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Sabbath-school teacher training course. 1st year: a series of thirty-nine lessons designed for use in normal classes. [**]25c. Presb. bd.
This volume “contains a course of study for three-quarters of a year, and a forth-coming volume will complete the scheme. At the end of the first course the Presbyterian board of publication, Philadelphia, will arrange for an examination for such as desire it, and a teacher’s diploma will be granted to such as satisfy the examiners.... Even if the book is not used with a view to a diploma, many Sunday school teachers will find it advantageous to make it the ground-plan of private study.”—Ind.
“This first year’s course is admirable in every respect. The well selected range of subjects is concise, but sufficiently comprehensive.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1013. My. 4 ‘05. 110w. |
Sabin, Edwin Legrand. Beaufort chums. [†]$1. Crowell.
The real adventures of real boys are interestingly told here for young readers. The Mississippi river furnishes the scene for camping, hunting, fishing, and kindred fun. There is the full quota of happenings, and live boys keen on the scent for them.
[*] “Real boy books are scarce these days, and ‘Beaufort chums’ ought to be hailed as an acquisition to the juvenile library.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 765. D. ‘05. 80w. |
Sabin, Edwin Legrand. When you were a boy. [†]$1.50. Baker.
Humorously sympathetic recollections of the days when “you” played ball with the North star nine, preferred illness to the awful alternative of going to school, fought “your” fights, made a chum of “your” dog, went fishing, swimming, and skating, or, amid “your” companions’ jeers, saw “your” first “girl” home from a party. Fifty real boy illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele illustrate the volume.
[*] “Will probably outrival most of their predecessors in popular favor, since they treat of life from a boy’s standpoint.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
| + | Dial. 39: 576. D. 1, ‘05. 660w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “His boys are quite as ‘real’ as Judge Shute’s and a trifle less coarse. The reflections of a man of mature years run between the lines.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “It is all very amusing and to many of us reminiscent.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. |
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904-1905. [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
An anthology of verses written about the horse, including selections from Browning, Byron, Bayard Taylor, Scott, Kipling, Longfellow, Kingsley, Quiller-Couch, and others. “No claim is made to have exhausted the literature of the English language upon this subject, but it is hoped that a sufficient variety, in respect to the types of horses and the tasks accomplished by them, has been offered to enable those who may read, each to find some horse to his liking or the story of some gallant effort that must command his admiration.”
| * | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “Within its limits the collection is a good one.”
| + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Sadlier, Anna Theresa. Wayward Winifred. $1.25. Benziger.
A story of Ireland in which an American finds Wayward Winifred, a mysterious child who lives in an out of the way castle with a blind old woman, and takes her to America to be educated in a Catholic school. In New York the child by chance meets her father and what seemed a great mystery turns out to be a very little mystery after all and the child and the father both return to Ireland to do honor to their old Irish name and restore their old Irish estate.
[*] Sage, Elizabeth, and Cooley, Anna M. Occupations for little fingers: a manual for grade teachers, mothers and settlement workers. [**]$1. Scribner.
“This little manual illustrates and describes simple forms of handwork; including cord and raffia-work, coarse sewing, paper-cutting and folding, clay modelling, furniture and upholstery for a doll’s house, and crocheting and knitting. The writers are teachers who have worked out with their classes the things of which they write. Their models are simple and useful articles that will interest the child and give his work practical connection with the world about him.... They give with each lesson the necessary cost.”—Nation.
| * | + | Nation. 81: 450. N. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “This is eminently a practical book of instruction and suggestion.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 190w. |
St. John, J. Allen. Face in the pool. [**]$1.50. McClurg.
A delightful fairy tale of mystery and gallant chivalry. The hero, a young prince, is rewarded for kindness to the King of the Gnomes by the privilege of beholding in the pool the face of a fair princess. He seeks this much beleaguered Astrella, and wins her after many a conflict with a wicked fairy. The illustrations are the author’s own and include full page colored plates besides a number of pen and ink drawings.
[*] “Will be read by advanced as well as by juvenile readers.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”
| + | Nation. 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
St. Luz, Berthe. Black butterflies. $1.50. Fenno.
The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead, and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.
“It is not exactly clear what the author is driving at.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. |
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin. Portraits of the 17th century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person have appeared in the different series, they are here put together, omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and illustrated.
“Our enjoyment ... has been greatly marred by the lamentable inefficiency of the translation. Miss Wormeley has fallen a victim to the fetish of an exaggerated literalness with the most distressing result. Her structure is frequently not English; at times it is even ungrammatical.” Horace B. Samuel.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 790w. |
“Although the finer shades of his style have not always been exactly rendered by Miss Wormeley, yet the translation, on the whole, is fairly good. The value of the work is impaired by the absence of a good index.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 430w. |
“Diverse as are the characters treated of, each one is examined with the same charm, the same absence of exaggeration or trivial gossip.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w. |
“It presents in sound, idiomatic English some of the best work of the man who holds rank as one of the greatest critics in all literature.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 533. Jl. ‘05. 1510w. | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 75. Ja. ‘05. 190w. |
“To those who have no French, Miss Wormeley’s volumes may be commended. She has chosen wisely, and has translated accurately, if without distinction.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 476. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1530w. |
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. History of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. V. 3. [*]$3.50. Dodd.
The author, professor of rhetoric in the university of Edinburgh, devoting this third volume to a survey of the nineteenth century, includes a study of English criticism from 1860 to 1900, and gives sixteen pages to American critics.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
| + — | Atlan. 96: 106. Jl. ‘05. 470w. |
“A trial balance of the qualities and defects of this great work might run somewhat as follows: Professor Saintsbury is unreliable, but frequently admirable, on the authors who touch his heart—the romantics; he is almost invariably inadequate and unfair to the critics he dislikes—the doctrinaires, among them the Germans especially; and he is safe only on the critics who bore him—the small fry generally. The volume, although its matter is on the whole the most attractive of the three, is less readable than its predecessors. It is chiefly valuable because the deposit of facts, which careful straining will separate, is considerable. Bad guide as he is for the highroad, the byways of criticism become accessible through Professor Saintsbury’s labors.” F. J. Mather, jr.
| + — | Bookm. 20: 450. Ja. ‘05. 1820w. |
“It is however, only fair to say that Professor Saintsbury never allows his political or religious beliefs, strong as these are, to interfere with his judgment. We are a little surprised, perhaps, to find the section on Lamb one of the best of the book—a good piece of writing without qualification. The poorest chapters of the book—and they are poor beyond forgiveness—are those which deal with topics that require ideas or the understanding of ideas. A book of irritating qualities. He is interesting—despite the continual faults of taste and despite the tedium of the subject, he never allows the reader’s attention to flag, and that is high praise.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 501. Mr. 2, ‘05. 720w. |
[*] “In spite of its author’s rather slap-dash fashion, is on the whole a valuable, even an indispensable compendium for students of that very special criticism which is concerned with books almost exclusively.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“One must always remember, in reading him, that he writes with the strongest possible bias, and that, however useful and even indispensable to the student of literature his history is, it is rather a work of reference than as a storehouse of reliable literary judgments. The style of the volume is deplorable. His offences against taste are of various kinds; perhaps the most exasperating is his reference to great men by their Christian names.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 155. F. 23, ‘05. 2570w. |
“With all its wealth of material and faithful investigation of original sources, it is the work of a cloudy and often incoherent mind. ‘Exhaustive’ is the word which comes to the reviewer’s mind as he surveys the range of this history. No work in this field covers the ground so completely or with such wealth of knowledge.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 397. F. 11, ‘05. 860w. |
Saintsbury, George. [Minor Caroline poets.] 2v. v. I. [*]$3.40. Oxford.
“This volume contains Chamberlayne’s ‘Pharonnida,’ a ‘heroick poem’ of heroic length; Benlowes’ ‘Theophila,’ a ‘divine poem’ in many cantos; the poems of Mrs. Katherine Philips, ‘the matchless Orinda;’ and the poems of Patrick Hannay, a very obscure person of whom nothing is known, and of whose book only six copies remain. Indeed all the writers collected in this book are more or less obscure now, and you must be interested in the history of English poetry before you can be expected to read them.”—Lond. Times.
“It is well and judiciously edited as a whole, the notes being sparing and adequate, while the prefaces—both the general preface and those to single authors—if one can stomach the editor’s most unappetizing and contorted style, are excellent in substance, alike critical and informative.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905. 2: 168. Ag. 5. 1900w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 229. Jl. 21, ‘05. 2320w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 81: 107. Ag. 3, ‘05. 400w. |
“We can and do applaud the zeal for true literary criticism and for scientific literary history, which prompted Professor Saintsbury to reprint and edit the minor Caroline poets, but we cannot and do not pretend to endorse all his conclusions as to the merits of the four included in the volume before us.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 375. S. 16, ‘05. 960w. |
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of. Essays, v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. [*]$2. Dutton.
“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of ‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 450w. |
“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not only for their intrinsic value, but for the light they throw upon the mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 245. S. ‘05. 690w. |
“The first volume is by far the more interesting.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 430w. |
“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest pretensions, admirable.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 194. Je. 16, ‘05. 740w. |
[*] “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks, however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”
| + | Nation. 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 1250w. |
“Very well worth reading on many accounts these essays are. But perhaps most of all as showing how a highly cultivated modern man and acute dialectician may still represent and embody an antiquated theory of politics.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 305. My. 13, ‘05. 4430w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1180w. |
[*] Salter, Emma Gurney. Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
Although this volume “consists largely of catalogues of pictures, frescoes, friezes, stained glass groups, and so forth, it is not designed chiefly as a historical study of the works of art with which it deals; its main interest is for the Franciscan student.... The representations of Francis, his followers and indeed all things Franciscan, and the influence of the Saint in early Italian art generally, are followed up and chronicled with a pertinacity and thoroughness which only the special student can appreciate.”—Acad.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 380w. |
[*] “We have found it rather dry reading from any point of view, but doubtless there are those who can profit by the information it conveys.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Presents the first attempt ever made to bring together into English and in small compass the stories around the pictures of Franciscan saints.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 360w. |
Salter, William. Iowa: The first free state in the Louisiana purchase. [**]$1.20. McClurg.
This is not the story of Iowa as a state, but an account of the incidents in American history which concern it, from 1673 to 1846, from its discovery to its admission as a state into the Union. Its varied history, under France, under Spain, in the Louisiana purchase, and the territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and at last Iowa is followed. The book is illustrated with portraits and plans.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 50w. |
“The work is painstaking and careful but its scope is limited.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 56: 594. S. ‘05. 140w. |
“A vast amount of information is given in this condensed and readable shape.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 250w. |
“The story is told in a style that is clear, but without distinctive merit of any kind. Neither new knowledge nor original treatment of old information is in evidence.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 370w. |
“His narrative lacks the flowing interest one would naturally expect, being retarded both by a peculiar inclusiveness of treatment and a somewhat halting style.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Saltus, Edgar Evertson. [Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.] [†]$1.25. Wessels.
“The perfume of Eros” was first published serially under the title, “The yellow fay.” It deals with some unlovely members of New York’s inner circle. Loftus, handsome and wealthy, picks up a tailor’s pretty little daughter and after solemnly promising to marry her establishes her in handsome apartments, takes her abroad and finally deserts her for the wife of his closest friend. The murder of Loftus on the eve of this elopement brings about a trial in which the characters who have thus far been good altho weak, perjure themselves and thereby smooth things over for the happiness of two of the weakest and wealthiest.
[*] “The story is interesting, especially if you regard it as a hooded satire.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 420w. |
Sample, John Calvert. Properties of steel sections: a reference book for structural engineers and architects. [*]$3. McGraw pub.
A work related to the well-known “Osborn’s tables,” in ground covered. An essential difference is that, in the tables of properties of compound sections, Sample gives I and r, while Osborn gives I and r2.
“The book will be frequently found a convenient handbook where much designing in steel is to be done.”
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 230w. |
Sanborn, Alvan Francis. [Paris and the social revolution: a study of the revolutionary element in the various classes of Parisian life.] [**]$3.50. Small.
“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’ outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.
“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human caricatures.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 595. S. ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + | Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it. Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library of revolutionary literature.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 690w. | |
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 890w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1510w. (Outline of contents.) |
“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical, but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 260w. |
“An unusually earnest presentation of what modern anarchy stands for.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 757. My. 13, ‘05. 500w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 200w. |
Sanborn, Mary Farley. Lynette and the congressman. (†)$1.50. Little.
The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington, where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden, the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct and unassuming people.
[*] “Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort of way which interferes in nowise with the gentle reader’s nap between chapters.”
| — | Ind. 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 110w. |
Sandars, Mary F. [Life of Honore de Balzac.] [**]$3 Dodd.
The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came fame.
“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really worthy of the occasion.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 760w. |
“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French romancer.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 180w. |
“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie Russell Marble.
| + + | Dial. 38: 413. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w. |
“Miss Sandars explicitly disclaims all critical intentions. But her attitude toward her author implies a judgment. And that judgment, it seems to us, errs, if anything, in taking Balzac rather too seriously.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 520w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
“In Miss Sandars’s work is presented, for the first time, an exhaustive account of Balzac’s life. The story is told simply, directly, with sympathy, and not infrequent humor.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 419. My. 25, ‘05. 970w. |
“While sympathetic and unquestionably entertaining, adds little of importance to our knowledge of the subject. It is essentially a volume of literary ‘small talk’ ... all very diverting, to be sure, but hardly constituting a biography.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“Miss Sandars has succeeded, where many have failed, in writing a readable and intelligent Life of Honore De Balzac. She has made little attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and therein she is wise, for such few specimens of criticism as she does present show neither sympathy nor understanding. Miss Sandars’s sketch is not without either coherence or verisimilitude.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 86. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1510w. |
Sanday, Rev. William. Outlines of the life of Christ. [**]$1.25. Scribner.
“This volume is a reprint of the article ‘Jesus Christ,’ contributed to Dr. Hastings’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ ... A notable feature is an improved map of the sacred sites, taken from various sources, and brought up to the latest stage of knowledge on the subject.”—Spec.
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 75. Jl. ‘05. 150w. |
“His article on Jesus has been recognized as a careful piece of work, but it falls short where one most wants light, in the point of a clear, satisfying statement of Jesus’s own thought and belief.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 110w. |
“Strongly conservative in his tendencies, but open-minded, and candidly conceding much to the fellow-critics whose conclusions he rejects.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 110w. |
“Few scholars can approach the central subject of their religion with deeper learning, and with a happier combination of criticism and reverence than Dr. Sanday.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 446. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
Sanders, Henry Arthur, ed. Roman historical sources and institutions. (Humanistic series.) [**]$2.50. Macmillan.
“The University of Michigan devotes the initial volume of her ‘Studies’ to a collection of essays dealing with Roman historical sources and institutions.... Apart from Professor Dennison’s discussion of the singing of the ‘Sæcular’ hymn, all the papers are historical in theme.... Miss Mary G. Williams” contributes a “study of Julia Mamæa.... Dr. Duane R. Stuart investigates Dio Cassius’s use of epigraphic material.... Professor Drake ... traces the rise and decline of the principalitas in the pre-Diocletian army. Dr. G. H. Allen ... presents a valuable study of centurions as substitute commanders.... Professor Sanders ... collects all versions of the Tarpeia myth, following Krahner, and adds some allied stories,” and also gives a “discussion of the lost Epitome of Livy.”—Am. Hist. R.
“They display diligence and zeal. It is perhaps ungracious to object to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays shows a facile pen.” Charles Upson Clark.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 621. Ap. ‘05. 500w. |
Sandys, Edwyn. Sporting sketches [**]$1.75. Macmillan.
Mr. Sandys, author, artist, naturalist, and sportsman, has brought together here “picturesque accounts of shooting and fishing, pleasant descriptions of out-of-door experiences, practical information for the camper, fisher, and hunter.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Sandys stands between the genuinely literary sportsman, such as Henry Van Dyke, and the mere spinner of wildly improbable yarns. There is a swagger in his style that seems unduly artificial now and then.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w. |
“The only trouble with the stuff is its essential artificiality.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 240w. |
“Rarely are sporting sketches found of interest to so wide an audience as this book will attract.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 90w. | |
| [*] + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 40w. |
Sandys, John Edwin. Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.
“A readable and scholarly work.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“Dr. Sandys combines with a profound knowledge of books a light touch and an appreciation of the spirit of the place.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5, 850w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 380. O. ‘05. 90w. |
“When we consider the mass of names and facts handled, the dexterity with which Dr. Sandys beguiles our attention is really extraordinary.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w. | |
| Nation. 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 60w. |
“It is a sad pity that so much patient investigation should be so little clarified by a sense of proportion and historic insight.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 370w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 1120w. | |
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w. | |
| + + | Spec. 95: 569. O. 14, ‘05. 1320w. |
Sanford, Frank G. Art crafts for beginners. [**]$1.20. Century.
“To those who feel the need of some art expression, but who cannot attend an art school; to those who wish to follow the art of the craftsman; to those teachers upon whom demand is made for knowledge of the crafts—this little volume is addressed.” Instruction is given in design, thin wood carving, pyrography, sheet-metal work, leather work, bookbinding, simple pottery, basketry, and beadwork. The book is aided in its helpfulness to the beginner by the author’s working drawings, and reproductions of photographs.
“The treatment is terse, careful and suggestive. As a useful little manual for the teacher and as a practical guide for the amateur, this book should prove of great value.”
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Radiant motherhood, [**]$1. Bobbs.
This “book for the twentieth century mother,” gives good council for the mothers of children at various stages of development. It discusses baby days, religious training, school, outdoor life and pets, manners, home reading and play-mates. There are chapters upon When children marry: The grandmother: Motherhood in fiction: Motherhood in the Bible: and Questions for the mother’s clubs. There is much that is helpful in the volume and it is written in a spirit which approaches motherhood reverently, and makes of it a thing both noble and ideal.
Santayana, George. [Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.] 5v. ea. [**]$1.25. Scribner.
