The book review digest, volume 04, 1908 (part 6 of 7)
A free paraphrase of Goethe’s poem which “presents the main events of the legend with a more narrow continuity of narrative; compresses into comparatively few scenes the unrestrained sweep of Goethe’s epical inventiveness; discards the subtler phases of the world-poet’s philosophy, and reduces his main ideas to the simplicity demanded by a theatre-going public that yawns while it asks to be amused.... The authors have cut out and thrown away many passages of their original; they have rearranged the order of the passages retained; but beyond this they have set themselves scarcely any exercise of the imagination.” (Forum.)
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“The great departure from Goethe is, in my humble opinion, an absolutely fatal mistake.” F: B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 812. D. ’08. 3700w.
“Their task was special, and they have performed it admirably.” Philip Littell.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 363. D. ’08. 800w.
“Considered merely as an adaption of Goethe’s poem to the uses of the stage, this latest ‘Faust’ is thoroughly commendable. The present work is largely a dilution of previous rendering of the great original.” Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 221. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Is worth reading for its own sake and for the sake of the comparison that it invites with the huge masterpiece on which it is based.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
“In mere style and rhythm and facility Messrs. Phillips and Carr ... have thus been able to produce the best version in English of Goethe’s work. The condemnation and adaption of the poem to a workable drama have been skilfully managed, though not always to our taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 294. S. 24, ’08. 730w.
“It is not a translation, and yet it has all the awkwardness of one—the phrases that suggest imperfect understanding of the original or the carelessness natural in handling ideas not our own. Indeed, of carelessness there is more than enough.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 130w.
=Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell.= History of transportation in the eastern cotton belt to 1860. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–1482.
“The present volume is concerned almost entirely with the development of transportation in South Carolina and Georgia.... After an introduction of twenty pages giving a general survey of the transportation problems in the South, Professor Phillips devotes two chapters to highway and canal development in lowland and upland South Carolina prior to 1830. Then follow accounts of the Charleston and Hamburg railroad and the premature Charleston project, the Georgia railroad and banking company, the Central of Georgia system, the Western and Atlantic (built by Georgia) and various minor branch roads. The concluding chapter describes the beginning made during the five years before the war in the integration and co-operation of the hitherto independent roads, and summarizes the effects of the railways upon social and economic organization.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Professor Phillips has written a scholarly book rich in detail. He has placed students of social as well as economic history under lasting obligations.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 539. O. ’08. 650w.
“The investigation is both thoro and interesting, and the relations of transportation to the wider economic interests are never lost sight of.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 562. S. ’08. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Mother of the man. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–4037.
Such a mother as Ibsen foresaw for the rearing of sturdy sons is portrayed in this peculiarly strong tale with its convincing men and women. The hero is a hot-headed, untamed youth, restless with the surging of warring elemental passions. The mother’s wisdom and justice apparent in her swift play of mind offer the restraining and developing influences that finally bring the son thru pain and turmoil to the light.
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“The plot is simple, the delineation of character masterly and delicate, the descriptions of the enchanting moors exquisite.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Phillpotts has a famous style, rich and generous, and his moor draws the best out of him. His pictures of nature are singularly vivid and delectable. The most notable point in this book is the greater ease and quietness which his methods have acquired.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 221. F. 22. 350w.
“A book which is hard to discuss in terms of calm, every-day criticism. It is the sort of novel the thoughtful reader will want to keep, that he may return to it again and again, to browse here and there upon its pages. In a word, this novel is that rare and beautiful thing, the work of a poet who has something to say.” J. Marchand.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 60. Mr. ’08. 320w.
“The most human, the most appealing, the wisest and the most lovable of mothers in recent fiction. Eden Phillpotts has written his strongest book, so far, in ‘The mother of the man’ with a ripeness and restrained power rarely excelled.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“None of these people have ‘cultivated’ minds. We have not to solve them as intricate puzzles, but to watch them unfold in character and meaning, simply and beautifully, by what they say and do—rather than like Mr. James’s people, complexly and often beautifully, by the play of his fancy about them.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“This last is perhaps his finest work; it moves with greater freedom, and gives evidence that the writer is growing with each book he gives us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The plot is slight and the action far too sluggish, but the workmanship and the intellectual quality are of the best.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Virgin in judgment. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–29741.
“This story contains a dozen capital portraits of rural men and women, dwellers on Dartmoor some half-century ago. The lives of the three protagonists culminate in tragedy, the legitimate outcome of clashing temperaments. Rhoda Bowden’s affections are all centered in her brother David.... David has married Madge, who is Rhoda’s antithesis, a woman compact of sympathy and love. Jealous for her brother’s honour, Rhoda charges Madge with unfaithfulness to him. Madge is innocent, but unlucky circumstances lend colour to the accusation, and Rhoda’s harshness drives her to self-destruction. Rhoda learns the truth too late and loses her brother’s love.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“The principal charm of this book will lie for many readers in its picture of the rustic community as a whole. The writer’s chief distinction lies, perhaps, in his well-nigh Shakespearean respect and liking for simple and dull people.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 540w.
“The end is so sudden, so unexplained, and so unnecessary. It is pathetic, but it lacks justification; pathos is a mere trick of technique, but tragedy is proof of the artist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“It is doubtful whether Phillpotts has surpassed ‘The virgin in judgment’ in any of his previous novels. He lies full length upon Mother Earth, but he gazes up into the depths of the sky.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 749. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“Here is a matter for sadness, but there is mirth too, for the author gives us pages of humorous dialogue, as well as glimpses of content in many a cottage. We feel, as we read, that his touch in characterisation is sure and his outlook upon life is sane.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The statue: a story of international intrigue and mystery. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22564.
A story which “centers about a gigantic and mysterious statue built in the grounds of his country place by a financier of international reputation. A loan to the government of Morocco, which involves the possibility of a European war and survival or downfall of an English ministry, the murder of the great financier at the foot of his statue, a dramatic trial, an escape from prison, and the final revelation of the secret of the statue, provide ample complications and incidents.” (Outlook.)
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“Is no more than a melodramatic tale of ingenious intrigue, of mysterious crime, and of detection and retribution. Taking it upon this low level, the story is effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 130w.
“It is the kind of thing the cheap magazines print—a tale of murder and supposed mystery, with suitable embellishment of ‘love interest.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
“Too serious development of an ingenious tangle of circumstances. The end is surprising in its hopelessly improbable character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“The secret is ingenious, but as a dénouement it is disappointing.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Phyfe, William H. P.= Twelve thousand words often mispronounced. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–16935.
A revised and enlarged edition of “10,000 words often mispronounced” with a supplement of two thousand additional words. It is a complete hand-book of difficulties in English pronounciation, including an unusually large number of proper names and words and phrases from foreign languages.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent; with 8 il. in colour and 32 in half-tone. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17199.
Written from the English point of view this study follows the progress made in the field of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Preraphaelites and the impressionists figure largely in the treatment, with mainly such phases of other artists’ work as have contributed directly or indirectly to the success of these two schools.
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“A useful compilation covering subjects difficult to get in one volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
“The book cannot be regarded as important, but it is conscientious, and as original as is required by its purpose.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 230w.
“The title is misleading and untrue as an indication of what the book really is. ‘Modern painting’ is not English painting alone. It would almost seem as if the two parts had been written at different times and put together without any proper relation to each other.” W. C. Larned.
− + =Dial.= 45: 340. N. 16, ’08. 1100w.
“Is not a well-proportioned book. The book is of no importance, critically, but may have its uses as a popular account of the art of the last half of the nineteenth century.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 233 Ap. 18, ’08. 220w.
“Is at times characteristically British and insular in tone.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“The review is inadequate in its comprehension of what America has done for modern painting.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 300w.
“A readable, well-informed, and eminently fair-minded book.” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 1050w.
=Phythian, John Ernest.= Trees in nature, myth and art. il. **$1.50. Jacobs.
W 8–60.
“A book which tells what men have thought and said about trees, how artists have painted them, rather than a discussion of trees themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a pleasant leisurely way about myths and artists and art and the more or less scientific fancies of unscientific observers.”—Dial.
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“On account of its weakness in originality and insufficient power of expression, we fear that we must place it too near the category of those books to the writing of which there is no end.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 86. N. 2, ’07. 1500w.
“The worst point about the book is that the author is always throwing off suggestions more interesting than his main argument.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 696. N. 30. 400w.
“Mr. Phythian’s book will interest those who, less active, still love to lounge in grove or glade and dream of the stately procession of the friendly trees.” T: H. Macbride.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Phythian is at his best when he treats of trees in art, and is least satisfying in the chapters which describe them in nature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 348. N. 15. ’07. 1000w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Inscriptions of the Nile monuments: a book of reference for tourists. **$5. Putnam.
8–19581.
“The translations here presented of the more important and interesting inscriptions that challenge the traveler’s curiosity recall the vanished life of that once mighty kingdom in clear reality—the Pharaohs and priests, the conquerors and magicians, the beliefs and customs, of three and four thousand years ago. These inscriptions, together with the photographs accompanying the text, make up a rare ‘book of remembrance’ for the returned traveler, as well as a guide and interpreter for the tourist. The translated inscriptions are accompanied with adequate historical and other notes and comments, and the photographs are of superior quality.”—Outlook.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 783. O. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Occasionally he has done violence to English construction by following very closely the Egyptian order of words; at times, however, this method adds to the picturesqueness of the versions. Printed on thinner paper and in smaller type, some of the 130 illustrations might suffer, but the book would gain, and it would certainly prove not only a practicable, but an interesting and a profitable companion on a Nile voyage and on a temple pilgrimage.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 528. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
“The selection is made with good judgment, and the author’s long residence in Egypt makes him fully competent for his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 2000w.
“A more welcome companion-book for the visitor to ‘Egypt’s land of memory’ than this finely illustrated volume could hardly be produced.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15. ’08. 120w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Federal usurpation. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–4348.
“A plea for the sacredness of the constitution of the United States,” called forth by President Roosevelt’s suggestion for an increase of Federal power “thru executive action—and thru judicial interpretation and construction of law.” “The author arraigns Mr. Roosevelt for attempting to destroy the State government, imperialize the national government and convert the presidency into a dictatorship.” (Ind.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“This is a vigorous and well-written, tho somewhat polemic, constitutional study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 155. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever one may think of Mr. Pierce’s methods or conclusions, it cannot be denied that his vigorous plea for state rights ... is worthy of thoughtful consideration. Neither the facts nor the tendencies which they show are, of course, new, although no recent writer has so carefully collected them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Cannot be taken by the student very seriously. It is a view of the constitution much more ably presented by Professor Stimson. It is accurate neither in its facts nor in its law.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 314. O. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Pierce, Ulysses G. B.=, comp. Soul of the Bible: being selections from the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocrypha, arranged as synthetic readings; introd. by Edward Everett Hale. *$1.25. Am. Unitar.
7–32351.
Here are brought together passages which explain and supplement each other and which are of permanent worth. “The readings are synthetic. In each selection the whole Bible has been drawn upon, as needed to develop the subject or to supplement the thought. Isolated passages have been brought into relation with the larger thought of which they are generic parts, thus utilizing many short passages which would otherwise be overlooked because of their fragmentary character.”
=Pillsbury, Walter Bowers.= Attention. (Lib. of philosophy.) *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–19132.
The English edition of a work which in 1906 appeared in French as a volume of the Library of experimental psychology. “The English volume is an expansion of the former work and increases notably the value of this contribution to psychology. There is an additional chapter on measurements of the attention, a very important topic; a similar addition treating of the relation of attention to the feelings and to the self, and a useful practical chapter upon the educational aspects of attention. What appeared as a single chapter in the earlier publication on memory, will and reason, is now amplified into three separate chapters.” (Science.)
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“The work is marked throughout by accuracy of statement, wide familiarity with the literature of the subject, and fairness and discrimination in criticism.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 406. Ap. 30, ’08. 1500w.
“It may be true that the functional view is not adequately worked out, but it has been expressed a sufficient number of times to deserve, some of us believe, a respectful hearing. As an example of structural psychology, Professor Pillsbury’s work will command instant recognition. He will probably be satisfied to answer that this was all he intended.” C: H. Judd.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 651. N. ’08. 2300w.
“The volume may be emphatically commended.” J. J.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 819. My. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Pinkham, Edwin George.= Fate’s a fiddler. †$1.50. Small.
8–18409.
One Bermondsey Bibbus, the keeper of a second-hand book shop in Boston, his wife, addicted to lachrymose poetry, and his son, the hero and narrator of this story, constitute the chief group of characters. The father camps on the trail of the rainbow until he really finds a reasonable pot of gold in a newspaper office in Missouri. The son goes to school and enjoys the wealth of the cousin who inherited an uncle’s fortune instead of himself.
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“A confused story, with a somewhat foolish plot, but two characters who might almost have stepped out of Dickens redeem it from commonplaceness.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The story is not told in a way to appeal to mature minds, and however much it may please young people accustomed to the stories of Oliver Optic and writers of that class, it is not a book that will, we think, be prized by most novel readers.”
− =Arena.= 40: 486. N. ’08. 200w.
“A very readable novel with a distinct flavor of Dickens in it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 240w.
“The book is rather well done, but one doubts if it is particularly worth doing.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“To revive a wholesome type of story even on a reduced scale is a thankworthy deed. Mr. Pinkham has done so, and has suitably, humorously, and cleverly added of his own.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 265. S. 17, ’08. 430w.
“Had the excellence of the first chapters been sustained throughout, the book would be a noteworthy one instead of merely above the average.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Platt, Dan Fellows.= Through Italy with car and camera. il. **$5. Putnam.
7–42023.
Mr. Platt’s itinerary “covers not only the well-beaten roads, but many byways—from Castelfranco and San Daniele in the north to San Galgano, Montefalco, and Jesi in the centre. Most remarkable are his illustrations, which have three merits—they are very numerous, more than 200 in all; they are uncommonly well done; and they include many out-of-the-way scenes and bits of native life and costume.” (Nation.)
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“With that touch-and-go spirit which the motor-car encourages, and the Italian scenery in the latter part of the year intensifies, [the author] devotes his energies to the criticism of art. As a critic of art Mr. Platt is by no means commonplace and conventional. He does, indeed, cast down some of the ancient idols, but he is not a destroyer of all the cherished images.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The bars should never be lowered to admit the perpetrators of such banalities in text and ‘illustration.’”
− + =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 140w.
“After one has read the letter-press, these half-tones will serve as a sort of album of Italian subjects, to be returned to again and again.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja 30, ’08. 130w.
“A most readable record of the journey to the centres, great and small, of Italy’s past artistic activity. His style is simple, there is no attempt at fine writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 420w.
“The lover of Italy, if he does not expect an elaborate work, will find here much worth having and preserving.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Is in effect a glorified guide-book to the wonders of nature and beauties of art, which were the objective of each day’s outing.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 624. F. ’08. 360w.
=Player, Preston.= Notes on hydro-electric developments. *$1. McGraw.
8–21048.
A discussion whose object is to furnish information to the water power promoter which shall enable him to determine accurately the merits of a proposed undertaking.
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“The information given is valuable and worth the consideration of anyone at all interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 160w.
“This book should be particularly interesting to younger men in electrical and hydraulic work.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“This side of hydro-electric work has never been taken up so authoritatively before, and the manual is to be commended as answering a real need.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 335. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Plechanoff, George.= Anarchism and socialism; tr. with the permission of the author by Eleanor Marx Aveling; with an introd. by Robert Rives La Monte. 50c. Kerr.
W8–79.
“One of a series of reprints of socialistic literature published for the purposes of propaganda. The treatment is a well reasoned defense of Marxian socialism as over against utopian socialism on the one hand and nihilism and anarchism on the other hand.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“The treatment is conventional, and the chapters on Proudhon and Bakounine are especially readable.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
“Taken as a whole this volume is a masterpiece that surpasses every other work on these subjects. It contains the quintessence of the progressive thought of the past two centuries. It is an invaluable contribution to art and literature.” Saul Beaumont.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 386. O. ’08. 800w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Canada. **$1.75. Holt.
8–26881.
Roy and Ray whose journey thru Mexico taught many things historical and geographical to young readers, are equally alert in the present volume devoted to Canadian history, scenery, manners and customs. The book offers valuable supplementary reading for schools.
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“Clear, well-written and accurate, the book will prove especially useful in connection with school work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“However excellent the material, we cannot overcome our dislike of the cross-question. Miss Plummer, who has done her work carefully is a trained observer.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“An excellent travel book for children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“A book sure of a welcome from bright boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 80w.
=Podmore, Frank.= Naturalisation of the supernatural. **$2. Putnam.
8–22271.
Traces the history of spiritualistic movements, and from the published and unpublished investigations of the Society for psychical research produces material that on the one hand exposes fraud and on the other scientifically substantiates certain marvellous occurrences of psychic phenomena. “The author is convinced of the reality of telepathy, including the production of hallucinations by spontaneous thought transference, but is skeptical of the physical manifestations of spiritism which are now returning to popularity.” (Ind.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“Altho it follows the lines of his earlier works and contains little that is essentially new or different, and altho he is disappointingly inclusive in summing up the argument and stating his own opinion of it, yet his care in collecting his evidence and fairness in discussing it make the volume useful to those who wish to form their own opinions.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 488. Ag. 27, ’08. 730w.
=Nation.= 87: 239. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 300w.
“A really helpful addition to the rapidly growing literature dealing with the work that is being done in the debatable field of spiritistic phenomena, apparitions, hauntings, and kindred manifestations of a supposedly supernatural character.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 334. S. 12, ’08. 1050w.
“Though there is nothing very new or sensational in the volume, there is plenty of evidence of careful work, and of a refusal to rush into a spiritualistic explanation of unknown phenomena while any other explanation remains possible.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 744. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
* =Poincaré, Lucien.= New physics and its evolution; being the authorized translation of “La physique moderne, son evolution.” (International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
“The keynote of the book is the remark that physical science progresses by evolution rather than by revolution; and that science in general is in some sort a living organism which gives birth to an indefinite series of new beings which take the place of the old. The author shows how the science of mechanics and the mechanical hypotheses of Newton, Descartes, and La Place have been modified by recent discoveries, and he explains the limits of metaphysics and philosophy in dealing with the laws of nature.”—Nation.
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“Although it is short and clear, it will not be found easy reading, and some of it will not be followed without consultation of other works, save by those to whom the methods of research as well as the broad principles of physics are already familiar.” S. S. Sprigge.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 885. S. 14, ’07. 1900w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“The compression of so many subjects into a space of little more than 300 pages is in itself a feat of which few living men would be capable; but our wonder at this deepens when we observe the means by which it is effected. The editor of the series has done his work with discretion, and his comparatively few notes are useful in supplying needed definitions and in bringing the book up to date.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 940w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It is a scholarly production which can be confidently recommended to all who are interested in the development of physics.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 800w.
=Pollak, Gustave.= Franz Grillparzer and the Austrian drama. **$2.50. Dodd.
7–38906.
In which Franz Grillparzer, the typical Austrian of the Metternich period, is introduced to American readers. The sketch gives an intimate insight into the life and times of the playwright and also translates “freely the best of the plays, thus affording, besides the synopsis of each drama, a taste of the atmosphere of the work that nothing short of the actual text can provide.” (Bookm.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08.
“Mr. Pollak, who writes with a sound knowledge of the facts and a genuine enthusiasm for his subject, is hardly, we think, a sufficiently acute psychologist to make an ideal biographer of Grillparzer. But the narrative is clearly and pleasantly told, and English readers will gain from it a good general idea of Grillparzer’s life and work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 170. F. 8. 1450w.
“He has given a sympathetic account of Grillparzer’s rather meagre and unhappy life.” P. G. Hubert, jr.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 521. Ja. ’08. 1150w.
“He has written a sympathetic study of a character very difficult of comprehension if viewed apart from the circumstances of time and place. The metrical translations are an important feature of the book. With few exceptions they render with uncommon success the meaning and melody of the original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 18. Ja. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“In the main, in its triple character of biography, criticism, and translation, it is an admirable piece of interpretation, and in view of the place which Grillparzer has come to hold in German literature, it can scarcely be doubted that M. Pollak, in introducing him more fully to the American public, has given us one of the most important books of the season.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 88. F. 15, ’08. 1300w.
“It is a piece of biographical criticism of exceptional value by reason of its sound scholarship, competent literary judgment, and thorough workmanship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 110w.
* =Pollen, Mrs. John Hungerford.= Seven centuries of lace. $9. Macmillan.
“Mrs. Pollen [owner of the La Primandaye lace collection and wife of the official editor of the South Kensington museum catalog of books in art] is an enthusiast on the subject of ancient needle and bobbin-made lace, and has added value to the fine series of plates in her book by an able introduction, in which she traces the evolution of the sister crafts, and defines the distinctive peculiarity of each variety, adding a complete glossary of technical terms, for some of which no adequate English equivalent had previously been given.”—Int. Studio.
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“The earlier part of Mrs. Pollen’s book is naturally the more interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 373. S. 26. 620w.
“All who delight in fine needlework have every reason to be grateful, so faithful are the interpretations given and so clearly do they bring out not only the exquisite symmetry and appropriateness of the designs, but also every minute detail of stitchery that contributes to the general effect.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
“If supplemented by a good history, tracing the development of design and technique, its excellent plates would have genuine educational value, but in its present form its usefulness is practically limited to the collector or to those already somewhat familiar with the history of lace.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 740w.
=Polley, Joseph Benjamin.= Soldier’s letters to charming Nellie. il. $2. Neale.
8–4889.
Letters written by a member of Hood’s Texas brigade to a loyal Southern girl. They tell of experiences which have since become a part of history; of personal observations and feelings on the march and in battle.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
=Poor, Charles Lane.= Solar system: a study of recent observations. **$2. Putnam.
8–5270.
A supplement to standard text-books and encyclopedia articles, whose aim is to show by means of untechnical language and without the use of mathematics by what steps the precise knowledge of to-day has been reached, and to explain the marvellous results of modern methods and modern observations. Here is set down what modern science has revealed concerning the sun, the moon, the earth and other bodies in our planetary system, concerning satellite systems, comets and meteors, tides and tidal evolution, and the evolution of the solar system.
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“A book of average merit but with no distinguishing features that call for special commendation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08.
“Can be most highly commended both as a text book and as a general exposition of the most important of astronomical phenomena.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 458. S. ’08. 240w.
“Cannot fail to be read with avidity by the ever-increasing number of astronomical students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 406. O. 3. 820w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Attractive and thoroly readable. He is rather severe, but not unduly so, upon the extraordinary views of Lowell in regard to Mars and its so-called ‘canals.’”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 422. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“It is descriptive and authoritative, recording salient facts in a simple and direct manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1402. Je. 18, ’08. 520w.
“It is not too abstruse, is thoroughly entertaining, and is timely.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 70w.
“Its freedom from slips shows that the author has exercised the same minute care over the proofs that he has in the selection and exposition of the matter.” W: E. Rolston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 629. O. 22, ’08. 670w.
“The work is compact, readable and instructive in just the points where one’s schoolboy ideas need readjustment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“A very interesting and suggestive volume.” C. L. Doolittle.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 56. Jl. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Pope, Amy Elizabeth, and Carpenter, Mary L.= Essentials of dietetics in health and disease: a text-book for nurses, and a practical dietary guide for the household. *$1. Putnam.
8–22245.
A text book designed to be of use in the teaching of dietetics in schools of nursing, and also of use as a dietary guide for the home. The first part deals with the principles of dietetics, and the second, with recipes.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Much is exceedingly good, despite a confusing inconsistent use of calculations and chemical terms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 217. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Popplewell, William Charles.= Strength of materials; a manual for students of engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13630.
A book intended for students of engineering who are desirous of obtaining a working knowledge of the fundamental principles involved in problems of machine and structural design. Special attention has been paid to the unequal distribution of stress and to the limits of elasticity in iron and steel.
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“We already have a number of much better works, and there seems to be no place in the American field for this newcomer.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 280w.
“Though prepared for English students, [this book] will prove of equal value to Americans who wish a short, correct, and vigorous treatment of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Nature.= 77: 412. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Porter, Charles Talbot.= Engineering reminiscences contributed to “Power” and “American machinist”; rev. and enl. il. *$3. Wiley.
8–9539.
The articles contributed to “Power” and “American machinist” have been revised and expanded and have been collected here for an addition to the history of American engineering. “It must be borne in mind, of course, that the book makes no pretence to be an impartial and complete history of the field of engineering to which it refers. Mr. Porter has merely set down his personal experiences and those of his associates and contemporaries from his own personal viewpoint.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 250w.
“The book is written in conversational style and with a frank recital of successes and failures which make it highly entertaining. The young engineer can learn many lessons in practical business.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book is a model of its kind, written with very many humorous comments and full of the charm of scholarship tempered by the broad views that come only with intimate acquaintance with men of all degrees in many countries.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 386. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
* =Porter, Eleanor H.= Turn of the tide. †$1.25. Wilde.
The sequel to “Cross currents” which follows the development of Margaret Kendall, lost in the slums for four years, from the time when she is restored to her home.
=Porter, Gene Stratton.= At the foot of the rainbow. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–978.
Central Indiana furnishes the rural scene of a story whose characters—two men, and a woman—constitute the modern-drama triangle. It is a tale of a heroic Scotchman’s friendship for a dissipated Irishman who had played the former false when entrusted with a message to the girl both loved.
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“A light, cheerful and, at the same time, pathetic, little story. A breezy, fresh, out-of-doors atmosphere is its chief characteristic. Similar in this respect to the author’s ‘Freckles,’ but better done in every way.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story has the same outdoor quality that ‘Freckles’ has, by the same author, but it makes less of an appeal to the sympathies.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 95. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“If it is worth reading at all (and let us give the author the benefit of the doubt), is so because of the background of outdoor life, nature, and the changing pageant of the seasons.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Porter, Mary Winearls.= What Rome was built with: a description of the stones employed in ancient times for its building and decoration. *$1.25. Oxford.
8–13631.
The knowledge of antiquary and geologist has been drawn upon to furnish to inquirers this description of the stones used in building ancient Rome. The kinds of stone are identified and traced to their home quarries, and historical and mythological details are included.
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=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 17w.
“A little more care might also have been well spent in the arrangement of the matter. Only trifling blemishes, detract from the value of an interesting compilation. It is difficult to point to any other work on the subject equally convenient and trustworthy.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 196. Ja. 2, ’08. 400w.
“A highly interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 170w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Woven in the tapestry. **$1. Moffat.
8–9525.
“These are the tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the distant borderlands; of the pagan king, Thyaterion, and his daughter, the princess Alacia; of the Hermit in the forest, and of the stranger who came to live for a while as the Hermit’s disciple.” “The nosegay of chapters from the life of a fairylike princess holds allegories that trace the growth of her mind, soul, and heart. Side by side with these are cameo portraits of her lowlier neighbors, of her courtiers and counsellors, and of the true and only prince.” (Nation.)
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=Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 150w.
“The soul not dead to the whisperings of poetry, may pleasurably walk in this pretty garden of fantasies.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“It is a gracious little book; and perhaps there may be a truth in its flowery pages which the plainer story of real life overlooks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 220w.
* =Post, Melville Davisson.= Corrector of destinies: being tales of Randolph Mason as related by his private secretary Courtlandt Parks. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25120.
A group of mystery stories containing legal tangles which Randolph Mason, wizard of the law, straightens thru a maze of technicalities. “Randolph Mason may not be humanly possible—an embodied characteristic is rarely so; but there is a certain stern charm in so austere a conception as the incarnate essence of justice untinctured with sympathy.” (Nation.)
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“Most of the stories hang upon points of law more interesting to the technician than to the outsider.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The book is well written, and is sure to be of interest both to old friends of Randolph Mason and to those who meet him now for the first time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Post, Van Zo.= Retz. †$1.50. McClure.
