+ – Spec. 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$8.35. Oxford.
A work complete in five volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts. “The first consists of five chapters, in which are discussed the movements of the outer crust of the earth, diluvial, seismic, dislocatory and volcanic. In the second part the mountain systems of the world are examined in very varying detail, but sufficiently to bring out the main trend lines.” (Ath.) “The main purpose of [the second] volume is the statement of the evidence for Suess’s contention that continents are never uplifted in mass, and that the occurrence of raised shore lines and horizontal sheets of marine rocks is due to the lowering of sea level, and not to the raising of the land.” (Nature.)
+ + Nation. 83: 12. Jl. 5. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.) + + Nature. 74: 629. O. 25. ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
Sutcliffe, Halliwell. Benedick in Arcady. †$1.50. Dutton.
Really the sequel to “A bachelor in Arcady,” the book reveals a rather prosaic coloring. “The scene is the same, but it has lost some of its colour and breeziness. Cathy is not less fascinating as wife than as maid: the Wanderer is as courtly and buoyant as ever; but the Bachelor, by turning Benedick, has become a different being. His touch with nature is less intimate. Instead of the delightful notes on gardens, fields, animals, and birds in the earlier book, we have attractively written essays on such subjects as the Stuarts, superstition, the yeomanry, and old age.” (Ath.)
“In fact, the book is an idyll, and much better written than such idylls are wont to be.”
+ Acad. 70: 530. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.