A five volume series. Vol. I, “Introduction, and reason in common sense,” and Vol. II, “Reason in society,” are already out. Vol. III, “Reason in religion,” Vol. IV, “Reason in art,” and Vol. V, “Reason in science,” are to follow. “Vol. I, ... ‘Reason in common sense,’ has chapters on ‘The birth of reason,’ ‘First steps and first fluctuations.’ ‘Discovery of natural objects.’ ‘On some critics of this discovery,’ ‘Nature unified and mind discerned.’ ‘Discovery of fellow-minds.’ ‘Concretions in discourse and in existence,’ ‘Relative values of things and ideas,’ ‘How thought is practical,’ ‘The measure of values in reflection,’ ‘Abstract conditions of the ideal.’ ‘Flux and constancy in human nature.’ Vol. II, ‘Reason in society,’ deals with love, the family, industry, government, and war; the ‘aristocratic ideal.’ democracy, ‘free’ society, patriotism, and ‘ideal’ society.” (N. Y. Times.)
“He can be brilliantly brief and weighty, and deliver long-drawn-out expositions with harmonious grandeur. He too brings us inspiration in a manner as delightful as it is distinguished.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 588. Je. 2, ‘05. 1100w. |
“The style is unfamiliar and singularly disconcerting to anybody who is anxious to get at the gist of Prof. Santayana’s message. Trope and epigram, flaming phrase and pervasive metaphor, so blur the outline of his meaning that impatience gives way at times to absolute exasperation.”
| + — | Ath. 1905. 2: 269. Ag. 26. 740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“For one, therefore, who is willing also to think, the work is essentially readable throughout. It is full of keen insight wedded to apt expression.” A. K. Rogers.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 349. My. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“It is, in fact, an eclectic philosophy, and. like other works of that sort, is likely to have more literary than scientific value. Professor Santayana’s style is highly polished, in parts too much so.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 190w. (Statement of contents of v. 1 and 2.) | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 189. Mr. 25, ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Ingenious, keen, and brilliant in a purely intellectual way, as all must confess Professor Santayana’s pragmatic treatment of the life of reason to be. those who are intent on a profounder moral pragmatism will, we fear, lay the volume containing it down with disappointment and regret.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Seldom has a materialistic philosophy been presented in finer literary garb than in this series of volumes, or with stranger contradiction of experimental facts.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.) |
“He is always sufficiently independent without being in the least eccentric, and has much to say that is highly suggestive; but, in his praiseworthy attempt to avoid both dogmatism and polemics, on the one hand, and a too schematic and rationalistic method, on the other, he seems to the present reviewer constantly to run the risk of treating in a very general and somewhat superficial way some of the fundamental problems of philosophy.” Ernest Albee.
| + + — | Philos. R. 14: 602. S. ‘05. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The first volume seems to us to be disappointing. It seems to lack definiteness of both purpose and expression. The second volume on the other hand, seems to us to be somewhat original in substance and manner of treatment, and is certainly fruitful in suggestion as well as principle.” George S. Painter.
| + + — | Psychol. Bull. 2: 334. O. 15, ‘05. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“He writes with a real command of language and power of imagery, and to most readers his brilliant illustrations and epigrams will be the chief attraction of his work. We should be the last to deny their charms, but at the same time the thought is apt to be a little confused by the splendour of its presentation.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Sargent, Charles Sprague. [Manual of the trees of North America.] [*]$6. Houghton.
Information concerning the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) in a convenient form for the use of students and all those interested in trees and tree culture. The book includes a “Synopsis of families of plants,” an “Analytic key to families of plants,” a “Glossary of technical terms,” tend a complete index. There are six hundred and thirty trees described, each one accurately illustrated by the drawings of Charles E. Faxon. Professor Sargent has had thirty years’ experience in dealing with indigenous trees in the Arnold arboretum at Harvard, and the results of the knowledge thus acquired are here included, while Mr. Faxon has reproduced leaf-bud, leaf, flower, and fruit so ingenuously that each tree may be readily recognized at any season, and assigned to its proper group.
“A book which is indispensable to all students of American trees.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15, 470w. | |
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 320w. |
“There is no reason why this manual should not become at once extensively used by all those interested in trees.” J. M. C.
| + + + | Bot. G. 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 150w. |
“It is hard to see how a better or a different manual could be made. No serious student of American trees can do without it.”
| + + + | Country Calendar. 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 220w. | |
| Dial. 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“It will be especially valuable to students in the West and South, where the trees are not so well covered by other manuals.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 300w. |
“This task of providing a handy book of reference in fieldwork fell naturally to the author and illustrator of the ‘Silva.’ Both have done their work well.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 361. My. 4. ‘05. 930w. |
“It cannot fail to be of the greatest value to students of botany and forestry.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 197. Je. 29, ‘05. 400w. |
“The arrangement is such that reference is easy.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w. |
“Is so written that with the least amount of trouble you may find to what family of species any particular tree belongs.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 216. Ap. 8, ‘05. 670w. |
“The book is one of permanent value not only to the student of forestry but to all who wish to identify the species and genus of trees in all parts of the country, so that the work really holds with regard to trees such a place as is held in another field by Gray’s ‘Botany.’”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is an excellent book to put in the hands of all who are interested in village and park improvement, while owners of country places will find it indeed a vade mecum.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 150w. |
“This is a book for the reference library in all our high schools.”
| + + | School R. 13: 440. My. ‘05. 60w. |
“The book is thoroughly satisfactory, and must at once become a standard among systematic manuals.” Charles E. Bessey.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 21: 914. Je. 16, ‘05. 690w. | |
| Spec. 94: 645. Ap. 29, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] Satchell, William. Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A genuine picture of life in New Zealand.... A story—genial, kindly, void of bitterness, and perfectly free from platitudinous unreality. The author presents a charming heroine, two brothers (one colonial born, and one a ‘new chum’ from England), a delightful old colonist of the early days, and at least five other characters who are too well and faithfully limned to be called simple sketches.”—Ath.
[*] “It has a rounded completeness, a full and broad humanity, which are by no means characteristic of contemporary fiction. A story full of real characterization, and at the same time alive with action, movement, and even with adventure.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 574. O. 28. 320w. |
[*] “There is about the whole book a freshness and flavor of the wilds that give it a most welcome individuality.”
| + | Nation. 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w. |
[*] “There is an atmosphere of freshness and truth about the book that is most satisfying, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 600w. |
[*] “It has a thrilling story and not a few vividly written and exciting incidents. It seems to us far the best of the recent tales which have come to us dealing with Australasia.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “It is worth reading chiefly on account of its minor characters such as Pine the Maori, and certain passages describing the wonderful depths of the bush. The hero and heroine and their love story, and with unnecessary complications, are tedious and commonplace, and the dialogue is for the most part stilted and rhetorical.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “The book is to be heartily commended as an able and original piece of work.”
| + | Spec. 95: 821. N. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
Saunders, (Margaret) Marshall. Princess Sukey: the story of a pigeon and her human friends. [*]$1.25. Meth. bk.
Altho Princess Sukey, the thorobred pigeon, flutters thru the story, the plot is chiefly concerned with the little boy who saved her life and with his grandfather, a retired judge, whose heart becomes softened to all weak things thru her and who fills his silent house with young life, letting the poor and the orphaned find a place in his heart and his home.
“It might be a tract promulgated jointly by the societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 20: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 350w. |
Savage, Minot Judson. America to England, and other poems. [**]$1.35. Putnam.
The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 480. N. ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage serious poetic criticism.”
| + | Nation. 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr. Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of appreciation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w. |
Savage, Minot Judson. Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world? [**]$1.35. Putnam.
“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world, believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.
“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 896. S. 2, ‘05. 1490w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 820w. |
“The discussion is luminous, rational, and effective.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 100w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w. |
Savoyard, pseud. See Newman, Eugene W.
Scaliger, Julius Caesar. Select translations from Scaliger’s Poetics, by Frederick Morgan Padelford. 75c. Holt.
This twenty-sixth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series includes “such chapters or portions of chapters as bear most vitally upon the fundamental problems of poetics.... The table of contents has been translated in full in order that the reader may gain an impression of the Poetics in its totality.”
Schafer, Joseph. History of the Pacific northwest. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“In this volume the stirring narrative of the pioneer settlements in the territory now embraced in the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is told in detail, while the organization and political progress of the three state governments are briefly sketched. The author has wisely selected for amplification ... the processes by which the wilderness was subdued, homes multiplied, commerce extended to all parts of the world, and a great civilization developed in a portion of our continent that we once called remote and inaccessible.”—R. of Rs.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 11: 229. O. ‘05. 50w. |
“A reading of it leaves the impression that it is the work of one who knows his field and whose conclusions may be relied upon.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
“He shows a fine grasp of the relative importance of events. The early period of its development is treated with great fullness and in style that fascinates the reader.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w. |
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 840w. |
“The treatment is clear and logical, the tone impartial, and the style direct and agreeable. The book, in fine, is a useful addition to the literature of its subject.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
Scherer, James A. B. Young Japan; the story of the Japanese people, and especially of their educational development. [*]$1.50. Lippincott.
“Dr. Scherer tells in detail the development of Japan as a nation, with much information concerning succeeding rulers and their reigns. He discusses every influence that has gradually led the Mikado’s empire to its present position among the nations of the world, and what this position has meant or means to the native literature, arts, or sciences. Anecdotes and legends are used to illustrate certain points.... It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken by and for the author, and drawings by Japanese artists.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a useful pendant to his former work, ‘Japan to-day,’ and is, in effect, a sort of short philosophic history of Japan, which, however, is not treated critically.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 490w. |
“He does not, however, go very far behind the looking-glass.” Wm. Elliott Griffis.
| + — | Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w. |
“The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and marked by ease and poise. It is the book for the hour; for the chief problems about Japan just now concern her real purpose and moral force.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Dial. 39: 62. Ag. 1, ‘05. 390w. |
“A large portion of the book would make an excellent school-text book.” Adachi Kinnosuke.
| + + — | Ind. 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“When he discusses Japanese history, Dr. Scherer is at once accurate and philosophical; and his descriptions of Japanese school, street, and home life in town and country afford instruction and entertainment.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 470w. |
“It is perhaps the general view of the long education of the Japanese, though but slightly touching upon the philosophy which has nourished the leaders of modern thought and action.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w. |
“The story is concise and interestingly written.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“His work is based upon a pretty solid foundation, and will be found both entertaining and informing.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1290w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Schnabel, Carl. Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
A second English edition of this treatise on metallurgy which is a translation of the second German edition. As the preface states: “The work is divided into two volumes. The first embraces the metallurgy of copper, lead, silver, and gold.... The remaining metals are treated of in volume 2, and the most important among them being zinc, nickel and mercury.”
[*] “If the data were only up to date, the book would form an excellent text book for students of metallurgy.” Bradley Stoughton.
| + — | Engin. N. 54: 643. D. 14, ‘05. 2070w. (Review of v. 1.) |
[*] “The merits and defects of the book remain much the same as the first edition. Prof. Louis is to be congratulated on the translation, which makes a valuable work available to British students.”
| + + — | Nature. 73: 124. D. 7, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.). Electrical instruments and testing; how to use the voltmeter, ammeter, galvanometer, potentiometer, ohmmeter, and the Wheatstone bridge. $1. Spon.
“This book is intended for practical use and also as an introduction to the larger work on electrical testing. The apparatus described is modern and universally adopted. The lists are such as occur daily in the work of the engine room, power house, or technical school.” It consists of practical explanations with numerous examples worked out and fully illustrated with diagrams and drawings.
Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.). Model library, v. 1. $1. Spon.
This volume is divided into four books. The study of electricity and its laws for beginners, comprising the elements of electricity and magnetism as applied to dynamos, motors, wiring, and to all branches of electrical work. How to install electric bells, annunciators and alarms, including batteries, wires and wiring, circuits, bells, alarms, thermostats, annunciators, and the location and remedying of troubles. How to make use of them, giving full detailed instructions for the manufacture of dry cells of any shape and size. Electrical circuits and diagrams illustrated and explained, new and original drawings, comprising annunciators, alarms, bells, dynamos, batteries, etc. The whole is fully illustrated. There is also a complete general index.
Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies. Saxon’s drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.
“There are forty persons of the drama, besides fairies, gnomes, a dwarf, and a witch, classified as the ‘Saxon unit,’ the ‘Roman unit,’ the ‘Greek unit,’ and the ‘Supernatural.’ The distinctions between the classes are not sharply made, and unless the reader is thoroly informed or highly alert his mind will become more or less befogged in following the flight of the Saxons away from the Christians and the complicated relations among Oswald, Father Benedict, Sigurd, Selena, and Canzier.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a long, confused drama in blank verse, where the ambition of the author is more praiseworthy than the result of it.”
| — | Ind. 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 20w. |
“‘The Saxons’ has the advantage of an unhackneyed theme ... but the story is not very clearly told.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w. |
Schultz, Hermann. Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. [**]$1.75. Macmillan.
After an introductory chapter treating of the problem of apologetics and its history, Dr. Schultz free from dogma and creeds discusses the nature of religion, postulates, and the reasonableness of the religious view of the world, philosophy of religion, religion in its historical phenomena, the nature of Christianity, the Kingdom of God, Christ, Jesus in history, &c. The volume is well annotated.
“Thoroughly scientific, and therefore failing to meet the requirements of orthodoxy, Professor Schultz’s apologetic is certainly evangelical in the best sense.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 885. Ag. 5, ‘05. 400w. |
Schumann, Robert Alexander. Fifty piano compositions. $2.50. Ditson.
Mr. Xaver Scharwenka has selected and edited the fifty compositions which are included in this addition to “The musician’s library,” and has also contributed an introductory study of Schumann. There is a bibliography in English, German and French.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 70w. | |
[*] “While every amateur may miss this or that pet piece, the editor has succeeded remarkably in his choice of the half-hundred most precious nuggets.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w. |
“As an interpretation this introduction is not equal to the introductions of some of the other volumes in this series.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 40w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 90w. |
Schuster, Arthur. Introduction to the theory of optics. [*]$4. Longmans.
A text-book for teachers and students who are already acquainted with the phenomena of light as described in college books of general physics. “The first two-thirds of the volume are elementary; that is, they explain only polarization, interference, diffraction, the theory of optical instruments, and the peculiarities of the different crystalline media—phenomena that result simply from light’s consisting of transverse vibrations. The remaining third of the book contains the deeper theory of light, and is written on a novel plan, the idea being to direct students to the original memoirs without repeating their contents.” (Nation.)
“The reviewer feels that Professor Schuster, by clearness of exposition and the painstaking work spent in the preparation of such a timely and useful book, has put students and teachers of physics under no inconsiderable obligation.” E. F. N.
| + + | Astrophys. J. 21: 382. My. ‘05. 780w. |
“Prof. Schuster has been completely successful within the limits which he has laid down for himself. We recommend the work heartily to all advanced students of physics, with only a hint of warning that the information should be supplemented from other sources.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 53. Ja. 14, 910w. |
“A notable addition to the literature of optical theory, and one which will prove of value to every student.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 1330w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 198. Mr. 9, ‘05. 480w. |
“Fills a very obvious gap. The treatment is marked throughout by the author’s well-known and admirable lucidity of style.”
| + + | Nature. 71: 457. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1030w. |
Schwartz, Julia Augusta. Wilderness babies. [†]$1.50. Little.
Sixteen delightful stories which tell of sixteen equally delightful animal families. Young folks, when they have read them, will feel a truly friendly interest in: The one with a pocket: the opossum; The one that eats grass in the sea: the manatee; The biggest one: the whale; The one that lives in a crowd: the buffalo; and all the rest, elk, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, bear, fox, wolf, panther, seal, shrew, mole, and bat.
[*] “To make the stories quite perfect, it would be well that a naturalist should give them careful revision, so they may teach as well as charm the children, for whom they are written.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 390w. |
[*] “The stories should not only prove attractive to children, but they should give them much interesting information about the children of the woods.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
Scollard, Clinton. Odes and elegies. [*]$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
The dream note in poetry, the traditional, and the patriotic are all sounded again and again thru Mr. Scollard’s new group of verse. His seven pieces are The dreamers, Lawton, On a copy of Keats’s Endymion, Elegy in autumn, The march of the ideal, The stars of morning, and The Oriskany.
“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most characteristic trait of his muse.”
| + | Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 110w. |
“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 300w. |
“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of poetic diction.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 280w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 210w. |
Scott, Eva. King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms, when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of their king.”
“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 750w. |
“Miss Scott has given us a second book worthy of the reputation she gained by her first and we must not leave it without a special word of praise for her description of, and constant reference to, her authorities, and for the admirable index.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 500w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 300. O. 12, ‘05. 560w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 230w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 323. My. 20, ‘05. 1270w. |
“An adequate and rather minute account of eight years of vicissitudes.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w. |
“She has not the tact to present the facts which she has mastered in an intelligible or artistic shape.”
| — + | Spec. 94: 513. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1560w. |
Scott, Leroy. [Walking delegate.] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
This novel, by an author who has been active in social settlement work on the East side, concerns New York labor unions and tells the story of the struggle between “Buck Foley” and the walking delegate who defeated him.
“There is genuine power in the book, and it holds the interest of the reader until the very last.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 832. Ag. 12, ‘05. 270w. |
“The characterization of the story is gripping, and the dialogue is better than the curate’s famous egg. The style is picturesque without being purple.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 74. Jl. 15. 210w. |
“Impresses one from the start as a work of uncommon power and realism.”
| + + | Bookm. 22: 86. S. ‘05. 420w. |
“Tragedy, sentiment, and lively narrative give the book a real interest.”
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 400. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
“A book written without any pretence of style, yet crudely impressive by virtue of its picturesque speech and its close acquaintance with the conditions depicted.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
“The tale is an interesting, and even powerful narrative. The workingmen of the story are generally true types. But the author has somewhat overdone the matter of endowing them with faulty syntax and cheap slang.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 140w. |
“Characters, incidents, conversations, setting are of the latest and seem impressively real. It is a strong story notable even among good novels.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 560w. |
“Mr. Leroy Scott has planted a literary standard in the field of American labor. Strictly speaking ‘The walking delegate’ is not a literary work, and, to judge by this example of his diction, Mr. Scott is not a stylist.” Stephen Chalmers.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 341. My. 27, ‘05. 1550w. |
“There is little doubt that ‘The walking delegate’ is one of the strongest books that the season has produced.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“There is more genuine, living, human sociology in it than is to be found in half of the avowed studies of the relations of men in human society.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w. |
“Both as a human document and as a work of art, ‘The walking delegate’ is a book of extraordinary worth.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Scott, Robert H. Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. [**]$10. Scribner.