8–16717.
A young nobleman of Flanders goes forth to adventure and achievement uncertain whether the power that moves the world is money, knowledge or love. The gift of Venus—as old as time—is accepted after daring deeds prove the worthiness of the hero.
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“Structurally, it is incoherent, but its episodes are exciting enough to make us condone the fault of amorphous plan.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Cora Brown.= The secrets of beauty and mysteries of health. **$1.75. Elder.
8–10640.
A practical guide to beauty which gives suggestions for the right care of the skin, hair, nails, eyes, nose, ears, face, mouth, teeth, hands and feet. Valuable formulas are interspersed for the compounding of aids to beauty and health.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 218. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“She has given to the world of woman a very sensible and thorough study of the methods in vogue all over the world for the promotion of good looks and good health.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The volume contains all sorts of good advice, based on the author’s stage experiences and travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 30w.
=Potter, Margaret.= Golden ladder. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12224.
The story of a wanton young woman who treads the broad way just because she wants all of the tinsel of life and none of its serious joy. On the rounds of the “golden ladder” the hero—who in truth does not deserve the name—sacrifices his manhood, but still climbs, by the Wall street way, to his millions.
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“The story is made both unattractive and ineffective by the ostentatious desire of the author to point its moral.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 180w.
“The volume undoubtedly has good material in it; Margaret Potter sees life on a rather big scale, and she uses verbal colour in a way that forces the reader to see what she wants him to see.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 399. Je. ’08. 400w.
“Some of her bits of description and dialogue are calculated to bring a blush not to maiden cheeks alone. We are inclined to think that ‘The golden ladder’ has done a thing well worth doing after a fashion in which it distinctly ought not to be done.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 91. Ag. 16, ’08. 330w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the Briand family, and an occasional lapse from egotism on the part of the hero, the novel is unjustifiably repulsive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Most of the characters are crude in conception and are not made credible in development.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 180w.
“The book is, of course, designed to show up the terrible hunger for riches that possesses the land; but we fail to see that it will turn any young man from attempting the ascent of the perilous ladder.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 620. Ag. ’08. 400w.
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
“The novel, if a little long, is decidedly clever, but it is by no means pleasant reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 270w.
=Pottle, Emery Bemsley.= Handicapped. †$1.50. Lane.
8–17789.
“Donovan O’Hara, who came of a well-bred mother, was handicapped by having a horse-trainer for a father. He had the bringing-up, the associates, and, on the whole, the tastes and morals of a horse-trainer.” (Nation.) How his heritage operates against him in matters of love forms the main theme of the book. “The group of people who appear in these pages is united by a common love of horse flesh.” (Nation.)
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“Does not at any point gain much hold upon the reader’s attention.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 140w.
“When the book is not horsy it is ‘sexy.’ It it also rather dull.”
− =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“An eloquent little romance, vibrant with plenty of wholesome activity, and with a pathetic love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 297. My. 23, ’08. 140w.
=Poulton, Edward Bagnall.= Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4. Oxford.
Contains a series of ten essays on various aspects of the Darwinian theory and is introduced by a chapter entitled Mutation, Mendelism, and natural selection.
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“Our first thought on reading these essays is one of regret that their author did not rewrite them entirely and give his matter in a new form. By the present arrangement the book appeals much more to the entomologist than to the general reader. Perhaps their main fault is a certain pedagogic flavour, and hence an impatience of views not entirely in consonance with those of the author.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 157. Ag. 8. 900w.
“This introduction, together, with the last three or four chapters, should have formed an independent volume on natural selection and mimicry.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 167. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“We dare not find fault with it, save indeed to wish its treatment had been even more encyclopaedic.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 336. S. 12, ’08. 1600w.
=Powell, Frances, pseud. (Frances Powell Case).= Old Mr. Davenant’s money. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10860.
A story with a subtly handled mystery concealed by an avaricious mother and a faithful servant. A mother had managed with skilful manœuvring to secure old Mr. Davenant’s money for her son. The boy dies and the mother rather than lose the fortune slips a twin sister into his shoes and brings the child up as the son and heir. The east end of Long Island furnishes the setting for the story which sketches a fascinating group of characters and is rich in local color.
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“The sugaring of the pill is so well done that the story may well enough be read for its interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
* =Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Art of natural sleep, with definite directions for the wholesome cure of sleeplessness, illustrated by cases treated in Northampton and elsewhere. **90c. Putnam.
8–32345.
A little book prompted by the author’s experience in overcoming insomnia which is designed to help physicians, Emmanuel workers, and others who believe in the art of natural sleep to aid those committed to their care. The method is auto-suggestion reinforced by faith.
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“The tiny book is written in the simplest and most practical style, and its definite directions for the cure of sleeplessness are such as any person can follow with very little trouble.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 723. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.= Christian science: the faith and its founder. *$1.25. Putnam.
7–40519.
An interpretation of the facts of Christian science, its tenets and its founder written by one who is neither a defender nor an assailant.
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“A careful, painstaking exposition, manifesting a thorough knowledge of the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 147. My. ’08. ✠
“The volume should have careful consideration from all who are interested in the phenomenon.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 130w.
“A very careful and painstaking examination.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 40w.
=Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 264. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
“The author is frank and impartial with Eddyites and their opponents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A scathing indictment, all the more scathing because of the dispassionate form in which it is presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“It ought to be satisfactory to those who wish a fair-minded and judicial interpretation of Christian science.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 180w.
=Poyser, Arthur.= Tower of London; painted by John Fulleylove, described by Arthur Poyser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The text, beautifully printed on thick paper with wide margins, consists of an historical sketch, and then descriptions of walks through the Tower, round the Tower, about Tower hill, and Allhallows Barking by the Tower. This part of the work is competently done, but without special distinction of style. The pictures are pretty, fortunately in rather subdued colors, but without notable excellence.”—Nation.
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+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 318. O. ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 120w.
“There is sufficient in the way of historical sketch, of description of the several towers, chapels, and chambers, and of anecdote about famous prisoners to make the work valuable without overloading it with detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 150w.
“If Mr. Poyser sees more imaginative possibilities in the Tower than the great writers themselves appear to have seen, we must say that he himself has cast little of charm over his descriptions.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Fulleylove’s pictures have all the charm which we are accustomed to find in his work. Mr. Poyser’s description is satisfactory on the whole.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 712. N. 7, ’08. 240w.
=Praed, Rosa Caroline (Mrs. Campbell M. Praed).= By their fruits. $1.50. Cassell.
“A story with twin sisters as the central figures. Dual personalities, so alike that they easily pass for each other when apart, equally beautiful in physical appearance, they are yet opposites in temperament and character; Aglaia-Pascaline, frivolous, a victim to the drug habit; Pascaline-Aglaia, pure, spiritual, would-be savior of her sister. Around these two characters the story is woven.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Though it can scarcely be called probable, is highly ingenious, and through four hundred odd pages the interest never flags.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 140w.
“According to my thinking, it is, on the whole, the most remarkable and the most original novel Mrs. Praed has yet brought out, and its heroine is certainly one of the most charming, noble-minded woman figures in our recent literature, at once poetically ideal and yet thoroly lifelike and real.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1339. Je. 11, ’08. 350w.
“The interest never flags for one moment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
=Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. *$3. Schirmer.
7–38011.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The book becomes unbalanced towards the end.” O. G. Sonneck.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 828. Jl. ’08. 800w.
“Particularly useful for small libraries with few reference books. The illustrations are interesting, but not finely executed.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 47. F. ’08. ✠
“He has increased the literature of music by a contribution of permanent value.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 99. F. 16, ’08. 850w.
“By the painstaking care with which he has selected his material, and the clear, succinct, straightforward method of its presentation, without waste of words, his book is an important contribution to the literature of music, and it makes interesting reading for layman and musical student alike.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It may be said that too many minor names are included among the numerous sketches of composers. By omitting such trivial information, room might have been provided for references to the more important books in which the subject of each chapter can be studied in detail. Apart from this, it would be difficult to suggest a way in which this book might have been improved. Is a marvel of industrious research and exceptional usefulness.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The book is far from being a mere compilation. It is not lacking the personal point of view, and the flavor of the personal criticism. The arrangement is admirable, with its division into large and small type; and the index is very full.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 50w.
=Pratt, Walter Merriam.= Burning of Chelsea. $1.50. Sampson pub.
8–19884.
A contribution to local history based on personal knowledge and observation. It gives a volunteer fireman’s story of the great conflagration of last April with additional chapters on the history of Chelsea. Fully illustrated from photographs.
=Presbrey, Frank.= Motoring abroad. *$2. Outing pub.
8–16437.
The account of a two months’ automobile trip thru Normandy, Brittany, the chateau country of Touraine, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales made by an enthusiastic automobilist and his wife. The volume is instructively written and profusely illustrated. It closes with a chapter on “Practical suggestions” in which the author gives other automobilists the benefit of all the means adopted to reduce discomfort and annoyance to a minimum.
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“Is notable apart from the descriptions he gives of the countries.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“We can confidently recommend [it] to the stay-at-home who is afflicted with the somewhat prevalent desire to see Europe from an automobile.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4. ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The author knows how to enjoy himself thoroughly and he understands how to tell in crisp, entertaining fashion, what he has seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Prescott, Samuel Cate, and Winslow, Charles E. A.= Elements of water bacteriology, with special reference to sanitary water analysis. 2d ed. $1.50. Wiley.
8–9036.
A new edition rewritten to cover the progress during the past four years. “Particular mention is made of addition to the chapters on Self-purification, on the Isolation of the typhoid bacillus, on Colon tests, and a new chapter has been provided on the Bacteriology of sewage and sewage effluents. A quite extended bibliography is provided.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. N.= 60: 80. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“In its practical applications the book is an excellent compendium of data bearing on the bacteriological conditions of normal waters, the self-purification of streams, the efficiency of sand and mechanical filters and the relation of bacteriology to sewage purification.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 420w.
“The book can be recommended as a very useful one and a great improvement on the first edition.” R. T. Hewlett.
+ =Nature.= 79: 6. N. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Preuss, Arthur.= Fundamental fallacies of socialism: an exposition of the question of landownership; comprising an authentic account of the famous McGlynn case. *$1. Herder.
“Written by a Catholic who seeks to prove that the public ownership of land is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic church, especially that embodied in the encyclicals of Leo XIII. These encyclicals and Henry George’s open letter to the pope are discussed in detail. The author then seeks to prove that the removal of the ban of excommunication which had been pronounced against McGlynn because of his advocacy of Henry George’s theories did not mean, as it was commonly supposed, that the single tax was not contrary to Catholic doctrine.... The final conclusion is that public ownership of land being wrong, similar arguments will prove the error of public ownership of other agents of production—hence the fallacy of socialism.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“When Mr. Preuss will have dealt intelligently with the crux of the situation hinted at in his observations, he may, with more propriety than at present, claim to have produced ‘the first and only adequate presentation, in English, of the important question of landownership.’”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 100. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
=Ind.= 86: 637. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 180w.
=Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
* =Preyer, David C.= Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
“Written not for the professional, whether painter or critic or student, but rather for the reader who is interested in art for the beauty of it and for the tourist who is looking for information. While the greater part of the volume is given over to Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hals, Memling, the Van Eycks, Teniers, Jan Steen, Van Ostrade, and the other great painters, much space is devoted to the modern Dutch artists, Israels, the Maris brothers, Neuhuys, &c.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Such a history has not before appeared in English, nor in Dutch in the same completeness. Mr. Preyer’s account of the lesser men, as well as of their more noted fellows, is written with intelligence and discrimination.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 407. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Is sufficiently enthusiastic about his subject to impart some of his appreciation to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
=Price, Eleanor C.= Princess of the old world [Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans]. (Memoir ser.) *$3. Putnam.
8–10260.
The biography of Louis XIV’s wayward and eccentric cousin who “next to Queen Elizabeth is perhaps the most interesting spinster in history.” (Spec.) “The life of Mademoiselle covers a great part of the seventeenth century, a very interesting period in the history of France, seeing that it includes the wars of the Fronde and such personalities as Conde—perhaps the most brilliant of all French soldiers before Napoleon—and Mazarin. Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans mixed, of course, with these men and engaged in the politics of their time.” (Sat. R.)
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“The author has used contemporary sources with taste and discretion, and has supplemented them with the best modern authorities.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25. 1400w.
“An exceedingly finished and accurate presentation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
“The author has the knack of making her people seem very real and very much alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. N. 16, ’07. 100w.
“A picturesque and highly readable study.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 779. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
=Price, William Thompson.= Analysis of play construction and dramatic principle. $5. W: T. Price, 1440 Broadway, N. Y.
8–23870.
“Mr. Price’s theory is that dramatic genius, unsupported by mastery of technical laws, is comparatively powerless to make a good play—which has a certain measure of truth in it—and that the requisite technical knowledge must be obtained by minute analysis of standard pieces in order to discover their constructive principles. As models for dissection he selects five plays, ‘Ingomar,’ ‘Lady of Lyons,’ ‘Camille,’ ‘Still waters run deep,’ and ‘A new way to pay old debts’—of which only one, ‘Camille,’ is really notable for artistic composition.”—Nation.
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“His unworthiness as a teacher is manifested, not so much in his exaggeration of the importance of mere mechanism as compared with that of matter—much of what he says about technique is sound enough, though tediously trite—but in his utter failure to offer any suggestions of practical value to the budding dramatist. All the real instruction in his ponderous volume could be put with better effect into a thin pamphlet for use as a primer.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 269. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
“There are no better books on this subject than Mr. Price’s.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 970w.
* =Priestman, Mabel Tuke.= Art and economy in home decoration. **$1.50. Lane.
8–27401.
The author, a practical interior decorator, presents a study of house decoration in which color is the keynote. “Suggestions are given how to treat our walls, what curtain material is best, what to choose as floor-covering, and how much ornament is admissible on our furniture, besides many other points of vital importance to the young housekeeper, or the older one whose eyes are being opened to possible beauty. The illustrations in the book are excellent as aids to the text.” (Outlook.)
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“More inclusive than Daniel’s ‘Furnishing a modest home,’ but is on different lines and will appeal to a different class of readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’06. ✠
“The subjects are treated with the knowledge that comes of long study of interior decoration, and in a simple, untechnical way that will appeal to the average home-maker.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“The clear classification of subjects in this manual will be appreciated by those who use it.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Prior, James.= Walking gentleman. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23524.
On the day preceding his marriage, Lord Beiley, immensely bored with life, wanders away and yields to the temptation of vagabondage. His itinerary takes him among people with whom rank counts for nothing, where he learns to value essential manhood. And “the Lady Sarah comes to feel that his desertion of her was a blessing to them both, because it taught each of them that life was not quite worth while without the other.... It gives a series of vivid pictures of rural England, a succession of carefully studied types of middleclass lower-class men and women, of the scum and riff-raff of society, all admirable in their own special way.” (Bookm.)
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“In the general scheme of his work—its inconsequence, its whole-hearted love of the open road, and, above all, its wide sympathy with all sorts and conditions of men—Mr. Prior reminds us irresistibly of George Borrow.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 951. S. 28, ’07. 350w.
“For a novel with no plot it is astonishing how interesting this itinerary is; the book will dwell in the memory when most novels have faded from it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 200w.
“The story not only has a clever theme, well handled, but better yet, it is delightfully written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“With the exception of ... a precocious but lovable child, it is in the minor characters that Mr. Prior shows his finest art. The story in itself is not strikingly original; its value lies in its flashes of human insight.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. James Prior possesses an exceptional wealth of juicy humor; he pours forth the wine of mirth that gladdens the heart in liberal measure.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Programme= of modernism: a reply to the Encyclical of Pius X., Pascendi dominici gregis; with the text of the Encyclical in an English version, tr. by Rev. Father George Tyrrell, with an introd. by A. Leslie Lilley. (Crown theological lib., no. 25.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15499.
The fault of “Modernism” for which the authors of this volume have suffered excommunication is that of regarding Christianity as transcending the outward doctrinal and ecclesiastical expression of it and daring to submit these externals to historical criticism. The reply includes a most lucid and concise presentation of the results of the “Higher criticism,” states wherein the Encyclical has misrepresented the “modernists.” and explains and justifies their position, maintaining that it is in accord with the best Catholic traditions.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 346. Mr. 21. 1200w.
Reviewed by H. C. Corrance.
=Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“It is a very remarkable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 221. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Pleasant land of France. *$3.50. Dutton.
W8–121.
“Seven sketches and studies, ranging over agriculture, folklore, history, and literature, with the one common attribute of an all but exclusive bearing on provincial conditions of life and thought in France.” (Nation.) “For American readers the essay on Fontainebleau will probably hold the greatest share of interest.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is a pity he did not expand the two essays [on French agrarian subjects] into a small volume, bringing the facts under consideration down to the present day, and elucidating his pages with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 37. Jl. 11. 630w.
“Most important are two practical discussions of French farming and tenant-right, together with an elaborate contribution to the appreciation of Rabelais.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“For the thousands of Americans who annually make their holiday in France one would not do better than recommend this essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 650w.
“Whether courting the muse of history ... or drawing a humorous philosophy from the gudgeon-fishing which is the national pastime of provincial France, Mr. Prothero is wholly delightful here.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Prothero’s delightful book on France covers a variety of subjects, on each and all of which he speaks with authority.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 408. S. 19, ’08. 1500w.
=Putnam, George Palmer.= Tabular views of universal history; originally compiled by G. P. Putnam, and continued to the year 1907 by Lynds E. Jones and Simeon Strunsky. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–39021.
A series of chronological tables presenting in parallel columns, a record of more noteworthy events in the history of the world from the earliest times down to 1907.
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“A laborious undertaking which we are bound to say hardly seems to us to have paid for the doing.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 30w.
“For the layman studying universal history some such arrangement is a godsend wellnigh indispensable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6. ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have tested the dates for various periods we find no reason to doubt the general accuracy of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“The new edition contains a number of important features.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 50w.
“On the whole, the book seems to be carefully compiled.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 836. My. 23, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam, Ruth.= Charles the Bold; last duke of Burgundy, 1433–1477. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–6627.
A biography whose importance grows out of the last duke of Burgundy’s relation to events rather than out of any patriotic or heroic qualities. The author has condensed a vast amount of reliable material in her sketch, making use of the later results of historical investigation. She says, “The veracity attained is only that of a mosaic of bits; each with its morsel of truth.” She emphasizes the insufficiency of the duke’s mental equipment to cope with the forces of his age, and further believes that his chiefest happiness lay in his unconsciousness of his shortcomings.
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“Accurate as to facts, and good in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 203. Je. ’08. ✠
“An interesting account of a most interesting career.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Particular attention should be called to the well-selected illustrations. Miss Putnam tells in an attractive and authentic fashion the life of the last Duke of Burgundy.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 423. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“Will surely take first rank in the series to which it belongs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“A brilliant miniature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“It is written with perhaps more dash and fervor than both the hero and the subject warrant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 260w.
=Sat. R.= 106: 306. S. 5, ’08. 370w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Ruby of Kishmoor. †$1. Harper.
8–31166.
A story of adventure set in the island of Jamaica which introduces a pirate, his allies, his daughter, and the hero, a tall, lean, loose-jointed Quaker. Before his death the pirate turns over the famous Kishmoor ruby to his daughter, and the Quaker plays the hero in defending her against the father’s confederates, who, separately, in the act of securing the ruby, bring death upon themselves.
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=Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W: G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“The artist-author is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
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=Quackenbos, John Duncan.= Hypnotic therapeutics in theory and practice; with numerous illustrations of treatment by suggestion. **$2. Harper.
8–6667.
The author believes that the transliminal or higher spiritual self may be inspired to assert a control that is practically boundless, within the limitations of physical possibility and moral right, over “the flesh,” that is, organs of body and faculties of mind; and that the whole purpose of hypnotic suggestion is the evocation of such control. He treats hypnotism as the great regenerative force of the age, bases his statements on scientific facts having back of them over seven thousand personal experiences in treating physical and moral diseases.
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“This is really ‘yellow’ psychology, and is none the less jaundiced because one may charitably concede that the author is sincere.”
− − =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 570w.
“He accepts as proved many things to which the cautious scientist would at most give the benefit of the Scotch verdict.”
− =Ind.= 65: 431. Ag. 20. ’08. 440w.
“Any minister who is thinking of taking up such work, from whatever motive, would do well to read this book and heed its counsels of caution.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“A volume more remarkable for the magnitude of its claims than for any conviction of the validity of those claims which it carries.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
− + =Outlook.= 88: 885. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
=Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28. ’08. 40w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 50w.
=Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“[We open it] with pleasant expectations. Nor are we disappointed, as far as plan and style are concerned, for the author knows how to write, and his eye for dramatic effect is keen. But we must confess to a considerable disappointment when we discover that the book is not so much a novel as an argument for the single tax.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
“A tale of much incident; in fact, its author has over-charged his canvas in his zeal to preach the economic cure-all made familiar by Henry George after its previous long struggle for recognition. There is discernible in these pages, however, a great sincerity of purpose, an ardent desire to reform and improve, to serve the poor and awaken the rich.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 156. Ja. 16, ’08. 170w.
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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violoncellos. (Music lovers’ lib.) il. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35540.
“Is concerned with the history of the instrument and its evolution from the ‘ravanastron’ of India, probably its earliest prototype, to its present form.” (Int. Studio.) “Not only gives an account of the instrument, but is full of pleasing anecdotes, subjective fancies, scenery, such, for instance, as the glimpse in the opening chapter of London on a foggy day, and records of players in centuries passed.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Not by any means indispensable to the ordinary collection of books on music.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The author ... has certainly made her book acceptable to the general reader; but it also contains plenty of solid information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 425. Ap. 4. 250w.
“The numerous digressions introduced concerning those who have been responsible for the changes in the model of the instrument undoubtedly enhance the general interest of the work.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“There is a quaint flavor to Miss Racster’s style, a certain humorous enthusiasm, which makes her book capital reading, even for persons whose relations to the violoncello are through the ear alone; while he or she who has ever handled the instrument cannot fail of discovering an almost lyric charm in the pages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2. ’08. 150w.
=Radau, Hugo.= Bel, the Christ of ancient times. *75c. Open ct.
8–19535.
“From the preface to this book we learn ‘that the Babylonian religion is a purely monotheistic religion, more particularly a monotheistic trinitarian religion.’ The first sentence of Part 1 reads: ‘It is admitted by every one who has studied the religion of the Babylonians, that it is from the first to the last polytheistic. By a more or less successful series of permutations and combinations this apparent contradiction is removed, and Enlil, who is “one flesh” with Ninlil, his wife, is shown to be the one Babylonian deity.’ The second part shows that the belief in the resurrection is the essential doctrine of the Babylonian, as well as of the Christian, religion.”—Bib. World.
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− =Bib. World.= 32: 368. N. ’08. 200w.
− =Ind.= 65: 496. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
=Raikes, Hugh P.= Design, construction, and maintenance of sewage disposal works; being a practical guide to modern methods of sewage purification. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Written by an engineer for engineers. It “summarises a considerable amount of recently acquired knowledge relating to sewage disposal, and contains the advice and experience of one who has had to face the practical problems involved.” (Nature.)
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“This is a ‘live book.’ Any differences of opinion which may be felt between author and reviewer are merely such as necessarily and usefully exist between workers in different parts of the same field. The practical man will find in its pages many useful ‘tips’ and will be led to see where he can be helped by scientific investigation, whilst the scientific worker will be enabled better to realize the practical limitations which are often set to the ideal design indicated by theory.” G. J. Fowler.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 183. Ag. 13, ’08. 2500w.
“Some of the bacteriological and chemical references in this volume are insufficient for the student’s comprehension as they stand at present, and in some cases they demand revision in a subsequent edition. A volume which, from the engineering standpoint, justifies its appearance.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 473. S. 17, ’08. 830w.
=Railway master mechanic.= Railway shop up to date; a reference book of up to date American railway shop practice; comp. by the Editorial staff of the Railway master mechanic. $3. Crandall pub. (For sale by Van Nostrand.)
7–42333.
A reference book of up-to-date American railway shop practice showing what methods have been adopted to meet certain ends at individual plants. “The book takes up in turn the general lay-out of the shops, the locomotive shop, the blacksmith shop, the freight car shop, the passenger coach and paint shop, the planing mill, the foundry, the power house, the store house and the roundhouse. There is also an excellent bibliography of American articles on such structures.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“The book will be of great value in the office of any railway motive-power or shop department officer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 400w.
“Of decided value to railroad master mechanics and mill architects generally.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Ramsay, Sir James Henry.= Dawn of the constitution; or, The reigns of Henry III and Edward I. (A. D. 1216–1307). *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–21030.
The fourth volume in the author’s history of England in the middle ages. “Single minor incidents are made to contribute to the progress of the story; familiar dramatic events are sanely and soberly described; the royal finance is treated with unique fulness and clearness; the military element is not preponderant. The historian has, within his limits of matter and form, provided ‘those desirous of knowing the cardinal facts of English history with a consecutive and verified narrative.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“In matters of general accuracy and apparatus somewhat is left to be desired. Sir James Ramsay has again done a great service, especially to students, who may at any time be helped by one or another apparently superfluous detail.” R. K. Richardson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 106. O. ’08. 950w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 264. N. ’08.
“A work constructed on this plan can hardly be otherwise than dry. One grows weary of the author’s painstaking chronicle of movements and interests of but one class, his neglect of other aspects of the life and thought of the nation. Yet despite limitations, the merits of the history are many and lasting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 670w.
“Although Edward is the central figure in the volume now before us we fail to derive from it any clear conception of his personality. Sir James is an annalist of the most laborious description. Somewhere in his pages we may count on finding all important facts along with many that are unimportant.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 860w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Cities of St. Paul: their influence on his life and thought: the cities of eastern Asia Minor. (Dale memorial lectures in Mansfield college, Oxford, 1907.) il. *$3. Armstrong.
8–3647.
The Dale memorial lectures for 1907. Tarsus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Derbe and Lystra are the cities treated. “The lectures aim to show the element in Paul’s thought of social reorganization which was contributed by Greek ideas of development in individual freedom guided by education. They abound in points of historical, biblical, and antiquarian interest, with serious criticism of various current views. Much the largest section of the volume is deservedly given to Paul’s native city.” (Outlook.)
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“The reviewer confesses to an impression that the material at the author’s disposal is often too slight for the conclusions that are based upon it.” G: H. Gilbert.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 477. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“These chapters narrating the history and showing the life of each of these cities will be invaluable to students of the New Testament; and Sir William Ramsay is to be congratulated on his excellent work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 700w.
“This will be a useful book to students of the life of Paul.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“No one knows Asia Minor more thoroly than does Professor Ramsay, and, as the learned public knows, this ‘Cities of St. Paul’ is but the latest of his series of volumes which have added so much to our knowledge of the physical, social and historical surroundings which affected the great apostle’s character and work.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 500w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 230. Ag. 15, ’08. 180w.
“Important work. Has no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The book indicates Dr. Ramsay’s undoubted scholarship and his wide grasp of facts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He speaks with conscious authority and long experience, and is a little resentful of amateur encroachments upon his domain, whether those of ‘Palestinian tourist savants,’ whose half-knowledge he frankly criticises, or of German scholars who work from books and in long succession repeat each other’s errors.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 469. Ap. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“If we cannot always accept Sir William Ramsay’s theories, we always find him full of enlightening suggestion.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 620. Ap. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Rand, Benjamin=, comp. Modern classical philosophers; selections illustrating modern philosophy from Bruno to Spencer. *$2.50. Houghton.
8–6098.
A series of selections valuable to college classes including philosophical writings of Bruno, Bacon, Hobbs, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte and Mill.
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“Will immediately become a standard book of reference.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable one for the college student to have at his elbow.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 80w.
