Smith, William Benjamin. [Color line.] **$1.50. McClure.
“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the continuance of the social separation between the races in the South, and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ – Am. J. Soc. 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.
“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”
– Outlook. 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.
Smyth, H. Warington. Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.
An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)
“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will linger, comparing and contrasting.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.