An exhaustive account of a three year Antarctic expedition which sailed in 1901 and spent two years below the Antarctic circle, making a new farthest south record. The geographical and scientific discoveries made are given in detail, the adventures met with and the new lands, mountains, and glaciers seen, are elaborately described. For the benefit of future voyagers there is a minute account of management and equipment of the “Discovery.” The books are written by the commander of the expedition and are illustrated from photographs and sketches, many of which are in color.
[*] “Looking on the book as a whole we cannot but think that it would have gained by compression, and by a somewhat more definite marking of the main lines.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1096. O. 21, ‘05. 1410w. |
[*] “We cordially congratulate the author and the publishers on having combined to produce a book which is in every way worthy of so remarkable an expedition.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 581. O. 28. 2510w. |
[*] “The freshness and novelty of the subject matter command an immediate hearing, and the charm of the narrative, the well balanced perspective, and above all the manly record of heroic endeavor here revealed bid fair to make Captain Scott’s modest account one of the classics of polar exploration.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 432. D. 16, ‘05. 2880w. |
[*] “Lieutenant Mulock’s maps deserve special praise for their beauty, their accuracy, and their fulness of detail, while it would be impossible to speak too highly of the 260 illustrations that are not only an adornment to the book, but enable us almost as much as does the text to realize the conditions amidst which this expedition spent over two years.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 334. O. 13, ‘05. 1460w. |
[*] “Capt. Scott has written a book that will have a conspicuous place among the annals of polar effort, and it is worthy of it.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 793. N. 25, ‘05. 2340w. |
[*] “Captain Scott has a singularly happy style, free from the stiffness of Cook and the formality of Ross, yet terse, vigorous and direct. This book comes as near perfection as we ever expect a book of travel to be.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 685. N. 25, ‘05. 2060w. |
[*] “Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part of it is the production of the ablest and most interesting record of travel to which the present century has yet given birth.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 566. O. 14, ‘05. 1490w. |
Scott, Samuel Parsons. History of the Moorish empire in Europe. 3v. [**]$10. Lippincott.
“Two volumes cover the whole period of Moorish occupation in the peninsula, while the third contains kulturgeschichtliche material of some interest and value. This is brought forward in the form of a series of essays on the arts, institutions, and influence of the Muslims, as well as on the Jews and the Moriscoes in Spain.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Scott’s three volumes are obviously the result of conscientious and comprehensive reading in some half-dozen languages, but their author lacks the historical temperament. His work, though not without a certain old-fashioned dignity of style, is too monotonous to be popular and too uncritical in its affirmations to content the trained student of history.” F. W. Williams.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 372. Ja. ‘05. 850w. |
“It cannot be said that on the whole the ‘History of the Moorish empire in Europe’ is either a safe or a well-balanced book.” A. C. Howland.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 354. Mr. ‘05. 920w. |
Scott, Sir Walter. [Waverley novels.] 25v. $31.25. Crowell.
The world created by Scott in his Waverley novels and peopled with vitally real characters will never grow old-fashioned nor uninteresting. The Waverley novels hold the present day fiction reader no less than the student of literature who appreciates the significance of the Scott novel as the forerunner of historical romance. The present edition is made from newly set type; each story contains the author’s own introduction, besides notes, glossary and index to characters and scenes. There are excellent illustrations, many of them being reproductions of paintings by the Fine arts association of Scotland. The books are strongly bound, boxed and sold only in sets.
Scott, Sir Walter. [Ivanhoe.] $1.25. Crowell.
The issue of Ivanhoe as one of those attractive little pocket volumes, the “Thin paper classics” series will be welcomed by all lovers of Scott.
Scott, Sir Walter. [Kenilworth.] $1.25. Crowell.
That this thin pocket volume with the limp leather binding of the “Thin paper classics” series can contain Kenilworth complete and in readable type, will be to the reader both a surprise and a satisfaction.
Scott, Sir Walter. [Kenilworth.] $1.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Luxembourg” library, Kenilworth appears attractively bound in cloth with gold decorations, a photogravure frontispiece and seventeen full page illustrations.
Scott, William Fry. Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.
“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.
“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and correct.” R. P. Miller.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 1250w. |
Scruggs, William Lindsay. The Colombian and Venezuelan republics. $1.75. Little.
The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal company and the organization of a new company to take over the franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y. Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the results of his own observation.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 593. My. ‘05. 100w. |
“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”
| + | Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Statement of scope). |
“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1450w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
“His book is probably the most reliable and authentic of any by an American author. The chapter on Panama which Mr. Scruggs adds to his book contains nothing that is new either in the way of history or of conclusion.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 254. F. 18. ‘05. 450w. |
“A volume full of interesting and valuable information.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 120w. |
Seaman, Louis L. From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese. [**]$1.50. Appleton.
The immediate purpose of Dr Seaman’s journey to the front with the Japanese army was that of inspecting the sanitary and medical work among them. His experiences and adventures incident to that undertaking are most interestingly narrated in the present volume. His chronicles thrill with the spirit of Banzai Nippon, the shout of patriotism in the “Land of the rising sun.” He shows the course of law and order that transforms a Japanese citizen into a patriot and warrior, and points to the masterly preparation for war, based on scientific principles, which Japan has made a national business. The book is valuable for its generous amount of general information.
“Breezy, readable in the first degree. It is spicy and, like red pepper, is calculated less to irritate than to stimulate.” W. Elliot Griffis.
| + + | Critic. 46: 471. My. ‘05. 170w. |
“If Mr. Palmer’s book is taken as proof of Japan’s capabilities in destructive warfare, that of Dr. Seaman’s ‘From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ is equally important as showing their constructive and conserving qualities.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 10. Ja. 1, ‘05. 830w. |
[*] “It is one of the most interesting and intrinsically instructive of the now numerous studies of the Russo-Japanese war.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
“The text is colloquial in manner.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 216. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1320w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 125. Ja. ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 160w. |
Seaman, Owen. Harvest of chaff. [**]$1.25. Holt.
A group of clever parodies which array Browning, Wordsworth, Tennyson and other poets of the Victorian era in an almost grotesquely modern light. The volume is a companion to “Borrowed plumes.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w. |
“In many ways a riper book than any of the others. The humor of it, while quieter, is more subtle, and the phrase and versification of a more finished poetic style.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 470w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 250w. |
Sebring, Arad Joy. Girdle of gladness. $1. Badger, R. G.
Fourteen short poems upon such subjects as, The twenty-third psalm, The power of the church, Supremacy of Christ, and Amen of Lord’s prayer.
“Other collections of verse, pleasant but not dynamic, ... comprising a dozen or more rather monotonous but sincere devotional poems.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
Sedgefield, Walter John, ed. See Battle of Maldon.
Seeberg, Reinhold. Text-book of the history [*] of doctrines; rev. 1904, by the author; trans. by C: E. Hay. 2v. $4. Lutheran pub. soc.
The first volume of Dr. Seeberg’s work treats “History of doctrines in the ancient church”; the second, “History of doctrines in the middle and modern ages.” The material from which the history is built has been drawn entirely from original sources.
Selincourt, Basil de. Giotto. [*]$2. Scribner.
“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.
“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 550w. |
“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 152. Jl. 29. 2100w. |
“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right relation to his people and his time.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w. |
“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as, if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its kind.”
| + | Nation. 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 700w. |
“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. |
“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 160w. |
Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love stories containing no question of faith.
Sergeant, Philip W. Courtship of Catherine the Great. [*]$2.50. Lippincott.
“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of 1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.
“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing enough.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 207. Ag. 12, 170w. |
“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”
| + | Nation. 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 640w. |
“The book however, granting its right to existence, is well put together.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w. |
Setchell, William Albert. Limu. 25c. Univ. of Cal.
“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr. Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the different kinds of limu.”—Science.
Reviewed by Charles E. Bessey.
| Science, n.s. 21: 756. My. 12. ‘05. 130w. |
Seton, Ernest Thompson. [Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer.] $2. Scribner.
The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart; Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.
[*] “The author’s power has increased as his style has become more simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or less entertaining.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 310w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Woodmyth and fable. [*]$1.25. Century.
A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 70w. |
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 130w. |
“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these matters—especially when self-illustrated.”
| + | Bookm. 22: 87. S. ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 250w. |
“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 38: 386 Je. 1, ‘05. 360w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”
| — | Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 18, ‘05. 30w. |
“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 346. My. 27, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05, 50w. |
“The stories are short and admirably adapted for children.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can arrest the attention.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 30w. |
Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh. Laboratory and factory tests in electrical engineering. [*]$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation (direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up, such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test, calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.
“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 570w. |
Severy, Melvin Linwood. Mystery of June 13th. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly badly written book.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the highest class,—after Poe’s.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 763. D. ‘05. 90w. |
Shafer, Sarah Andrew. Beyond chance of change. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”; and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.
| Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w. | ||
| + | Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“Mrs. Shafer comprehends the divine ingenuity of the childish spirit.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 420w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 230w. |
“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful transcription of life in a little community in the central West before the fever and rush of recent years set in.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
Shahan, Very Rev. Thomas Joseph. The middle ages. [*]$2. Benziger.
A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,” “Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.
“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 914. Jl. ‘05. 440w. |
“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to constant use in the class-room of history.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 674. F. ‘05. 350w. |
“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and obviously sincere.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 220w. (Gives contents). |
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. [**]50c; limp lea. [**]75c. Crowell.
“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface, introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument, sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions, illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.
| Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| + + | Nation. 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 608. S. 10, ‘05. 150w. |
Shakespeare, William. Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). [*]$4. Lippincott.
“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.
“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources, and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.
| + + + | Atlan. 95: 231. F. ‘05. 1250w. |
“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 184. Mr. ‘35. 490w. |
“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in every page.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 1940w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w. | ||
| + + + | The Westminster Review. 163: 110. Ja. ‘05. 330w. |
Shakespeare, William. [Merchant of Venice.] 35c. Holt.
Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary prints.
Shakespeare, William. [Sonnets]; with introd. and notes by H. C. Beeching. [*]60c. Ginn.
“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.
“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets, or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day Shakespearean criticism.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 475. Ap. 15. 360w. | |
| Ind. 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w. |
“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate. But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 290w. |
“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 620w. |
“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able contribution to the literature of the subject.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 177. F. 4, ‘05. 1500w. |
[*] Shakespeare, William. [Tragedie of King Lear]; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The latest volume in the “First folio” Shakespeare.
[*] Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Man and the earth. [**]$1.50. Fox.
Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the duty that comes therefrom.”
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 270w. |
Shand, Alexander Innes. Gun room, [*]$1; [*]$1.25. Lane.
This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.
“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of practical hints as to the care of a gun.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 390w. |
[*] Sharp, Mary. Point and pillow lace: a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them. [*]$2. Dutton.
“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French, Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the Goldenberg publication of last year.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 220w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 40w. |
Sharp, William. Literary geography, [*]$3.50. Scribner.
“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray, Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.
| + | Critic. 46: 480. My. ‘05. 100w. |
“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and uncommonly beautiful.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 280w. |
“Mr. Sharp’s anecdotes are numerous and amusing.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 120. F. 9, ‘05. 570w. |
“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1840w. (Survey of contents). |
Sharts, Joseph William. Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.
The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The action takes place in the author’s native state during the period preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway figure conspicuously.
“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”
| + | Ind. 59: 334. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w. |
“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions. The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 255. Ja. ‘05. 330w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 90w. |
Shattuck, George Burbank, ed. Bahama islands. [**]$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ... is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.
“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 120w. |
“Each special student will find his own subject well handled.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 271. Ag. 25, ‘05. 710w. |
“Is a monograph of high and varied interest and general readability.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 397. My. 18, ‘05. 240w. |
“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 154. Je. 15, ‘05. 1470w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| + + + | R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
Reviewed by W. M. D.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 21: 953. Je. 23, ‘05. 1900w. (Abstract of contents.) |
Shaw, George Bernard. [Irrational knot.] $1.50. Brentano’s.
Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied happiness with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too. You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”
“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1094. O. 21, ‘05. 1170w. | |
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 420w. |
“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the book now as being out of date.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 350. O. 20, ‘05. 830w. |
“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love among the artists.’”
| + — | Nation. 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 350w. |
“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| * | + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 320w. |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will sustain others through the labour of reading it.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 8. N. 18, ‘05. 780w. |
Shaw, George Bernard. On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.” 75c. J. W. Luce.
Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism and make a man content with something less than the best work of which he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its brimstone-flavored hot gospel.
Shaw, L. H. De Visme. Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.
This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 373. N. 8, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that, while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 430w. | |
| * | + — | Spec. 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 130w. |
Shearer, J. B. Modern mysticism. [*]75c. Presbyterian com.
A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Glenanaar. [†]$1.50. Longmans.
“Glenanaar” is an Irish story, partly historical, whose motif is the stigma which to the mind of the Irishman must be visited upon the kith and kin of an informer—any one who has given evidence in a state trial. The central figure of the tale is Daniel O’Connell who in British parliament as well as in Glenanaar fought for the freedom of his native country. A sprightly modern romance claims a good share of interest in which an Irish-American, an Irish widow, her two daughters and a parish priest figure prominently.
“The book is of course, written from the point of view of partisan, but we confidently believe that even readers as strongly prejudiced on the other side will be unable to resist its fascination.”
| + | Acad. 68: 711. Jl. 8, ‘05. 330w. | |
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 250w. |
“Canon Sheehan has suffered from his wealth of imagination, and, by condensing into one story materials that should have served to set forth two, has injured the unity of his creation.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 81: 832. S. ‘05. 1260w. |
“It is deep-rooted in its racial element, interpreting Irish character with an eye by no means blind to its faults, but always with penetration and tender sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected in sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and withal, not lacking in touches of humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 230w. |
“Abounding Irish humor and delightful bits of character-sketching are to be found in this novel.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 540w. |
“A vigorous and skilful piece of work.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 270w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“The well-told tale is so full of humor, pathos, and romance that it cannot fail to win the interest of every reader.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 370w. |
“Is a story of Irish life filled with a delicate humor and pathos.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 221. Ag. 22, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w. |
“Irish peasants—real, not stage Irishmen—are excellent company, and Canon Sheehan is a good guide.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 390w. |
“The machinery of the story is, then rather cumbrous, but the shortcomings of its structure and arrangement are not likely to affect a reader who can appreciate eloquence, enthusiasm, and geniality.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 292. Ag. 26, ‘05. 880w. |
Sheldon, Anna R., and Newell, M. Moyca. [Medici balls.] [*]$3.50. Doubleday.
The title is derived from the balls on the Medici coat of arms, which was everywhere encountered by the authors during their wanderings. The journeys consist of trips from Florence to the Mugello, Prato, Chianti, Lucca, Pistoja, Brancoli, and Barga. There are over a hundred photogravures of people, landscapes, buildings and works of art, an index and a full list of illustrations.
“A charming portfolio of studies to be enjoyed by all.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
| + | Dial. 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 300w. |
“Is narrated in a chatty, discursive fashion, with a due amount of historical reminiscence and a vivid description of present conditions.”
| + | Nation. 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
“The excursions of the authors are of particular interest to the lovers of Tuscany, because we are taken into rather untrodden districts. The out-of-doors life of these districts is described for us in pleasant detail.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
Sheldon, Charles Monroe. Heart of the world: a story of Christian socialism. [†]$1.25. Revell.
“The story of an Episcopal minister, who wrote and published, anonymously, a book entitled ‘The Christian socialist’ and on the occasion of his consecration as a bishop renounces his office and the pulpit because of the consecrating bishop’s charge to him to oppose socialism and this book in particular.”—Ind.
“It abounds in thrilling situations and sensational episodes which have nothing essentially to do with the story.”
| — | Ind. 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
“The principles and aims of Christian socialism are here presented with dramatic effect in the form of a story.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w. |
Sheldon, Walter L. Duties in the home and family. $1.25. Welch.
Lessons on household duties prepared for children ranging from ten to thirteen years of age. The book has been added to the author’s “Ethics for the young” series, and its “ethical keynote is the preservation and strengthening of family ties not only in childhood and youth, but thruout adult life.” (Educ. R.) “The motives and limits of conduct are developed by questions and dialog and enforced by aphorisms, stories, poems and illustrations.” (Ind.)
“This elasticity of treatment strikes us, by the way, as one of the most useful characters of this eminently practical work. At the same time, Mr. Sheldon’s ethics have a strong backbone.” Wilmon H. Sheldon.
| + + | Educ. R. 29: 312. Mr. ‘05. 590w. |
“The instruction is not sectarian or markedly religious, and could be used in any school.”
| + | Ind. 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w. |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. [Complete poetical works, including material never before printed in any edition of the poems]; ed. with textual notes and bibliographical list of editions by T: Hutchinson. [*]$2.50. Oxford.
“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr. Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.
[*] “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 840w. |
“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 100w. |
“An authentic, complete, and accurately printed text.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 100w. |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahon. [**]$1.40. McClurg.
The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The selections are grouped under the various years included in the time covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from England during the last four years of his life.
[*] “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the point.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 470w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “The whole forms a delightful sort of poetic itinerary, whether for persons who are actually in Italy, or for those who travel in imagination only.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 270w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “A very attractive and interesting book to all lovers of Shelley.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder. Red cravat. $1.50. Macmillan.
A novel of the Prussia of Frederick William, that fantastic monarch whose giant grenadiers wore the badge of the red cravat. A tall young Englishman is seized and thrust into the royal guards through the influence of his rival for the hand of the beautiful English girl, Lady Joan Chrystal. Later the unfortunate guardsman receives the king’s orders to marry a certain peasant lass—but he doesn’t. The characters are all very human but not at all modern.
“Compared to the general average of historical fiction, this novel must be pronounced a decided success.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3. 230w. |
“The novel owes much to its setting, and, while a story of adventure, seems made upon almost new lines from its leisurely style.”
| + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 520w. |
“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself. But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance. The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality, which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 180w. |
Sheringham, Hugh T. Angler’s hours. $1.50. Macmillan.
Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.
| + | Acad. 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w. |
“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures of the delightful surroundings of the art.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 620w. |
“Mr. Sheringham wields the pen of a cultured gentleman.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 490w. |
“There is a pleasant and old-world flavour in his style. There is instruction in his essays too.” L. W. B.
| + + | Nature. 72: 220. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w. |
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 740w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w. |
“Mr. Sheringham’s book is delightful.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w. |
Sherman, Ellen Burns. Taper lights, $1.10. Gordon-Flagg.