“Good as his book is, it might be bettered in the earlier editions which are certain to be called for. As it stands, the work is heartily to be recommended to instructors and students alike.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 554. S. 24, ’08. 640w.
“One of the most useful books on its subject published in recent years. Any book of this kind is, of course, open to criticism of detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“The volume can be strongly recommended to the general reader. Such a book as this will best realize its final purpose, however, as indeed the compiler points out, if it serves as a stimulus to the student to turn to the unabridged writings themselves of the great thinkers. To that end the addition of a few bibliographical references would have been of real service in directing the uninitiated.” G. M. Duncan.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 662. N. ’08. 1850w.
=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Adopting of Rosa Marie. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24300.
A story for children which is a sequel to “Dandelion cottage.” The chief interest for the group of lively children who laugh and play thru the book is a little Indian child borrowed for a day but kept indefinitely on account of the desertion of the parents.
=Rappoport, Angelo S.= Curse of the Romanovs: a study of the lives and reigns of two tsars: Paul I and Alexander I of Russia, 1754–1825. *$3.50. McClure.
8–9071.
“This book is dedicated to the memory of the ‘noble martyrs who have fallen in the struggle for Russian freedom.’ Herein lies the alpha and omega of the spirit in which it is written. The ulterior object of the author, in raking up as he does the bones of the dead, is obviously to stir up public indignation against the Tsar and enlist the reader’s sympathy in to-day’s policy and aims of the extreme revolutionaries of his own country—a policy which will lead, he hopes, to ‘the disappearance of the house of Romanov as a reigning family.’ The book is full of stories of court scandal, of ruling favourites, intrigues of mistresses and lovers’ plots.”—Sat. R.
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“Considered as a book for the general reader, this handsome and well illustrated volume may be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 800w.
“The first chapter is turgid rant; but after that matter and manner begin to improve. The author, if not sympathetic, is at least no longer obviously unfair, and he has used standard authorities.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
“At times the narrative is too theatrical in style.” G. S. Hellman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“It is not instructive reading, but entertaining as a ‘modern society’ book, with information ransacked from a heap of multifarious native and foreign sources, comprising archives of princes, secret feminine correspondence, journals and memoirs, selections from ancient history based to a great extent upon court rumors and private letters describing palace life behind the scenes. His book in the hands of the uninitiated is likely, at the present juncture of our international relations with Russia to do more harm than good.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 730. D. 14, ’07. 1050w.
* =Rasmussen, Knud.= People of the polar north; compiled from the Danish originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.
Selections from the results of Mr. Rasmussen’s Eskimo study published recently in Copenhagen. “The author spent two winters with the polar Eskimos, familiarizing himself with their manner of living, their social institutions, their religion, and their traditional history. He was admirably equipped for this work, because he had spoken the Eskimo language from his babyhood, and because he was entitled to claim a certain racial kinship with the Eskimos.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Though the work does not appeal to the casual reader, it will be deeply interesting to the student of man.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 800w.
“A valuable work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
=Rath, E. J.= Sixth speed. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10277.
Tells of a chauffeur who wearies of his menial service, calls his millionaire employer names, “thereby separating himself from his job, and turns pirate in very up-to-date fashion. He invents, or somebody invents for him, a new motor which will propel a boat at the speed of more than a hundred miles an hour. His boat is secretly built and equipped, a trusty crew is secured, and he starts out to plunder the yachts of the wealthy.”—Dial.
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“A book not to be taken seriously in any literary sense, without either form or style, but having the characteristics of surprise and excitement that go to the making of an entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A most enjoyable tale of adventure, full of action and interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
“There is something doing all the time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Quickened. †$1.50. Little.
8–9530.
Dealing with picturesque phases of Quebec and its surroundings, drawing together French, English and American types, this story emphasizes some of the strongholds of the Roman Catholic faith.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“This is a mighty theme; the author fails to handle it convincingly. She only tells us that it happened.”
− =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The story is in no sense a great one, but its deftness of description of place and person, its seriousness and refinement, make it comfortable reading.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 150w.
“There is something tragic in a really fine book that flags toward the end. However, there are at least a hundred pages of tense, well-written drama, and they alone would make the book well worth reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Psychology of inspiration. **$1.40. Funk.
8–794.
An attempt to distinguish religious from scientific truth and to harmonize Christianity with modern thought. The author shows that the subconscious mind is the avenue thru which truth in the form of intuitions and inspirations influences the progress of knowledge, ethics, art, and religion. He contends that these influences are suggestive rather than dictatorial in character, and that they insure development in proportion as they are heeded and understood. He finally shows that these truths, materialized, form the world with which science deals, and therefore the harmony between spirit and matter.
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“It is, we think, difficult to over-estimate the value of this volume at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 508. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“One expecting to find here a thoroughgoing discussion of inspiration from the psychological point of view will be greatly disappointed. The book has much that is valuable in relation both to inspiration and to the harmonizing of scientific and religious thought, but its chief usefulness is likely to be in stirring discussion upon the problems presented.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
=Raymond, William Galt.= Elements of railroad engineering. (Railroad engineering. v. 2.) $3.50. Wiley.
8–7887.
“The aim of the author has been to describe the fixed portion of a railroad plant and to present the underlying principles governing the design of its layout, a railroad being viewed as a plant operated for the manufacture of transportation which must be marketed at a profit to the owners.... The author includes a number of original articles, among which are those on curve resistance and the cost of the worst class of rise and fall.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 110w.
=Engin. D.= 3: 525. My. ’08. 450w.
“The author’s comments in regard to overcapitalization and stock watering do not state all that is favorable to the railroads on this much-hackneyed subject, though the popular view is very clearly though briefly set out.” W. D. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 434. Ap. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“The book is prepared for class-room use and furnishes a broad, substantial foundation for future study of details.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Read, D. H. Moutray.= Highways and byways in Hampshire. (Highways and byways ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–21025.
Notes and impressions of “happy days, motoring, driving, cycling and walking” in a country which to the author is “a bundle of memories, all colourful, with a setting of sun-washed landscapes, sweet scents, and bird melodies.” “Nearly a hundred charming pen-and-ink drawings are contributed by Mr. Arthur B. Connor, and a good map and an index are useful features deserving of mention.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Haste and anger with locked doors are, we suppose, the reason that so many exceptional churches of Hampshire in the very parts visited by Mr. Read, and close to the highway, are left unnoticed or passed by with insufficient comment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 566. My. 9. 850w.
“A book in every way worthy of the series in which it appears.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“He treats you as if he were conducting you through his own estate, and took pleasure in pointing to this and that which he values for his own reasons. The result is entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Only a reader well versed in English history and English literature can properly enjoy it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Moutray Read has dealt with his subject in a satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Redfield, Isabella Taylor.= Reasonable way to study the Bible: the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles. 50c. Isabella T. Redfield, Pittsfield, Mass.
7–42456.
“Miss Redfield has divided carefully the material in both the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul into convenient and related sections, and by a series of questions has prepared the way for the student to arrive at independent opinions on the course of the history and the various types of religious thought.”—R. of Rs.
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=Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The analysis of the Biblical material is good, the coördination of references to the historical work and the Epistles shows careful study, and the questions for the student are designed to call out independent thought and appreciation of the real problems of the period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Is stimulating to all teachers ambitious of thorough work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Reed, Milton.= Democratic ideal. *75c. Am. Unitar.
7–30430.
The initial progress that came out of the “iron necessities” of man’s being and which has developed principles of liberty, equality of rights, and justice is capable, the author believes, of continuing its work for the American people until all of its problems of government and society are solved.
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“While the author prints some very just and harsh criticisms on modern economic conditions, he seems not to have a comprehension of the economic laws underlying many modern movements.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 450. S. ’08. 50w.
* =Reed, Myrtle.= Flower of the dusk. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24448.
A story in which a crippled daughter struggles to keep up the deception of riches for the comfort of a blind father. When thru the aid of an heiress and her surgeon lover both are cured the father does not survive the joy of seeing the daughter who, on account of the resemblance to the mother and his unbalanced state of mind, he thinks is his long dead wife. The shadow of an early love tragedy lies across the pages of the story.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“As a story this seems scarcely equal to the author’s former work, ‘A spinner in the sun.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The slight little luminary of a story twinkles here and there with fun and revolves in a vast atmosphere of songs, dreams, parables, rhapsodies.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 150w.
“It is a perfect example of its kind and a vast improvement upon the colorless fiction that seeks its dignity in harping on disagreeable topics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= William Tell: a drama of the origin of Swiss democracy. Lippincott.
8–24854.
A play written around the legend of William Tell which is dedicated to the principles of human progress and which takes in the movement in Switzerland towards freedom and unity.
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“Is not wholly devoid of imagination or descriptive power, but is so undramatic in its action and so untheatrical in form as to be wholly unsuitable for stage representation.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 123. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= American diplomacy under Tyler and Polk. (Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history, 1906.) $1.50. Johns Hopkins.
7–39215.
“Thirteen chapters ... dealing with the diplomatic events of the administrations of two ‘accidental presidents.’ ... Their subject matter deals chiefly with questions of boundary—northeast, northwest, and southwest. Undoubtedly the best portions of the book are the eight chapters dealing with our relations to Texas and Mexico. The author does much to dispel the prevalent belief that the ‘peculiar institution of the south’ was an active aid to extension in the southwest.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 719. My. ’08. 180w.
=Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Reeve’s excellent study of the diplomacy of the United States under Tyler and Polk is necessarily lacking in unity, for neither a single administration or a single group of diplomatic negotiations is the theme. No one can neglect its use in the study of the diplomacy of this period. It is written in a clear style, plain and unadorned.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 714. D. ’08. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
* =Reeves, William Pember.= New Zealand. *$6. Macmillan.
A particularly illuminating book about New Zealand which “does not pretend to be either a guide-book or an exhaustive treatise.” “Especially interesting are the chapters on sport and country life, and much light is thrown on the social conditions, which, Keir Hardie asserts, have established a standard of comfort and a recognition of the rights of labor which make New Zealand the most desirable of all countries for the emigrant workman.” (Nation.)
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“It is for its descriptive passages that the reader will most prize this book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 726. D. 5. 630w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Charmingly illustrated and informing account of New Zealand.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
“As charming a book as we ever hope to read about the country he has so well represented. The text is more than worthy of the numerous illustrations, which are a true pleasure to the eye, and are by far the best pictures of New Zealand we have ever seen in a book. It may seem captious to complain of very small blemishes; but the book is written with such careful art that they are relatively more disfiguring than in most books. We unreservedly commend this book. It is romantic because Mr. Reeves is a poet, yet it nowhere exaggerates.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 631. O. 24, ’08. 1900w.
=Reich, Emil.= Foundations of modern Europe. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12963.
A book, growing out of a series of public lectures, which gives a short sketch of the main facts and tendencies of European history that, from 1756 onwards, have contributed to the making of the present state of politics and civilization. Under the wealth of facts the author finds the soul of progress which he reveals.
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“A second edition gives opportunity to call attention again to the very suggestive lectures which this book contains. Dr. Reich is particularly happy in his insistence: first, upon the European influence of the American war of independence; and, second, upon the very important part played by the French in the war.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 70w.
− =Ind.= 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“His glittering generalities and dogmatic judgment are particularly unsafe to readers like many of those in the C. L. S. C., who are inclined to take everything in print as gospel truth.”
− =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
“It is not only in detail that this work fails, but in larger generalizations, which might, if well founded, counterbalance some degree of inaccuracy in minor points.”
− =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever may be Dr. Reich’s faults, he is not dull, and, though his accuracy in explaining the course of human events has often been questioned and hardly less often denied he certainly does look at things with eyes that take in a good many of them at the same time.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 40w.
=Reich, Emil.= General history of western nations from 5000 B. C. to 1900 A. D. 2v. *$4. Macmillan.
8–20728.
Two of the three volumes dealing with “Antiquity.” The first volume includes an Introduction containing the methodology of history, a general historical bibliography, and Books 1 and 2 which deal with the great land empires, Chaldea, Egypt, Assyria, the Hittites, the Phrygians and the Lydians; and with the border states, the Phoenicians, the Hebrews and the Hellenes. Volume two contains Rome, the Roman republic, and the Roman empire; with full index of both volumes.
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“The fact is that these volumes are by no means the outcome of first-hand research. They do not even contain much systematic criticism.” H. W. C. D.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 816. O. ’08. 580w.
“It would be false to say that amid so many printed pages there are no wise and suggestive sentences, but it is all spoiled by the pompous dogma, vague assertion, high-sounding futility and arrogant assumption of omniscience on the part of the author.”
− =Ind.= 65: 377. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“The value of these synthetic principles, whatever it may be, is largely offset by the glaring faults of the work. It contains many errors of detail; long periods, like that of the emperors, are inadequately treated; the theories it upholds are often pushed to extravagant lengths; and the spirit of the author is unnecessarily combative and egotistical.”
− =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 680w.
“It takes close reading and some thinking to follow him, interesting though his assumptions and contentions are. It may be doubted whether Dr. Reich can sustain his positions except as hypotheses. As demonstrations they lack something of convincingness, and even of authority, despite his signature.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 545. O. 3, ’08. 2100w.
“Sometimes he even seems to strain a point to make his theories fit the facts. But in general his opinion is well worth the reader’s attention, and on every page the student should find food for thought.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 358. O. 17, ’08. 2200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“Herr Reich has written a good book, and as he might have clothed it in German or some even more native language, we must put up with his queer lingo.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 516. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Dr. Reich is somewhat paradoxical, and very firmly convinced of his being in the right.”
− =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 220w.
=Reichel, Willy.= Occultist’s travels. *$1. Fenno.
8–25375.
Describes the author’s travels thru Egypt, France and England, the United States, Hawaiian islands, Japan, China and the Philippines. His experiences with experimental occultism include seances, tests of trance inspiration, trumpet mediumship, crystal gazing and palmistry; he touches upon theosophy and reincarnation and describes certain visits to spiritual camps.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13:522. S. 26, ’08. 680w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–27522.
Miss Repplier has brought out of their century-old silence people whose “little nothingnesses” of every day affairs and real work were woven into the tissue of England’s social and literary history. What these people thought about each other, what they read, and what they did constitute a book of delightful literary chit-chat. Some of the titles are When Lalla Rookh was young, On the slopes of Parnassus, The literary lady, and Our accomplished great-grandmother.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 540w.
“A little volume of essays which confirms the judgment of the critic who declared that Miss Repplier possesses and monopolizes the almost lost art of essay writing.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 256. N. ’08. 850w.
“In her customary pleasant fashion, and with abundance of apt quotation, she makes the reader share with her a sort of amused superiority to the persons pricked by her somewhat pitiless pen, held up writhing for a moment on its cruel point, and then consigned again to a well-earned oblivion.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 254. O. 16, ’08. 400w.
“A Christmas present worth having.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“In the end one has been instructed in much half-forgotten lore, as well as refreshed by the instructor’s twinkling wit and clear, quiet humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“She is the greatest living master of good-natured satire, if indeed she has ever been surpassed in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“She is decidedly amusing, but we are not sure that she is just.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 888. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
=Repton, Humphry.= Art of landscape gardening; including his sketches and hints on landscape gardening and Theory and practice of landscape gardening; ed. by J. Nolen, il. **$3. Houghton.
7–38627.
Deals with the principles of landscape gardening. “The grounds laid out or improved by Repton, perhaps it should be said, were gentlemen’s estates, large and small, and though these, or portions of them, were called parks, they were private rather than public parks, and each was associated with a residence, permanent or temporary. Many of the principles so clearly set forth, however, apply equally to either public or private work.” (Engin. N.)
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“The illustrations are especially worthy of mention, because with the exception of a few modern photographs, they are reproductions of Repton’s own sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 600w.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Cannot fail to be of value and interest to Americans.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Of course it is a book addressed to the few. Still, the book will be found interesting by readers who do not contemplate the making of landscapes.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’07. 110w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Broken off. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“A variant of a popular theme, the engagement of a well-born, beautiful, but poor girl to a strong, honest, middle-class rich man whom she first despises and in the end adores.”—Sat. R.
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“The story is a little too commonplace for the really original study of emotions to which it forms a background.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 250w.
“It is a very fair specimen of this kind of feminine novel, workmanlike in treatment, fluent with emotion and sentiment, and set in an adequate picture of country-house life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Mrs. Baillie Reynold’s writing is never actually dull, but it must be confessed that in her present novel she comes perilously near it.”
− + =Spec.= 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 120w.
=Reynolds, Victor.= Stories of the Flemish and Dutch artists from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century; selected and arranged by Victor Reynolds. $3. Duffield.
Stories of Flemish and Dutch artists told in the words of the original historians of the two schools. The illustrations are selections from their paintings reproduced in colors and halftones; and appendices include respectively a chapter on “The discovery of oil-painting.” and a list of the authorities drawn upon for the sketches.
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“This is first of all interesting; and it does well what it undertakes to do.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Rhead, Louis John.= Book of fish and fishing. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–18028.
A popular rather than scientific treatment of fishes found from Labrador to Dry Tortugas. “In addition to descriptions of the appearance and habits of the fish, are chapters headed, Where to get them, How to get them, and When to got them. The book is well illustrated with copious cuts and contains also some interesting maps and charts.” (Ind.)
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“The English is sometimes slovenly, and the lack of an index a serious omission.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Very useful book.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Ind.= 64: 1454. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“While Mr. Rhead’s ideas are in the main sound, his sins of omission are serious. There are many examples of slipshod English.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“Contains a large amount of practical information in compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Rhodes, Harrison Garfield.= Adventures of Charles Edward. (English title, Charles Edward.) il. †$1.50. Little.
8–13950.
Charles Edward, a young New Yorker, endowed with high spirits and abundant riches, is a prank-loving individual who perpetrates his jokes on two sides of the Atlantic. His first adventure secures him a wife, the daughter of an English lord; at another time he advertises for an heirdom and gets it; still again he buys the manuscripts of four authors, has them published simultaneously as the work of one man, and while reconciling the public to the dissimilarities apparent in the books, is also engaged in assuaging the injured feelings of the four authors whose identities have merged into that of one unknown man.
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“Mr. Rhodes recounts pranks with easy gaiety and fluent humour.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 169. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A sort of Americanized version of Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A thoroughly delightful volume, quite out of the beaten track of humorous literature.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 126. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“It is transatlantic both in its Gibsonian illustrations and its piquant humour, which we should have liked better had there been less of it—its qualities, refreshing when taken in small doses, becomes enervating in bulk; but for the busy man, who takes his literary refreshment homœopathically, ‘Charles Edward’ may be recommended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 70w.
“In this last chapter, as in other isolated moments through the book, the author shows himself endowed not only with wit, but with true humour, the humour that draws the tear as well as the laugh.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 414. Je. ’08. 650w.
“Only a very unreasonable critic could deny that they possess the quality of entertainment.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 501. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“The book is breezy and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
“The book is one smile from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Yolanda of Cyprus. **$1.25. McClure.
8–13705.
A sixteenth century melodrama presented in modern style. Its scene is laid in the Island of Cyprus. It was published in London two years ago, and in its present slightly revised form will be produced next season in Chicago by Donald Robertson.
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“Tho Mr. Rice seems occasionally in danger of betraying the essentials to the accidents of drama, his plays have still sufficient life to animate them, even when read in the study.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Exhibits both literary facility and poetic imagination. It contains, indeed, many melodious and some striking passages, but its general conception is so extravagant, its construction so crude, and its semi-miraculous happy ending so conventionally theatrical in its futility, that as drama it is inconsiderable.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
“When all is said, ‘Yolanda of Cyprus’ is no inconsiderable achievement; and it is most encouraging to our hope of a native drama to know that an American has written a play which is at the same time of decided poetic merit and of detailed dramaturgic power.” C: M. Hathaway, jr.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northeast; with il. by the author. (English title, Feathered game of New England.) **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
Short descriptions of nearly a hundred game birds, both land and water, written by “a man whose nature study has been conducted in the open and mostly over a gun-barrel,” yet one who discourages the conscienceless depletion of flocks.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is attractively written, though both style and spelling follow New England fashion; whilst, the illustrations, especially those of the birds, deserve great praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 320w.
“The general reader will find much to repay him for the time devoted to this book, and it contains no end of detailed, scientific information for the professional ornithologist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“The style is of that vivacious and exuberant kind which we should expect of an American sportsman.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Wooing of Calvin Parks. †$1.25. Estes.
8–23552.
“Mrs. Richards makes a very engaging central figure of Calvin Parks, once ‘master of the Mary Sands, Bath and Floridy—with lumber,’ now owner of a ‘candy route, hoss and waggin.’ Sam and Sim, the old twin brothers in their temporary reaction from too long and too heavily enforced love-each-otherness, make a good field for missionary effort and Christmas reconciling. It is caricature, of course, but not stupid caricature. And the benevolences of the story are amiable, but not cloying. Pervading the whole are Maine-isms of choicest quality.”—Nation.
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“Is full of humor and abounding in genuine ‘down East’ sayings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“Mrs. Richards serves a feast of Maine humor, seasoning it with her own sympathy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether the story is a bright one without a line of tragedy in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“There is only a slight little thread of story, but the telling of it is very delightful. For it is full of the unconscious humor in turn of thought, habit of mind, and forms of expression characteristic of the old-time, rustic New Englander.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Tells her new tale simply and with homely humor and hearty sympathy with human nature’s foibles and generous impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 60w.
=Richards, Ralph Webster.= Synopsis of mineral characters. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–10258.
Alphabetically arranged for laboratory and field use this pocket-book includes crystal form, habit, system, cleavage, hardness, fusion, and solubility in hydrochloric or other acid. Definitions of mineral terms and of rocks associated with the minerals included are also provided.
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“The descriptions are concise and accurate and include all the more essential properties of the species described. The book will be useful both to students in the laboratory and field, and to miners and others who are interested in minerals.” C. W. W.
+ =J. Geol.= 15: 824. N. ’07. 70w.
“The arrangement of the matter makes reference to the book easy.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 583. Ap. 18, ’07. 50w.
=Richardson, Alfred Madeley.= Modern organ accompaniment. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–4012.
“All the various topics bearing upon the subject are considered in detail; the art of registration, the accompanying of hymn tunes, motets, and plain song, the use of ornamentation, and the art of augmenting or reducing piano scores for use on the organ.”—Cath. World.
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“Contains an interesting and valuable chapter on the materials for tone-colouring which modern organs offer, also a very practical one on the accompaniment of plain-song.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10. 450w.
“A chapter on the art of accompanying such a quality of voice [the boy-soprano voice] would be very opportune just now, and would complete what is otherwise a splendid volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 105. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The book is very inaccurate and confessedly careless.... The plan of the book, we gladly admit, is exhaustive and irreproachable.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey.= Lover of Queen Elizabeth. *$3.50. Appleton.
A sketch that gives Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester’s relations to the Queen, and in particular his forced connection with the policy of her marriage and succession.
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“It is a sound, good book, and more conscientious than its romantic title would lead one to suppose. If it were otherwise, it would hardly be worth pointing to one defect ... the absence of all citation of the authorities quoted, and even of a preface indicating the sources consulted. Nor is the index at all adequate for a volume of 390 pages so fully packed with incident.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 700w.
“A simpler and more proportionate treatment might easily have rendered this book a worthy contribution to Elizabethan history.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 540w.
“However familiar the author may be with the easily accessible material of Elizabeth’s reign, she has little acquaintance with good style.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Richardson unfortunately writes very badly, with no distinction, not much care as to grammatical construction, and a colloquialism that jars upon the reader. Probably most of the events belonging to Leicester and Queen Elizabeth’s long intimacy are brought together in this book, and the story is sufficiently romantic to be readable.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Nor can we say that Mrs. Richardson succeeds in making the sorry story live. She seems to be an imitator of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and has caught something of the stylistic obscurity and preciosity of that school.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 395. S. 28, ’07. 1250w.
“We cannot say that there is no ‘scandal about Queen Elizabeth’ in this volume; but the subject is handled with adequate gravity and discretion.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and others=, comps. and eds. Alphabetical subject index and index encyclopedia to periodical articles on religion, 1890–1899. *$10. For the Hartford seminary press by Scribner.
8–2949.
A volume of nearly 1200 pages. More than 60,000 articles from some 1500 reviews are indexed. References are made under upwards of 15,000 subjects and under each a brief definition is given. A large majority of the periodicals indexed cover the years 1890–1899 only but some are indexed from their initial volume and some are carried down to the year 1907. A special feature is the indexing of 175 encyclopedias and reference works. The indexing is done according to the Poole method. Under subjects the material is arranged alphabetically according to authors. Volume number, year and inclusive paging are given but no note is made of the monthly or weekly date of periodicals. The work is practically without cross references, only an occasional one being given.
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 926. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“A compendious work, and a distinctly valuable contribution to library aids for the larger libraries and special collections.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08.
“One of the most important bibliographical publications of recent years.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 140w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference. Cement workers’ and plasterers’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–22300.
The second volume in “The building mechanic’s ready reference” series. “There are seven parts covering in a general way: 1, Cements: specifications, tests, analyses, strength; 2, Concrete: aggregates, mixing, strength, specifications, composition, notes; 3, Mortar, reinforced concrete, concrete piles, forms, etc.; 4, Sidewalk construction and other special uses of cement and concrete; 5, Cement building blocks; materials, manufacture, use, tests and building regulations; 6, Plastering; 7, a chapter on laying out work, tables, and miscellaneous information.” (Engin. D.)
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“It certainly would be to the great advantage of any piece of work for the mechanics and workmen engaged to know more of what they are doing than merely how to conduct the mechanical operations involved and there is no book that we have yet seen in the field of cement and concrete that can give this information as thoroughly and clearly as the one before us.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 470w.
“An admirable book to put in the hands of the mason or mechanic who wishes to learn something about the rapidly-growing cement industry.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 150w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Building mechanics’ ready reference. Plumbers’, steam-fitters’ and tinners’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–23582.
“The book is divided into five parts, treating of the following subjects: 1, Hot air, steam and hot water heating; piping of heating systems and pipe fittings. 2, Data on boilers; radiation; tables of sizes, strengths, weights, etc. 3, Hydraulics; sewers; excavation; tin and sheet metal work, etc. 4, Gas fittings; gas, soil and vent pipes; plumbing rules, etc. 5, Examples of modern plumbing; specifications; receipts, tables, etc.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 120w.
“Is quite up to the standards previously set, and, for the purposes intended, these standards are high.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 321. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Richmond, Grace Louise S.= Round the corner in Gay street. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–23930.
A story in which is depicted the leavening influence of the Bells, father, mother and five children, among the wealthy Townsends of a nearby mansion. Contains “a strong flavor of ‘Little women’ in an up-to-date setting.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“It is unfortunate that the story cannot fully impress the reader with its own merit.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Richmond, Mary Ellen.= Good neighbor in the modern city. **60c. Lippincott.
7–39066.
Makes its appeal to all who are interested in the problem of social service and community living. It tells how to be neighborly when conditions least favor it. Some of the chapters are: The child in the city, The invalid, The family in distress, The contributor, The church member, and The tenant.
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“Sane, stirring talks on social science and practical charity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 148. My. ’08. ✠
“A good book to read, to lend, or to give to other neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
“As a distinct contribution to knowledge the book will not take rank, but as a safe guide and inspiration to the kindly impulses of the individual it will find its place, and this seems to be the purpose for which it was written.”
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 447. F. ’08. 780w.
=Rickard, Thomas Arthur.= Journeys of observation. $3.50. Mining and scientific press.
8–2203.
“The observations of a mining engineer on trips into two representative mining regions of Mexico and southwestern Colorado, describing industrial conditions, geological structure, mining methods, and metallurgical practices which were found there. Abundant and excellent illustrations are included.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The trips from place to place are incidental linkages between collections of rather diversified (some people might say ‘scattered’) notes on methods of tunneling, drifting, stoping and timbering, on processes of ore treatment and mine management.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 649. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 40w.
