“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think, the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine stories of adventure and exploration.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w. |
* Stead, William Thomas. Peers or people? the House of lords weighed in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.
A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has done, and What must be done with the House of lords.
“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of the problem.”
| + | Nation. 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w. |
Stearns, Frank Preston. [Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne.] **$2. Lippincott.
6–37623.
A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it “contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)