Eleven cleverly written essays upon such subjects as, The salt lake of literature, being the salt tears shed by sympathetic readers, thruout the ages; Just a few of the reasons why love grows cold; Between the lines, meaning facial lines; The devil’s fancy-work; and The lifting of veils in literature.
“This is a readable though not a striking book.”
| + | Ath. 1905. 1: 558. My. 6. 450w. |
[*] Sherman, Waldo Henry. Civics: studies in American citizenship. [*]90c. Macmillan.
“A book ‘for students who have at least reached high school age.’ ... The volume is divided into two parts, ‘Studies in American citizenship’ and ‘Collegeville.’ In the first, Land and government, Civil organizations, Banks, Civic and municipal institutions, Justice, etc. are treated. In the second, ‘Collegeville’ represents a township and the various problems of American citizenship are solved in an ideal fashion. The Declaration of independence and the constitution are appended.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
[*] “The purpose is worthy indeed, and some of the methods of presentation show that the author is concrete and understands how to instruct. But he should not have undertaken to write this book before thinking himself out clearly and fully. The sins against good English are numerous, and seriously affect the educational purpose of the book.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 752. N. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Highly practical in its bearings.”
| + | Dial. 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “An excellent handbook for the training of young men for citizenship.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 60w. |
Shields, Charles Woodruff. Philosophia ultima, v. 3. Scientific problems of religion and the Christian evidences of the physical and psychical science. [**]$3. Scribner.
“The late Professor Shields, of Princeton, obtained deserved reputation as a highly appreciated academic preacher, and as a man of literary genius.... The best part of his life was given to working out the scheme of philosophy whose prolegomena in pamphlet form appeared in 1861, and whose concluding volume is now issued. The goal of the final philosophy is justly conceived by Professor Shields as combining ‘the perfectability of science and the demonstrability of religion.’ In the present volume the scientific problems of religion and its scientific evidences are successively discussed.”—Outlook.
“He was a man of learning, in a certain obsolescent way, and the work may be used to advantage by others than psychologists, for whom it should be a document.”
| + | Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 200w. |
“As to the scientific evidence of religion, one must say that Professor Shields’s argument so oscillates from strict to loose, and from maximum to minimum claims, as to yield rather limited satisfaction, except to a somewhat thin-spun conception of the term ‘scientific.’”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] Shirazi, J. K. M. Life of Omar Al-Khay-yámi. [**]$1.50. McClurg.
“This account of the life of Omar from the Persian standpoint, together with an explanation of his philosophy as understood by admirers in his native land, has been modestly and carefully written. The volume is well illuminated with Persian designs.”—Critic.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “Mr. Shirazi’s English style is clear and simple, and his presentation of his points exceedingly interesting.”
| + | Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The only real blemish on the book is the author’s anti-religious bias, which he doubtless regards as ‘smart.’ His transliteration of Persian names and book-titles shows little consistency. On the other hand, he has evidently read deeply in Persian sources for the material of his biography.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 470. D. 7, ‘05. 590w. |
Sholl, Anna McClure. Port of storms. † $1.50. Appleton.
A young New York physician is loved by a dancer whom he has cured of pneumonia, by a lovely young girl, and by a rich and cruel enchantress, whose aim in life is social recognition. The little dancer hides her secret and sensibly marries someone else, the enchantress drives the hero into brain fever by deciding to marry a leader of the coveted exclusive set, and the sweet young girl is left to claim her doubtful reward.
“A strenuous story with a problem ending.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 263. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“An interesting analytical novel.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22. ‘05. 20w. |
Shore, W. Teignmouth. Dickens, $1. Macmillan.
An addition to Bell’s “Miniature series of great writers.”
“Mr. Teignmouth Shore knows his subject thoroughly; his admiration is tempered by sound judgment, his praise is never exaggerated. The book ... is marked by scholarship, critical ability and good taste.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 126. F. 11. ‘05 80w. |
“The criticism is just on the whole.”
| + | Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] Shorter, Clement King. Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, [**]$1. Scribner.
A brief enthusiastic biography which supplements Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life” and includes many of Charlotte Brontë’s letters which had not appeared when that life was written. The depressing story of the whole Brontë family is given, and there is much minute detail about the strangely intertwined lives of the three sisters and the circumstances under which their works were produced.
[*] “He is able to correct Mrs. Gaskell on many points. His style, too, is of the sloppiest.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1149. N. 4, ‘05. 850w. |
[*] “Written without prejudice, and with sincere love and admiration of the famous sisters, Mr. Shorter’s book is a welcome addition to Brontë literature.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “But the little book cannot honestly be said to have much life or interest about it. Its most original point is the view taken by Mr. Shorter of the importance of M. Héger in the making of Charlotte Brontë.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] “The task, on the whole, he has performed with much skill, with an entire power of making even less enthusiastic readers share with him something of ‘the glamour of the Brontës.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 1340w. |
[*] “Mr. Shorter, to put it briefly, tries to compress far too much into one modest volume.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 714. N. 25, ‘05. 200w. |
Shorthouse, Joseph Henry. Life, letters, and literary remains of J. H: Shorthouse; ed. by his wife. 2v. [*]$4.25. Macmillan.
The first of these volumes contains a critical introduction by the Rev. J. Hunter Smith, a great variety of letters written by and to the author of John Inglesant, and a detailed account of his quiet life which was devoted to culture, literature, and the family chemical works at Birmingham. The second volume contains his literary remains, including three short stories and other hitherto unpublished writings.
| + | Acad. 68: 437. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1760w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 683. Je. 3. 2840w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 170w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
| + + | Nation. 81: 169. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1760w. |
“The book is a worthy and illuminating account of a man whose most characteristic work is not destined soon to perish.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 1570w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 90w. |
“On the whole the first of these volumes gives a fair sketch of the man, though the growth and origin of the books, which should be the most interesting things in the life are scamped.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 22. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1440w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 713. My. 13, ‘05. 1870w. |
Shute, Henry Augustus. Real boys. [†]$1.25. Dillingham.
The doings of Plupy, Beany, Pent, Puzzy, Whack, Bug, Skinny, Chick, Pop, Pile, and some of the girls are here recounted. There are snowball battles, fishing excursions, parties, races, fights and adventures. The illustrations catch the spirit of the text.
“The matter is but a variation on the old topics, while the manner has no startling touch of brilliancy; but the adventures of Plupy and his friends cannot fail to make comfortable reading.”
| + | Critic. 47: 478. N. ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Lit. D. 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 330w. |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 340w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 120w. |
Sichel, Edith. Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. [*]$3. Dutton.
In this faithful biography the queen regent of France is shown in her true colors and appears as an ambitious woman in whom was both good and evil, not as the monster of cruelty which history has made familiar.
“Well written, authoritative, and sincere, it is a model of biography. Above all, the author has made a patient attempt to brush aside superstitions, and to arrive at the truth. Now and again we are not able to agree with Miss Sichel.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 439. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1650w. |
“A high standard of literary ability pervades the volume in spite of a few lapses.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 521. Ap. 29. 1890w. |
“Miss Sichel’s essays are interesting, and the book as a whole marks a distinct advance on the author’s ‘Household of the Lafayettes.’”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 530w. |
“An extremely interesting and comprehensive history of the first two-thirds of the life of Catherine de’ Medici.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 1690w. |
“Is a subtle analysis and vivid presentation of the personalities and ideas of the reigns of Henri II. and Francois II.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 260w. |
“An industrious and careful volume.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 183. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1080w. |
“A series of interesting and attractive historical studies.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 896. Je. 17, ‘05. 2090w. |
Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred. Professor’s legacy. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A German professor bequeaths his work on corals and his only daughter to his favorite pupil, a young Englishman. The completing and publishing of the unfinished work prove a simple task in comparison with the undertaking to win a girl’s heart. To be sure this scholarly individual pursues one steady course instead of resorting to many devices, and it is due to a fault of method rather than purpose that the end desired is deferred so long.
“Is one of the most interesting and well-told novels of the season, and it should be one of the most popular.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1130. O. 28, ‘05. 370w. | |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 460w. |
[*] “The tale as a whole is quite as entertaining as any of the earlier romances of the same type.”
| + | Nation. 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “Is a very readable little romance—a good companion for a railway journey or a rainy afternoon.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 450w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “The story is, all in all, well worth reading, although hardly likely to become one of the great literary successes of the season.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
Sidgwick, Henry. Miscellaneous essays and addresses. [*]$3.25. Macmillan.
“The many-sided activity of the late professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge is strikingly represented in this collection of essays and addresses. Sixteen in number, they take for theme subjects of an ethical, sociological, economic, educational, and purely literary interest.... An idea of the varied contents of this helpful volume may be conveyed by a few chapter titles: ‘Ecce Homo’ (a criticism of J. R. Seeley’s ’Study of the life of Jesus’), ‘The poems and prose remains of Arthur Henry Clough,’ ‘The scope and method of economic science,’ ‘The economic lessons of socialism,’ ‘The relation of ethics to sociology,’ ‘The theory of classical education.’”—Outlook.
Reviewed by F. Kettle.
| + + | Acad. 68: 45. Ja. 14, ‘05. 820w. |
“As an expression of the personality of Henry Sidgwick the collection has interest and value; as an embodiment of the Cambridge spirit it has enduring significance for all who care about tracing intellectual tendencies. The expression throughout is accurate; nothing is said more or less than is intended. The style is lucid, subtle, stimulating, never unpleasant, now and again humorous; never brilliant, persuasive, or charming. Stronger in criticism than construction. Entirely without magnetic quality.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 75. Ja. 21. 2390w. |
“The form of an essay or address is especially suitable to topics of this kind, which belong to the border land between the sciences rather than to the content of any one of them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 37: 250. O. ‘05. 1210w. |
“What they give us is a series of side-lights on the development of a mind of singular openness to contemporary influences.” J. H. Muirhead.
| + + | Hibbert J. 3: 604. Ap. ‘05. 3500w. |
“It includes a wide range of subjects—economics, education, and literature—and it treats them all with a solidity, a fullness of knowledge, a many-sidedness, and an occasional sparkle of dry light which keep them alive and informing even when their immediate interest has begun to shift or wane.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 3870w. | |
| + + | Nature. 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 660w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Survey of contents). |
“... These characteristics are palpably apparent—the intellectual sincerity, the openmindedness, the faculty of acute analysis, the precision of statement, the discriminating taste that were so emphatically his.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w. | |
| + | Spec. 95: 500. O. 7, ‘05. 570w. |
Sidgwick, Henry. Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures and essays. [*]$3.25. Macmillan.
“The late Professor Sidgwick, a masterly critic, left unpublished lectures and fragments which occupy the larger portion of this volume. They discuss the philosophical teachings of thinkers so widely contrasted as Kant, Thomas Hill Green, and Herbert Spencer. The remainder of the volume consists of essays reprinted from ‘Mind’ and the ‘Journal of philology.’ Of the lectures much the greater part is devoted to a vigorous criticism of Kant, and these were finished to their lamented author’s satisfaction while the others remain less complete.”—Outlook.
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1360w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
Sidis, Boris, and Goodhart, Simon Phillip. Multiple personality: an experimental investigation into the nature of human individuality. [**]$2.50. Appleton.
In the main this work is the analysis of a reactionary second personality resulting from an accident befalling the Rev. T. C. Hanna a few years since. When he returned to consciousness, he was possessed of an entirely different self, “which may be understood only by comparing it to the birth of a person possessed immediately of matured mental and physical functions.” The phenomena of this state, the return to his primary personality, and the struggle which the physicians experienced in establishing him once more on the mental basis of his former self—there being for some time a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendency to alternate between the two human individualities—make a study as strange as it is interesting and important to the scientific world.
“The close and accurate study of Mr. Hanna’s case throws a flood of light on personality and cognate themes, and is a most valuable contribution to the literature of psychopathy.” Albert Warren Ferris.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 185. Ap. ‘05. 1480w. |
“The most original as well as most interesting portion of the volume is given over to a painstaking account of a remarkable loss of personality, in many respects the most complete on record.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 390w. |
“Dr. Sidis finds corroboratory evidence in support of his view that multiple consciousness is the law, not the exception.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1419. Je. 22, ‘05. 720w. |
“Truly one of the most fascinating of the fairy-tales of science, for the observing and recording of which Dr. Sidis and Dr. Goodhart deserve all credit.”
| + | Nation. 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 940w. |
“The volume deserves, as it doubtless will find, a useful place in the psychologist’s equipment for the comprehension of the varieties and the variations of personality.” J. J.
| + + | Psychol. Bull. 2: 284. Ag. ‘05. 890w. |
“Whatever its positive merits may be, the extraordinary jargon in which it is written and the painful dogmatism of its authors go far to obscure those merits.”
| — — + | Spec. 94: 613. Ap. 29, ‘05. 900w. |
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. [Quo vadis, a tale of the time of Nero.] $1.50. Crowell.
This new volume in the “Luxembourg” series contains “Quo vadis” as translated from the Polish by Dr. S. A. Binion and A. Malevsky, and seventeen illustrations from drawings by Jan Styka.
Silberrad, Una Lucy. Wedding of the Lady of Lovell: and other matches of Tobiah’s making. $1.50. Doubleday.
Six short love stories in each of which unromantic Tobiah, the dissenter, acts as matchmaker. They are wholesome tales of crude times, and each has its own unique adventure in which there is the superstition and witchcraft found among the marsh-men; but the will of the Lord as manifested in the sturdy Tobiah, always triumphs, and the little blind god triumphs also.
“Miss Silberrad has quality; she has the power to create atmosphere. The stories in this book have all the hallmark of real ability, though their artificial nature makes them difficult to handle.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
“As regards actual writing and imaginative quality, this sheaf of short stories is above the usual, if not her usual, level.”
| + | Ath. 1: 494. Ap. 15, ‘05. 160w. | |
| Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“A thoroughly enjoyable book. Stories more interesting or more wholesome it would be hard to find; still harder to find any of equal originality and excellence of workmanship.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w. |
“Something of the dream-spirit of the Norse saga and folklore dwells in the stories, so full are they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true romance. Full of genuine humanity, too.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w. |
Simpkinson, C. H. Thomas Harrison, regicide and major-general. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
“In this life of Thomas Harrison there is to be found the history of the leader of the Fifth-Monarchy men and one of the ablest soldiers of the seventeenth century.... Mr. Simpkinson’s book shows how noble a character this regicide had. Harrison was as brave on the scaffold as he was at Marston Moor or at Appleby Bridge, where his personal bravery saved the army.”—Acad.
“Had the story been written with a clearer style and with fewer digressions it would have been more valuable.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 273. Mr. 18, ‘05. 540w. |
“A good half of this book consists of quotations, and long quotations. His quotations are inexact; he is not discriminating in his use of authorities; his evidence occasionally fails to bear out the assertions based upon it; and his judgment is not sound.”
| — — — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 153. O. ‘05. 550w. |
“Mr. Simpkinson’s ‘Life of Harrison’ is scholarly and sympathetic without being marred by the parade of extenuation.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 660w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 820w. (Abstract of contents.) |
“[The story] is entertainingly, if somewhat unskillfully, told.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w. |
Simpson, George. Naval constructor: a vade mecum of ship design for students, naval architects, ship-builders and owners, marine superintendents, engineers and draughtsmen. $5. Van Nostrand.
“This handbook is a compilation of rules, formulas and tables pertaining to shipbuilding, with just sufficient descriptive matter to make the application of the rules clear.”—Engin. N.
“The author has endeavored to arrange the book in a logical manner, but he has not succeeded in attaining his object as completely as might be desired. He also repeats somewhat. The index is not as complete as it should be, and the table of contents is simply a list of headings for which no pages are given. The book is certainly up-to-date and should receive a warm welcome from all who are interested in ship design.” Amasa Trowbridge.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 920w. |
“There is compactly stowed nearly, if not quite, all the material data needed by those engaged in the design, construction, equipment, and maintenance of ships.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 80w. |
Simpson, W. J. Treatise on plague. [*]$5. Macmillan.
The obvious need of scientific study along the lines of the history and therapeutic aspect of plague in India is partially met by Prof. W. J. Simpson’s work of four hundred and fifty pages “elaborately illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams, in which are presented the results of the latest studies of the disease made by competent specialists throughout the world. Dr. Simpson speaks appreciatively of the Clayton gas process of disinfection in India.” (R. of Rs.)
[*] “It abounds in points of practical importance, and should, therefore, prove a most serviceable text-book to all whose duty brings them into contact with plague either directly or indirectly.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 450w. |
“It marks a distinct and important addition to what has hitherto been written about the subject. We have no doubt that it is destined to become a valuable and important aid to the student, the medical officer of health, to the epidemiologist, the sanitarian, and last, but not least, to the administrator.” E. Klein.
| + | Nature. 72: 529. S. 28, ‘05. 2940w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 150w. |
Sinclair, May. [Divine fire.] $1.50. Holt.
Savage Keith Rickman, son of a cockney book dealer, has in him the divine fire of genius which burns within him until, with the passing years, all the grosser parts of his personality are consumed. When the book opens he has written a tragedy, a classical thing, which makes friends for him among the critics even though they do not ask him home to dine because he is “not quite a gentleman.” In fact “his notion of pleasure was getting drunk and making love to Miss Poppy Grare,” of the Variety theatre. His meeting with Lucia Harden, typical of refinement and tradition, on whom he inflicts almost physical suffering when he “drops his aitches,” gives him an ideal to work toward, and he is never really untrue to it, even when he is engaged to marry Flossy, the little clerk. With a sense of honor almost too keen for the world in which he lives, he struggles on as journalist and poet until he reaches success, fame and his ideals. The book is unusual in its strength of plot and character, and it is most real when it forsakes the ideal and tells us that even the divine fire cannot shut out the coarser cravings of a man’s nature when he is young, a genius half-awake.