=Riddle, Matthew Brown.= Story of the Revised New Testament, American standard ed. *75c. S. S. Times co.
8–17776.
A little book for the general public which gives an account of the origin, methods, and progress of the revision movement during thirty-five years.
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“Constitutes a valuable ‘footnote to history.’”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Riggs, James Stevenson.= Messages of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. (Messages of the Bible.) **$1.25. Scribner.
7–38254.
The discourses of Jesus in the Gospels of John arranged, analyzed and freely rendered in paraphrase.
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“The subtitle hardly does justice to the useful introduction and extended notes which give this little volume much of its value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Rigg’s ability is not in question, but rather the nature of his task.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Riley, Isaac Woodbridge.= American philosophy: the early schools. **$3.50. Dodd.
7–36876.
A work intended both as a source book and as a critical exposition of the growth of philosophical opinion in the land. It is divided into five books, corresponding to the five schools which the author believes to have divided the allegiance of the early American thinkers: Book I takes up the question of early Puritanism in New England; Book II deals with early Idealism; Book III considers the speculative emancipation of the various colleges, Harvard, Yale, King’s college, and Princeton, in a deistic direction; Book IV is devoted to Materialism, the prevailing thought in the South; and Book V treats of the Realism of the Scottish type.
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“Dr. Riley’s method, the patience and thoroughness of his research, the fairness and general sanity of his judgments, are all good models for imitation. The value of his work is much more than that of a source-book. As a finished product it is likely to hold its place as an authority in the field it has so thoroughly explored for a long time to come.” A. T. Ormond.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 603. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“We have here an important book, important both for what it is and what it promises.” A. H. Lloyd.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 505. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“Though open to some adverse criticism the book is thorough and scholarly, and is the most nearly complete work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08
“The book was well worth the doing, and it has been superlatively well done. Neither his subject nor his method of treatment requires any ‘apologia.’ We may note in passing a few slips in proof-reading.” H. T. Peck.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 400. Je. ’08. 2800w.
“The result of extended inquiry, and seems to give us at once footing among the thoughtful nations of the world. Dr. Riley seems to us to wander a little too much at random through an author’s works, and, by mingling his own criticism, to help us still further to lose our way and to be left with a colorless impression of the force and order of events.” John Bascom.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 177. Mr. 16, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the most complete work which has yet appeared on the early history of philosophy in America. It is, in fact, the only one which attempts to treat the subject with thoroughness and in all its details.” A. L. Jones.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 157. Mr. 12, ’08. 2250w.
“This volume is often somewhat burdened by weight of detail.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which makes us wish we had something here like the French Academy, that so good a book might be stamped with the seal of national approval.” C: Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 927. Je. ’08. 1100w.
“All American philosophy, indeed, is from imported stock, the account of whose naturalization and development here is a valuable contribution to the history of civilization on this continent.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 45. Ja. 4, ’08. 450w.
“Clearness in a book of exposition, either historical or doctrinal, is a quality on which too much stress can never be laid, and there is certainly enough of that in ‘American philosophy.’ His estimate of individual thinkers and schools cannot but be influenced by his personal speculative leanings; and, while this is unavoidable and natural, it will render the work less acceptable to such as have other preferences and inclinations.” E. L. van Becelaere.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 202. Mr. ’08. 2550w.
“Though open to criticism upon some details, the book as a whole is a thorough and scholarly piece of research in a territory where the author has often been obliged to blaze his own way, and a notable addition to our historical literature.” A. O. Lovejoy.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 464. Mr. 20, ’08. 1650w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Boys of the old glee club. il. **$1.50. Bobbs.
7–39035.
A poem full of reminiscence written in Riley’s inimitable Hoosier dialect. The following is suggestive of the whole:
“You folks rickollect, I know— ’Tain’t so very long ago— Th’ Old Glee Club—was got up here ’Bout the first time Grant tuk the cheer Fer President four years—and then Riz—and tuk the thing again.”
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“It is instinct with that human interest that is the chief charm of Riley’s verse, and it will be especially enjoyed by the ‘Boys in blue.’”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 126. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“The illustrations by Will Vawter really ‘belong’; they tell the story parallel to the poem.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
=Rinehart, Mary Roberts.= Circular staircase. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23102.
The unmarried aunt of a brother and sister just out of college and finishing school is persuaded by the young people to take a country house for the summer. The series of mysterious crimes into which this peace-abiding trio is plunged is traced to the machinations of a bank defaulter whose home the aunt had rented, and within whose walls were hidden stolen securities.
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“Humorously told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08.
“With the possible exception of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ this is by far the best mystery or detective story of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 394. O. ’08. 270w.
=Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Written in any old style it would be the sort of thing people sit up nights to finish; written in the delightfully humorous vein which makes it stand out so much above the ordinary detective story, it is bound to be, with more than usual deserts, a popular success.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 250w.
“Readable, entertaining, amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
* =Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray).= Blackstick papers. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–33772.
A group of essays gathered together under the name of “Blackstick papers” after the Fairy Blackstick who thousands of years ago lived in Crim Tartary. They are so called because they concern subjects in which this fairy was interested—old books, young people, schools of practical instruction, rings, roses and sentimental affairs. Some of the chapter headings are: Haydn; Felicia Felix; St. Andrews; Concerning Joseph Joachim; Mary and Agnes Berry; Paris, Prisms, and Primitifs; Mrs. Gaskell; Concerning Tourguenieff; and Concerning Thomas Bewick.
=Robbins, Helen H.=, ed. Our first ambassador to China: the life and correspondence of George, earl of Macartney, and his experiences in China, as told by himself. *$5. Dutton.
8–19596.
“Affords an interesting picture of Chinese court and customs of the day, of loyal entertainments which rivalled Arabian nights, and of the most amusing subtility and illusiveness of Oriental diplomacy. Moreover, the ambassador’s reflections upon Chinese character, his recognition of the stability and cohesion of the people and the courtliness of the educated class, form a valuable memorial to eighteenth century impartiality and insight.”—Ind.
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“Mrs. Robbins has done her part of the work exceedingly well, and her comments are judicious and reasonable.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 375. Mr. 28. 1700w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 260w.
“This book is both readable and valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 14. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The diary makes a valuable and interesting addition to the information given in Sir George Staunton’s narrative, confirming in the main the impression it left, while possessing the superior charm of a private letter over an official despatch.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 468. Ap. 11, ’08. 1550w.
“Macartney’s own diary of the mission ... is that of an accomplished and very observant man, and as a story of travel, difficulty, and fresh experience it is quite romantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 263. F. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Robbins, Leonard H.= Jersey jingles. $1. Wilson J. Vance, 164 Market st., Newark, N. J.
Humor, the wisdom of childhood, and the homely philosophy of grown-ups combine to make Mr. Robbins’s jingles full of the sentiments which everybody feels but permits to go unexpressed because they are so closely associated with humdrum, uneventful experiences.
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“Accepted only for what they are, Mr. Robbins’s book will help to brighten a dull half hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 105. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Robbins, Mrs. Sarah (Stuart).= Old Andover days: memories of a Puritan childhood. *$1. Pilgrim press.
8–30581.
Mrs. Robbins, past ninety years of age, reviews the Andover days of her youth with its distinguished men and gracious women. “It is not so much of minute events that she writes, as of the general spirit and atmosphere which pervaded the seminary and those who were attached to it either as professors or as students. It all seems to us of to-day a gloomy and forlorn sort of life, but it is obvious from Mrs. Robbins’s chronicle, that the young, at least, were able to find their pleasures in the midst of those somber and terribly serious surroundings.” (Lit. D.)
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“It is a quaint picture—sternness and smiles, catechism and cakes. We only regret that her memory of the shorter catechism is faulty. Exactness was the merit in those days, and she quotes three answers, and two of them wrong.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 230w.
“Mrs. Robbins’s memory goes back with vividness to the life she knew on that New-England hilltop.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
=Roberts, Charles G. D.= House in the water: a book of animal stories. $1.50. Page.
8–17808.
Eight animal stories. “Bear and moose and lynx and wolf range again through these pages; and those other favorite heroes and heroines of fiction whom Mr. Roberts is fond of calling ‘the wild kindreds.’” (Nation.) “The illustrations by Mr. Bull and the decorations by Mr. Vining Smith are not only in general harmony but in very subtle sympathy with the text.” (Outlook.)
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“Mr. Roberts maintains in this new collection his high rank as an interpreter of the woods people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“His zest in wild nature is intense, and he succeeds in communicating it to the reader. Also he tells a story dramatically.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 642. N. 21. 400w.
“These variations upon the old theme strike one as a little perfunctory.”
− =Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“From the nature standpoint the book should interest young and old alike. In addition, the volume is distinctly noteworthy as an example of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Roberts, John, jr.= Laboratory work in electrical engineering (preliminary grade): a series of laboratory experiments for first and second year students of electrical engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
The material treated here “divides itself naturally into two general sections, the first dealing with measurements of resistance, electromotive force, current, quantity and energy. The preliminary work leads up naturally to the calibration of instruments. The second part treats of measurements of an engineering nature such as tests of materials used in electrical machinery, of electrical lamps, and of small electrical machines.” (Engin. N.)
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“The only criticism of this arrangement is that the student is not directly stimulated to draw deductions from his experiments. This lack can be easily supplied by the personal instruction of the teacher.” H: H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 340w.
“The scope of this book is partly in the field of electrical (physical) measurement and partly in the field of electrical engineering; and for some places, as the laboratory for which it was written, it may be well suited. For other places it may be found not to cover sufficiently either field.”
+ − =Phys. R.= 26: 546. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Blue Peter. $1.50. Page.
Contains five sprightly sea yarns as follows: Extra hands on the “Nemesis”; The overcrowded iceburg; The remarkable conversion of Rev. Thomas Ruddle; The strange case of Captain Bragger; The captain of the “Ulswater.”
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“Comes as an invigorating breath of salt air.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 68. S. ’08. 500w.
“Contains several good sea yarns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 70w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Captain Spink, and other sea comedies. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mr. Roberts is “a sea-rover of literature, with a buccaneer’s swagger and a sailor’s roll; ‘full of strange oaths,’ and with a broad sense of humour. These are really farces of the sea, which he delivers to us over his pipe and glass. The author knows every foot of a ship and every turn of the ocean. Landlubbers will enjoy his stories perhaps even better than seafarers, who may find themselves too broadly painted.” (Ath.) “Six of them centre round a sea-captain, and six more diverting ‘old men’ it has seldom been our lot to meet.” (Sat. R.)
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“Mr. Morley Roberts uses crude colours and chalks, and you must stand a little way back to get the best effects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 254. F. 29. 150w.
“The first two of the seven stories catch and clog a little on their own humorousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
“The plots are the slightest possible, but the book is reasonably entertaining on account of an odd whimsicality in the dialogue.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“These comedies are seven in number, and the listening landsman will wish they had been more, so captivating is Mr. Roberts in his merry mood, so clever at infecting his reader with his mirth.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 274. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“People who like sketches of the sea, and of nothing but the sea, cannot do better than read this collection.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 80w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Captain Love. $1.50. Page.
8–15150.
Highway robbery, kidnappings, gambling, love and gallantry abound in this tale set in the reign of George I. A young nobleman on his way to London is robbed of his money, clothes, and memory; for when returning consciousness finds him at a farmhouse he fails to recall his name or family. Under the name of Captain Love he enters upon a round of exciting adventure. “The captain is a thoroughly expurgated d’Artagnan with a touch of Monsieur Beaucaire and a strong dash of Quixote.” (Nation.)
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“If not a novelty it is at least done with considerable zest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“Although, in the main incidents, the story conforms heartily to its type, there is a certain novelty and attractiveness in the hero, something of the finer spirit of romance.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
“Mr. Roberts has perhaps overdone the business of being exciting. He does not give you time to enjoy properly a single one of the thrills in his eagerness to ring all the possible changes and produce a sensation for every paragraph.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 270w.
=Robertson, James Alexander.= Bibliography of the Philippine islands, printed and manuscript, preceded by a descriptive account of the most important archives and collections containing Philippina. *$10. Clark, A. H.
8–16566.
Issued as volume 53 of the extended series on “The Philippine islands, 1493–1898.” Mr. Robertson “has not undertaken to prepare a full comprehensive bibliography of the Philippines ... his purpose has been, as regards printed Philippina, to point out the sources for a complete study of Philippine bibliography, while also setting forth the main data regarding rare works in this field; and to list manuscripts in a way hitherto unattempted.” (Dial.)
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“Painstaking editorial work is apparent all through it. The reviewer has handled it considerably without detecting an error of statement, and the very few mistakes in proper names thus far noted seem chargeable rather to original transcription than proof-reading.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 160. O. ’08. 650w.
“Indispensable for every library pretending to cover this field at all and for every special student therein.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1. ’08. 1350w.
“Dr. Robertson has acquired an unequaled knowledge of the contents of the libraries of the world on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Robertson’s work is quite indispensable for one who wishes to make ‘a thorough bibliographical survey of the Philippines’—the test of usefulness which the compiler had in view. It is not, however, a comprehensive bibliography, to be independently used as such.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 142. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Is indispensable to libraries not possessing the series as a whole.” J. A. Le Roy.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 50w.
“Used as supplementary to Retana’s, the Library of Congress, and Pardo de Tarera’s lists of printed Philippina, it is indispensable to any good library and to the special student of the Philippines.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 40w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Come and find me. †$1.50. Century.
8–5885.
A story of California and the gold fields of Alaska. The author brings together a varied group of characters: a tired father hugging thru life the secret of a gold field’s location, a hard woman who ruled husband and household with a hand of iron, two girls worshipping secretly a stalwart youth, passion-mad for the north and discovery, and an enduring lover who braves slights and hardships for the girl he loves. In the wonderful light of the north facts are seen shorn of doubt and mystery, and lifetime misunderstandings are adjusted.
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“A story of unusual dramatic power and interest, the characters drawn with delicacy and vigor. A truly absorbing piece of fiction.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 88. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story is entirely out of the ordinary.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 496. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“Cleverness is everywhere the mark of the book, but one is disposed to lament that so much of it is allowed to run to waste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 412. Ap. 4. 280w.
“It might have easily been much stronger, if the author had only been a little more sure of her point of view. The material of Miss Robins’s latest book is admirable, but she has failed to give it to us in the proper proportions.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 183. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“The whole story, rambling and incoherent beyond what is ordinarily permissible, is redeemed by the bits of reality.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is the thrilling interpretation of a man’s patriotism for the unknown that gives the story its peculiar significance.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 867. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“It is very long-winded, not much happens, and the people are hardly deserving of prolonged study for their own sakes.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Miss Robins is not so well endowed with the story teller’s instinct as she is with the faculty for the dramatic portrayal of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 850w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13. ’08. 300w.
“The fault of the story is in its undue length and in some ineffective details. But as a compelling representation of the fatal and glorious fascination of exploring it is a success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Her story is much more fundamental than London’s tales of the north, for instance; much more thoroughgoing; and yet there is an evident lack of homogeneity, an unsatisfying absence of balance, too many untied ends that mar its completeness and leave it roughly unfinished.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Mar is drawn with delightfully humorous appreciation, and the love affairs of the two girls is one of those fancies which would probably have never occurred to a man, and could not certainly have been treated by him with that airy yet exact discrimination which makes so light of its unlikelihood. There is much in the earlier part which could scarcely be better done. These things remain and will remain in one’s gratitude long after one’s regrets have vanished for the completer work they seemed to foretell.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 273. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
“With all deductions on the score of structure, ‘Come and find me’ is a remarkable and suggestive study of the conflict of love, duty, and ambition.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 543. Ap. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= Under the Southern cross. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–36093.
A tale in which a Peruvian baron and a thoroly self-reliant American girl cross swords. “The special triumph which Miss Robins has achieved is to carry through a really serious love affair with a sustained touch of lightness during a lengthy voyage; to make us thoroughly fond of the man and of the girl; to make us hope, almost to the last, that in some way their temperamental and their acquired differences may be reconciled; and then, in the end, to leave us quite satisfied to find that the inevitable has happened.” (Bookm.)
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“It is seldom that one comes across a new type of hero in the lighter sort of hammock fiction who is so sympathetic, so genuine, so altogether attractive as the Baron de Bach. An exceedingly clever story, written with a half-veiled touch of satire.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 104. Mr. 08. 300w.
“A slight romance. The story is somewhat overdressed with decorative margins on every page and several colored plates and other pictures.”
− =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Call of the city. **$1.25. Elder.
8–23563.
Essays which express to the reader the myriad reflective thoughts that surge thru his brain when he is under the spell of a great city’s “abundant vitality, splendid power, and organization of forces.”
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“Verses, selected with the same discrimination and originality that mark the style of the essays, appear as headings for the prose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“These essays are trifling; they are not overweighted with thought, and they are frankly sentimental. It ought to be much sought by purchasers of gift books in the coming holiday season.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 100w.
=Robinson, Harry Perry.= Twentieth century American: a comparative study of the peoples of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–19181.
Observations, comparisons, and criticisms concerning political, social and industrial life as it exists in England and America. “Many of our people can draw information from his observations here. These take a wide range—the attitude toward women, humor and art, education and culture, politics and politicians, constitutional questions now in controversy, Mr. Roosevelt and the corporations, commercial morality, the growth of honesty, comparison of commercial methods here and in England.” (Outlook.)
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“There is nothing at all superficial or cursory about his work. A classic accordingly the careful reader will be apt to acknowledge that Mr. Robinson has produced. There are some few slips, such as will occur when one trusts to his memory without verifying everything.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + − =Bookm.= 28: 44. S. ’08. 1800w.
“The American reader ... only in rare cases will feel inclined to challenge the essential truth of his statements. He has been conspicuously successful in making plain two or three causes of misunderstanding between the two peoples that are usually ignored.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
“The volume must be read to be appreciated, and it ought to be widely read and attentively pondered.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 292. S. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Conversational in tone and wholly without the dogmatic utterance from which it seems to be almost equally difficult for the preacher, the teacher, and the critical writer to get free.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
“Since the appearance of Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ some twenty years since, no Englishman till now has published observations on the American people of such value as these.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Is a book that may well turn out to have marked an epoch. Mr. Robinson knows more about this country than do most of its natives.” E. J. Putnam.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 5: 360. D. ’08. 2500w.
“An unusually well-informed and sympathetic piece of international observation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 100w.
“This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good things, and written in an excellent spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles Austin.= Development of modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history. 2v. v. 1. *$1.50; v. 2, *$1.60. Ginn.
7–36724.
A work which uses past history only for the light that it throws upon the political, economic and social present. It begins with the age of Louis XIV. Volume one covers the eighteenth century including the French revolution and the Napoleonic period: volume two treats of Europe since the Congress of Vienna.
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“Errors in the text are very few. It is as solid and informing as it is interesting and clever.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 188. O. ’08. 1300w.
“An admirable collection of selections from the best original sources filling a long known gap for teacher and student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“There is no better text-book for the nineteenth century than this.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
=Robinson, John Beverley.= Architectural composition. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
8–9099.
The author aims to raise “the power to design from its comparatively obscure position as an art to the dignity of a science.” “Throughout the volume architecture is treated merely as a plastic art, apart from construction or the texture of materials—apart from the uses of the building, or the locality in which it is erected, or the interest attaching to it as the work of different peoples.” (Ath.) “Instead of attempting to impose upon the reader the dogmatic decrees of his personal taste, he endeavors to discover the fundamental reasons why certain lines and proportions are harmonious and pleasing and others the reverse.” (Ind.)
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“There is much in the volume worth careful consideration.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 443. O. 10. 400w.
“The book would be especially valuable to building committees of laymen who are called upon to decide between plans submitted by architects.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 180w.
=Robinson, Tracy.= Panama: a personal record of forty-six years, 1861–1907. $1.50. Tracy Robinson, P. O. box 58, Colon, Panama.
7–41775.
Mr. Robinson’s personal record of forty-six years includes nothing that cannot be called Panama history during that period. The building of the first railroad and its bearing upon the development of the country, the establishment of the French Panama company, with De Lesseps as its moving spirit, and all of the political, religious, and domestic problems are treated in an informing manner.
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“His book gives as good a general notion of the course of things at Panama up to the beginning of the present canal enterprise as can be found anywhere in like convenient shape.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 81. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Robson, Philip W.= Power gas producers: their design and application. *$3. Longmans.
“Devoted almost entirely to the design, construction, and operation of producers. It is divided into three sections, the first, which takes up very nearly two-thirds of the whole volume, treating of suction gas producers; the second, which is short, dealing with pressure plants for non-bituminous fuel, and the third, occupying about one-quarter of the volume, covering pressure producers for bituminous coal.”—Engin. N.
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“Those who wish to know why gas producer plants are built as they are, and how they should be operated after they are built, will find this book a valuable addition to their libraries.” A. E. Forstall.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 647. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“It sets the subject out in a clear and concise manner, and indicates the theory of the various actions, as well as the means by which the application is carried out. The description on p. 56 of the arrangements in the Crossley plant for varying the entering mixture is not very clear, and throughout the book but little is said of the generators by this firm, and it is limitations of this kind which are the chief fault that can be urged against an otherwise admirable book.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 658. O. 29, ’08. 920w.
=Roeder, Rev. Adolph.= Practical citizenship. $1.50. Blanchard.
8–19014.
“A series of popular articles, published in the Newark Evening news, on the nature of the body politic as an organism, the forces that give it life, and the attainment of practical citizenship is here presented in book form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) The volume is divided into three parts: 1, The machine, a description of the elements of government; 2, The force, an analysis of the forces behind results; 3, Practice, the citizen’s part in the work of running the machine properly.
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“The scientific shortcomings of the first two divisions may be overlooked. The third is better. The series as a whole is inspiring in the cause of a larger manhood and may be read with profit.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 70w.
“In the last chapter, ‘Ideals,’ Mr. Roeder strikes a lofty note, and makes a fitting end to an inspiring book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Shell book. **$4. Doubleday.
8–12800.
A popular guide to the knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign. (Subtitle.) “Three aspects of conchology enforce attention: the biological, the purely systematic, and the zo-geographic.... Of these three Miss Rogers has wisely selected the second as her dominant theme.” (Nation.) The illustrations are in colors and black-and-white from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.
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“The present volume is, then, more valuable to the student than Baker’s book by reason of its arrangement and scope, and is at the same time not beyond the range of the interested general reader, while the latter offers some interesting general matter not to be found in the former.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
“Supplies a real need. The style is graceful not without touches of pleasant fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 900w.
“Might be called a popular work if that term was not so misleading. It is a book scientifically arranged, carefully indexed, and beautifully illustrated. The pictures are fascinating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 540w.
=Rose, George B.= Renaissance masters: the art of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Botticelli and Rubens. *$1.25. Putnam.
8–2389.
“The design of this book is to give in a brief compass an insight into the essential characteristics of each of the masters treated, so that the traveler may be able to enjoy them for what they are, without looking for merits in one which can be found only in another.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Rose, John Holland, and Broadley, A. M.= Dumouriez and the defence of England against Napoleon. **$5. Lane.
A story based on “a French manuscript of 397 pages, in which Dumouriez, with his own hand, set forth the scheme he had worked out to insure the safety of his adopted country.” (N. Y. Times.) “In their last chapter the authors sum up as far as possible in his favour, but they are not able to deny that a Commander-in-Chief who deliberately offers to hand over to the enemy the fortresses which constitute his country’s main line of defence cannot properly be designated as anything else than traitor.” (Sat. R.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The authors have rendered a real service to history in producing this book and have displayed much industry in collecting material. They have succeeded in giving us what was lacking before in English—a clear and consecutive account of Dumouriez’ remarkable career.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. S. 26, ’08. 1400w.
=Rosenkrantz, Palle, baron von.= Magistrate’s own case. †$1.50. McClure.
8–2946.
In addition to the all essential story interest, this book is one that commands and holds the attention of the legal profession. It is an argument against too great reliance upon circumstantial evidence. A crime is committed, the wrong man accused, and although the accused man knows who the real murderer is he withholds information for personal reasons. For personal reasons too the prosecuting magistrate resigns his work on the case. From beginning to end technical issues are at variance with personal and emotional issues. The psychologist as well as the lawyer will be interested in the story.
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“A detective story of excellent plot, holding one’s attention closely, and giving one a very good idea of German criminal procedure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study of persons and motives is much better done than in the ordinary English story of murder; but his narrative has a heaviness here and there, especially at the beginning, which may repel the reader of what is, after all, an interesting book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 160w.
“Its plot leaves nothing to be desired; it is a ‘capital puzzle,’ but its treatment by a trained mind lifts it above the average.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The effect of this [story] is to vindicate the contemporary writers who imitate Poe and Wilkie Collins.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A really clever story.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“A detective story, very cleverly contrived, with something more, and on a higher plane of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 20w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society; an analysis of latter-day iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“For competent persons, who are seriously interested in discerning the signs of the times, this book will perform the service of a high-power magnifying glass. The weakest passage in the book is from the pen of the President of the United States.” A. W. Small.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 566. Ja. ’08. 840w.
“Style is vigorous and fresh.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 48. F. ’08.
“One of those rare books that are really worth while. We could wish that he had laid more emphasis on publicity of great business affairs as a means of making public opinion effective; but one ought not to find fault with so good a book. It well deserves the wide influence invoked for it in the interesting prefatory letter of President Roosevelt.” H. R. Mussey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 295. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“No one who seeks to guide public opinion, whether he be journalist, statesman, clergyman or teacher, can afford to miss getting its point of view—that of social solidarity as the basis of social morality.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 61. Ap. ’08. 540w.
Reviewed by A. O. Lovejoy.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 510. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The appeal to public opinion and the analysis of the defects in the present public opinion are perhaps the most profitable parts of the work.” L. W. Sprague.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 136. O. ’08. 400w.
“Professor Ross is master of the literary style which the importance of his subject demands for due effect on thought and conscience.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
“His book would be more effective if it were written more simply, with less obvious straining for novelty of expression.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 555. S. ’08. 250w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Social psychology: an outline and source book. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21601.
Professor Ross has been the pioneer in this branch of social science and offers the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal systematically with the subject of social psychology. He considers the nature and scope of social psychology, suggestibility, the mob mind, conventionality and imitation, custom imitation, conditions affecting the sway of custom, interference and conflict, union and accumulation, compromise, public opinion, and disequilibration.
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“Without great depth or undue consistency, it is peculiarly suggestive and stimulating, and will interest a larger body of readers than the conventional literature of psychology attracts.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“This is a work we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 467. N. ’08. 420w.
“Professor Ross’s manner is comparatively free from scientific affectation. The tone of the book is temperate, but the spirit that of a man very eager to read the signs of the times and full of the sense or illusion of progress.” C. M. Francis.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 593. Ag. ’08. 2000w.
“In general the book seems admirably made for college uses. The discussion is at almost all times clear, and it has the spicy interest common to Professor Ross’s works. There are two general adverse criticisms of the book which it seems fair to make. In the first place, the title is misleading. The other general criticism relates to the tone of the book.” J: L. March.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 517. D. ’08. 960w.
“Tho it is intended as a college textbook, the adventurous reader who picks here and there some of this fruit from the tree of knowledge will be rewarded with more sweet mouthfuls than the grower promises. Rays of humor lighten the pages.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 680w.
“One must dissent from it occasionally, but it is a wholesome, stimulating and serviceable work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 41. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Throughout his book the psychologist feels the lack of any true psychological analysis. As the book does not attempt to take up the principles involved in special uniformities like language or religion, it becomes virtually a treatise on the various aspects of imitation.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 400w.
“As it stands, it is still one of the best studies of custom and convention in any language.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 381. D. 15, ’08. 1900w.
