1907, to September 25, 1908. $3. Jewish pub.
Two directories are included in this year book: The directory of Jewish national organizations, and The directory of Jewish local organizations.