“Has an acceptable style, in all ways suited to the matter it embodies, a style with flexibility and humor employing a large vocabulary, cultivated and agreeable. As yet, she lacks that final touch of mastery by which a line condenses the whole result of ingenious mental processes.”
| + + — | Atlan. 95: 699. My. ‘05. 630w. |
“Author has accomplished the difficult feat of taking a genius for its hero and making him seem plausible. A sound plot. Its faults are mainly those of excess. But no page bears evidence of careless work. It shows throughout unusual knowledge and an unusual degree of skill in applying it, and it ranks unmistakably among the best of recent novels.” F. M. Colby.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 66. Mr. ‘05. 1070w. |
“One does not hesitate to pronounce this book literature. A keen understanding, an ethical interpretation, and a lyric style have combined to produce one of the noblest, most inspiring, and absorbing books we have read in years.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 129. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“It is scarcely a spontaneous work of genius; but it is at least a brilliant piece of workmanship, of unusual range and power. The comfortably ample canvas abounds in masculine characters, and it is not too much to say that there is not a failure, not even a commonplace achievement, among them. In dealing with her small group of women the author’s penetration becomes blunter, her power weakens. Supremely interesting. Admirably constructed. A positive hardness, almost a lack of fineness, somewhat disqualify her as a ‘mouthpiece of humanity.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + — | Critic. 46: 183. F. ‘05. 630w. |
“Drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one’s admiration. It rises, moreover, to real distinction of style, besides being of absorbing interest from cover to cover. It is the sort of book that one begins by skimming, and ends by giving the closest attention to paragraph and phrase.” W. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 260w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 437. F. 23, ‘05. 1160w. |
[*] “Aside from the literary shop talk in this novel the author has touched the heights and depths of inspiration. This is why parts of the book seem to sag so woefully.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“The aim is high, the treatment is eminently appropriate, the interest absorbing.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 1010w. |
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1150w. |
“Pervaded by ... seriousness of invention and stamped with the distinction of high-class workmanship. This story has great nobility of spirit; although somewhat too elaborate, it is a novel to be reckoned as one of the real things of the time.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w. |
“It is to be regretted that the story, as a whole, does not reach the height achieved by the characterization. The impression one receives from the whole production is that of a tremendous and generous power; a power that includes humor, wit, analytical and philosophical power, scholarship, vivid and trenchant strength in characterization. Something that critics call ‘fusion’ ... is absent from the book, or is not there in full.”
| + + — | Reader. 5: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1760w. |
[*] “Though a mediocre piece of construction, marred by diffuseness and irrelevancies, this novel should be read for its splendidly successful character studies.”
| + — | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 170w. |
“She writes remarkably well, though with a tendency to exaggeration and exuberance, and she has the usual feminine weakness for adjectives.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 420w. |
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Manassas. $1.50. Macmillan.
This novel without a heroine is really a romantic history of the years preceding the Civil war. The story ends with the first battle of Manassas. The southern hero attends college in Boston, and there becomes an abolitionist; on returning home his eyes are more fully opened to the horrors of slavery and he eventually joins the Union army. “Manassas” is the first of an epic trilogy, the volumes to come being “Gettysburg,” and “Appomattox.”
“It is one of the most thrillingly interesting books of its kind that we have ever read. The real drama of the book is the historical clash of the two civilizations, and individuals seem to be made use of only by way of incidental illustration. It is history written with warmth and an eye for dramatic effect, ... but it is nevertheless essentially history. It is a work deserving of very high praise.” W. M. Payne.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 630w. |
“His power is well sustained through the long narrative.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
Sinclair, William A. Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson. [**]$1.50. Small.
“This book gives the educated negro’s own view regarding the fitness of his race for full citizenship. It contains a complete record of the civil history of the American negro, showing what the race has done for the country in peace and in war, and what the negro has accomplished for his own uplifting.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “The style is clean and forceful. Of its kind it is the best any negro has written. It is the thesis of a special pleader making strong his case by ignoring the other side.”
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 752. N. ‘05. 240w. | |
| + — | Ind. 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 190w. |
“He is an able advocate if not altogether a wise one, and his book is very readable. He bases his case upon evidence which the other side refuses to admit and makes assumptions which they deny.”
| + — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 1350w. |
“He is not intelligent in interpreting Southern conditions or southern sentiment.”
| — — | Outlook. 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 160w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05 430w. |
“His partiality is not envenomed, his plea is glowing, and his historical facts have more than common value.”
| + + — | Reader. 6: 594. O. ‘05. 230w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 100w. |
Singer, Hans. Albrecht Dürer. [*]$2.50. imp. Scribner.
A critical essay upon Dürer’s work forms a preface to 48 exquisite plates printed in tints and mounted on paper to harmonize.
| Critic. 46: 475. My. 05. 70w. |
“In spite of the closeness with which Professor Hans Singer has studied the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, it can scarcely be claimed that he has succeeded in fully grasping the characteristics that render them unique. Moreover, in his efforts to be strictly faithful to his own convictions he commits himself to several assertions that will hardly pass unchallenged.”
| + — | Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
“Compact for the use of students, and almost a necessity for any art library.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 240w. |
[*] Singleton, Esther. [Great portraits as seen and described by great writers.] [**]$1.60. Dodd.
This volume “contains fifty-two ‘process’ reproductions of famous portraits ... with words written about them (or inspired by them) by writers who are not all great.... The selections are well chosen and will be useful to the discriminating student. These is also a list of the abiding places of these pictures. Knackfuss, Moreau, Vauthier, Julia Cartwright, J. A. Crowe, J. B. Cavalcaselle, Humphry Ward, ... Larroumet and Lefroy are among the most authoritative critics of the fine arts quoted.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 60w. |
| * | + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Is likely to prove of great value to persons not very well-grounded in the knowledge of art, and of use, in its way, to many others, who are.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “On the whole, the compilation has little to recommend it, and some of its faults are inexcusable.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w. |
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr. Venice as seen and described by famous writers. [**]$1.60. Dodd.
Fifteen chapters which include extracts from Gautier on “The gondola” and “The grand canal”; from Yriarte on “The Rialto”; from J. R. Green on “Venice and Rome”; from Ruskin on “St. Marks”; from Taine on “The tombs of the Doges”; and from Symonds on “A night in Venice.” The volume is profusely illustrated with half-tone plates.
“A skillful collecting of the best things that have been written by the best authorities.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 80w. | |
| Dial. 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 60w. |
“A book that is charming to read anywhere, and will be useful for travellers in Venice to consult.”
| + | Nation. 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
“The book will be especially useful to those who have never seen and do not expect to see Venice.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 175. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
“If an anthology of Venice was wanted, Esther Singleton has supplied it.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w. |
“Its editing has been done with judgment.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 140w. |
Skene, Norman Locke. Elements of yacht design. $2. Rudder pub.
The author aims to give “‘a concise and practical presentation of the processes involved in designing a modern yacht’ ... so that the operations may be readily grasped by men without technical education.... There are chapters on displacement, the lateral plane, design, stability, ballast, the sail plan, and construction. A thirty-foot cruiser is made the basis of the calculations, and a number of tables is appended to abridge the figuring of important details. The book is illustrated with numerous outline drawings and plates.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book will undoubtedly be serviceable to every one interested in the subject and possessed of enough technical knowledge to understand it.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 181. Mr. 25, ‘05. 290w. |
Skinner, Harriet Pearl. Boys who became famous men. [†]$1.25. Little.
These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron; Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.
[*] “The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are pleasing.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 20w. |
Slater, John Herbert. How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.
“The text is generally accurate.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 468. O. 7, 990w. |
“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great assistance.”
| + | Critic. 47: 480. N. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “No one but a real collector could have set forth what Mr. Slater has put into his volume.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1374. D. 14, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 1020w. |
“With these slight exceptions, which will prove almost immaterial to the beginner in book collecting, the manual may be taken as a most reliable, though somewhat dull, guide in this fascinating pursuit.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 160w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w. |
| + | Spec. 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 390w. |
Sloan, Anna L. Carolinians, an old-fashioned love story of stirring times in the early colony of Carolina. $1.50. Neale.
Mistress Damaris Johnson, the governor’s daughter, whose heart is as true to her lover as her father’s is to his king, in coquetry with her true feelings offends the man she cares for. He starts for England, is captured by pirates, a message from her miscarries, they become estranged on his return, and she is piqued into promising her hand to an unloved suitor, who in the end nobly releases her.
“It is a picturesque tale, prettily told.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 470w. |
Small, Albion Woodbury. General sociology. [*]$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
An exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The purpose of the work is to furnish a working syllabus for a year’s course of lectures and a three years’ program of seminar work given in Chicago university. “The main objects of this syllabus are, first, to make visible different elements that must necessarily find their place in ultimate sociological theory; and second, to serve as an index to relations between the parts and the whole of sociological science.”
Smart, George Thomas. Studies in conduct. [*]75c. Pilgrim press.
“In this survey of wisely conducted life the subjective interest of disciplined and rationalized feeling comes to its full rights, and carries the authority of experience.”—Outlook.
“A book that cannot be exhausted in one reading, or in two.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w. |
“Altogether these studies in conduct offer a rational and agreeable program for making the most of ourselves and our brief span of life.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 507. O. 14, ‘05. 280w. |
Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant. Story of Edinburgh. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume, which belongs to the ‘Mediæval towns series,’ is to a considerable extent a reproduction of a book which the author published last year. Additions, however, have been made, and ‘it has been almost entirely re-written.’” (Spec.) “The scheme of the volume is sensible. The first portion, dealing with the history of Edinburgh, traces the general fortunes of the city without special regard to topography; it is briskly enough written, and suitably seasoned with classical anecdotes. The second, and in this instance more important, division presents a detailed description of the city itself, and discusses the places and objects of historic interest.” (Ath.) There are many illustrations.
“The instructions are clear and practical, the comments are generally to the point, and the illustrations are decidedly good.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 468. O. 7. 200w. |
[*] “The book is compact, comprehensive, and portable, and conveniently arranged in walks to points of historic, literary and ecclesiastical interest in the city and its environs.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 180w. |
“Has put together a charming volume, full of matter but with little in it either of the guidebook or the town history.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 640. S. 30. ‘05. 120w. |
“This volume packs an amazing amount of information in small compass, and serves it up, moreover, with commendable freedom from dryness and encyclopaedic method.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 170w. |
“A book about Edinburgh can scarcely fail to be interesting, and as written by Mr. Smeaton, who knows his subject thoroughly and writes about it con amore, this may be ranked with any volume in the series.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 533. O. 7, ‘05. 340w. |
Smedley, A. C., and Talbot, L. A. Wizards of Ryetown. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A clever fairy tale interspersed with nonsense rhymes in which a fairy princess goes out into the world with her hero prince to help him conquer his kingdom. After wars waged against castles, witches and wizards they share their realm in proverbial fairy-tale peace and prosperity.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 270w. |
Smet, Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
An account of the life and work of the missionary priest in the unopened West, recorded chiefly in his own simple words, as found in manuscript journals, and his printed works. There are copious notes and a life of De Smet by the editor.
“We strongly recommend this valuable work to all who are interested in the history of the North American West and in its aborigines. Also, and particularly, to those interested in missions.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 274. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2060w. |
“The most valuable part of this book is that which deals entirely with Indian life, and the editors are to be congratulated upon their success in keeping this essential and vital part continually the most prominent. As no other man has so fully and so deeply understood the Indian, so no other has contributed so much information about his life and customs or served the cause of justice so well in uprooting the prejudice against the aborigines of this country. [The Indian] has received his meed of praise, and the final judgment upon his character.” Stanhope Sams.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 66. F. 4, ‘05. 2310w. |
Smith, Adam. Wealth of nations; ed. by Professor Edwin Cannan. [*]$6. Putnam.
This new edition of the famous work of the father of political economy follows the text of the fifth edition in all details. The editor has added elaborate notes and a comprehensive introduction.
“Will henceforth be the standard. It is hard to see how the editor’s work could be improved save by the discovery of new sources of knowledge.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 135. Ja. ‘05. 130w. |
“What promises to be its definitive form for many years to come. Along with his demonstrated insight into the heart of this classic, Mr. Cannan brought other gifts of a rare order to his task,—tireless scholarship in ferreting out the ipsissima verba of the text, and withal an invigorating freshness of vision into the realities of industrial life, a doughty logic, and a dash of cynical humor.”
| + + + | Atlan. 95: 562. Ap. ‘05. 510w. |
“Marks of extreme care as well as of full and critical knowledge are visible on every page. The editor’s notes are of great value even to students who are not greatly interested in the niceties of textual criticism. In a great measure they serve as cross-references, and serve also to keep in mind and define Adam Smith’s characteristic inconsistencies and limitations.”
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 136. D. ‘04. 310w. |
[*] Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido H. Machine design. $3. Wiley.
A volume which “treats in logical sequence the elements of mechanism and machine design, followed by construction in detail of machinery, and an excellent chapter on ‘Riveted joints.’ It is well written and illustrated, and the effort to lead elementary conception into actual construction is consistently followed out, giving the reader, or the student, the satisfaction of learning the means and the reason for the result obtained.”—Engin. N.
[*] “Briefly characterized this is a college treatise, broad and elementary in its introduction, thorough in detail, elaborate in formulas, limited in references to modern devices and inaccurate in some of its practical data.”
| + + — | Engin. N. 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 890w. |
Smith, Bertha H. [Yosemite legends.] [**]$2. Elder.
Six short legends each representing some folk song of the tribe of Ah-wah-nee-chee or Yosemite dwellers. The charm of the text is enhanced by the artistic work of Florence Lundborg, who has conceived a barbaric pattern, an Indian design for the margin, and has contributed thirteen wash drawings reproduced in half-tone. The whole make-up of the book suggests the “eerie and the unseen in air, crag, and water.”
“The stories are told with an attractive simplicity that retains a flavor of the primitive Indian poetry.”
| + | Critic. 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Smith, Rev. David. Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [**]$2.50. Armstrong.
A new life of Christ, simple in style. “It throws some light on incidents in the life of Christ from portrayal of Jewish habits of life and thought. It accompanies the words of Jesus with some interpretation, but not with exhortation. It is free from scholasticism on the one hand and from ecclesiastical pietism on the other.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 336. O. 13, ‘05. 1500w. |
[*] “Theoretically, the spirit of the writer might be defined as that of a broad-minded and free-minded evangelical.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] Smith, Elmer Boyd. Story of Noah’s ark; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. [**]$2. Houghton.
“The building of the ark, the assembling of the animals, and the adventures of the voyage, are all made to yield their full measure of entertainment. The dinosaurs that had to be left behind because they were too big for the door, the host of other strange beasts ... that refused to go in and were therefore ‘doomed to be lost and become fossils,’ the other host that went in and, being tossed by the waves, regretted it ... all these episodes are pictured with remarkable expressiveness and a clever but never too extravagant caricature.... The plates are artistically reproduced in color.”—Dial.
[*] “An amusing book with illustrations gay enough and text simple enough to attract any well-regulated child.”
| + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 15w. |
[*] “The pictures are the feature of the book, but they would not be half so amusing without the sly and subtle humor of the brief descriptions which accompany them.”
| + | Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 200w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1392. D. 14, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Mr. Smith is too good a draughtsman to be side-splittingly comical, but he has a humorous imagination. His text is far less droll, and he should procure a literary running-mate for his next venture.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 150w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A capital piece of story-telling by colored pictures—humorous but perfectly respectful to Noah and all his family.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 40w. |
Smith, F. Berkeley. Parisians out of doors. [*]$1.50. Funk.
Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their pet cafés, pelting each other in the fete des fleurs, or enjoying the more serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their own distinctive atmosphere.
“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and Monte Carlo, and so forth.”
| + | Acad. 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that make his volume most entertaining reading.”
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 490w. |
“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1350w. |
“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay and the picturesque.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 80w. |
“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 140w. |
“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting description, and what more interesting people can you find than the modern Parisian?”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w. |
“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. At close range. [†]$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders, as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be taken to his literary style.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 44. Jl. 8. 220w. |
“The chief characteristic of these nine short stories, tales of ‘the road,’ is a realism described with a poetic touch.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 240w. |
“He has set down with humor, compassion and wit the real life that we live every day on the outside of story-books and made it refreshing with faith and virtue.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 957. Ap. 27. ‘05. 410w. |
“He has the snag-less style of long literary training, yet he shuns prolixity.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 280w. |
“The stories deserve reading, and the circulation of such a volume will not bring benefit to the author alone.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 235. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“This latest collection of short stories renews the impression which the earlier volumes from the same hand made of great clearness of sight, fresh and vital interest in all forms of life which express either beauty or character, a keen sense of humor, and admirable power of characterization.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“Always Mr. Smith is the artist—not a photographer.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + + | Reader. 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 320w. |
“The author, who writes tersely and well, shows that he has keen powers of observation, he is also endowed with a sense of humour and a capacity for sympathy, and he can in a measure touch, as it has been said, both the springs of laughter and the source of tears.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 250w. |
“The problems contained in the book are not very subtle, but almost all the stories are pleasant reading.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 228. Ag. 12, ‘05. 140w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. [Wood fire in no. 3.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
F. Hopkinson Smith invites his readers to join a circle in Bohemia about a log fire “that can sparkle with merriment, or glow with humor, or roar with laughter, dependent on your mood.” The “High priest of the Temple of jollity” is Sandy MacWhirter whose “wide personal experience, his many adventures by land and sea make him the most delightful of conversationalists ... talking as a painter talks, one who sees, and therefore can make you see.” He and his group of friends draw up around the fire and swap stories, impressions and terse convictions. “Mac” on studio teas is especially convincing; “Art is a religion not a Punch and Judy show. Whole thing is vulgar. Imagine Rembrandt showing his ‘Night watch’ for the first time to the rag-tag and bob-tail of Amsterdam.... Sacrilege, I tell you, this mixing up of ice-cream and paint; makes a farce of a high calling and a mountebank of the artist.”
| * | + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “MacWhirter and his friends are thoroughly individual. They all know stories well worth the telling, and they tell them extremely well.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “Has the charm with which Mr. Smith invests all that he writes, a charm which is one of projected personality, and must therefore miss some uncongenial readers, though these will usually be few.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Mr. Smith never fails to infuse a certain invigorating good fellowship into his stories. The book as a whole does not reach the high level of Mr. Smith’s more serious fiction.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W. International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. [*]$5. Boston bk.
“We welcome this attempt to estimate the present state of the science [of war] in the light of the new precedents created.... [The authors] have reviewed the whole history of the operations, and dealt with every point raised, from the volunteer cruisers to the use of wireless telegraphy, in a lucid and scholarly manner.... A large number of useful documents are reprinted in the appendices, and the authors have written a short but admirably clear introduction on the meaning of international law.”—Spec.