“Professor Ross is one of the few specialists in the subject who are able to popularize their discoveries and to make the subject interesting to the lay mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 130w.
“On the whole we have in this work an able marshaling of the knowledge thus far brought to light on the subject of social psychology, and a clear, untechnical, while at the same time often eloquent, discussion of the laws, principles and leading truths of that rather subtle and recondite branch of sociology.” L. F. Ward.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 54. Jl. 10, ’08. 1400w.
* =Rossetti, Christina Georgina.= Family letters of Christina Rossetti; ed. by William M. Rossetti. *$3.50. Scribner.
Family letters which are offered for the value they possess in showing forth the writer’s “genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and feeling.”
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“Seldom has been given a more beautiful glimpse of home life than Mr. Rossetti has afforded us in this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 601. N. 14. 1450w.
“The letters are especially rewarding as documents of life.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 735. D. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Full and formal publication was not necessary, since neither in bulk nor in quality are the letters telling.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 900w.
=Rossi, L. Melano.= Santuario of the Madonna di Vico: Pantheon of Charles Emanuel I. of Savoy. il. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–13292.
“The author has written a history of architecture, of painting, and of sculpture, and has frankly told us the names of the books from which he has compiled it. He has shown that the dome of Vicoforte is superior to the dome of St. Paul’s, London, which latter is no dome at all, and he has furnished us with a scientific account of what a dome ought to be.”—Lit. D.
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“All who are interested in architecture and the decorative arts, or in the political and religious history of Italy, owe to Signor Rossi a deep debt of gratitude for the unwearying patience with which he has collected information on his important subject, the number and beauty of the illustrations supplementing his text, and the clearness with which he has told the whole story of the evolution of the building.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 450w.
“It is pleasant and instructive reading, but has nothing directly to do with the Madonna of Vicoforte.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The book shows wide, but undigested, reading of authorities, down to the most recent; it is overlain with references and footnotes to the point of suffocation; but the unwary reader had best shun the ‘historical’ chapters; they are full of pitfalls. It is a pity that so much labour, research, and effective illustration should be marred by writing so grotesque.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“Includes in its moderate compass a great array of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 900w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men: a study in character. Anniversary ed. **$1.50. Houghton.
A study which follows Lincoln’s search after power over the rough way of apprenticeship to hardship, toil and discipline. Here is portrayed the indispensable man, the master man, shaped and molded by the potentialities of invincible energy, courage, honesty and patriotism.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Australian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–29330.
An informing child’s study of Australia touching upon the points of history, geography, life in the bush, characteristics of natives and present day civilization.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Grecian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–23099.
A story which introduces young readers to Greece old and new and to the every-day life of the little Grecian cousin.
=Rowe, Leo S.= Problems of city government. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29625.
An analysis of the general principles involved in city growth, with an inquiry into the nature of the changes in social structure which are traceable to the rapidly increasing population in cities. In the course of the study reasons are made clear for the present-day doubt concerning most effective municipal legislation, and lines of progressive evolution are suggested.
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“The very full and scientific treatment of the problem of public utilities should recommend the work to all thoughtful citizens.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Professor Rowe’s work possesses usefulness—particularly in his account of the spread of the commission plan and in the comparative view of American and European experience in the management of public utilities.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 496. N. 19. ’08. 2000w.
“A very original and suggestive discussion of municipal questions by an eminent authority.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 13w.
“His book is much more than a mere summary of foreign experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 200w.
=Rowland, Dunbar.= Encyclopedia of Mississippi history; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons. 2d ed. 2v. $12. Dunbar Rowland, Jackson, Miss.
“A large two-volume work of more than two thousand pages containing historical sketches of the important events and episodes in the life of the commonwealth, of all the counties, cities and towns of the state including towns and villages now extinct, biographical sketches of men ‘who have left their impress on the history of the state’ and sketches of various institutions.... The design of the work ... is to present in compact form, arranged in alphabetical order, a complete history of Mississippi from 1540 to 1906, the plan being to combine the best features of history for continuous reading with the cyclopedic style for ready reference.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The encyclopedia has the inherent faults of a work prepared according to the topical plan. The work shows evidence of great industry and of intimate knowledge of the state’s history. There are many very good sketches and compilations which have more than a local interest.” J. W. Garner.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 661. Ap. ’08. 520w.
“Dr. Rowland and his helpers seem to have carried out the plan fairly well. The scale is too generous. There are some failures to meet successfully a difficulty inseparable from the form. The work would also be better for an index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 480w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Across Europe in a motor boat. **$2. Appleton.
8–27781.
This is a record of the adventures of the motor boat Beaver on a voyage over “a long wet trail” across Europe by way of the Seine, the Rhine, the Danube and the Black sea. In spite of the fact that the jaunt required a deal of preparation and experimenting, and that it ended in a wreck does not lessen the satisfaction of the achievement.
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“Mr. Rowland’s story, like his journey, is rather for the sterner sex, but is graphically told and holds the reader’s interest to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 150w.
“A most delightful story, in which Mr. Rowland brings into good play his cleverness at description and his charm as a humorist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 700w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Philosophy of loyalty. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11729.
“A thoroughly sincere attempt to set clearly before the American people the need for aiming at the highest ethical ideals in their daily life, in their intercourse with one another, and in their relations with the outside world. Believing that certain present-day conditions and tendencies indicate a lowering of individual and national standards. Professor Royce gives himself resolutely to the task of remedial and constructive criticism.”—Outlook.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 756. Je. 20. 1750w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“His treatment is extraordinarily interesting and is not lacking in manifestations of Professor Royce’s own peculiar literary and philosophical style.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 60w.
“From the philosopher’s point of view the book might have been better if it had been shorter. The reader is apt to be carried over the difficult places of the argument by the flow of the author’s eloquence rather than by the force of his logical reasoning.” W. R. Sorley.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 207. O. ’08. 2000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 570w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 17. Jl. 2, ’08. 520w.
“The lesson of his new book is founded on his sure observation of the present tendencies of thought, and in it he reveals himself as the true patriot as well as the philosopher.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 900w.
“His work is immediately and concretely inspiring to the man not at all concerned with the subtleties of metaphysical disquisition, but very much concerned in the affairs of every-day existence.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“These criticisms do not affect the great practical value of the book; it gives beautiful and forceful expression to ethical idealism, and grandly fulfils its purpose ‘to simplify men’s moral issues, to clear their vision for the sight of the eternal, to win hearts for loyalty.’ There is moral enthusiasm in it, there is patriotism in it, there is love of humanity in it.” Frank Thilly.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 541. S. ’08. 4200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book of remarkable freshness and power; popular in the best sense, since it never loses touch with common habits of thought; and inspired at times by a poetry and eloquence which, in Plato’s phrase, give to the quest of truth something of the warmth of desire. The book being one of popular lectures, naturally there are gaps in the argument and rhetoric at times in place of reasoning.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 446. S. 26, ’08. 1600w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Race questions, provincialism and other American problems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–31148.
A supplement to the author’s “Philosophy of loyalty.” In the light of that philosophy he discusses the following American problems: Race questions and prejudices; Provincialism; On certain limitations of the thoughtful public in America; The Pacific coast—a psychological study of the relations of climate and civilization; and Some relations of physical training to the present problems of moral education in America.
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“Apart from the strong common sense of his views and their bearing upon the immediate problems of life, Professor Royce wields an uncommonly lucid and forcible pen. This volume makes a plain and important appeal to any intelligent man or woman, and should have a wide reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 500w.
“The point of view from which Professor Royce paints his picture is one that enables him to bring out certain values strongly. And it scarcely needs to be said that the coloring, the light and shade, the detail that helps the central motive, are all handled with masterly skill.” J. H. T.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 394. D. 15, ’08. 930w.
=Royle, Harold M.= Chemistry of gas manufacture. il. *$4.50. Henley.
8–16415.
A practical manual for the use of gas engineers, gas managers, and students. “Starting with the method of preparation of the standard solutions required in the chemical work which it seems to be customary to carry on in an English gas plant, the body of the book goes on through coal testing, flue-gas analysis, the distillation of coal and coal tar, the analysis of crude coal gas ... fire clay and fire brick, the testing for naphthalene in gas ... and the determination of the candle power, the calorific value and specific gravity of illuminating gas, and is concluded by a short chapter on the testing of the oil used and the oil tar produced in the manufacture of carburetted water gas.” (Engin. N.)
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“This book should be of great use to those for whom it is intended.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 304. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The condensation of the matter taken from periodicals is not always accurately done. Another fault of the book is found in typographical errors, which are the more important because several of them occur in the spelling of proper names. There are also faults of arrangement. The faults mentioned do not, however, detract materially from the value of the matter contained in the book, and, as previously stated, it is worthy a place in the libraries of American gas engineers.” A. E Forstall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 658. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
=Ruhl, Arthur Brown.= Other Americans: the cities, the countries, and especially the people of South America. **$2. Scribner.
8–27368.
Mr. Ruhl, a journalist who has made extended tours thru South America sets down his impressions for the general reader’s enlightenment. He furnishes authentic facts concerning economic, social, and political conditions which exist there. “There is an appendix consisting of statistics and other data and a good index. We ought to know more about these ‘Other Americans,’ Mr. Ruhl insists, since half the western world is theirs.” (R. of Rs.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠
“As a social observer Mr. Ruhl may be commended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 520w.
“Serves well a useful purpose.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Ruhl discourses most entertainingly and informingly in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 220w.
=Ruhmer, Ernst.= Wireless telephony in theory and practice; tr. from the German by James Erskine-Murray. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–18757.
A complete and connected account in untechnical language, so far as possible, of the subject of wireless telephony, its progress, and prospects for future perfection. It outlines the theories and apparatus of Bell, Tainter, Simon, Hayes, Duddell, and others who have worked for practical ends in wireless telephony.
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“The work is undoubtedly the most complete presentation of the subject that is in print.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The result has been that the greater part of the matter can be easily grasped at a single reading and the rest can be understood by a little study.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 730w.
“Those who wish to obtain a good knowledge of the subject will find the information well presented.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’08. 240w.
“The matter is well presented, and it should prove interesting reading to all who take an interest in the advances of electrical engineering.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 10. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 30w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Lawless wealth: the origin of some great American fortunes. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–16214.
Mr. Russell takes his reader over the course covered, often by hops and bounds, by some of the financial magnates on the way to their present millionaire goals. He shows that fortunes are not the equivalent for public service rendered at the expense of ability, energy and foresight, but that they are secured thru the appropriation of public utilities to private greed. The author aims to arouse a public that stands by and witlessly connives with the abnormal money fiend by tolerating his practices.
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“He is not as dispassionate as a judge nor as dry as an economist, for on every page he shows the indignation of the prophet. Mr. Russell is a muck-raker proud of his profession.”
− =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“Whoever aspires to act as a public teacher should show reserve, moderation, appreciation of the exact quality of the acts condemned, and dispassionate consideration of the remedy. Of these qualities Mr. Russell shows no trace.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 364. Je. 27, ’08. 1200w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy: the story of a strange life, 1752–1770. il. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–12132.
This biography is the result of fourteen years of sympathetic study and research among all classes of material where could be found a crumb of information concerning this “marvelous boy” and “literary forger” who committed suicide in his teens.
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“Though Mr. Russell needs constant checking, however, whether he be dealing with his hero as man or as poet, he has amassed facts which are not only interesting but illuminating, and his book is worth reading.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 484. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“Masson’s short and pathetic account ... is more effective than this later, more elaborate, and undoubtedly better-informed work.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Russell is as extravagant in his praise of Chatterton’s poems as he is undiscriminating in his estimate of his influence upon the romantic movement.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 205. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w.
“Fulsome praise such as this repels thinking and judicious minds.”
− =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“To any balanced judgment the extravagances and perversions and the bad taste of the present biography will tend only to obscure for a moment the profound pathos of Chatterton’s life and his due reward as one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 378. Ap. 23, ’08. 1200w.
“A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer, nobler, piece of writing than Mr. Russell’s preface, and the book itself is in fitting sequence.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Russell’s book is the most considerable and well worked out life of Chatterton which has appeared.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Russell, William Thomas.= Maryland: the land of sanctuary. il. $1.75. Furst.
8–316.
A history of religious toleration in Maryland from the first settlement until the American revolution, authorities and sources being given at every step.
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“Very interesting historical study. Father Russell has treated his subject with thoroughness and amplitude.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 256. My. ’08. 850w.
=Rutter, Frank.= Path to Paris: the record of a riverside journey from Le Havre to Paris. *$5. Lane.
The impressions of two Englishmen journeying along the Seine from Havre to Paris on bicycles visiting Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec, Jumieges, Rouen, Les Andelys, Giverny, Vetheuel, Mantes, St. Germain, and other riverside cities and villages. The author’s artist companion furnishes the 68 sketches in black and white.
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“Mr. Rutter has the gift of writing agreeably, but he does not always take the trouble to use it, and too often has recourse to ‘padding.’ Uneven as the book is, it has given us several hours of real pleasure among familiar scenes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 152. Ag. 8. 480w.
“Mr. Hanslip Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings to the volume, which is in all respects admirably got up.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Rutter has written charmingly of the out-of-the-way matters that came under his notice, and Mr. Fletcher, the artist, has made some very good drawings to accompany the text. Somehow, though, we suspect, Mr. Rutter of romancing a bit in a hit he makes at ‘two American ladies.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 460w.
“He does his ‘ruining’ and his descriptions and moralisings and art disquisitions with a light touch, and gives the tour an air of personal originality. The effect of the whole, text and pictures, is agreeable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The writer has, it seems, a special interest in art, and has much that is interesting to say on this subject, and, indeed, on other matters. It is a pity that he should find a pleasure not only in depreciating his own countrymen, but in drawing his depreciation from a necessarily tainted source.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 137. Jl. 25, ’08. 140w.
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=Sabatier, Paul.= Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.
8–14319.
The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government has a controversy.” (Outlook.)
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“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.
“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M. Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing argument.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
* =Sabin, Alvah Horton.= House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.
8–21778.
Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting, varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by every house owner.”—Science.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠
“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish hands in the direction of efficiency.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears, as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound practice.’” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.
“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.
* =Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as well as at home.
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“Valuable volumes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.
“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes well deserving of serious study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.
“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive comment.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.
=Sager, Daniel Showers.= Art of living in good health: a practical guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–32393.
A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.
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“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 83. Mr. ’08.
“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good; while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.
“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
=Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce.= Calendar of the court minutes of the East India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster. *$4.15. Oxford.
8–16489.
“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639. But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July, 1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the documents from the East India series at the Public record office and of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.
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“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains material for the domestic history of the East India company, 1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the system of personal government under Charles I in years when that system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.
* =Saintsbury, George E. B.= History of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= From Shakespeare to Crabbe.
This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)
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“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics, definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless. On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good reading even of prosody.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such queer stylistic freaks.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Saintsbury, George Edward B.= Later nineteenth century. (Periods of European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–36994.
The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.” It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.
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“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠
“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.
“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in their respective circles.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.
“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign. **$1.75. Stokes.
7–37249.
An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)
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“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book seriously.”
− =Ind.= 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.
=Nature.= 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.
“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the practical study of the trypsin treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an obsession.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness: a book of practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,” whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic principle.
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“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not often been made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Salisbury, William.= Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–9151.
The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’ experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ and concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.” Preface.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.
“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective ‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”
− − =Ind.= 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow journalists by one of themselves.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.
=Sallows, James Francis.= Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical press.
7–33978.
Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing. (Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)
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“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.
“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of steel will find of exceeding value.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.
=Sanders, E. K.= Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.
The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors. But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)
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“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.
“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being, the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is capitally drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.
“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it that he was as good as his parents.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.
“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’ will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.
“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Sanders, Lloyd Charles.= Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.
Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen, wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)
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“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.
“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of letters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.
“The text has been carefully compiled.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Interesting book of gossip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.
“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.
=Sanderson, Rev. Edgar.= Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–1437.
“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature, in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass, Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda, Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)
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+ =Acad.= 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
=Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.
“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson tells them well.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.= Art of singing and vocal declamation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–18037.
“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this handbook for young singers.
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“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08.
“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career as students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.
“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic side.” L: M. Isaacs.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”
=Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Containing much valuable advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.
“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.
=Sargent, Arthur John.= Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.
8–9032.
Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India]; The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884. Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important official papers and note on the character of statistical information available for the Chinese trade.
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“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is the best summary view of the development and importance of English trade with China yet published.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.
“Lucid and convincing work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.
“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.” P.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“A careful and scholarly study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet in its resistance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E: Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.
“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other genera.”—Dial.
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=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.
=Dial.= 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.
“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.
7–29604.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical, statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.” John Bigelow, jr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.
“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.
“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.
=Sarolea, Charles.= Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.
8–26235.
A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal Newman and modernism.
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“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of psychological insight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable knowledge of our language, treats the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Saunders, Edward.= Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging insects. $1.25. Dutton.
Agr 8–399.
“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”
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“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an attractive manner.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an authority whose statements can be trusted.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall.= My pets: real happenings in my aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–30262.
Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons, canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.
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“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.
=Savallo, Teresa de.= House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8102.
A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate, and clears the way for a happy dénouement.
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“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.
“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly told.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-.= Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864 (the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60. Macmillan.
8–18961.
A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the student of history written from the point of view of an impartial officer of the British India army.
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“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in arrangement, and impartial.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.
“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud).= Jack Lorimer’s champions. $1.50. Page.
7–23939.
This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.
8–20152.
Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest times to the present day. This work is based upon the German “Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes a twelve volume edition.
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+ + =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical subjects the treatment is more adequate.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schauffler, Robert Haven=, comp. Through Italy with the poets. **$2. Moffat.
8–3507.
An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”
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“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent composition, and for the classified arrangement which makes it useful for specific reference.”
− =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary, its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre verses.”
− =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 98. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.
8–13665.
A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew, University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah. or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness; and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.
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=Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
− =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent Christians.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Scheffauer, Herman George.= Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.
8–20495.
Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the past.”
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Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
=Schelling, Felix Emanuel.= Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.
8–5140.
A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship, relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared, how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms. Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The domestic drama.
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“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library that can afford it should have it.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08.
“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.
“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent; we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.
“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject which have preceded it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.
“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan drama’” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of excitement.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.
=Schmucker, Samuel Christian.= Study of nature. (Lippincott’s educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.
8–20551.
An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study. Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.
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“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive and detailed in the field covered.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–35862.
Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus, vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting light upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)
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“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified his references.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.
“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.
“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable treatise.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.
“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception to the rule.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.
=Schon, Hans A. E. C. von.= Hydro-electric practice: a practical manual of the development of water power, its conversion to electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.
8–23073.
An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter, investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman, and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for the student and practitioner.
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“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and illustrations have a direct value.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner, but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.
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“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that Americans will again come to understand that there are better things in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for accumulation.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.
“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit, their function in a republic and their history in this country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Schultz, Alfred Paul.= Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.
8–22785.
A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted.
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“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Letters of Robert Schumann; selected and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.
8–8848.
Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a little too free.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.
“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the ‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and gives them an undeniable charm.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.
“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is, on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and students of the romantic movement will value highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
=v. 3.= 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from 1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.
At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr. Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were conspicuous and potent in his career.
=Schütze, Martin.= Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.
8–29016.
A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers. The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)
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“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Schwartz, Henry B.= In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
8–22266.
The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the author’s observations are largely confined to that province.
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“He holds that nobody can understand modern Japan until he shall have acquired a fair knowledge of the old life of the nation, and the purpose of his book is to help the world to that acquisition. No doubt it will be helpful in that way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=Schwed, Hermine.= Ted in mythland. **$1. Moffat.
7–26321.
Ted runs away with the little bronze Mercury that had “led him on” from the mantelpiece heights. His adventures are told in this fairyland myth book.
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“Even tho some might approve of the method, there is a lack of artistic handling in this book which forces both prose and poetry to become the vehicle, nor can we say much for the verses, which lack spirit.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Scoble, Herbert T.= Land treatment of sewage: a digest of the reports made to the Royal commission on sewage disposal by their specially-appointed officers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W8–99.
“The results of a study of eight English farms in which the following points were noted: (1) The composition of the sewage and the preparation before passing on the land; (2) the nature of the soil and the sub-soil; (3) figures relating to acreage, population, etc.; (4) method of treatment of sewage and cropping the land; and (5) analysis of the quality of the effluent as compared with sewage and with stream.”
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“Promises to be of interest and value to those to whom the original documents are not accessible, and, we may add, hardly worth the heavy purchase price ($12) for any American not deeply interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A valuable reference book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Voices and visions. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–13940.
“There are three series, the first devoted to poems of life and nature, in which the author’s felicity of phrase, his literary grace, and his command of tripping meters are perhaps at their best; the second to love poems, in which if there are no depths of passion there are refinement of feeling and beauty of imagery, and poems of the East, rich with Oriental color.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Of ... pretty futilities ... is the book made up.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Scollard’s muse has always the true poetic lilt in her song, he has a pretty thorough acquaintance with the technique in verse, he has sentiment and fancy and a keen appreciation of the value of words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–17822.
A practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of the social forces which are at work among the pupils. The actual activities of living children are studied, and much of the treatment deals with the question of self-organized group work with the aim of teaching principles of social democracy.
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“Full of original and stimulating ideas.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
“The book will meet a need in teachers’ and parents’ meetings, reading circles, etc., and ought to have a wide circulation as a most effective means of helping to bring those who are within and outside the school to a better understanding of some of the possibilities of democratic education.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School. R.= 16: 554. O. ’08. 1200w.
=Scott, Ernest Findlay.= Apologetic of the New Testament. (Crown theological lib., v. 22.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–23276.
An examination of the form and substance of the New Testament writings as directly determined by the practical needs of the early church. “The early church had to defend itself against many foes. It had to prove the real Messiahood of its Master, whose conception of that office was different from the one current in Israel, and to make it clear that a crucified Messiah best fulfilled the predictions of prophecy. It also had to defend itself against Judaism, Paganism, and Gnosticism; and how this was accomplished is traced in Gospels, Acts, and Epistles. Then the claim of Christianity to be the final and absolute religion had to be made rational, which is done in the Epistle to the Hebrews and in the Fourth gospel.” (Hibbert J.)
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“In this volume Mr. Scott has done excellent work. If we are to use the New Testament as an apologetic with the help of Mr. Scott, he ought to show what Christianity is apart from the doctrines by which it is presented to thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 190. F. 15. 300w.
“Mr. Scott writes convincingly on his subject.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 939. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Scott has a subject of great interest and importance, and his volume is a worthy companion of his work on the Fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 73. Je. 23, ’08. 300w.
* =Scott, James Brown.= Texts of the peace conferences at the Hague, 1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2. Pub. for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Aims to present to the English-speaking public the official French texts of the two conferences, accompanied by an official English translation and the diplomatic correspondence necessary to their understanding, together with an appendix of documents relating to, and explanatory of the various conventions of the two conferences. A preftory note by Elihu Root states the importance of the conferences, and an introduction by the editor supplies the necessary historical setting.
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+ + =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 230w.
“Professor Scott’s volume makes a very useful companion volume to Prof. William J. Hull’s book on the two peace conferences.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Scott, Sir James George.= Burma: a handbook of practical information; with special articles by recognised authorities on Burma. il. *$2.50. Jacobs.
W 7–177.
“The practical information contained in this valuable handbook covers the customary topics: the country with its geography and climate, government, education and history, industries and culture, including religion, art, literature, and the Burmese music. A series of appendices give statistics of the different divisions and districts of the province, with lists of species of flora and fauna, metals, minerals, etc. Some three score illustrations, for the most part well chosen, add materially to the book.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is full of interesting matter but so compact that it would hardly be chosen for merely entertaining reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is by far the most convenient and satisfactory manual of information about Burma.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is to be recommended not so much for its literary merit as for the accuracy, completeness, and careful arrangement of its information, although there are flashes here and there of the power of graphic description that made the author’s earlier works, under the pseudonym of ‘Shway Yoe,’ conspicuous. The one serious fault that might be found with Sir George Scott is his indulgence in the practice of disparaging all the statements made in Chinese histories on the subject of Burma. Some misprints are due, perhaps, to the author’s absence when the book was passing through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1200w.
“We think that the handbook, besides being indispensable to the tourist, is also well worth perusal by members of the non-travelling public who are anxious to know all that can be told about one of the most recent, and at the same time most interesting, possessions of the British Crown.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 440. Mr. 7, ’07. 1500w.
“It looks as if it did what it professes to do. The arrangement is all that it should be.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Princess Dehra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–16520.
A mythical kingdom, a valiant American hero, a king’s daughter, the king himself, a villainous plotter and his accomplice constitute, in the main, the caste for this drama. When the king dies the American and the villain are left to settle the question of succession by dint of wit and sword. And this is the portion of the tale that provides thrills.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Effective but more or less conventional romance of love and adventure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 350w.
=Scott, Ralph.= Automatic block signals and signal circuits. *$2.50. McGraw.
8–7884.
American practice in the installation and maintenance of signals electrically controlled, and operated by electric or other power with descriptions of the accessories, now regarded as standard. (Explanatory title.) The book is intended for the signal and railway engineer, the electrician and the layman. The author’s method of presentation is descriptive. Fully illustrated.
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“The book furnishes much accurate information concerning modern block-signal systems, logically arranged and expressed in simple language.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 937. My. 2, ’08. 110w.
“The book is the only up-to-date work on the subject. It is an authoritative as well as comprehensive treatise on the subject.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
The author states that it is the human mind with which advertising deals; and so its only scientific basis is psychology which is simply a systematic study of those same minds which the advertiser is seeking to influence. He sets forth the principles at the root of advertising, and with a carefully planned series of concrete illustrations shows their relation to successful business.
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=Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
=Ind.= 65: 1003. O. 29, ’08. 260w.
“A bright and suggestive work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
“Some very interesting observations on a matter of grave importance to business men are contained in ‘The psychology of advertising.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
“The book throughout is extremely suggestive.” W. K. Wright.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 396. D. 15, ’08. 880w.
=Scott, William. Riviera.= *$6. Macmillan.
8–3125.
“Mr. Scott takes an eager interest in the people and their past, as well as in landscape, and he has ransacked local histories. He describes not only the natives but the swarm of foreigners who flock to the Riviera during the winter. Starting at Hyeres on the west, he follows the magic sickle of sea and shore round to Sarzana, pausing at many out-of-the-way places, making excursions up the valleys, or sitting down beside some ruin to recount its story or merely to chat.”—Nation.
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“But with the praise of the pictures our praise of this book must end. We have, indeed, seldom seen anything so incongruous as the pages and pages, and chapters and chapters, of vapid criticism concerning hotel visitors, hotel dinners, and custom-house officers, and the excellent print in which it is enshrined.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 330w.
“Its illustrations depict both the gaiety and the quaintness of the region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation, its crags and castles, and its changeful blue sea. Altogether they give a complete and artistic picture of the region which some one has called the loveliest garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with information, and it is hard to think of a phase of the subject that it does not touch upon.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“There is a certain insular point of view, a typical British condescension in some of his remarks. Mr. Scott is an agreeable guide, not wholly deficient in humor; and his sketches are often very fine.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1. Holt.
8–15310.
A pre-laboratory study designed to meet the requirements for a series of individual experiments in the first course of psychology. It is intended to supplement any good text book.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“The purpose for which the book will be found especially adapted is that of providing a thoroughly good short laboratory course in institutions which cannot afford laboratory equipment. As a means to this end, it deserves the most cordial praise. Here and there points for criticism appear. It is easier, however, to mention these very trifling defects than to refer individually to the excellent and ingenious features of the book.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 550w.
