| + + | 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. |