[*] “By far the most interesting part of the volume consists of the chapters, full of detail, and well considered, relating to neutrality; chapters so full and complete that they might with small change form parts of a treatise on international law. It is a piece of well-knit, solid work. It embodies research and care. A spirit of moderation, a sense of responsibility, is present.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 299. S. 22, ‘05. 1480w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 650w. | |
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 690. N. 25, ‘05. 470w. |
[*] “The work may be warmly recommended to all lawyers and students of public policy.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ‘05. 370w. |
Smith, Rev. George Adam. Forgiveness of sins, and other sermons, [**]$1.25. Armstrong.
“Sermons preached by Dr. George Adam Smith, in the pulpit of Queen’s Cross Free church, Aberdeen.... They are spiritual expositions of theology.... Biblical in substance but not textual.”—Outlook.
“His new volume of sermons offers an example of the art of expository preaching, the more persuasive in that it is not professedly expository.” A. K. P.
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 155. Ag. ‘05. 750w. |
“His discourses are direct, practical and earnest, excellent examples of the expository preaching for which Scotch ministers are famous.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
“They constitute good models for the minister and good reading for the thoughtful and the devout layman.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w. |
“The volume of his sermons just published may do something to dispel false notions of Professor Smith’s theological system.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 490w. |
Smith, Goldwin. My memory of Gladstone. [*]75c. Wessels.
This volume is written by one who knew Gladstone, both socially and in a business way and who knew even better the men who were his associates in public life. He says that it is thru their eyes that he saw Gladstone and he gives his memory of the man and his colossal work in a concise and sympathetic manner. The little book will give a glimpse of Gladstone and his career to those who have not the leisure to read Morley’s Life, to which Prof. Smith pays handsome tribute.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 60w. |
| + + | Dial. 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 200w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
Smith, J. Russell. Organization of ocean commerce. $1.75. Ginn.
This is one of the Univ. of Penn. publications and belongs to the series in political economy and public law. “The author confines himself exclusively to the presentation of facts and the description of processes.... The result is a careful, accurate and minute analysis of over sea commerce, which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest, not merely to the student of commerce, but to those who are actually engaged in the business of ocean transportation. The book is divided into three parts, viz.; Traffic, Routes and shipping and Harbors and port facilities.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Dr Smith has produced one of the most satisfactory pieces of economic investigation which has appeared in recent years.” E. S. Meade.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 610. My. ‘05. 970w. |
Smith, Rev. John. Magnetism of Christ: a study of our Lord’s missionary methods. $1.75. Armstrong.
“This book is composed of the Duff lectures on evangelistic theology, which were delivered in 1903-4 by the author, who is a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland.... He discourses on such subjects as ‘The distinctive method of Jesus,’ ‘Christ dealing with individual inquirers,’ and ‘Prayer as bringing in the kingdom of God.’”—Spec.
“Although Dr. Smith wrote his lectures for students, his style is almost as simple as that of a Welsh evangelist.”
| + | Spec. 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w. |
Smith, Mary Prudence Wells. Boy captive in Canada. [†]$1.25. Little.
This is the second story in the “Old Deerfield series,” and the sequel to, “The boy captive of old Deerfield.” It tells of the experiences of little Stephen Williams, son of the minister of Deerfield, as he lived a captive and a burden bearer among the Indians. It describes his wanderings with them in northern Vermont, the cold hard winter they spent in Canada, and it finally chronicles his liberation and return to Deerfield. At the end the varied and thrilling experiences of other Deerfield captives is given as revealed by the researches of Miss C. Alice Baker.
Smith, Nicholas. Masters of old age. [*]$1.25. Young ch.
The value of longevity is here illustrated by practical examples. The lives of Mommsen, Holmes, Geo. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, S. Weir Mitchell, Whittier, and numerous other masters of old age serve to show how much of the world’s work is done by its old people. There are some good ideas upon the value of keeping in the harness, and on the care of both mind and body.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 310w. |
“As a record of the victories over old age and bodily infirmity won by men and women of many sorts this book has a tonic quality both of physical and moral efficacy.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 100w. |
Smith, Orlando Jay. Balance the fundamental verity, [**]$1.25. Houghton.
“‘A key to the fundamental scientific interpretations of the system of nature, a definition of natural religion, and a consequent agreement between science and religion.’ What Mr. Smith has really tried to do is to show that religion and science stand on the same rock, and that the law of compensation will explain away many philosophical difficulties. There is an appendix containing critical reviews by a number of eminent scientific and religious writers, most of which commend Mr. Smith’s thesis and the way he has worked it out.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr Smith in his book endeavors to deduce human immortality, and other things, from Newton’s postulate that ‘to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ The result is unsatisfactory to the materialists, who do not accept his demonstration as valid, and equally so to those who like the other side of the wall, because it is the other side.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + — | Dial. 38: 88. F. 1, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
Smith, Reginald Bosworth. Bird life and bird lore. [*]$3. Dutton.
A lover of books and of birds writes of his friends the owl, the raven, the wild duck, the magpie, the rook and others, giving his own observations of them and showing the place they hold in history, literature, poetry, and folklore.
“A well-written and attractive book, of which the only material demerit is the rather patchy and uneven effect almost inseparable from volumes made up of papers originally published at divers times and in divers manners.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 360. Ap. 1. ‘05. 850w. |
“It is pleasantly and allusively classical, for Mr. Bosworth Smith is a ripe scholar, and it is written in a style which is always accurate and often picturesque.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 495. Ap. 15. 710w. |
“A series of capital essays on British birds.”
| + | Country Calendar. 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 60w. |
“The book is one to be on permanently good terms with, for its genuine love of all feathered folk, its hatred of cruelty ... its delicate humor, and its poetical perspective.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Ind. 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
“The particular claim of the book is that it has a local nexus and that the tale of the birds is not separated from the life of the place.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 161. My. 19, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Has the happy faculty of combining his personal observations with those of his predecessors and confreres into a series of pleasing and instructive sketches.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 250w. |
“Besides giving excellent information tells some interesting anecdotes.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w. |
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 230w. |
“Perhaps the best parts of his book are those in which he has brought together the references to his favorite birds from ancient and modern literature.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w. |
“These essays have a certain charm of style which should appeal to nature-lovers the world over.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w. |
“He is a real observer of the birds he delights in and he has written a very delightful account of the old Rectory and the old Manor house.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 240w. |
“Very pleasant book. The charm of the book ... lies chiefly in the writer’s great love of his subject.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 751. My. 20, ‘05. 1050w. |
Smith, Sara Trainer, trans. See Denk, Victor Martin Otto.
Smith, Sydney Armitage-. John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. [*]$6. imp. Scribner.
“So far as we are aware, this is the first detailed study of the personality and career of ‘Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster.’ ... Mr. Armitage-Smith has faithfully explored all manner of sources of information bearing on the exploits and character of this favorite son of Edward III. and favorite brother of the Black Prince, this titular king of Castile and Leon and uncrowned king of England. The search yields to us a fascinating story of chivalry, pageantry, and war, a story of many personages and many scenes.”—Outlook.
“A scholarly but also a highly interesting work.” Laurence M. Larson.
| + + | Dial. 39: 86. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1240w. |
“He must be congratulated on a width of research and a clearness of judgment which more practised hands might envy. He has done much to reconcile apparent inconsistencies in the career of the father of the first Lancastrian king and to unravel the tangled skein of English politics in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.” James Tait.
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 563. Jl. ‘05. 900w. |
“Is an ample and scholarly work.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 520w. |
“He has turned out a book that is at once scholarly and eminently readable. Moreover, his work scarcely runs the risk of being superseded.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 1180w. |
“Told with feeling and intelligence by one who breathes the spirit of the times.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w. |
Smith, Vincent A. Early history of India. [*]$4.75. Oxford.
From 600 B. C. to the Mohammadan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great. A great deal of space is devoted to the invasion of Alexander, while the chapters dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the north, the Deccan and matters of purely local interest are brief. The closing chapter outlines the history of the South.
“Will be welcomed for its very able research into Alexander’s India campaign. McCrindle, whom we had thought to have said the last word on the subject, is corrected in so important a matter as the place where Alexander’s army crossed the Hydaspes.”
| + | Acad. 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w. |
“Mr. Smith is unusually well qualified for the work he has undertaken. This knowledge, combined with a high ideal of the office of the historian, ability in the sifting and criticism of evidence, and finally the power of presenting in remarkably clear and attractive form the fruits of his investigations has led to the production of a work of exceptional merit.” George Melville Bolling.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 121. O. ‘05. 1010w. |
“Nearly a third of the volume is occupied with Hellenic activity and influence in India, and there is nowhere so complete and vivid an account of the great campaign as is to be found in these pages. Even those not interested in India for itself cannot fail to be attracted by this chapter in the life of Alexander, which in some regards at least may be accepted by historians as a definite statement.”
| + | Nation. 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w. |
Smith, William Benjamin. [Color line.] [**]$1.50. McClure.
The author is a southerner and a professor in Tulane university, but he tries to give an unbiased scientific treatment of the race problem, taking up the question of miscegenation, the danger of the “mongrelization” of the white race in the South, and social and political future of the negro.
“The argument is largely rhetorical and contributes nothing to our knowledge of what is going on. The book abounds in extreme statements. As a plea of an intelligent partisan the book has value, but otherwise is not to be compared with the recent volume of Mr. T. N. Page, who holds very similar views.”
| — — + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 594. My. ‘05. 230w. |
“There is much that is new in the conception and in the detail of the present study. Whether the reader agree or disagree with Professor Smith’s conclusions, we can promise him that this is by far the most elaborate and important study of the American negro that has yet appeared, that it deals with fundamentals and not with the superficial manifestations of the conflict between black and white, and that its tone is such as to command respectful attention from the reader, whatever his prejudices. A style full of terse, vigorous phrases, at times enlivened by humor, and again and again shot through with illuminating allusions revealing the breadth of culture, the fund of reading upon which the scholar can draw at will.” Pierce Butler.
| + + + | Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Professor Smith of Tulane University writes as an ‘irreconcilable,’ but his arguments are strong and well buttressed, and he views the subject on several sides.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 50w. |
“Mr. Smith’s book is a naked, unashamed shriek for the survival of the white race by means of the annihilation of all other races.” W. A. Burghardt DuBois.
| — — | Dial. 38: 315. My. 1, ‘05. 430w. |
“It is only valuable as an effort to substantiate the South’s treatment of the negro. It contains neither scientific accuracy nor literary excellence.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 843. Ap. 13, ‘05. 290w. | |
| — + | Nation. 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 1130w. |
“It may be Professor Smith has allowed his predispositions to color his conclusions somewhat.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 82. F. 11, ‘05. 1820w. |
“In six passionately written chapters brimming with science and statistics, Professor Smith makes a strong presentation of the position of the South on the negro question.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 297. F. 25, ‘05. 500w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Smythe, William Eilsworth. Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“This volume presents the evils of the present industrial system and proposes three remedies. The first is Senator Newland’s plan for dealing with the transportation problem.... The second remedy is Mr. Garfield’s plan.... The first remedy would put the railroads, the second the trusts, under the supervision of the National government. The third remedy is National irrigation for the development of our unused lands, and adequate protection of them from the land-grabber, that they may furnish an opportunity for the ‘surplus man.’”—Outlook.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “We see no evidence that he is familiar with the economic history of the past. His book is journalistic rather than academic in its spirit. We should like to see his book read and pondered by all journalists and congressmen.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 290w. | |
| * | Pub. Opin. 39: 572. O. 28, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “His book impresses one as the work of a keen observer of modern industrial life and a thoughtful student of its problems.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 638. N. ‘05. 130w. |
Snell, F. C. Camera in the fields. $1.25. Wessels.
“The first part of Mr. Snell’s manual is entitled ‘The camera and the dark room’; in this the processes are explained.... Parts 2-5 are devoted to the several subjects of Ornithology, Zoölogy, Entomology, and Botany; in each the special subject—how bird, beast, insect, or plant is to be best ‘taken off’ by the camera—is dealt with. The volume is amply illustrated.”—Spec.
“His sensible remarks on the matters of which he is clearly a master himself should be of great value to students of ornithology, zoölogy, entomology, and botany.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “An excellent handbook for those who are interested in the finer problems of photography.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
“It is of its kind excellent.” W. P. P.
| + + | Nature. 72: 153. Je. 15, ‘05. 370w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 599. Ap. 22, ‘05. 110w. |
Society in the new reign; by a foreign resident. $4. Wessels.
This book supplements “Society in London,” published by the same author in 1886. It gives a present day view of “persons and things, as well as of a social state generally” both in and out of London, under such chapter headings as—The new court and some state pillars, Society at school and at play, Where wit, wealth and empire meet, Hencoops and heroes, Counter and coronet, Society’s tradesmen and their social claims.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. [*]$3.60. Macmillan.
“The volume comprises the papers and discussions at the first meeting of the (British) Sociological society, 1904.... Among the subjects discussed, ‘Eugenics,’ or what in this country is called stirpiculture, takes the leading place.”—Outlook.
“Marks the opening of a new stadium in the progress of sociology.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 103. F. 4, ‘05. 1130w. |
“The book is welcome not merely because of the excellent papers, but also because of the light it throws upon the headway sociology is making in England.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 594. My. ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 239. F. 25. 630w. | |
| + | Dial. 38: 326. My. 1. 05. 120w. |
“The sociological society is to be congratulated on the appearance of its first volume.” W. D. Morrison.
| + + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 507. Jl. ‘05. 1250w. |
“The one real addition to knowledge that the volume contains is by an outsider, Mr. Harold H. Mann.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 960w. |
Reviewed by F. W. H.
| + | Nature. 71: 605. Ap. 27, ‘05. 540w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 280w. |
Reviewed by J. H. T.
| * | + + | Psychol. Bull. 2: 422. D. 15, ‘05. 280w. |
| R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 140w. | ||
| * | + | Sat. R. 100: 724. D. 2, ‘05. 1090w. |
Solberg, Thorvald. Copyright in Congress. 65c. Supt. of doc.
“A complete bibliography of all the bills relating to copyright which have been introduced into Congress, the resolutions and laws which have been enacted, and those reports, petitions, memorials, messages, and miscellaneous documents which have been printed, together with a complete chronological record of all action taken in Congress, in any way relating to the subject of copyright, showing how each proposal has been dealt with.” The record begins with April 15, 1789, and extends to 1904.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 949. Jl. ‘05. 100w. |
“A work of great historic interest.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 270w. |
Somers, Percival. Pages from a country diary. $2.50. Longmans.
This diary of a country sportsman treats of English rural life in all its phases. There is social life, scenery, and a criticism of hunting customs and sporting laws. The whole is enlivened by clever anecdotes and original reflections in the things about them by the author and his wife, Belinda.
| Country Calendar. 1: 492. S. ‘05. 130w. |
“It can be confidently recommended to all who care for records of outdoor life flavored with the philosophy of a genial observer of men and animals.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 249. Mr. 30, ‘05. 490w. |
“A delightful raconteur is the author, and his stories are short and to the point.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 19. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1000w. |
[*] Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. [*]$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A piece of research in American history based on an examination of original sources.... Hopkinson, who was born in 1731, was a man of unusual talent; a writer, a politician, an inventor, and an enthusiastic musician....* Hopkinson himself laid claim to the title of first native composer in a letter dedicating his volume of ‘Seven songs’ to Washington.... His rival for historical precedence, James Lyon, is a substantial, if less interesting figure.... It is an extremely interesting monograph for those who are concerned with the neglected past of music in this country.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “It is an invaluable contribution to the history of American music, and its production reveals the achievement of a formidable task.” W. J. Henderson.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 854. D. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Though the graces of English style are not Mr. Sonneck’s, he knows how to make his history not only minutely correct, but interesting.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1060w. |
Sorley, W. R. [Recent tendencies in ethics.] W: Blackwood & sons, London.
“This little book consists of three lectures on ‘Some leading features of the ethical thought of the present day,’ delivered at Cambridge (England) to a summer meeting of clergy held there in July, 1903. The chapters in the book are headed respectively: ‘Characteristics,’ ‘Ethics and evolution,’ ‘Ethics and idealism.’ In the first chapter Professor Sorley says that in ‘English ethical thought during the last century ... the controversies of the time centered almost exclusively round two questions: the question of the origin of moral ideas, and the question of the criterion of moral value.’ ... A misapplication of the biological doctrine of ‘natural selection’ is also responsible for a large measure of the present confusion of ethical thought. This brings the reader to Chapter II., in which this misapplication is dealt with at length.... Chapter III. deals with the ethics of modern idealism.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Is avowedly addressed to those whose interest in life is practical rather than theoretical; its aim is obviously to be practically helpful to such people. It must be owned that to the present critic it seems chiefly to warn off from the realm of philosophy all students of the quality described. It is perhaps not too much to say that both in method and in implied point of view Mr. Sorley’s book is too slight and too old-fashioned to do justice either to recent philosophy or to Professor Sorley’s position in it.” May Gilliland Husband.
| + — | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 232. Ja. ‘05. 2340w. (Abstract of book.) |
“The qualities of careful and exact thought, of methodical arrangement, and of clear expression are found to characterize the volume.” James Seth.
| + + | Philos. R. 14: 212. Mr. ‘05. 1560w. |
Soto, Hernando or Fernando de. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. [**]$2. Barnes.
“A complete and authoritative ‘Narrative of the career of Hernando De Soto,’ as found in the original documents, chiefly based on the diary of Rodrigo Rangel, his private secretary, together with an account of the great expedition to the Southwest of the United States, translated from Oviedo’s ‘Historia general y natural de las Indias’ by Buckingham Smith. There is an historical introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of history in Yale university. The conquest of Florida is told by a knight who was a member of the expedition. Several portraits, hitherto unpublished, of De Soto himself appear in the volume, to which is appended his life and some of his letters.”—R. of Rs.
“Prof. Bourne’s editorship is of the best, and the translation excellent reading.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 190. F. ‘05. 90w. | |
| Ind. 58: 726. Mr. 30, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| + + | Nation. 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 960w. |
“A boon alike to the student, to the ordinary reader, even to the romance-loving boy.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 65. F. 4, ‘05. 2370w. |
“The volumes will be regarded as a valuable and convenient addition to both history and literature.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 130w. |
“It would be difficult to find in any language a more direct and forceful account of heroic adventures and careless lust for new sights and strange experiences. Together with the narratives of Coronado’s expedition in the Southwest, an earlier volume of the “Trail makers’ series,” it is the best possible account of the aboriginal condition of the southern United States.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 360w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 120w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |
Sousa, John Philip. Pipetown Sandy. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of Pipetown, its boys, its schools, and its grown people. Sandy, the hero, already a leader on the playground, leaves the foot of the class and wins the prize in arithmetic and geography thru the influence of Colonel Franklin’s weak little son whom he makes his friend. Sandy also helps the store keeper to win the widow Foley, and takes an active part in the tragic scenes which follow her worthless husband’s reappearance in Pipetown.