“The experiments are judiciously selected. And, what is better, they are described in terms which can scarcely fail to be thoroughly understood by the average undergraduate. Moreover the significance of the various forms of mental function is discussed in a manner which is calculated to stimulate the interest of the student. The reviewer can readily understand how it will prove to be a boon to many American psychologists.” J. W. B.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 308. S. 15, ’08. 600w.
“It should be said with the brevity as well as with the emphasis characteristic of the book itself that it accomplishes its purpose with exceptional skill.” J. J.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 985. Je. 26, ’08. 280w.
=Seaver, Edwin Pliny=, comp. Mathematical handbook. *$2.50. McGraw.
7–40023.
A reference book containing the chief formulas of algebra, trigonometry, circular and hyperbolic functions, differential and integral calculus and analytical geometry, together with mathematical tables.
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“Contains a large amount of information in compact form for ready reference by the mathematician and engineer.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
“Will find a wide use among engineers and mathematicians.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 73. Ja. ’08. 230w.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 657. D. 12, ’07. 390w.
“The book is a substitute for many textbooks in the engineer’s working library, and is far more complete than the mathematical chapters of the popular handbooks.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“A well selected and carefully arranged collection of formulas and tables.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 544. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Last duchess of Belgarde. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–17998.
The sad story of the last duchess of Belgarde who worshipping her unworthy duke from a quiet corner fosters her determination to be faithful to him, who when the French revolution breaks in all its fury joins him in prison, and after a brief long-delayed honeymoon spent within prison walls goes to the guillotine with him.
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“The tale is done in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The characters, we may add, are mere paper dolls, the incidents few and not vivid. Yet despite the superficiality of plot and character, the tale has the merit of simplicity and lack of pretense.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“A little classic so sweet and true in its sentiment, so firm and clear in its characterization, and so wholesome in its morality that it will do as much good as it will give pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
“A slight, but perfectly wrought tale of the French revolution.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Amabel Channice. †$1.50. Century.
8–27496.
Married early in life to a man whom she does not love, Amabel Channice yields to an infatuation for an artist, flees with him, breaks the moral law, and, returning, cloisters herself in her husband’s lonely Charlock house. Her husband’s comprehension that responded to her great need, his protection of her and her illegitimate child arouse her love for him which gives place to contempt when she learns of his long life of continued dissoluteness. The woman’s conscience demands that she risk her last chance at happiness thru her son’s love by revealing to him her sin and the resulting smirch upon his life. The son’s nobility and magnanimity are the saving elements in a strong climax.
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“An admirably written book in which there is nothing superfluous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 100w.
“She knows how to give spiritual definitions to all that is stupid and commonplace with an efficacy that is entirely too celestial to be veracious.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1062. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
− + =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 300w.
“The book rises to a climax tender and inevitable, wholly satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The complications of the plot are perfectly fitted into each other, and the result, apart from the great interest excited by the human situation, is a distinct intellectual pleasure. Impresses the reader with a profound sadness, only lightened by the wonderful skill of the author’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“There is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the reader’s mind.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= New American type, and other essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12605.
Reflectively informing and written from a modern viewpoint, these essays are twelve as follows: The new American type, The mob spirit in literature, Mrs. Wharton, Certain aspects of America, Exile, Charles Russell Lowell, American colleges, A gap in education, Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Nations and the decalogue, Mark Twain, and The coup d’état of 1861.
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“Essays of popular character and more than ordinary charm, half serious, half humorous.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“Taking the volume as a whole, it is typical of the better class of American essay writers.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 404. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“The writer’s ideals are high, and his style that of a critic ‘of natural gifts and educated taste, experienced in the humanities.’”
+ =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 492. Ag. 27, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 150w.
“His essays are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness of phrases, elevation of thought, insight—all the qualities that ought to distinguish essays, that, in fact, almost always do distinguish essays that reach the reviewers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
“His mind has an edge, and his style bites at times like the point of the etcher’s needle. He pays the reader the respect of stating his own thought with the most uncompromising directness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. ’08. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 109. O. ’08. 780w.
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Fundamental truths of the Christian religion. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of a series of lectures given to German university students urging the modern critical method of studying the Bible and Christian doctrine.
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“His sincerity is unquestioned, his learning extensive, his philosophic penetration of high order. His lectures, in their English version, scarcely do their author justice. It is doubtful if they will convey much meaning to one who is unfamiliar with current German theological discussion. Their treatment of large topics in metaphysics and theology is much too brief to be clear.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
=Seguin, Edward.= Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological method. $2. Teachers’ college, Columbia univ.
E8–718.
Containing a discussion of our present knowledge of idiocy, The method of treating idiots, The practice of the same, and An outline of the direction to be given to the scientific efforts of the friends of idiots and the apostles of universal education.
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“It was a happy thought that led to the reprinting of this valuable thesis for many years out of print. All teachers of backward children should take advantage of this opportunity to secure the book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 90w.
=Seignobos, Charles.= History of medieval and of modern civilization to the end of the seventeenth century, tr. and ed. by James Alton James. *$1.25. Scribner.
7–29565.
Contains “selected topics of a nature to make the customs of each society clear, and explanations intended to make it understood how these customs were formed, modified and scattered.” “Many events are indeed briefly recalled, but only because of their special connection with the movement of civilization. The larger lines of political development are indicated, and a resumé is given of the essentials of medieval and early modern history with reference to institutions, customs, ideas, art and letters.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“It adds relatively little to what is to be found in our better manuals. Yet its matter is presented sometimes more truly than in our manuals and often much more effectively; and the translators have rendered, though not always with unswerving accuracy, on the whole with commendable success, both the sense and the style of the original.” E. W. Dow.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 391. Ja. ’08. 440w.
“There is little that is novel in his treatment and the point of view taken is somewhat too French for Anglo-Saxon readers. Some of the failings of the book are probably due to the translator or adapter, whose English is rather stiff and wooden, and who owns to having made excerpts from M. Seignobos’s work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= African nature notes and reminiscences; with a “Foreword” by President Roosevelt. *$3. Macmillan.
8–21506.
An interesting side light on some phases of natural history. Observations made from experiences during thirty years of adventure in Africa have resulted in the theory that carnivorous beasts hunt their prey by scent rather than by sight. “President Roosevelt furnishes a foreword in which he heartily supports, from his own observations in the Rocky mountains, the views of the author as to the fallacy of much of the theory as to protective coloration of animals.” (Nation.) There are chapters on the hyena, the wild dog, the cheetah, the rhinoceros and the giraffe.
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“Though authorities on natural history may arrive at different deductions, no one acquainted with the author will question the correctness of his facts.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is an attractively written narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 165. Ag. 20, ’08. 530w.
“His remarkable sporting adventures are the more thrilling because of their obvious truth, and the quiet style of narration.” H. H. Johnston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 217. Jl. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“While the entire volume, through which rings the love of the free, clean life of the wide open plains, may be described as a lifetime’s close and intelligent study of the habits and ways of wild creation, there runs through it a strain of adventurous excitement.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 700. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
=Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index, by Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–40850.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The translation is accurate and close and succeeds in preserving the spirit at the same time.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is not conspicuous for literary qualities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 551. My. 2. 600w.
“On the whole this work, without being slavishly literal, is remarkably true to the content and spirit of the original, and is easily the most satisfying English version of the tragedies.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 276. My. ’08. 1450w.
“His tabulated comparison of the tragedies with their Greek originals and his mythological index will be useful to students, and there is an excellent introductory essay by Professor Manly on Seneca’s influence on early English tragedy, of which the only complaint to be made is that it is too short.” J: W. Cunliffe.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 336. Je. ’08. 500w.
“Professor Miller ... has succeeded in accomplishing the task of giving new life and interest to these products of the rhetoric of the early Roman empire.” David Magie, jr.
+ =Class. Philol.= 3: 363. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Of course one who searches will find errors.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 419. N. ’08. 860w.
“Professor Miller’s translation is not merely scholarly: it is fluent and vigorous.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1568. D. 26, ’07. 560w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Professor Miller deserves high credit for making the best of these opportunities, and producing a book that is at once good reading in English and a faithful reproduction of the spirit of the original. His choruses are sometimes a trifle flat, missing the gravity of the original, but, in the longer narrative and ornamental passages of the dialogue he has been singularly successful.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 610w.
“It is a model of what translation should be, faithful both in spirit and detail to its original, yet rendered into excellent English, and into verse that gives us the illusion of reading Seneca himself.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Miller’s version, though fluent and easy, is wanting in force, and often fails to catch the nervous energy of those terse, telling phrases in which Seneca delights.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 131. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Astronomy with the naked eye: a new geography of the heavens; with descriptions and charts of constellations, stars, and planets. **$1.40. Harper.
8–14345.
This book by means of star-charts is intended to acquaint the casual observer with the appearance of the constellations, as viewed with the naked eye, with their histories and mythologies, and with the stories of their chief stars and star groups. The constellations are studied according to the months during which they approach the meridian, the north and south line of the sky. A separate chapter is given to the study of the planets.
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“Compared with Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ the present volume offers more information but lacks the charm of that book for reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“It is an excellent guide to the study of the heavens, as a preliminary to that of scientific astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
“The work is well and systematically done.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Serviss is a clever writer, and the text is trustworthy ... but the material is assembled in heterogeneous fashion, and the index is very imperfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 170w.
“It is the charm of Serviss’s attractive book that it blends all that is known of the stars and planets with all that has been imagined.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 750w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Moon: a popular treatise. il. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–34594.
“The author presents in dialogue or conversational method a familiar and easily understood description of the important physical features of the moon. Technicalities are avoided, and there is nothing that would puzzle the reader of ordinary intelligence. The illustration is quite remarkable in its own way, for it consists of a series of lunar photographs showing the moon as it appears on successive evenings throughout an entire month, while the text describes the mountains, plains, and craters, as they are seen in the successive photographs.”—Outlook.
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“While feminine characteristics are very obtrusive in the conversations, the reader may judiciously skip these, and find a wealth of accurate descriptive matter concerning the prominent features of the lunar landscape.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The exquisite photographs—well reproduced—and the easily readable text of this volume should ensure it a welcome from all classes of readers, whether they be astronomers or not.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 78: 101. Je. 4, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 180w.
“This form is in fact a very convenient and sensible one for the purpose in view, and Mr. Serviss has made use of it to advantage.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Serviss would have done better to stick to the ordinary method. Some readers, however, may prefer his device, and as far as we have tested the book it is quite trustworthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Natural history of the ten commandments. **50c. Scribner.
7–36867.
Mr. Seton develops the theory that the decalogue is not arbitrary and for man’s use alone, but that it exists in the greater order of things and all highly developed animals obey its laws.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 673. O. ’08. 40w.
“Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is likely in the end to consider the idea a possible argument for moral evolution.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Some scientists will criticise it as imaginative; that, in our view, is its virtue.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 60w.
=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell; ed. by her niece Eleanor L. Sewell. *$1.50. Longmans.
The record of a busy useful life that extended over ninety-one years. She identified herself thru life with literary interests, publishing volumes of travel, history and fiction, the best known of the last class being “Amy Herbert.” She became a pioneer worker in the movement of more thoro education for girls, founding St. Boniface school in the Isle of Wight.
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“Her diary records much European travel. Her remarks on those she encountered are acute.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 576. N. 9. 1700w.
“The story of her youth gives some interesting glimpses of social and educational conditions in England during the early years of the last century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 260w.
“Told in a somewhat fragmentary manner. On the whole, however, the picture is sufficiently complete.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 617. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
=Shaad, George C.= Power stations and power transmission. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
7–37601.
A manual of approved American practice in the construction, equipment and management of electrical generation stations, substations and transmission lines, for power, lighting, traction, electrochemical and domestic uses. The volume is divided into two parts, one on the power station itself, and one on transmission.
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“This book is free from those weaknesses of correspondence-school books which have been criticised in these volumes. It should be a very acceptable aid to those engineers who are called upon for such a great variety of work that they cannot become specialists in this particular branch.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Shallow, Edward B., and Cullen, Winifred T.= Nature study made easy. *40c. Macmillan.
8–29747.
A series of lessons for the fourth grade of the New York city schools. While essentially a reading book the subject matter is suitable for nature study.
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“There is a great deal of good and usable material in the book, but it is so badly confused with make-believe conversation, impersonation, emotionalism, and faulty science, that instead of making nature-study easy, it would seem to the reviewer that the book must join that mass of pseudo-nature literature which is really making it very hard for a real nature-study to take a place in the school curriculum.” O. W. Caldwell.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 616. Je. ’08. 460w.
“The form of the book will lead many teachers to encourage reading more than observing. While it may for a time be useful for unprepared teachers, it is certainly not going to help much in solving the most pressing problems of nature study for city schools.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Shambaugh, Bertha Maud.= Amana, the community of true inspiration. $3. State hist. soc. of Iowa, Iowa City, la.
8–19211.
The first detailed study of the Amana community of Iowa. Believing that “divine inspiration and revelation are just as real and potent to-day as in the time of Moses” these communists in both their church and their society are bringing into realization the oracular power of the Biblical prophets. “The people are graded into three spiritual orders. Celibacy is praised, marriage is permitted; but marriage reduces the pair temporarily to the lowest spiritual rank, and so does the birth of each child. There are no amusements, no school vacations, no politics. Daily prayer-meetings center all interest in the salvation of the soul.” (Outlook.)
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“An extraordinarily interesting account of the life of this unique group.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 185. O. ’08. 350w.
“The author’s style is good; her account readable.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 636. N. ’08. 260w.
“The first thoro study of the community.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 60w.
“Of peculiar present interest is this account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“A sympathetic and well-proportioned account of the social and spiritual growth of Amana.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
=Shamel, Charles H.= Mining, mineral and geological law. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–42017.
A treatise on the law of the United States involving geology, mineralogy and allied sciences as applied in mining, real estate, public land, United States customs and other litigation; also the acquisition and maintenance of mining rights in the public domain and obtaining patents for mineral land under the United States mining laws. (Explanatory title.) It is designed for the lawyer as well as the practical man.
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“A concise but thorough discussion of the scientific topics which are important in connection with mining litigation is given in the beginning of the work, and its value is supplemented by an excellent bibliography on these subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 305. Mr. ’08. 320w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Sharp, Archibald.= Balancing of engines: steam, gas, and petrol: an elementary text-book, using principally graphical methods; for the use of students, draughtsmen, designers, and buyers of engines. *$1.75. Longmans.
7–42489.
“This book discusses in detail the methods of obtaining good balances of the inertia forces of engines, and also briefly considers the question of uniform torque on the crank-shaft. The treatment is largely graphical, and the author has included original methods which he believes will greatly facilitate the computations of engine designers. Exercises for the use of students are appended to nearly all of the chapters.”—Technical Literature.
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“As a whole, the book before us is admirably clear and well written. The most important contribution which Mr. Sharp makes is in his discussion of the kinetic energy of pistons and connecting rods.” L. S. Marks.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 80. Ja. 16, ’08. 960w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 100w.
=Sharp, Dallas Lore.= Lay of the land. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–27140.
“Fifteen brief talks on the small neighbors that share our home fields—the muskrat, the buzzard, the owl, the woodchuck, the hundred other small and large, but always busy, souls that have bodies to feed and must feed them chiefly when we are not looking—that is, not looking closely.” (Ind.) “The author retains enough of the scientific temper to keep him accurate and safe from undue romancing, but not enough to kill sentiment.” (Dial.)
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“It will interest young people as much as adults.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠.
“The volume might well have been named from its best chapter, ‘A cure for winter.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 370w.
“He is a born naturalist, a true lover of nature, and has the art which is not easily acquired—the art of Thoreau, of John Burroughs, of Gilbert White, of Selborne—of making interest where we poor, sightless creatures make a dead loss of our time.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Nicolete. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The author introduces her readers to a “feckless but charming” family, inhabiting an old Tudor manor house. The father, an artist, belonging to “the fascinating, irresponsible order of beings,” and his beautiful wife bring up their seven children “on much love and a minimum of common-sense.” The sixth child, Nicolete, is the heroine of the story. She “combines the best qualities of both parents, but [is] destined by her loyalty and unworldliness to be perpetually victimized by her brothers and sisters.” (Spec.)
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“Miss Sharp is one of the lucky people who write with charm, whatever their subject may be. Her children are always delightful, spontaneous, and really childlike, and, if many of her other characters are but grown-up children, they are none the worse for that.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 230w.
“The narrative opens with some amusing sketches of child life, and is throughout bright and wholesome.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“Various phases of London and suburban social life are described, all with a sure touch that reveals a wide knowledge and experience on the part of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“The book is readable, and more, right through, but the humour and freshness of the first part eclipse the somewhat long-drawn sequel, excellent though that sequel is as a study of an artistic temperament, hampered by environment and the possession of a conscience.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 207. Ag. 24, ’07. 1320w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39228.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by E. S. Bradford.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 460. S. ’08. 400w.
“His volume, although frankly remaining a series of talks rather than a book, has more unity than most collections of this sort; and it is hopeful and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Its well-reasoned optimism is founded on wide knowledge and sincere human sympathy. Its analysis of present conditions, and its interpretation of them, are well-nigh authoritative.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Shaw’s work is judicial and dignified, tuned for presentation to academic audiences, but yet quite radical in tone and spacious in outlook.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 50. Ja. ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 330w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 540. Mr. 7, ’08. 700w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 554. S. ’08. 200w.
“The five college addresses which make up this volume are all rich in suggestions derived from many years’ observation and experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Shaw, Leslie Mortier.= Current issues. **$2. Appleton.
8–8152.
Current political questions are discussed including the railway question, overcapitalization and watered stock, trusts, and the currency question.
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“The book is of temporary interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“Mainly of value as representing the views of one active in political life and at the head of the treasury during an interesting period in its administration.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 50w.
“For students of the political thought and movements of the last decade the volume has no little significance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
“What the book reflects is experience rather than learning, and a good native intellect rather than study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 900w.
“Possesses beyond almost any other of our public men the gift of lucid exposition.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Shearer, John Bunyan.= Scriptures: fundamental facts and features. 60c. Presbyterian com.
Seventeen Bible studies among which are included the following: The unities of the Scriptures; The object and scope of written revelation; The universal book; The canon; The supernatural in the Scriptures; Creation and the Creator; The relations of the Bible and science; Evolution; Geology; The six days of creation; The deluge; The Bible in liberal education and God in history. Nine chapters are devoted to the influence of Judaism on ancient religions, ancient philosophy, and ancient civilization.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Lisheen, or, The test of the spirits. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–33595.
A young Irish landlord reads Tolstoi, applies the lesson, and discovers the condition of the Irish tenant must be improved. He deserts his station for a time and goes to work as a peasant on a small farm in Kerry. The hard fought battles of his self imposed apprenticeship to experience rather lose their force at the end in the magic of the “‘deus ex machina’ of a full purse.”
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“Canon Sheehan is scarcely equal to his subject, but he must be accorded due praise for his descriptions of the monotonous existence led by the lowest classes in Ireland.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 274. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“The descriptions of peasant-life are admirable; the working out of the plot is not convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“He has been tempted to add a secondary story, with disastrous results.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 580w.
“This is all very well for a plot, but its handling is tame and ineffective.”
− =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 420w.
“The story itself is rather awkwardly contrived, and the interest of its central theme is much weakened by the introduction of many chapters concerned with aristocratic society.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“The pictures of peasant-life—by no means idealised—are admirable. The author must have discovered for himself, even though unconscious of his errors against reality and good taste, that in half his chapters he is building entirely upon guess-work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 673. N. 30, ’07. 540w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Parerga: a companion volume to Under the cedars and the stars. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–7172.
Meditations, some four hundred in number, arranged under the heading of the seasons, whose themes border on literature, metaphysics and practical life. “Though the subjects vary indefinitely, they are reflected in the same idealizing mirror of the writer’s mind. And of that mind the most insistent categories are a contempt for modern materialistic standards; a Solomon-like preference ... for the house of mourning over the house of laughter; a sense of the fact that the key to the world-riddle is kept by the spectre that holds the key to all the creeds; finally, that the flying years bring with them disillusionment—and resignation.” (Cath. World.)
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“Imagination and feeling, literary criticism, moralizing on the mystery of things, keen but kindly observation of human nature, flow in an unstinted tide from this charming philosopher, as he flits from topic to topic with a sweep that embraces heterogeneity itself.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 340w.
“The book is far from being commonplace or dull.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 314. My. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Dr. Sheehan is not at his best in literary matters. In meditations on nature and in certain aspects of human life he is more to be admired.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 470w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= Unbelief in the nineteenth century: a critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
7–14561.
“A review of the various theories—philosophical, quasi-scientific, theological, ethical, critical—which since the time of Kant have more or less radically antagonized the beliefs of the church. These theories are first stated and then criticised. Both the statement and the criticism are presented in compact and lucid form, for a vindication of Christian belief. The author’s standpoint is conservative, but not extreme. He concludes that while the nineteenth century has rigorously tested Christian beliefs, and modified them to some extent, they have been fully vindicated in their fundamental features.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Sheldon writes in a clear style and shows wide reading in the broad field he covers. His exposition is clear and historical and his criticism such as is commonly urged by enlightened orthodox apologists. Professor Sheldon does not seem to realize the profound change that is demanded by our modern view of the world, and clings to elements that belong to a deistic interpretation of the universe.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 170. Ja. ’08. 690w.
“The entire discussion is fair-minded and instructive. The point of criticism to which it is most liable is in the use of ‘miraculous’ and ‘supernatural’ as equivalent terms—a common mistake, than which none is more fruitful of confused thought in current controversies.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Sheldon, Mary Boardman.= Coffee and a love affair: an American girl’s romance on a coffee plantation. †$1. Stokes.
8–21616.
A story among the mountains of Central America whither “one makes his way on the back of a good Sierra Nevada mule to a coffee plantation, where gasoline prevails not and the mail arrives by a banana boat every fourteen days.” (N. Y. Times.) “Here the reader cares more about the coffee than he does about the love affair—the descriptive parts and incidents of plantation life are really very good.” (Outlook.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“The coffee predominates, and the numerous interesting facts concerning it which are brought in under cover of a young American girl’s passion for traveling in strange countries and away from beaten tracks, commend the book as much to the masculine as to the feminine reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“An American woman ... tells her experiences with considerable liveliness, a little after the manner of ‘The lady of the decoration,’ but without that little book’s personal charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.= Untrodden English ways. **$3. Little.
8–30034.
To the leisurely traveler or the stay-at-home tourist this volume is made valuable by chapters about St. Ives, the haunt of artists and authors: John Keble’s Hursley; By famous graves; Three memorable pulpits, John Cotton’s, Thomas Arnold’s and Henry E. Manning’s; Bunhill Fields, the “Campo santo of the dissenters”; and Westminster abbey’s collection of wax effigies which in centuries past have appeared in funeral processions.
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“Mr. Shelley’s style is easy and readable, bespeaking intimate acquaintance with the subject in hand.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“A great amount of enthusiasm, reverence and love is bottled up in the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19. ’08. 50w.
“We advise these who are planning a voyage to England to procure and study this convenient handbook.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 908. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“This book will have special interest to those who love Devonshire.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 739. D. ’08. 40w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener; with introd. and notes by Bertram Dobell. *$1.50. Dodd.
8–18715.
Some forty odd letters written by Shelley to the Sussex schoolmistress, Elizabeth Hitchener, who in the private life of the Shelleys was entitled “Portia.” or “Bessy,” but who in the end was denominated “the Brown Demon ... our later tormentor and schoolmistress.” The correspondence is published for the first time.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 302. S. 12. 640w.
“It is altogether a pathetic, interesting, absurd story; and though the letters contain nothing material to it which was not known before, it is satisfactory to have them complete.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 339. Mr. 14, ’08. 1550w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 280w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.= Stained glass tours in France. **$1.50. Lane.
8–856.
“Describes the notable windows to be seen and gives practical and full itineraries for reaching them. With a view to the convenience of the tourist and student, he divides the history of stained glass into three epochs: (1) The thirteenth century and earlier; (2) fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; (3) sixteenth century. Visits to the glass of these epochs are subdivided into a dozen tours. A table of itineraries groups the distances from Paris in kilometers. The illustrations show representative examples of the art.”—Int. Studio.
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“A useful, interesting book for the intelligent sight seer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08. ✠
“Had he taken only a little more trouble and been less diffident of his abilities, he could have produced a volume both fascinating and valuable, with little addition to its bulk.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 400w.
“Mr. Sherrill’s descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town are simple, non-technical, and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“In system and accuracy of treatment the volume renders capital service as an introduction to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
“He is a particularly pleasant guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 41. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
=Sherzer, William Hittell.= Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks. (Smithsonian expedition of 1904.) (Part of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge v. 34, no. 1692.) $1.75. Smithsonian inst.
8–4476.
“Gives the results of a systematic examination of the Victoria and Wenkchemna glaciers in Alberta and of the Yoho, Asulkan, and Illecillewaet glaciers in British Columbia. The study embraced the surface features of these glaciers, the nature of the ice movement, the temperature of the ice at various depths and its relations to the air temperatures, the amount of surface melting, the possible transference of material from the surface portion to lower portions, the rates of movement, the advances and recessions of the glacial extremities, and the structure of the ice. There is an accessory discussion of the physiographic changes of the region in Pleistocene and earlier times.”—J. Geol.
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“An unsatisfactory flavor is given this by an effort, italicized as though important, to make plasticity mean something which plasticity does not usually mean, for no other apparent reason than to justify the retention of an old term which is likely to be either misleading or meaningless.” F. C. C.
+ − =J. Geol.= 16: 388. My. ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too diffuse in describing the well-known, Dr. Sherzer has made a valuable and remarkably well-illustrated contribution to the literature of glaciers.” T. G. Bonney.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 463. Mr. 19, ’08. 1050w.
=Shield, Alice, and Lang, Andrew.= King over the water, il. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–11474.
The biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, the “Old Chevalier” or the “Old Pretender.” “The purpose has been,” so the preface states, “as far as may be, to avoid incursions into general history, confining the work to biography.”
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“We have noticed very few blunders. The reader who takes pleasure in Mr. Lang’s sprightly style will find something not unlike it in these pages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 1100w.
“By a careful study of all the documents available, what is really the first complete modern biography of James has been produced.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 169. Ap. ’08. 1200w.
“Miss Shield is interested in the human side of her subject, and gives us a delightful picture of every-day life at Saint Germains and Urbino.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 42. Jl. 16, ’08. 720w.
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“The present attempt at rehabilitation is a bright and spirited piece of writing, quite worthy in most parts of Mr. Lang, though he assigns the larger share of the credit for it to his collaboratrix, Miss Shield. It contains some good and curious reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
“Very interesting, though here and there, in spite of Mr. Lang’s supervision, slightly effusive.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Shields, Rev. Thomas Edwards.= Education of our girls. *$1. Benziger.
7–41558.
Higher education of women is advocated in this discussion but emphasis is laid upon the fact that it must be education for women. The author dwells at length upon the subject of coeducation, and concludes that women can be most fully and most naturally educated only in schools and colleges provided for them alone.
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“Whosoever is interested in the subject will find a fund of suggestion in a modest little volume by Dr. Shields. To a thorough knowledge of theoretical pedagogics Dr. Shields unites a wide experience of the practical conditions of Catholic education for girls, as they exist in this country.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Shoemaker, John Vietch.= Health and beauty. *$3. Davis.
8–20542.
“Dr. Shoemaker, the well-known specialist and professor in the Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, has in this volume undertaken the serious and practical task of teaching people how to take care of themselves, and especially of their skin. The skin is not only the pane of glass through which we can see and read the condition of the internal organs, but it is the drain-surface of the body. The doctor shows us how it may be kept in a condition of efficiency, how it may be brightened and beautified.”—Lit. D.
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“We are acquainted with no popular work of the kind so thorough, so learned, so voluminous, and so sane.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“His book is a capital one, and should be in the possession of every one who is interested in the acquirement or maintenance of sound health and the beauty derived therefrom.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 428. Ag. 1, ’08. 470w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Wanderings in Ireland. **$2.50. Putnam.
The spirit of Ireland gets into Mr. Shoemaker’s pages from the moment he hears the Isle of Shamrock’s greeting to him. “Glory be to God, but yer Honor’s welcome.” He travels “by donkey-cart, by jaunting-car, by train and motor,” is a keen observer and sympathizer, and gives vivid descriptions of the people and their land.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Can be read with entertainment even by those who have no interest in motoring.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“A vivacious narrator.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The description is entertaining and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“There is plenty of information in this volume, information historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment as might have been expected.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Greater love. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–17252.
A story which portrays the suffering of a woman whose daughter was born out of wedlock. The mother finds that no matter how extenuating were the circumstances of her offense she must atone for a broken law, which atonement involves the greatest conceivable sacrifice, viz., separation from her child.
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“The style, if somewhat serious, is dignified, and the psychology of the mother’s love is made clear and credible without exaggeration or mawkish sentimentality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
“As a statement of the omnipresent problem, the book has some novel adjuncts and complications. As a contribution to a solution it is worthless, since morally it is a long, indeterminate muddle.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 470w.
“Mrs. Sholl has written a book worth the writing, and written it with dignity and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Deep currents of feeling and character are indicated in an almost masterly fashion.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4. ’08. 170w.
=Short. Ernest H.= History of sculpture. *$3. Dutton.
8–19092.
“Mr. Short believes that true art is always the expression and interpretation of national life.... As a background for an intelligent understanding of the sculpture of any age one must have, then, an idea of its temper and tendencies. Such conceptions Mr. Short endeavors to supply in brief historical summaries and characterizations.... His book covers the entire ground from the rise of the sculptor’s art in Greece through the work of the French and British schools of the nineteenth century. Few biographical data are given, and attention is paid only to the most characteristic works of each artist.”—Dial.
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“Many of the author’s opinions are disputable, but the facts are mostly taken from accepted textbooks, though their expression is sometimes inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 250w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“While the author’s critical qualifications are not of the highest order, and his style is often slipshod, he yet succeeds in taking sculpture out of the region of the archeological catalog of technical and dry discussion, and in describing many of its masterpieces as the expression of national or local feeling, and even in some of his pages in quickening the reader’s sense of plastic beauty.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“This book is readable and suggestive. It is not really a history of sculpture. It is rather a collection of readable essays for leisure hours.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“At both ends, it is manifestly incomplete. Its excellencies, however, are as patent as are its defects.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Collected poems; with an introd. by George Meredith. $1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Shorter with the true ballad and short-story gift scores many of her greatest successes in the field of Irish legend. Her poetry has been collected here with an introduction by George Meredith. “It is hard to choose where all is good, but if choice must be made ours shall be ‘The Dean of Santiago,’ ‘The beggar maid,’ ‘The white witch,’ ‘The little black hound,’ ‘The man who trod on sleeping grass,’ ... ‘Cean Duv Deelish,’ the beautiful little poem on ‘Ireland,’ ‘The suicide’s grave,’ and the final poem, ‘The enemies.’” (Spec.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 1000w.
“The true thing to say about them is—what is in fact very high praise—that they are nearly all very pleasant to read.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 340. N. 8, ’07. 1200w.
“Some extremely enjoyable verses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 850w.
“There is a readable flow and interest in many of Mrs. Shorter’s ballad and narrative poems.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Limited both in range of thought and expression, her poetry wins the reader by a certain sincerity, freshness, and simplicity.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Shufeldt, Robert Wilson.= Negro: a menace to American civilization. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–36977.
“An impassioned plea against the process of hybridization or ‘mongrelization,’ which, in the author’s opinion threatens the white race in this country so long as the negro remains with us. Admitting that the tendency of modern civilization seems to be the amalgamation of all races and their unification into one, he yet protests against the amalgamation of negro with white American, (which is proceeding steadily in his view).”—N. Y. Times.
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“Careful students, administrators, educators already perplexed by the problems of race contact, will find no help in the volume.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Shufeldt is more lurid than scientific in the form of his statements at times, for he speaks rather as a justified alarmist than as an investigator, but his book, also, is not without its value as evidence in the case.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Extempore speaking for school and college. *90c. Ginn.
8–20155.
Aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at the end of each chapter and in the appendix, suggestions and topics for class exercises.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Later years of Catherine de Medici. *$3. Dutton.
8–36143.
“The first of Miss Sichel’s work, published some time ago, dealt with Catherine and the French reformation—the woman struggling for power. The second part, now before us, brings the story down to the year of her death, 1589 and consists principally in a study of the art of balancing parties and social forces by which the princess of diplomats maintained her sway.”—Ind.
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“Our author has done well the work she has set out to do; she is unusually free from heated partisanship.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 844. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“She has her material well in hand and makes it serve a natural gift for the analysis of human motives.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“Is written with a clear and ardent appreciation of the great personalities who made up the social and political life of the era, and with a firm grasp of the close sequence of events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 536. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Miss Sichel is both a skilled and a powerful writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 90w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 240. Ag. 22, ’08. 1100w.
“This is certainly the most striking book Miss Sichel has yet written, and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
=Sickert, Bernhard.= Whistler. (Library of art.) *75c. Dutton.
“Breadth of vision has enabled the author to see the painter’s art in relation to contemporary feeling, in its relation to his opponent Ruskin’s criticism, and to the artistic aspects of the modern world. The real, and not the superficial, points about Whistler’s art are understood, and the selection of etchings reproduced for illustration is the best that could have been made.”—Int. Studio.
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“One might seek very far amongst the small books upon art which nowadays are issued in such numbers to find again a book so pleasantly written as this one. The writer shows insight into his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 319. O. 08. 120w.
“Mr. Sickert writes of the art of Whistler with great enthusiasm, but also with much discrimination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 80. Jl. 23, ’08. 240w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Home life in Germany. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–20729.
From a thoroly German point of view. Mrs. Sidgwick discusses the “German children, their schools, the education of the poor, that peculiar type of girl known as the ‘Backfisch,’ the students, women, marriage and housewives, householders and servants, food, shops, markets and sports and games, inns, restaurants, lodgings, summer resorts, peasant life, and the poor.” (Outlook.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 754. Je. 20. 1400w.
“Has given her book an introduction which comes near being the best thing in it. It does exactly what a preface ought to do, it makes the reader eager to press on to the rest of the book whether he be interested in the subject or not, because he feels that anything such a sane, broad-minded, and amicably humorous woman has to say will be worth reading.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 40: 63. Jl. ’08. 1300w.
“She has written no more interesting story than this book on home life in Germany.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of entertaining information, seasoned by lively anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“An interesting book that shows an intimate knowledge of racial peculiarities in living and in point of view.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 20w.
“A singularly acute and intimate appreciation of home life in Germany.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 440w.
“A really unusually interesting book this, by a woman who knows both English and German types and treats them with a kindly sympathy, a keen discernment, and a good-natured humor which make highly entertaining reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has written a book which was wanted, and written it with exceptional verve.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 831. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Desire. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Desire, the heroine of this novel, is called upon to choose, at the time of her father’s death, between a wealthy marriage and earning her own living. She prefers the bread-winner’s course. “Peter Grimstone, the hero, is the most attractive figure in the book, and his struggles, aided by Desire as his secretary, with the affairs of Grimstone and Son, and with the machinations of his wicked brother Alexander, are not a little interesting.” (Spec.) “The real strength of the book lies in the careful development of the two chief figures and the reader’s interest and belief in their ultimate happiness.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The book, in short, is decidedly unequal but the author’s charm of writing and sincerity of purpose will reward all readers who have patience and perseverance enough to proceed with the unsatisfactory early chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Silver, Arthur P.= Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada; or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona. **$2. Dutton.
W8–122.
“The book, which is better printed than bound, is made up of a rather heterogeneous collection of papers on husbandry, angling, and hunting. The many illustrations are of varying excellence, but they serve to give the reader a good idea of the character of the maritime provinces and Newfoundland.”—Nation.
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“The beautiful province of Nova Scotia has been well served here by Mr. Silver.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 350w.
“A number of minor mistakes might be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 150w.
“Eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is pleasantly and unpretentiously written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“This is a most readable book, and we have enjoyed the description of life and sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
=Sinclair, Bertrand William.= Raw gold. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–21615.
The Canadian border furnishes the scene of this tale of Wild West life—primitive, exhilarating, spiced with dangers. Particularly is it a delineation of the character of the Northwest mounted police, sent by the English government to keep order “in a territory that was a city of refuge for tough people who had played their string out south of the line.”
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“There is sentiment of the kind that fits with the open sky and life in the saddle, and the whole story moves with a swing and reality that are refreshing in the extreme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 528. S. 26, ’08. 230w.
=Sinclair, May.= Immortal moment: the story of Kitty Tailleur. (Eng. title Kitty Tailleur.) †$1.50. Doubleday.
“In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, induces him to propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past.... The struggle between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose mistress Kitty Tailleur is—is described with extraordinary force. The tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.” (Spec.) “Her ‘immortal moment’ is ironically so called, for it is the moment in which the higher nature asserts itself, and she makes the confession which she knows must end her dream.” (Dial.)
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“Miss Sinclair has up to a point made an excellent study of a type, and then shut her eyes and jumped at the rest. Yet her failure is more interesting than most successes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 220w.
“It is seldom that a story brings to the reviewer such a sense of impotence to do it justice within the space of a single paragraph.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 550w.
“As a faint reflex of the Camille story this one must be set down as essentially immoral, simply because its intention is to throw a sentimental glamor over the ugly outlines of depravity. But we cannot dispute its literary art or its emotional subtlety.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Rehabilitates the Camille motif by the sterling art of its treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“Sometimes the reticence lies a little obscuringly over the effect. But the reticence is delightful; we forgive it our losses for the sake of the gain, and we admire the author’s determination to offer no concessions to stupidity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 21. Jl. 4. ’08. 630w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 237. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Sinclair, May.= Judgment of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
8–9176.
An analyst’s portrayal of the subjective phases of two egoists’ married life. The sea change that gave their life the shimmer of something rich and strange as two souls struggled and fluttered after the immaterial is followed by a transformation caused by the failure to give fresh, wholesome, material expression to their ideals, leaving a “decomposing discolored shell” wholly at the mercy of the peace of dulness.
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=Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A sad story, interestingly told, but with a moral somewhat obscure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The right people will probably never hear of ‘The judgment of Eve.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 180w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Metropolis. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–5582.
To expose the vice and extravagance of the New York rich has been Mr. Sinclair’s purpose in writing this story. Two brothers, one the antithesis of the other, are the mouthpieces which Mr. Sinclair uses respectively to shout forth the demagogue’s selfish creed and to denounce it.
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“The strength of the novel is in its picturesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 250w.
“We close the book with the feeling that our time has been wasted upon a very dull tract.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A large part of it reads like the prospectus of a hotel or the advertisement of a department store, with the prices in plain figures on every article.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“It is a tract with enough of the air of fiction to draw the attention of a generally intractable public. The story element is delightfully ingenuous.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“A jumble of odds and ends. The yellow ‘sensations’ of two or three years reappear in a barbarous melange. It has all been done, and much better. The bad example, as Mr. Sinclair depicts it, only disgusts educated people because of the falsity of the picture, and ought to make the multitude laugh.”
− − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 1300w.
“Nothing is more patent than the author’s lack of personal knowledge concerning the social life of New York. If it were not so absurd, it would be a pitiful exhibition of misdirected energy.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“True stories must often be harrowing and heartbreaking; but there is no excuse for writing brutal, hateful, sordid fairy stories.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 909. Ap. 25, ’08. 1200w.
“Morally and intellectually as repellant as the descriptions of the physical details of the Chicago stock-yards and slaughter-houses.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 400w.
“Books like ‘The metropolis’ act as a lure to the weak-minded instead of serving as danger-signals to keep them from the path of evil.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 530w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Moneychangers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–24866.
A continuation of “The metropolis.” In this second of a trilogy aiming at an exposé of contemporary business and social corruption of New York, Mr. Sinclair reveals the rottenness of Wall Street’s high finance.
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“To say the truth, Mr. Sinclair is neither a Dickens nor a Zola, but ... a successful sensation-monger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
“Is hardly to be classed as a novel, just as it savors of the absurd to class his previous works as fiction. It is a tract, a preachment in journalistic style, through the mouths of marionettes.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“If he is lying, this book ought to be burned; and if he is concocting the stories he tells so circumstantially, there are at least fifty well-founded prosecutions for criminal libel in the book.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 581. N. 7, ’08. 770w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Great rivers of the world, as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34681.
“Victor Hugo’s glowing words repeat his impressions of the Rhine and Loire; Dickens tells of a trip down the St. Lawrence (was he so fair to it because it is more Canadian than American?); Pierre Loti pictures the Ganges, Thoreau the Concord and the Merrimac, and Mrs. Richings the Irrawaddy. All the rivers of the earth which are great either in size or in association are described by competent writers.”—Dial.
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“The accounts are various in character, some statistical and some impressionistic, and they show entertaining variety of style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Holland. (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
In which visits are made to the Hague gallery; the Rijks museum; the Stedelijk museum; the Town hall, Haarlem; and the Boijmans museum, Rotterdam. Brief biographies of painters, helpful comment and criticism on the most famous pictures in each gallery, and illustrations which aid the text are presented in condensed form for the tourist.
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“A careful resumé of the treasures of Holland, a compact book convenient for reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Switzerland, described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34593.
“The first division of the book deals with the country and the race, the second with their history, the third with Alpine climbing, the fourth is descriptive purely, the fifth sets forth social life among the Alps, and the last is devoted to statistics. The names of Ruskin, Tyndall, Goethe, and Victor Tissot are in the list of writers.”—Dial.
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“Shows Miss Singleton’s careful editing. Mr. Edward Whymper’s exciting account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn alone makes the book notable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
=Slaughter, Rev. Philip.= History of Truro parish in Virginia; ed. with notes and addenda by Rev. E. L. Goodwin. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14829.
The parish whose history is sketched here included among its vestrymen George Washington, George Mason, and other noted statesmen. The sketch is important because it shows the character of the church school which, hand in hand with religion, taught men of genius the rudiments of popular government, the foundations of human rights, and the reconciliation of diverse rights.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Slosson, Mrs. Annie.= Dissatisfied soul; and A prophetic romancer. *75c. Bonnell.
8–19156.
Two stories of New England life. The first set in the White mountains sketches a woman characterized by her sister-in-law as the “fittiest, restlessest, changeablest” woman living, who was “never, never quite satisfied.” Even death did not bring her rest, so she returns to earth after three weeks. The second story whose scenes are laid in Connecticut tells how the story which a young girl writes comes true in dream fashion.
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“She shows her usual skill in the handling of a grotesque theme.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“It is a clever and very entertaining short story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Slosson, Annie Trumbull.= Simples from the Master’s garden. *$1. S. S. Times co.
7–42011.
A group of stories in each of which is a simple exemplar or expositor who reveals the healing power of some phase of Christ truth.
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“In homely phrases she sends out many a truth which might be ignored in more costly dress.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Mrs. Slosson continues to write in her original vein of tender human feeling and deep spirituality.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“All are of good quality.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Small, Sidney Alymer-.= Electrical railroading; or, Electricity as applied to railroad transportation. $3.50. Drake, F. J.
8–10297.
“Evidently this volume was prepared mainly for men who had no knowledge of electricity previous to securing the particular book.... The first third of the book deals with elementary electricity and magnetism, covering, in an inferior way, about the same ground as could be studied with any good text-book on elementary physics. The other two-thirds of the book seem to be largely copied from descriptive catalogs of prominent manufacturing companies, and from employee’s instruction books, as issued by a few railroads.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is clearly-written, and for the man who has not had a technical training it will prove a valuable aid in enabling him to keep up with the advances in his profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 190w.
“There is enough in the book that is new and useful to make it a matter for regret that so many criticisms need to be made. The book is safe for the instruction of motormen, etc., only under the direction of a well-educated engineer who will be able to recognize troubles which exist for the confusion of most readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 546. My. 14, ’08. 960w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Daughter: a love story. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10433.
A daughter suffocating in her home and town surroundings breaks away from her family, goes to London and throws herself into “socialism, emancipation of women and various other popular movements of a radical type.” A wealthy young Englishman falls in love with her, but realizing the futility of wooing her, masquerades as a young mechanic, wins her, and finally, after demonstrating his manhood and the sanity of his ideas, secures her forgiveness for the deception. “The author has turned out a good tale—a sane mixture of the socialistic, purposeful, and often hectic novel, with the healthy story of an admirable love match.” (Nation.)
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“She has not allowed her charming gift of imagination to be stifled in a riot of either abuse or argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 150w.
“The chief fault with Constance Smedley’s vigorous and carefully written book, ‘The daughter,’ is not the lack of a message, but rather an obscurity in its scope and purport.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
=Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3. ’08. 40w.
“Has interest, the interest not of a great or a literary product, but of a faithfully planned and well told story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“It is a tract, spirited, clever, often dramatic, but still essentially a tract on the marriage question.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
“Quite entertaining are the adventures of Delia.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Alton Lincoln.= Frederic William Maitland: two lectures and a bibliography. *85c. Oxford.
A presentation “of Professor Maitland’s historical method, of his conception of history, and of the quality of his work.” “In the first lecture the clue to Maitland’s greatness is found in his spiritual conception of history ... and in his broad and profound human sympathy, with which his imagination, insight and humor are closely allied. In the second lecture, Maitland is considered as a ‘converted lawyer,’ come back to the historical fold, whose legal training gave him an interest in the history of ideas and a practical, as opposed to a purely academic, point of view.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“Thoughtful discussions.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 907. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The careful bibliography appended to these lectures might be more conveniently arranged.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 620w.
“Contain a panegyric ... which is splendidly generous, yet after making all deductions we cannot dispute its substantial justice.” C. J.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 621. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“This is a tribute of praise worthy of the man to whose memory it is paid,—more it would not be possible to say.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=Smith, Arthur.= Game of go, the national game of Japan. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–21547.
A guide to the Japanese national game which is played on a board like chess or checkers and is a game of skill not of chance. There are 361 positions for the men instead of 64, and it requires about thirty years at the rate of one game a day for the player to attain professional rank of the lowest degree.
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=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Smith’s exposition, with the abundant diagrams, details of rules and methods, and illustrative games, is admirable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 390w.
=Outlook.= 90: 137. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Smith, Charles Sprague.= Poems. *$1. Wessels.
8–24852.
A little volume of verse which sounds the dream note of a busy man’s life. Poems of his college-days, several written during years spent in Europe, and poems of the people, with liberty and fraternity for themes, are included in the group.
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“The thoughts exprest are inspiring and the feeling sympathetic.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 130w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Santa Claus and all about him. †$2. Stokes.
“The pictures and texts give an account of the whole Christmas history of Santa Claus from the time of his waking up one cold morning at the north pole, his trip down into the world of boys and girls to see what is needed, then back to the pole, work in the toy shops, and finally the return with a load of presents. The book comes in a box showing Santa and his reindeer on it.”—N. Y. Times.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 110w.
“It is not the text that matters, but the interpretative drawings in color; here the detail is joyously clever and will please older people because of a subtle humor, even as it will hold the youngsters because of the strong appeal to imagination.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Smith, Ernest Ashton.= Hildebrand: the builder. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–22118.
A scholarly presentation of the times of Hildebrand, the manner in which the papacy as an institution was evolved, the condition of the clergy, the sway of German popes, the power behind the papal See, and the progress and results of Hildebrand’s mission to raise the morality of the church, and to strengthen its unity.
=Smith, F. Dumont.= Blue waters and green and the Far East to-day. $1.50. Crane & co.
8–22265.
After many experiences with people the world over, Mr. Smith believes that the ideal race would be the composite one, with the industry, honesty and temperance of the Chinese, the courtesy of the Japanese, the frugality, wit and the artistic sense of the French, the stability and balance of the Germans, the tenacity of purpose of the English, and the energy, initiative, the driving power, and saving sense of humor of the Americans.
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“Adds to a lively sense of fun the qualities of serious contemplative judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 300w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver, one who was not afraid and who spoke the truth. (True American types ser., v. 5.) *60c. Am, Unitar.
8–28435.
A sketch of Captain Scott, the original of Caleb West in “Caleb West; master-diver.” Thru his submarine work on the Race Rock lighthouse off New London harbor, which Mr. Smith built in his profession of engineer, Captain Scott became an honored friend of the author’s, valued for his integrity, command of resources, indomitable courage, fearlessness and control over his men.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It is a good little book for a pessimist to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23554.
Peter, gentle and manly, shrewd and ingenuous, young and sixty, gives unstintingly of his time, his service and his love to young Jack, the hero, an impulsive southern lad who cares more for honor, independence, and friendship, than for the profit to be derived from his uncle’s Wall street office. Peter, as Jack’s Prospero, provides him with adventures and opportunities for heroism as the confidential clerk to a contracting engineer; nor is the magic wand laid aside until Jack has come into his fortune and has brought to a successful issue a diffident courtship of his employer’s daughter.
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“A very cheerful, wholesome book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a characteristic story, betraying all the recognisable qualities of the author; it is well-bred, nicely written, with a painter’s instinct for light and shade, constructed with an engineer’s sense of form, and it glamours with the usual suspicion of personal reminiscence and autobiographic impressions.” G: Middleton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 153. O. ’08. 460w.
“This new story of his has both charm and fragrance; if it does not reach very far into the depths of life, it at least shows us the surface in most alluring colors.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Its great charm lies in the author’s marvelous descriptions and his genius for picking the good instead of the evil out of life ... a high, fine, friendly goodness that belongs to earth and mortality here and now.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 718. S. 24, ’08. 870w.
“It is a very cheerful and wholesome sort of book, with lots of people wandering in and out of its pages, not much of a plot, and such as there is rather loose-jointed, plenty of good talk—most of it Peter’s—on a great variety of subjects and a general aren’t-you-glad-you’re-alive sort of air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 380w.
“‘Peter’ is a bit of romanticism in a day of commercial engrossment, and makes the charm of the old South, which was non-commercial, credible.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 272. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
=Smith George Adam.= Jerusalem: the topography, economics and history from the earliest times to A. D. 70. **$7.50. Armstrong.
8–20144.
A work that is complementary to the author’s “Historical geography of the Holy Land.” The first volume treats of the geology, the water supply and of topographical problems. The second volume gives a connected history, religious and political, of the city and its people from the days of Tell-el-Amarna to the conquest of Titus.
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“We feel that even in a long review it is impossible to do full justice to the many-sided interest of this important work, in which true scholarship is never flaunted, but is felt in every line, and in which moderation and sound sense dominate every conclusion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 631. My. 23. 2100w.
“As a whole this is the most elaborate and scholarly work on Jerusalem that has appeared in any language.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 680w.
“The value of these volumes lies, not in the presentation of new discoveries, but in the sane exposition and discussion of what we already know with regard to the topography, the archaeology, and the history, religious, social, and political, of Jerusalem.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 1700w.
“An interesting and instructive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Smith has the caution of a true scholar, he will not go beyond the place where he has sure footing.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 670w.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 82. Jl. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“We are warmly grateful for an admirable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 95. Jl. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Smith, H. Clifford.= Jewellery. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
8–20539.
“With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewelry the author has confined himself to Europe, dividing his work into four main divisions. The first deals with the jewelry worn during classical times and until the ninth century of our era; the second treats of the jewels of the middle ages; the third is devoted to the jewels of the renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times. In compiling the work the best authorities have been consulted, and the owners of famous collections have been generous in the matter of photographs of their choicest treasures.”—N. Y. Times.
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“That this attractive subject has fallen into eminently capable hands is at once apparent, as is also the restraint the author has exercised in order to bring the work within reasonable bounds.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 308. S. 12. 1300w.
“Scholarly volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 330w.
“That which is most admirable in the book is the author’s strong sense of the artistic value and significance of jewelry.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 59. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11. ’08. 400w.
“The thoroughness of the author’s work and his excellent equipment for his task are evident on every page. It is sure to occupy an honored place in the libraries of collectors and to be regarded by museums and specialists as a high authority on a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Smith, Harry James.= Amédée’s son. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23927.
Cape Breton folk, staunch in Catholicism and steeped in superstition, form a background for this story of simple deeds. In the foreground are an orphan lad, dreaming of the call of the sea and finding study intolerable, a grandfather whose dearest wish is that the boy shall resist religion as it is taught, and study to find God in the law and order of the world of science, and an old servant who opens the eyes of the grandson to the duty of love that he owes the aged man.
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“A gentle and gracious idyll. The story is of the slightest, the handling graceful but somewhat amateurish.”
+ − =Nation.= 37: 341. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“He is quite a real person all the way along, and he moves among real persons, some of whom are well worth meeting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Smith, Rev. John Talbot.= Training of a priest: an essay on clerical education, with a reply to the critics. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–13666.
Deals with the “studies and mental culture of Catholic priests.... Dr. Smith is himself a priest, and writes with a view to improving the intellectual status of American seminaries.” (Ind.)
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“We have our doubts whether Dr. Smith’s recommendations will strike to the root of the trouble.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The clear account of the training of a young man for the priesthood, the charm and ease of style, and the eminent good sense and breadth of the author make the book much more than a mere sectarian essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4. ’08. 140w.
=Smith, Joseph Russell.= Story of iron and steel. (Appleton’s lib. of useful stories.) **75c. Appleton.
8–5612.
“Gives what larger volumes have failed to do—namely, an intelligent, readable presentation of the broad aspects of iron and steel making, which are of interest to the average man. It discusses not only the purely technical development from a historical standpoint, but also the no less important economic and commercial results accompanying this development.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“An excellent little book for the use of teachers, as well as for the pleasure of the interested general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. ✠
“May truthfully be described as the first satisfactory popular history of the world’s greatest industry.” W. S. Tower.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 462. S. ’08. 430w.
“His style is clear and simple; he has succeeded in his purpose to ‘make every paragraph intelligible to the lay reader,’ but it would still be possible for an unregenerate man to take a nap while scanning the pages.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Smith, Logan Pearsall.= Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2v. *$7.75. Oxford.
8–9089.
Mr. Smith has collected Sir Henry Wotton’s letters, presented them with necessary annotations in order of data and prefixed to the collection a life of the writer.
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“He has come only a little short of producing himself a literary masterpiece. For this achievement both his method and his style prove a shade too severe. This book is one which no student of European history during the first quarter of the seventeenth century may safely neglect.” Barrett Wendell.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 852. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is the master of a close scholarly style, relieved now by a happy metaphor, now by a touch of dry humour. His work in these volumes shows a rare combination of literary sense, painstaking care in collecting, elucidating, and dating his material, balanced judgment, and self-repression.” G. C. M. Smith.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 361. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith has the essential qualifications for dealing with a man like Wotton—he can write lightly and readably. The biography, which fills half of the first of his two fine volumes, in no sense competes with Walton. It is full and complete, whereas Walton’s is simply an inimitable portrait of his friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 345. N. 15, ’07. 3300w.
“His letters are edited with rare erudition and still rarer taste.” P. E. M.
+ =Nation.= 86: 278. Mr. 26, ’08. 3500w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word, and his wide erudition, his scrupulous exactitude, his immense and enthusiastic industry, have combined to produce a work which will serve as a permanent object-lesson to the great host of slipshod literary historians.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 821. N. 23, ’07. 1900w.
=Smith, Nora Archibald.= Adventures of a doll. †75c. McClure.
8–277.
“The scenes of this little story for children by the well-known sister of the equally well-known Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, are laid in the Scottish highlands. The three characters are Betty, a little five-year-old girl, her dog Muff, and her rag doll.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A merry little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 24. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss Smith tells the stories in a breezy manner.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Robinson.= English quotations. *$2.50. Dutton.