“Here we have the annals of a typical American village told with the simplicity and the charm of a Goldsmith and the added interest of a writer whose intensity of feeling and vivid imagination have enabled him to invest simple life and homely circumstances with compelling fascination.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 551. N. ‘05. 200w. |
“Parts of the story are really human and attractive.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is difficult to see how it can be of any real value. It cannot contribute to the formation of an exalted taste in literature; and a boy with a good taste already formed would not care much for it.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
Spalding, Rev. Henry Stanislaus. Race for Copper island. 85c. Benziger.
This is a boy’s story and tells of the adventures of young Paul Guibeau of Quebec and others who ventured into the Indians’ country in search of the copper mines in the region of the Great lakes. They encounter Iroquois, Hurons, and Miamis, unbroken forests and unknown waters, but after the copper ridge is located, Paul, undaunted, writes to his people, as the volume closes, that he is setting forth with Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to discover “the great river called the Mitchi-sipi.”
Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster. Bishop Spalding year book: comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. [**]75c. McClurg.
Quotations from the writings of Bishop Spalding for each day of the year.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster. Religion and art, and other essays, [**]$1. McClurg.
Besides the title-essay the volume contains, The development of educational ideas in the nineteenth century, The meaning and worth of education, The physician’s calling and education, Social questions.
“The strongest and bravest voice that speaks for righteousness to the people of this country is Bishop Spalding’s. Bishop Spalding’s writings are brave and beautiful and inspiring.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 529. Jl. ‘05. 1050w. | |
| + + + | Dial. 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Spalding, Phebe Estelle. Womanhood in art. [**]$1.50. Elder.
There are in this group of interpretations six of the best known ideal conceptions of womanhood in art; Venus de Milo, Eve, Mona Lisa, Beatrice Cenci, Madonna of the chair and the Sistine Madonna.
[*] “Any good book that celebrates good art is worth while, so Miss Spalding’s book is welcome.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 15w. |
[*] “The text is intended neither for artists nor students of painting, but for the ordinary observer who is interested merely in the moral significance of the picture, caring nothing for its history or technique. Such criticism leans inevitably towards the fanciful and the sentimental, but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of readers.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | — | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “The book is of the popular sort—full of elemental, moving impressions but marred by insufficient historical and critical reading.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 80w. |
Sparks, Edwin Erle. Men who made the nation. $1. Macmillan.
The history of the United States from 1760 to 1865 is given biographically in an account of the lives and labors of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel and John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Jefferson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and finally Abraham Lincoln.
“On the whole, thanks to the author’s lively style, we get, in a very small compass, a better history than many a historian with a more ambitious method might have produced.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“The process of the evolution of the nation is thus given a biographical character in a novel method of writing history.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 630w. |
Sparks, Edwin Erle. [United States of America.] [**]$1.35. Putnam.
This is essentially a history of our constitutional evolution, and treats of the great movements in our federal life and “those centralizing or decentralizing factors which have aided or hindered the unification of the states,” of finances, internal improvements, the tariff, slavery, and the constitutional aspects of the Civil war and reconstruction, little space is given to war and war-time events.
“His judgments are acceptable; he shows discrimination in the selection of materials, a fine art in presentation, a vivacious style.” James A. Woodburn.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 883. Jl. ‘05. 810w. |
“The purpose is well carried out, and the work is therefore eminently a timely one.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
“One can hardly call the work a history in the truest sense; it is rather a prose epic of American nationality.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 418. Je. 16, ‘05. 630w. |
“Hardly any former attempt to write our history has taken into account so many of the different forces that have influenced its progress. In fact, the book is a good summary of the best work done on American history. The style is clear and pleasing, except for a tendency to sententious truisms.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 785. Ap. 6, ‘05. 360w. | |
| * | + + | Ind. 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“On the whole, Dr. Sparks’s interpretation of the subject commends itself to us as sound.”
| + | Nation. 80: 217. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w. |
“Prof. Sparks’ work is a rather agreeable reaction from the bellicosity which has been so much in vogue with writers of popular histories. Yet we cannot help thinking that Prof. Sparks pays too little attention to military affairs.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 740w. |
“Rather a commentary on history. All readers will find the book interesting, and to many it will give a wholly new point of view for the consideration of American history. Dr. Sparks prefers to treat American history as the story of our national expansion. A suitable sub-title of his present work would be, ‘A study of national development.’”
| + + | R. of Rs. 30: 756. D. ‘04. 180w. |
Spearman, Frank Hamilton. Strategy of great railroads. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“A volume illustrating the field of railroad competition. The various subjects treated are the Vanderbilt lines, the Pennsylvania system, the Harriman lines, the Hill lines, the fight for Pittsburg, the Gould lines, the Rock Island system, the Atchison, the big granger lines (St. Paul and Northwestern), the rebuilding of an American railroad, the first trans-continental railroad, the early day in railroading.”—Bookm.
| Ath. 1905, 1: 629. My. 20. 1660w. |
“He writes with a familiarity with his subject that enlightens, and with a style that entertains and fascinates.” John J. Hasley.
| + + | Dial. 38: 196. Mr. 16, ‘05. 820w. |
“But, after proper allowance has been made for shortcomings attributable to Mr. Spearman’s optimism, it must be said that his book is on the whole, an admirable study of the American railroads of today.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 620w. |
Spears, John Randolph. David G. Farragut. [**]$1.25. Jacobs.
This volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and accurately follows the life of the first American admiral from his birth in a frontier log cabin to his honored death and the erection of his statue in Farragut square. It is the story of years of hard work and ceaseless effort put forth in the service of his country. Maps and charts illustrate the volume.
[*] “Some of Mr. Spears’ eulogies and comments seem a little far-fetched.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 520w. |
[*] “May be especially commended to parents in quest of a soundly suggestive as well as really entertaining book for their boys.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The well-known accuracy of Mr. Spears’ writing on historical subjects insures in the present volume a painstaking regard to the facts of history.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 120w. |
[*] Speed, John Gilmer. Horse in America: a practical treatise on the various types common in the United States, with something of their history and varying characteristics. [**]$2. McClure.
This interesting treatise “gives a great deal of information about the various equine types common in the United States. Mr. Speed is merciless in exposing false pedigrees. Some of his comments on origins of famous breeds of American horses will probably be unpalatable to partisans of this or that great name in the horse world. Yet on the whole the book is reassuring to the breeder and admirer of horses.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “Taken all in all the book should serve its purpose, to interest and forward the breeding of good types.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 640w. |
[*] “It points out the characteristics of the true thoroughbred with the unerring skill of the expert.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 640. N. ‘05. 100w. |
Sperry, Charlotte Grace. Teddy Sunbeam. [**]$1. Elder.
Printed in large type upon Teddy Sunbeam’s own gold these “little fables for little housekeepers” point many homely morals. Teddy Sunbeam is wise, and he talks about Princess Lend-a-hand, gives dissertations upon microbes, tells how to sweep, and how to perform a number of other daily duties, but tells it all in such an attractive manner that little folks will be glad to listen. The book is copiously illustrated by Albertine Randall Wheelan.
“Is a nice little book for nice little girls.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “A rather original series of little fables.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 767. D. ‘05. 130w. |
[*] Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes. [Kate Greenaway.] [*]$6.50. Putnam.
“In half a hundred colored plates and many black-and-white pictures we find beauty and delicacy pre-eminent and child-loveliness rendered with sincerity and sympathy. Such pictures measure a sweet, true soul, and the story of Kate Greenaway’s life and the gentle revelations of her letters and her friendships (the correspondence with John Ruskin most notably) bear out the inference.” (Outlook.) “It is a visit to Miss Greenaway at her home, a view of an active mind at work, a conversation with authors and artists led and directed by one whom they all acknowledged as leader.” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “The authors have felt to the full the quaint charm of this art, they do justice to the ‘sweet and fragrant perfume’ that floats about the name of Kate Greenaway.”
| + | Acad. 68: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 1420w. |
[*] “The peculiar competence of the present writers lies in their eager seizure upon all possible points of interest, and their strong sense of proportion, which assigns to each item its proper space in a volume that has not a dull page or a bit of superfluous ‘padding.’” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 437. D. 16, ‘05. 2320w. |
[*] “With some of Messrs. Layard and Spielmann’s opinions we are not at all in agreement.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 394. N. 17, ‘05. 1630w. |
[*] “The book is thus more than an ordinary biography.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “Really charming book.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “One can read with real profit other parts of the book, notably the introductory chapter, and, at the close, Mr. Spielmann’s judgment on Kate Greenaway as artist, delicately worded, enthusiastic yet nicely balanced.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 3. D. 9, ‘05. 1410w. |
Spiers, R. Phene. Architecture east and west. [*]$4.50. Scribner.
“This volume of essays, nine in all, and printed in full, is illustrated by a photograph of a medallion portrait, a bas-relief, by Lanteri, and by many architectural views and details, some of them photographic, others made up by the author from different sources or drawn from recognized authorities.”—Nation.
| Ath. 1905, 1: 439. Ap. 8. 640w. | ||
| Nation. 80: 421. My. 25, ‘05. 670w. |
[*] “The writer of these essays has the power of making technical matters plain to the reader who has no special knowledge of architecture.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w. |
Springer, Frank. Cleiocrinus. Museum of comparative zoology, Harvard college, Cambridge, Mass.
“A complete paper on one of the oldest of known crinoid genera—Cleiocrinus.... Various authors ... have had great difficulty in placing it in the system of classification.... Mr. Springer does not now establish the family Cleiocrinidæ, in so many words, but ... it is finally concluded that the genus is intermediate between the great groups of flexibilia and camerata; nearest, apparently, to the reteocrinidæ. The memoir is illustrated by a beautiful plate of drawings by K. M. Chapman and E. Ricker, showing not only aspects of cleiocrinus, but also reteocrinus and glyptocrinus for comparison.”—Science.
Reviewed by T. D. A. C.
| + + | Science, n.s. 21: 388. Mr. 10, ‘05. 420w. |
Squire, Charles. Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. [*]$3.50. Scribner.
Under such chapter headings as—The gods of the Gaels, Finn and the Fenians, The war with the giants, The gods of the Britons, The Gaelic Argonauts, The gods as king Arthur’s knights, and The treasures of Britain, are given the legends and traditions of the early inhabitants of the British islands, the Gaelic and the British Celts.
“Altogether, then, Mr. Squire may be congratulated on a partial success. His research does not penetrate into German authorities; he is not fully alive to the anthropological side of the argument; his archaeology is not complete. But he knows and loves his subject within the boundaries presented by these limitations, and he has the peculiar charm of carrying his readers along with him in an attitude of love for the subject.” Laurence Gomme.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 58. Ja. 21. ‘05. 790w. |
“A book which brings together so great a store of knowledge on an obscure and fascinating subject in so readable a fashion is indeed a treasure, and one cannot but praise the author for his work.” Louis H. Gray.
| + + + | Bookm. 22: 58. S. ‘05. 960w. |
“His treatment of this subject is thorough and conscientious, and he has realized his hope of presenting it in a lucid and agreeable form.”
| + + | Nature. 72: 146. Je. 15, ‘05. 520w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Squire has handled his refractory subject very ably, and has made the story of British mythology both lucid and interesting.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 1600w. |
[*] “This book supplies a great literary vacuum. From some of the writer’s conclusions scholars may differ.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 4. D. 9, ‘05. 1340w. |
Staley, Edgcumbe. Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
Uniform with a series of monographs on the great masters, the “mode of presenting Raphael’s life’s work is particularly interesting, while so much is being written of his changing place in the rank of the great artists, as ascribed to him by current criticism. One has an opportunity of studying the various forms in which his genius expressed itself: Single figures of saints and angels; biblical and historical subjects; renderings of sacred and profane legends; and portraits. Then, again, there are the various mediums in which the artist worked, as on canvas, and in fresco, etc. In his mural paintings, we see how excellently his composition was fitted to the various exigencies of architectural decoration.” (Int. Studio.)
“An excellent volume of illustrations of Raphael’s work. In the clear, short, and eminently satisfactory account of Raphael’s life the author neither indulges in extravagant praise, nor accepts theories of scant foundation.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Stanwood, Edward. James Gillespie Blaine. [**]$1.25. Houghton.
“The scenes and events through which Mr. Blaine moved in the most stirring years of his life are now matters of history, and a clear-cut biography, such as Mr. Stanwood has written makes a capital medium through which the younger generation of American readers and students may be made familiar with the post bellum period of our politics. Mr. Stanwood gives especial attention to those episodes in Blaine’s career which were most frequently represented by his enemies as more or less discreditable ... and ... makes an able defense of Blaine against the attacks of his political opponents.”—R. of Rs.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 370w. |
[*] “Nevertheless, the biography is in some respects highly valuable, and should be welcome if only for the new material assembled in a scholarly and interesting way.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “Mr. Stanwood has done his subject full justice without overdoing it.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 370w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 190w. |
Statesman’s year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1905; ed. by J. Scott Keltie and I. P. A. Renwick. [*]$3. Macmillan.
The 1905 edition of this annual is its forty-second issue and shows extensive enlargement and revision.
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 527. Ap. 29. 360w. | |
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 617. Jl. ‘05. 80w. | |
| Nation. 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 190w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 110w. |
“Not a page of the book is unnecessary or can be spared.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w. |
“One of the few reference-books which may accurately be described as indispensable.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 40w. |
“The editor has improved this annual from year to year, and the issue for 1905 is the best yet.”
| + + + | R. of Rs. 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 220w. |
“‘The statesman’s year-book’ continues to grow in size, while its arrangement is developed in the direction of completeness and convenience.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 180w. |
Staunton, Schuyler. Fate of a crown. $1.50. Reilly & B.
A tale of the revolt which overthrew the monarchy of Dom Pedro in Brazil. The central figure is young Harcliffe who is secretary to Dom Miguel the leader of the revolutionists. His hair-breadth escapes on his way to the home of Miguel in the interior, and the following intrigue and adventure which culminate in the overthrow of the government supply the historical setting of a romance in which the hero supposes himself to be at the mercy of a rival—one who turns out to be a spy, a woman masquerading in men’s attire.
“The character drawing of the book is splendid.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 524. My. 20, ‘05. 550w. |
[*] Stead, Alfred. Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. [**]$2.50. Lane.
“A compilation from Japanese sources of all manner of facts calculated to throw light on the achievements, aspirations, and problems of Japan.... Mr. Stead’s purpose, briefly, is to exhibit the efficiency attained by the Japanese in the various departments of life, and to show how this efficiency springs from the ‘earnest, thinking and eminently practical patriotism of the people.’ With this as a text Lord Rosebery contributes a foreword.”—Lit. D.
[*] “Mr. Stead’s book largely repeats his work ‘Japan by the Japanese’ published last year.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 680w. | |
| * | + | Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 430w. |
[*] “To give a full summary of the volume, which displays many of the characteristics of the encyclopedia and many of the handbook, is quite beyond the limits of a review.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 321. O. 6, ‘05. 3430w. |
[*] “Mr. Stead’s book is one of the most interesting recently produced on the inexhaustible subject of Japan. It does for that country much what Mr. Bryce did for the United States with his ‘American commonwealth.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 1670w. |
[*] “His work abounds with the exaggeration to be expected from a professional panegyrist.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 990w. |
[*] “A study, as we said, to begin with, the work has no claim to be, and even as a compilation it might have been better done. A great deal of verbiage might have been omitted, certain crudities of style might have been corrected.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 714. N. 4, ‘05. 2160w. |
Stead, Alfred, comp. and ed. Japan by the Japanese. [**]$5. Dodd.
A collection of papers written by many of the high officials of the Japanese government, and native men of well-known literary ability, including Sannomiya, Ito, Inouyé, Oyami, Ariga, Saito, Shibusawa, Naruse, Nitobe, Hozumi, and many others. Among the subjects treated are the army, navy, finance, schools, religion, commerce, politics, art and literature of Japan. There is a preface by the editor and a carefully prepared index.
“It is about as useful as an almanac and not half as good as a dictionary. A desk-book of facts and figures concerning political and economic Japan. Quite unique as a gazetteer.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
| — + | Critic. 46: 185. F. ‘05. 180w. |
“His profound ignorance of the real significance of the work of such men as Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William G. Aston, Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, and Capt. Frank Brinkley is manifest. The bad proofreading and continual misspelling of Japanese names and terms are disgraceful. In its cast and scope, the book seems intended mainly for the British reader. The facts and figures concerning the army, navy, revenue, taxation, and things outward and material are invaluable in their way. In treating of art and literature, the writers correct some errors of foreign writers, but contribute little that is fresh or revealing.”
| — — + | Nation. 80: 118. F. 9, ‘05. 1530w. |
Stearns, Frank Preston. [Cambridge sketches.] [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England.... Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.
| Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 90w. |
“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”
| — + | Dial. 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 470w. |
“The book is not without interest, but is decidedly untrustworthy.”
| + — — | Nation. 80: 458. Je. 3, 05. 370w. |
“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its readableness.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w. |
“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and admiration.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 140w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 957. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 639. N. ‘05. 90w. |
Steindorff, Georg. Religion of the ancient Egyptians. [**]$1.50. Putnam.
“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies. Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof. Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has treated it.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 220w. |
[*] “The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of Egypt.”
| + + + | Bib. World. 26: 400. N. ‘05. 10w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 597. S. 9, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 350w. |
Stephen, Leslie. Freethinking and plain speaking. [*]$1.50. Putnam.
“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.
“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 244. S. ‘05. 770w. |
“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented author commemorated.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 600w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w. |
Stephen, Leslie. Hobbes. [**]75c. Macmillan.
This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies. It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs, explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic, voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited authority.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by Frances Duncan.
| Critic. 46: 280. Mr. ‘05. 1030w. |
“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the general reader could not be desired.”
| + | Ind. 58: 208. Ja. 26, ‘05. 400w. |
“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy; sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.
| + + + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 391. Ap. ‘05. 990w. |
“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment, and that his judgment is likely to be final.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 35. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2380w. |
Stephen, Leslie. [Hours in a library.] [*]$6. Putnam.
A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott, Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.
| + | Ind. 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 160w. |
“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist. They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 33. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2490w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“One of the most satisfying and pleasing collections of literary essays.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w. |
Stephens, Kate. American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women. [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.
“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”
| + + | Bookm. 22: 85. S. ‘05. 340w. |
“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in polyglot.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 470w. |
“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style as to make the title quite appropriate.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 170w. |
“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in them that is worth recording.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w. |
“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and who does think.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w. |
“A clever book of essays.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w. |
Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.). Letters from an Oregon ranch. [**]$1.25. McClurg.
One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the volume.
[*] “A breezy, rather likable book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 60w. | |
| Dial. 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 400w. |
Stephens, Robert Neilson. Flight of Georgiana. [†]$1.50. Page.
“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make love.”—Outlook.
| + | Outlook. 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 60w. |
Stephens, Thomas, ed. Child and religion. [*]$1.50. Putnam.
This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious training of the child in the church of England; The religious training of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New church training; The religious training of children among the Jews; and The child and the Bible.
“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and helpful.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 440w. |
[*] “The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so highly.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 533. O. 21, ‘05. 320w. | |
| + | Spec. 95: 125. Jl. 22, ‘05. 290w. |
Stephenson, Henry Thew. Shakespeare’s London. [**]$2. Holt.
A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those boisterous days.
“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no less than to the general reader.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than for the satchel.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 160w. |
“The book is worthy to have a much fuller index.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1210w. |
“Interesting and apparently correct in its statements.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w. |
“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked out, and in that the description is eminently readable and entertaining.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 110w. |
“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 80w. |
“Good use is made of the descriptions left by contemporary writers.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 40w. |
Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii). Russian peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion. [*]$1.25. Dutton.
“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without revision.”—Outlook.
| Acad. 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 659. Je. 24, ‘05. 620w. | |
| Nation. 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Sterling, Sara Hawks. Shakespeare’s sweetheart. [†]$2. Jacobs.
Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays came to him from sources outside his own life experience.
[*] “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of imaginative writing.”
| + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 180w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 260w. |
Sterne, Laurence. Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald; ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.
“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.
“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 638. Ag. ‘05. 2580w. |
“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Reviews vol. I.) |
“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross, whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation that we have hitherto seen of him.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 117. F. 25, ‘05. 1130w. |
Sterner, Ira Ibson. Picture gallery of souls. $1. Badger, R: G.
Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems; and Toil and genius.
Sterrett, James Macbride. Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. [**]$2. Macmillan.
“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr. Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.
“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and inconclusive.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 852. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1380w. |
“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 453. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. | ||
| + + | Outlook. 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 680w. |
Stevens, Frank. Adventures in Pondland. $1.25. McClurg.
This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s sleep.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 60w. |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”
| + | Nation. 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at command.”
| + | Spec. 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 110w. |
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. [Works.] per v. $1. Scribner.
A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light on Stevenson’s life and work.
| Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 100w. |
“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes. There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 436. Jl. 1, ‘05. 560w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 500. Jl. 29. ‘05. 140w. | ||
| Outlook. 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w. |
“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of Thackeray.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 30w. |
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. [Child’s garden of verses.] $2.50. Scribner.
Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
| * | + | Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The whole conception of the book is in perfect good taste.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w. | |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 408. N. 24, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 580w. |
“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which might be more complete and perfect.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 766. D. ‘05. 170w. |
Stewart, Charles David. Fugitive blacksmith. $1.50. Century.
Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect, and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith, Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures, and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.
“A peculiarly fascinating story.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 569. My. 27, ‘05. 390w. |
“Stumpy’s story is well told and worth telling.” G. W. A.
| + | Bookm. 21: 544. Jl. ‘05. 430w. |
“A more diverting story has not appeared in many a long day.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05. 290w. |
“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn.’”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation, and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 940w. |
“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully managed. The story is jolly and original.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w. |
“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly original.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be. He is good enough as he is.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w. |
“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 621. Ap. ‘05. 520w. |
Stewart, Wentworth F. Evangelistic awakening. [*]75c. Meth. bk.
“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the conditions of the future.”
“As far as it goes it is an excellent book.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 110w. |
Stiles, Henry Reed. History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time. 2v. [*]$25. Grafton press.
“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical, but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 70w. |
Stimson, Henry Albert. Right life and how to live it. [**]$1.20. Barnes.
“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and criticism of after-life.”
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 779. O. ‘05. 230w. |
Reviewed by John Angus MacVannel.
| + + | Educ. R. 30: 423. N. ‘05. 970w. |
“It is clear ... its tone is distinctly hopeful, wholesome and manly.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 616. Mr. 16. ‘05. 190w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w. |
“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the other dealing with the social problems of the day.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 210w. |
Stodola, Aurel. Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. [*]$4.50. Van Nostrand.
This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,” an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and others.
“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 710w. | |
| + + | Nature. 72: 219. Jl. 6, ‘05. 770w. |
Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent. Miss Billy. [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing, mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Pleasant story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly love and the overcoming of false pride.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 480w. |
“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a moral.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
Story, Douglas. Campaign with Kuropatkin. [*]$3. Lippincott.
An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by the author.
“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions, individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives; there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w. |
“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As much as I was able to see of it.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w. |
Story of the Welsh revival. pa. [**]15c. Revell.
A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales, brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement in this country.
| Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w. |
Stow, George W. Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder, almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.
“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and praiseworthy investigations.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w. |
“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition, Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work, we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is entirely to be trusted.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the ethnology of South Africa.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w. |
“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w. |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. [Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly.] $1.25. Crowell.
This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.
Strang, Herbert. [Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war.] [†]$1.50. Putnam.
“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.
| — + | Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 80w. |
“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 200w. |
“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.
Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham). [More misrepresentative men.] [**]$1. Fox.
Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII., Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie, King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him in his whim for substantial reward.
| * | + | Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”
| + | Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 80w. |
“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the author has written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Street, George Edward. Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. [**]$2.50. Houghton.
“Many who have visited the interesting island of Mount Desert, have wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent map.”—Ind.
[*] “Is the only history of the island ever written.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 15w. |
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.
“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games. Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.
“Entertaining story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w. |
Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. [†]$1.50. McClure.
About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American, British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.
“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel, sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w. |
[*] Strong, Josiah. Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.
A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world; The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual quickening.
Strong, Josiah. Social progress for 1905. [**]$1. Baker.
Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and criticisms.
“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”
| — + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 597. S. ‘05. 180w. |
“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is strictly up-to-date.”
| + + + | Dial. 38: 326. My. 1, 05. 60w. |
“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty handling of the statistical tables.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
| + + | N. Y. Times 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w. |
“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its predecessor.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 120w. |
“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] Strong, Josiah. Times and young men. 75c. Baker.
A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice, The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem, and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century outlook.
Strunk, William, ed. See Juliana.
Stuart, Ruth McEnery. [River’s children], $1. Century.
This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s” little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.
“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 190. F. ‘05. 30w. |
“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w. |
“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered around the great river.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 377. F. ‘05. 400w. |
Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories, [†]$1.25. Harper.
Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.
| + + | Bookm. 22: 182. O. ‘05. 230w. |
“All the sketches are written in her touching, witty style.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 320w. |
“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor and pathos of plantation life.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘06. 530w. |
“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the naturalness and interest of her style.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 100w. | |
| + + | Reader. 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 290w. | |
| + + — | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 50w. |
Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford. Letters of William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. [*]$4. Dutton.
A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.
“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 236. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w. |
“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend, combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 130w. | |
| + + + | Nation. 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 3550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 524. Ag. 5, ‘05. 900w. |
[*] Sturge, Ernest Adolphus. Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.
A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends, historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.
Sturgis, Howard Overing. Belchamber. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy, sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work. His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with tragic results.
“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and perception.” Edith Wharton.
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 307. My. ‘05. 1970w. |
“Admirably well-written book.” Witter Bynner.
| + + | Critic. 46: 473. My. ‘05. 650w. |
“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + — | Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“There is nothing hopeful or right in the book.”
| — — | Ind. 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 200w. |
“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and then a suggestion of Thackeray.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 690w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable analytical study.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘03. 100w. |
“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous subject.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w. |
“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of aristocratic English life.”
| + — | Reader. 6: 472. S. ‘05. 280w. |
Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of pictures. [**]$1.50. Baker.
A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s “Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations reproduced from rare paintings.
[*] “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear reasoning.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of knowledge.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. | |
| * | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some notion of what art is.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 509. D. 21. ‘05. 220w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Mr. Sturgis has filled the requirements of the situation fully.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of sculpture. [**]$1.50. Baker.
To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the general reader.
Reviewed by Wm. Walton.
| + + | Architectural Record. 17: 189. Mr. ‘05. 2610w. (Abstract of book.) |
“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us, the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a companion.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 95. Ja. 12, ‘05. 560w. |
“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both profit and pleasure.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 270w. |
Sturgis, Russell. Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The art institute of Chicago, 1904. [*]$1.75. McClurg.
Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture, and Painting as used in architecture.
“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”
| + — | Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 140w. |
“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than like a formal treatise.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 1160w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] Sturgis, Russell. Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. [**]$15. Dodd.
In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the ‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination, costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one hundred and nineteen illustrations.
[*] “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional expression of personal judgments and speculation.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A comprehensive work.” C. de K.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 350w. |
Sturmsee: man and man; by the author of Calmire. † $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His story deals with many characters in many classes of society but chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions, and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.
“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book, because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 822. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”
| + — | Cath. World. 82: 417. D. ‘05. 170w. |
“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 980w. |
“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”
| + — | Ind. 59:451. Ag. 24, ‘05. 170w. |
“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish economic fallacies.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w. |
“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of either.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 140w. |
Sudermann, Hermann. St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W. Wilson co.
One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St. John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the unregenerate man.
| Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 20w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 40w. |
“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.
| + + + | St. Paul Dispatch. 8. Ap. 29, ‘05. 810w. |
Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. [*]$8.35. ([*]25s.) Oxford.
Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I. deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods, cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.; Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the ‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the continents.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The English version faithfully follows the original, and supplies adequate renderings of the German technical terms.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 82. Jl. 15. 400w. |
“No work on geology since the day of Lyell’s ‘Principles’ has exerted so profound an influence upon geological thought as has Suess’s ‘Antlitz der erde,’ and no one has mastered the broad geographical facts that are associated with the science of the earth, the world-concept, in a manner at all comparable with his presentation.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 134. F. 16. ‘05. 430w. |
“Excellent translation of the first volume of the work.” J. W. G.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 193. Je. 29, ‘05. 240w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
Super flumina: angling observation of a coarse fisherman, [**]$1.25. Lane.
“A volume on the art of Isaak Walton.... Among the topics discussed by the ‘fisherman’ are ‘Dashing dace,’ ‘Perches and plants,’ ‘A charge of pike,’ and ‘The club of melancholy.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The book might be summarized briefly as a modern and more erudite revival of Izaak Walton, so gentle and so humane is its attitude towards the finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its learning.”
| + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
“Is a book to irritate the curious rather than to please the well-informed or to instruct the ignorant. There is a great deal in this book that the learned angler (the appeal is to no other) may enjoy in spite of its overload of learning.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 860w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w. |
Sutro, Emil. Duality of thought and language: an outline of original research. $1.50. Physio-psychic society.
“The author professes to have made the discovery that there are two voices in man, the one of the larynx and the other of the œsophagus; and that these two possess unique relation to the ‘soul’ element of speech. Tortuous and commonplace repetitions and variations of this theme make up the volume.”—Dial
“Has no claim to consideration except as an example of the confusion which may be the fruit of interest and enthusiasm unfortified by appreciation of what scientific investigation is or what it has accomplished.”
| — | Dial. 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 100w. | |
| Nature. 71: 317. F. 2. ‘05. 95w. |
Sutro, Theodore. [Thirteen chapters of American history], represented by the Edward Moran series of thirteen historical marine paintings. [**]$1.50. Baker.
Full-page reproductions of Edward Moran’s thirteen famous paintings with a descriptive essay upon each picture, an introduction and a brief biography. Portraits of the artist and his wife, as painted by their nephew, Thomas Sidney Moran, are also given.
“Thirteen excellent half-tone reproductions of scenes connected with the history of the United States by the late well-known marine painter, Edward Moran, coupled with an interesting descriptive essay and prefaced by a careful biography of the artist.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w. |
“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty, aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking phases of American history.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“The text ... is rather injudicious in tone.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 220w. |
“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 330w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Suyematsu, K., baron. Risen sun. [**]$3. Dutton.
In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)
[*] “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “Altogether Baron Suyematsu’s book is a valuable contribution to history.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 450w. |
[*] “The book is a superb piece of polemic, with a refreshingly cool and judicial temper like Franklin’s and with eloquence that reminds us of Beecher.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 200w. | |
| * | Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “The book is somewhat disjointed, patently showing that it is not a unified production. But its text is alike interesting and valuable.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “The Japanese sun is certainly risen, but when in future, distinguished authorities, such as Baron Suyematsu, relate the story of her progress they will better attain historical truth, if they give some credit where credit is so justly due.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 550w. |
Swan, Helena. Girls’ Christian names their history, meaning, and association. $1.50. Dutton.
The author “has undertaken to give the origin of the baptismal names of women common in English-speaking countries, and to each name to add references as to its associations and history.” Her “method of treating a name is to give what she declares are its derivatives, then its derivation in the form of a statement; then to tell of the distinguished women who have borne it, and to give the titles of books wherein the name appears.”—N. Y. Times.
| Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 310w. |
“A book of considerable interest, though of no importance. She has evidently brought more enthusiasm than judgment to her task.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 610w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 15w. |
Swedenborg, Emanuel. Four doctrines with the nine questions; tr. by John Faulkner Potts. Am. Swedenborg.
The first volume in a new translation of Swedenborg’s theological writings. “The four doctrines,” first published at Amsterdam in 1763, include the following: I., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, followed by the nine questions, relating to the Lord, the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit; II., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Holy Scripture; III., The doctrine of life for the New Jerusalem from the ten commandments; IV., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning faith. The volume is supplied with full tables of contents, and an index to Biblical texts.
| Ind. 58: 845. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. (Review of vol. I.) | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“A new translation by a competent scholar. In paper, typography, and binding the volume is all that a library edition should be.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 002. F. 25, ‘05. 100w. (Review of vol. 1.) | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Review of vol. 1.) |
Sweet, Frank Herbert. Hobby camp. $1. Pilgrim press.
Kitty, a stenographer with an artistic temperament, is given a vacation by her employers and spends it in Hobby camp with Mrs. Rounds, whose hobby is doughnuts; Zeke, her son, the hobby boy; two college fellows who collect bugs and things; and Mr. Bailey who is writing a woodsy book. They all have adventures, especially Zeke, but the most wonderful things happen to Kitty, for she finds recognition for her drawings and wins the love of a great bear and—someone who is not a bear.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
Swift, John N., and Birge, William S. No surrender. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies with the Chilean naval department.
Swift, Jonathan. [Journal to Stella], together with other writings relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott. [*]$1.25. Scribner.
Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.” “The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the “Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet with something noble behind it; and the background is one of dreary country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)
“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”
| — + — | Acad. 68: 726. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1490w. |
“The prose is among the best that the poet has achieved. It would be hard to exaggerate the concision, the polish, and the perfect prose-rhythm of these letters. The letters as a whole are pungent satire on British morality, its sensual sentiment, and its capacity for whitewashing the moral sepulchre.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 165. Ag. 5. 2420w. |
“It is pure comedy, both high-spirited and restrained, both caustic and tender.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + | Critic. 47: 452. N. ‘05. 230w. |
“We are not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great novelist on the strength of this performance, but may fairly call it a clever, almost brilliant piece of work in a difficult form.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 580w. |
“They will add nothing to Mr. Swinburne’s fame.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w. |
“For our part, better than the story, better even than the incisive prologue, we love the dedication with its rioting periods and its kingly courtesies.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 950w. |
“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”
| + | Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 510w. |
“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s cross-currents.’”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1050w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 60w. |
“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 184. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1090w. |
“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 157. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1130w. |
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected poems, ed. by William Morton Payne. Heath.
A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings: odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments, imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.
“In form and method Mr. Payne’s introduction must be pronounced a model. The selection of poems could hardly be improved upon.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is as good an anthology of Swinburne as we can expect during the poet’s lifetime. The notes are exactly what the reader desires and needs.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 525. Ag. 12, ‘05. 3980w. |
[*] Swing, David. Truths leaf by leaf, with a characterization by Newell Dwight Hillis, and introd. by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus; also a poem by Dr. Gunsaulus; ed. by Sophie Burt Kimball. $1.50. S. B. Kimball, Chicago.
“When proceedings against David Swing for heresy resulted in his quitting the Presbyterian church, thirty years ago, and forming the Central Congregational church in Chicago, it was a clear gain both for preacher and people. His sermons, attractive in their breadth of view and depth of feeling, and distinguished by their literary quality, drew congregations with an unusually large proportion of men, and were regularly printed in his weekly paper, the ‘Alliance.’ The present volume draws its contents from ‘his most mature and last unpublished writings.’ Characterizations of the beloved preacher by his like-minded successors, Drs. Hillis and Gunsaulus, supply the personal element required for an adequate memorial.”—Outlook.
[*] “Beauty, spirituality, the value of high ideals in life and thought, fill these inspiring pages.”
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[*] Swingle, Calvin F. Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and answers. $3. Drake, F: J.
A plain practical treatise on the construction, care and management of modern locomotives. “The book is presented in an attractive form in flexible covers. The print is large; the illustrations, of which there are many, are clear, simple, and yet comprehensive.” (Engin. N.)
[*] “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + | Engin. N. 54: 645. D. 14, ‘05. 1430w. |
Sylvestre, Joshua, ed. See Christmas carols, ancient and modern.
Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.). [*] B. R. Haydon and his friends. [**]$3. Dutton.
“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and limitations.”—Outlook.
[*] “Miss Symonds is rather too cold a biographer.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1099. O. 21, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| * | + | Lond. Times. 4: 347. O. 20, ‘05. 1590w. |
| * | Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s volume is pleasant reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 850. D. 2, ‘05. 1470w. | |
| * | + + | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book, and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 715. N. 4, ‘05. 1290w. |