W8–110.
A collection of the more memorable passages and poems of English literature, arranged according to authors, chronologically, containing a full index of words. It is neither an anthology nor a handbook; it is rather a scrapbook of “elegant extracts” which Mr. Smith invites the public to share with him.
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“We cannot call the book either a good anthology or a good reference manual of familiar quotations. The poetry selected is good, as far as it goes, but the selection seems to be representative of one man’s taste, instead of illustrating the consensus of received critical opinions.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The selections are too short for reading and not numerous enough for reference.”
− =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“The poetical value of a passage has more weight with the editor than proverbial portability. As such the pages of the volume may be turned over with unflagging interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 80w.
“A preposterous book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 430w.
=Smith, Rollin Edson.= Wheat fields and markets of the world. $2.15. Modern miller co., 3d & Pine sts., St. Louis, Mo.
8–21514.
“It is often impossible to answer the questions concerning wheat fields and wheat markets without a long search in newspapers, pamphlets, and encyclopaedias. In the present volume we have replies to very many questions which would ordinarily occur in connection with wheat fields and markets—not so much, however, in connection with the methods of grainhandling, milling, and manipulation of prices.” (Outlook.) “Conditions in Western Canada are especially instructive and the countries of Europe and Argentina contribute their quota of important data.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Mr. Smith’s book fills a long-felt want.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“This is a decidedly useful book and one that makes us wonder why the idea was not worked out long ago.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The attempted distinction between political and economic socialism is not clear.” M. O. Lorenz.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 297. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Smith is apparently not so well acquainted with socialist writers and advocates as with trade unionists.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 105. Ja. 9, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Theodate Louise=, ed. Aspects of child life and education, by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–21334.
A volume which makes accessible to parents and teachers, in condensed form and at moderate price, the results of researches conducted by President Hall’s pupils along the line of the psychology of childhood and its applications to education. The chapters are as follows: The contents of children’s minds, The psychology of daydreams, Curiosity and interest, The story of a sandpile, A study of dolls, The collecting instinct, The psychology of ownership, Fetichism in children, Boy life in a Massachusetts country town forty years ago.
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“The papers contain much curious and interesting matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 900w.
“Aside from the particular theory underlying most of the articles, the reports themselves are of course of peculiar interest to all parents and teachers, and they certainly tend to bring us into closer touch with child life.” Irving King.
+ =School R.= 16: 204. Mr. ’08. 900w.
=Smith, Vincent Arthur.= Early history of India from 600 B. C. to the Muhammadan conquest including the invasion of Alexander the Great. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$4.75. Oxford.
“The enlargement consists chiefly in the expansion of the last three chapters of the book dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the North, the Kingdoms of the Deccan, and the Kingdoms of the South, which contain forty-three of the seventy-two new pages. A new appendix, pp. 260–264, deals with the question of the hostages obtained by Kaniska in consequence of his conquests in Chinese Turkestan.... The date of Kaniska is the subject of a new and lengthy note.... The account of the Caka immigration and of the Indo-Parthian princes has also been enlarged.... Finally, recent translations of Canakya’s ‘Arthaçastra,’ have enabled Mr. Smith to give from contemporary Hindu sources interesting information of the Greek accounts of Candragupta’s empire.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The painstaking care for details and the additions that make the new edition a distinct improvement upon the old, deserve the gratitude of all students of the history of India.” G. M. Bolling.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 894. Jl. ’08. 450w.
“The revision has been a careful one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Smyth, Newman.= Passing Protestantism and the coming Catholicism. *$1. Scribner.
8–10863.
The author sees in the “modernist” movement in the Roman Catholic church of which he gives a discerning and sympathetic account, and in the failure of Protestantism to make religion a vital force in the life of the present generation and to command the unreserved enthusiasm and loyalty of earnest men, evidences that the superficial divisions of western Christianity are passing away, giving us glimpses of the underlying bed-rock of unity. The unity, he says, already exists. It is the duty of Christian churches to manifest it. The author speaks from the broad level ground of Christian charity.
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“The style is pleasing and forceful and with the timeliness of the theme will doubtless give the book a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
“One feels almost ashamed to remain an unbeliever, and yet, since the truth must be told, there can be little question that the outlook is not so bright in fact as it is on Dr. Smyth’s pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 670w.
“It is interesting reading, and will appeal to the reader as being the careful conclusions of a fine and balanced mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18. ’08. 280w.
“This is written in a charming style. It is animated by an excellent spirit, and its ideas and ideals are presented in attractive attire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“A very suggestive and thought-provoking book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 150w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= William Jordan, junior. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–6984.
The story of a frail, unworldly boy brought up as a recluse by an aged father and fed on “the old authors, irrespective of day or night and apparently of the ordinary needs of human beings.” Unfitted to buffet hardships he is nevertheless plunged into the maelstrom of London commercial life. Dreamy idealism is his substitute for practical worldly wisdom, and he is scathed at every turn. The world knew him not nor the soul flights that he expressed in his swan song and in his epic poem on Reconciliation.
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“The book is certainly far above the average as a piece of writing, but it requires more careful reading, in order to comprehend the meaning of the author or his view-point than readers of fiction ordinarily wish to give.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
“Easily the most important novel of the month, if not of many months,—the novel which best deserves careful and sympathetic consideration. An uncommon book, written in a most uncommon and often very beautiful phraseology. There is no use in denying that the book is marred, here and there, by its obscurity; it leaves one often groping in the dark.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 181. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The book is one to love, and one that may act as a leaven upon the spirits that are not wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort or degree of fermentation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Its symbolism does not spoil the beauty of the simple narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 270w.
“Whatever it is, it is so bizarre, so grotesque, so mysterious, and so uncomfortable as to afford little pleasure. One chapter, however, is clear enough, and a very fine thing—that in which the boy sees the ocean for the first time. But as a whole the book fails.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 349. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“Not that the book has not solid merits—purity of English, strength of handling, beauty of thought, dignity of construction—but these things seem but the foundation work for a psychological loveliness, half mystic, half human, which eludes, even while it thrills us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 400w.
“A most unusual piece of fiction. The object of the work, carefully done as it is, is inexplicable. If it aims to portray exalted genius in an unsympathetic and cruel world, it misses its aim by extravagance.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration and educational work of American juvenile reform schools. (Columbia univ. Teachers college. Contributions to education, no. 12.) $2. Teachers college, Columbia univ., N. Y.
7–39061.
“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care, vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally, the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J. Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H.= School reports and school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10624.
A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is undertaken to the end of showing the best methods of making reports, answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.
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“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.
“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.
“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the scope, outlay and results of American education.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.
“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome this book.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School R.= 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.
=Snow, Louis Franklin.= College curriculum in the United States. $1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.
E 8–10.
Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.
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“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher education in this country.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Snow, William Gage.= Principles of heating: a practical and comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2. Williams.
7–36224.
Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and charts useful in the solution of heating problems.
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“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade press.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily accessible.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.
=Snyder, Carl.= American railways as investments; with an introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values. *$3.20. Moody corporation.
7–25023.
A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage to themselves and the public.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.
“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such treatise has done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G. de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion, which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.
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=Acad.= 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O. Newland.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its predecessors.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a disappointment.” A. G. K.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Somerville, Charles.= Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing country.
=Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).= Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.
8–23093.
A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral, but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.” (Nation.)
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“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is perfect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of the Irish peasant.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.
=Sons= of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Sorel, Ernest.= Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr. from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.
7–36878.
The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in engines.
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“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum efficiency.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Spargo, John.= Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12780.
A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.
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“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠
“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.
“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.
“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly put together. It would have been of service if more definite references to state and national government bulletins had been made and attention called to the fact that many of these which are excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free of cost.” G. N. Lauman.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.
“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to persuade, to convince, to inspire.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social service.” J. E. Pope.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.
“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without consultation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.= Old England: with 80 illustrations in color and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.
“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.) “The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)
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“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more capable hands.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.
“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.
“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual class of work of this kind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr. Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= History of the United States navy. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–5238.
A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy” and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the character-development of the heroes.
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“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.
“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the naval forces in critical moments.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been written.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.
“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“An uncommonly good book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American naval history that has yet been written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28292.
In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important that every library should have this book.
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“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Speer, Robert Elliott.= Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.
8–20734.
“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.
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“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help to see the right way than of set addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Spender, John Alfred=, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12973.
Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion, bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,” shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty, war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic, gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.
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“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight, enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some of delightful excellence.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.
“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism or cheap epigram.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1053. D. 21, ’07. 1200w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge. (Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.
8–11738.
A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.
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“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed and useful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 1: 241. O. ’08.
“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are once more exemplified in this noble tome.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the notes, they are well-informed and useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.
=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= Critical essays of the seventeenth century. 3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays, letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.” (Nation.)
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“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward reading.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading. There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of criticism’ displays in a chapter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work, laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of erudition which never grows pedantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Spivey, Thomas Sawyer.= Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.
8–5225.
The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy termination of the love episode.
=Spooner, Henry John.= Machine design, construction and drawing: a text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–34187.
“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.) “The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80 numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of machine details.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject. It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
=Sprague, Rufus Farrington.= True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–829.
Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service, but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.
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“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J. Davenport.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 117. F. ’08. 1120w.
=Stacpoole, H. De Vere.= Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of love and life.
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“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr. Stacpoole’s story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.
“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many modern stories is really justified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.
=Standage, H. C.=, ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.
8–8483.
“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster, plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and japanning.”—Nature.
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“A valuable reference volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Contains information which should give it a wide field of usefulness.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.
“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley. Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Standard= handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.
8–347. (2d. ed. 8–17558.)
“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length, which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.
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“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not excepting those published in England, Germany, France and Italy. It is a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.
“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.
“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more complete and satisfactory form.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.
“A most valuable reference manual.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Stansfield, Alfred.= Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and practice. *$2. Hill pub.
8–35541.
Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical furnace.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the electric furnace.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.
“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.” F. A. J. FitzGerald.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
=Stanton, Stephen Berrien.= Essential life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14659.
Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time; Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment; Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities; Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.
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“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm of his own.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.
=Starr, Frederick.= In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and labor. *$5. Forbes.
8–11833.
A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures, portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types, dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this character.” A. B. Lewis.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form much information about the land and the people otherwise inaccessible.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.
“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned for by the general interest of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.
“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the book is not great.”
− =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.
“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various Indian towns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Stebbing, William.= Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.
8–26221.
“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in 1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)
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“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.
“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any marked critical value.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a better guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
* =Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
8–34145.
The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion; Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea; Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and index of first lines.
=Steele, Zadock.= Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.
8–30488.
A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and his escape back to Vermont.
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“His narrative is direct and simple. It was worth while to reprint it in the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that so little pains was taken with the editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Life and correspondence of James McHenry. *$6. Burrows.
7–24607.
The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.
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“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical biographer.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 145. O. 08. 950w.
“The editor is at times indiscreet in his notes, some of which are uncritical and some spiteful. By far the most valuable material in the volume is the letters and drafts of state papers by Alexander Hamilton. A volume of one-half the size, comprising McHenry’s own letters and a selection of those from his correspondents, would have conveyed a better impression of the man. The index is inadequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja 23, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Many of the letters, to be sure, are purely personal, and but for the delightful glimpses of the man’s private life might advantageously have been omitted; but there are many of real historical value.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 370w.
“His correspondence, most of which now sees the light for the first time, contains many important references to persons and events that have long since become historic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 150w.
=Steiner, Edward A.= Mediator: a tale of the Old world and the New. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29568.
“The story begins in Russian Poland and describes in a graphic way an anti-Semitic persecution. In consequence of the danger and suffering to which they are exposed, the principal characters emigrate to New York, and the author gives a realistic account of their life in the Jewish quarter. The book is evidently intended as an eirenicon to compose the differences of Jew and Gentile.”—Nation.
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“As a novel the story is not strong. It does not seem that this volume begins to have the value of the author’s earlier book ‘On the trail of the immigrant.’”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“The realistic parts of the narrative contain many offences against good taste; and these are the more to be regretted because the conception of the author is original and he writes at times with dramatic power.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The story has not a little imaginative power, and ‘rings true’ both as a reflex of actual conditions and a stimulus toward better things.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“A vein of sincere religious feeling runs through this interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 80w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Christianity’s storm center. **$1. Revell.
7–27620.
“The author, skilled laborer, minister, superintendent of the Department of church and labor of the Presbyterian church, is interested in aggressive evangelism, and believes that the church should so change its methods as to meet present needs. The problem is not properly stated by asking, ‘Do workingmen go to church?’ but by the query, ‘Does the church go to the workingman?’ The chapters bear such titles as: ‘The trades union’; ‘The city slum’; ‘Social centers’; ‘The institutional church’; ‘Aggressive evangelism.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The discussion is, however, extremely rambling and decidedly lacking in logical order. Nevertheless, the book is of rather exceptional merit. If the church fails to profit by such a book it speaks badly for its own future influence.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“Churchmen who would understand the conditions, threatening or hopeful, that challenge or invite them to the field, should not neglect this report.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
* =Stenton, Frank Merry.= William the conqueror and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–31143.
Carefully selected and judiciously elaborated details of William the Conqueror’s life fill nine chapters of this history to which three chapters have been added sketching the changes in constitutional organization and social life which followed the events of 1066.
=Stephan, Walter George.= Drawing instruments, their use and abuse. *$1. McGraw pub.
8–21049.
A student’s guide to the selection of instruments, their testing, their use and abuse. Besides the regulation drawing instruments are considered the slide rule, the section liner, the universal drafting machine, the elliptograph, the pantograph, the planimeter and the plane table.
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=Engin. D.= 4: 184. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“It will prove interesting to all engaged in the actual work of drafting, and is of special value to beginners.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Stephen, Leslie, and Lee, Sidney Lazarus=, eds. Dictionary of national biography. 22v. ea. *$4.25. Macmillan.
A new edition occupying about half the shelf space of the former issue and costing one-third the price. “The work was begun in 1885 and completed in 1900 under the editorship of Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, and its 31,000 separate articles cover practically all the notable names in the history of English politics, religion, literature, art and science, including many American.” (Ind.)
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+ + + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is really preferable, both on account of accuracy and the amount of shelf-room required, to the original issue.”
+ + + =Dial.= 44: 217. Ap. 1, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 120w.
“It is a pity, looking to the proven utility of the work, that the three supplementary volumes issued in 1901 are to form the supplementary volume of the reissue.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 410. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 504. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 636. My. 16, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Sat. R.= 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume contains some notable contributions.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 244. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Sat. R.= 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The work is really indispensable to the student, and every public library, not to speak of private purchasers, should be supplied with a copy.”
+ + + =Spec.= 100: 423. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Spec.= 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spec.= 100: 1038. Je. 27, ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Spec.= 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Tales from Bohemia. $1.50. Page.
8–26830.
Twenty-five slight stories of Bohemian New York, many of which hark back to the stage. People are presented as clearly outlined wholes, with no attempt at analysis. It is the moving-picture impression which one gets minus the strain upon the optic nerve.
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“They derive their interest from their air of truthfulness and from the author’s method of bringing out their psychological and dramatic values.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Stephens, Winifred.= French novelists of today; biographical, descriptive and critical; with portraits and bibliographies. *$1.50. Lane.
Critical studies of Maurice Barrès, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prevost, and Édouard Bod. The book is intended as a guide for persons who wish to begin a study of French novels.
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“A useful guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
“The talent displayed in this volume of essays is somewhat disguised by certain minor defects. Miss Stephens’s volume has not been carefully revised in proof.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 68. Jl. 18. 940w.
“Very charming and suggestive little studies they are.” R. T. House.
+ =Dial.= 45: 404. D. 1, ’08. 1800w.
“A handy source of information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 90w.
“Miss Stephens does not give way to excessive enthusiasm, her judgments are sound, her temper is even.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 274. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“Her book will be a safe guide for all who wish to take up a course in modern French fiction, while for those who wish merely to gain a better understanding of the French spirit it will be illuminative and informing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“All Miss Stephens’s studies are more or less interesting. Her own ideas are not, perhaps wisely, very precisely defined.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 904. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Stevens, Albert Clark.=, ed. Cyclopedia of fraternities. 2d ed., rev. to date. *$4 50. Treat.
7–36716.
“A useful volume describing the aims, emblems, character and personnel of more than six hundred secret societies in the United States, together with charts, plates, maps, and statistics of membership. In addition, it gives the history and genealogy of these interesting organizations, and shows their relations to one another.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The amount of revision given to the second edition is slight, and most of the descriptive articles have not been brought down to a later date than that of the first edition, issued ten years ago. The section on labor organizations, as might be expected, is valueless. Notwithstanding such defects, it is a useful reference work for all interested in secret societies.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 270w.
=Stevens, Isaac N.= Liberators: a story of future American politics. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–6664.
A story written by a western newspaper man which deals with the period immediately following the next presidential election, and treats of political questions which have an important bearing on the well organized feudal system prevailing in America. Among the principal characters are the son of a railroad magnate; his chum at Harvard, a young man who fights for the correction of governmental evils; a young widow, who devotes her energy and vast wealth to the same cause of assailing the feudal strongholds; and two charming Smith college girls.
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“The novel carries a fine, pure atmosphere. It is one of the best exposures of corruption of government by public-service corporations that has appeared, and, being instinct with a lofty patriotic spirit, it is a vital work for the present hour.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 716. Je. ’08. 4500w.
“We would urge our readers to get this cheap edition and circulate it freely. It will prove a real factor in hastening the great changes that must come soon if free government is to be the heritage of our people.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 485. N. ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 232. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A political tale, somewhat heavily laden with serious argument but offering attractions to many readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Stevens, William Chase.= Plant anatomy from the standpoint of the development and functions of the tissues, and hand-book of micro-technic. *$2. Blakiston.
7–36113.
“A book which deals with the development and functions of plant tissues. Structure and function are so intermixed, and rightly, that there is no anatomical part of the book as distinct from the physiological.... The topics presented are chiefly those of entry and exit of materials, their movement in the plant body, and the processes of nutrition in the broadest sense.... The final chapters deal with the preparation of sections, use of the microscope, reagents and processes, the microchemistry of plant products (not always reliable), and the detection of adulterations (too short to be really useful).”—Bot. Gaz.
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“Stevens is an excellent teacher; and the text and drawings have been prepared in large measure directly from the material under observation. It is to be regretted, however, that no trace of the modern vascular anatomy appears. The topics are presented simply, clearly, and in the main accurately. One unfortunate conception, embodied in chapter headings, and wrought into the text, is that of ‘circulation’ of water and foods in ‘circulatory tissues.’ This idea dies hard, and we are sorry it has a new lease of life in this book.” J. M. C. and C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 306. O. ’08. 550w.
“The arrangement is an excellent one for an elementary book, but it must be added that there is no attempt to rise beyond elementary facts. The general presentation of the subject-matter is marked by clearness and coordination.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 219. Jl. 9, ’08. 380w.
* =Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3. Houghton.
8–33773.
A seven hundred page anthology including all of the most important and interesting poems relating to the history of America from its discovery down to the present day. The poems are grouped under the following heads: The Colonial period; The revolution; The period of growth; The civil war; and The period of expansion.
=Stevenson, Burton E.= Young train dispatcher. $1.50. Page.
7–24194.
The second volume of Mr. Stevenson’s “Railroad series” in which the hero Allan West ascends the rounds of the ladder from the position of office boy to that of train dispatcher. He doesn’t do it without honest hard work and intelligent alertness. Demonstrations of his quick wit are made in averting collisions, treating with his enemies, and dealing with midnight marauders. It is the kind of book that a courageous lad would call splendid.
=Stevenson, William Barrow.= Crusaders in the East: a brief history of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. *$2.25. Putnam.
8–9075.
From the Eastern point of view, from the standpoint of victory, this history with due stress on chronology tells of the political relations between the states which the crusaders built up and the Moslem states. The author “draws attention to the disastrous schism between the Byzantine empire and the rest of Christendom which was one of the consequences of the Crusades, and he shows clearly, if only by implication, the eternal, though unrecognized, influence of sea power upon history.” (Spec.)
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“The value of this short history ... consists first in the fact that the author has treated it from the unusual point of view, discarding the conventional scheme; and secondly in the minute attention which he has bestowed upon the difficult problems of chronology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 600w.
“Mr. Stevenson has given himself no small trouble to verify all dates by both accounts, Christian and Moslem; the result is of value, but the discussion is apt to be arid. He has carried through a difficult task with great judgment; his notes, as already said, are a mine of information.” G. Le Strange.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 346. Ap. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“A real addition to the history of the crusades.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1350w.
“Treated from whatever point of view, the narrative of those two centuries is a tangled skein, and the author, by a severe policy of repression, has succeeded in keeping the main threads well in hand. The book is an excellent piece of workmanship, and will be especially welcome to those who recognise that a knowledge of Asiatic history is essential to the true comprehension of that of Europe.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1099. D. 28, ’07. 500w.
=Stewart, Clinton Brown.= Investigation of centrifugal pumps, pt. 1, a discussion of the theory of the centrifugal pump and tests of a six-inch vertical centrifugal pump. (Univ. of Wis. Bulletin no. 173. Engineering ser., v. 3, no. 6.) pa. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–3626.
Results attending an extended line of experiments on centrifugal pumping machinery being conducted by the department of hydraulic engineering of the University of Wisconsin. “The results are given in tables and diagrams and are accompanied by a discussion of the theory of such pumps and of the tests themselves. The book also contains a descriptive index of engineering literature on centrifugal pumps from 1840 to 1907.” (Engin. Rec.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 182. Ag. ’08. 170w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 209. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
* =Stewart, Jane Agnes.= Christmas book. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–33162.
A book whose aim is to further the true Christmas spirit. Besides giving information concerning the origin of Christmas and the various methods of its observance it provides suggestions for games and home-made gifts.
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“Is full of the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 80w.
“Is probably the most complete book on the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Stewart, William Morris.= Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada; ed. by G: Rothwell Brown. *$3. Neale.
8–15703.
The reminiscences of Senator Stewart who “lived among frontiers-men, Indians, ranchmen, miners, judges, statesmen”; who “helped build a great western state, made laws, interpreted them, enforced them, and executed them”; and who “made at least a dozen fortunes,” the last one of which was amassed after he was eighty years of age. His reminiscences are recorded out of the fulness of a wide experience gained during twenty-nine years in the Senate while closely associated with the men who made the history of the country.
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“We are regretful that Senator Stewart did not take his opportunity more seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“A vigorous summing up of the life of a real man. It is an amazingly entertaining record, and the editor ... has done his part of the work admirably.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 2450w.
“There is a good deal that seems irresponsible and in questionable taste. There is a good deal of fun and there is a good deal of liveliness in the book.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= American constitution: the national powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people. (Lowell institute lectures, 1907.) **$1.25. Scribner.
8–3494.
Eight lectures which aim to show that the constitution is not an “Antiquarian curiosity”; not a mass of dry rules, but the very substance of freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive. They explain the human meaning of the constitution, the safeguards that it offers every one and the live issues that it still embodies. Mr. Stimson’s closing lectures are on Changes in the constitution now proposed and Interstate commerce, the control of trusts, and the regulation of corporations.
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“This is a popular but satisfactory treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 722. My. ’08. 150w.
“The subjects discussed are of deep interest to all thinking Americans. Though we do not agree with all the positions taken by the author, we regard the volume as an extremely important contribution to our political literature, and much which it contains is of the highest interest and value.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 499. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“The temper of the book is admirable, and we can only hope that it may be widely and intelligently read.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 421. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The historical part—that is about one-half—of Professor Stimson’s volume is utterly worthless.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 317. My. ’08. 80w.
“One cannot detect in his remarks any factious purpose, only the conscientious exercise of the judicial function of ascertaining the law of the land, as declared and divided by the constitution, and applying it to the several subjects under consideration. Thoughtful citizens will find the discussion well worth while.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
“Our point of view of the constitution is not that of Professor Stimson. But the book is valuable, first, because it will put before the students of constitutional law with great clearness the theory of strict construction, and, second, because it points out, on the one hand, the historical origin of certain fundamental principles of American constitutions, and, on the other hand, certain real perils against which we need to be on our guard.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 640w.
“As a critique of contemporary government and administrative policies by a lawyer of distinction in many fields of legal research and practice, the volume is not without value: but since the whole argument rests on a particular interpretation of history, it is the philosophy, not the conclusions, which principally engage the interest of the student.” C: A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 340. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“In general, Mr. Stimson’s views are conservative and his exposition of the division of power between the states and the federal government judicious and helpful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The reading public will find it spirited, intelligible and suggestive: and if they trace errors here and there, there are none that are vital.” S. E. Baldwin.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 235. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup.= Law of the federal and state constitutions of the United States; with an historical study of their principles, a chronological table of English social legislation and a comparative digest of the constitutions of the forty-six states. *$3.50. Boston bk.
8–15307.
A three-part study. The first is devoted to the origin and growth of the American constitutions; the second to constitutional principles as expressed in the English statutes of the realm and American constitutions; the third, to the state constitutions, annotated and compared with the federal constitution.
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“This book is unlike the usual treatise on constitutional law, both in arrangement and manner of treatment.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 639. N. ’08. 230w.
“In a broad sense Professor Stimson gives us a view of the political or constitutional life of the country—an almost indispensable thing to the investigator of today.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1001. O. 29, ’08. 640w.
“This grouping of constitutional law around common topics ... is a comparative study never before worked out so completely. Our debt to the compiler is accordingly large. There are occasional defects even in the seriatim analysis of the growth of particular constitutional usages.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 780w.
“The law student, the journalist, men professionally engaged in political life, and others who have occasion to acquaint themselves with the details of American constitutional law will find this book a valuable aid in their study.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 312. O. 10, ’08. 120w.
“As a book of reference it is indispensable to every student of American politics.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 110w.
“The politician, lawyer or student of American institutions should have it as a supplement to Mr. Bryce’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 260w.
* =Stimson, Henry Albert.= New things of God: sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–28071.
“Not truth absolutely new, but old truth freshly put and in new relations, is the substance of his message, illustrated from his large acquaintance with literature and life. Dr. Stimson feels and joins in the movement of modern thought, saying that ‘a new theology is the demand and the inevitable product of every age,’ but that after all, and in all change, religion is the same, ‘the response of the soul to God,’ Christ as ever the pilot of the soul, and one’s attitude toward him the test of character.”—Outlook.
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“Characterized by several qualities most sermons lack: clearness, sanity, and practicality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The sermons are thoughtful, practical, and inspiring to the reader.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 150w.
“These discourses are focused on the fundamental truths with a frequently inspirational effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Stirling, Anna Maria W.= Coke of Norfolk and his friends: the life of Thomas William Coke, first earl of Leicester of Holkham, etc., including many unpublished letters of noted men of his day, English and American, il. 2v. *$10. Lane.
8–13695.
Containing an account of his ancestry, surroundings, public services, and private friendships, and including many unpublished letters from noted men of his day. (Explanatory title.)
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“This life is so thoroughly well done, so carefully ordered, so reasonable in its judgments, and so well written, that the reviewers all complimented their sex by supposing the biographer to be a man, and the present writer, if he had not been better informed by accident, would indeed have done the same.” G. S. S.
+ + =Acad.= 73: 207. D. 7, ’07. 2000w.
“Half, or two-thirds, of these fat volumes would have been better than the whole. But having passed this criticism, we hasten to say that the book is of distinct social and historical value, confirming, and sometimes supplementing, such works as the Greville, Creevey, and Albemarle papers. It is also remarkably entertaining, and should prove a profitable quarry for the anecdotist.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 681. N. 30. 1300w.
“We thank Mrs. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of recent years.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 361. N. 29, ’07. 2700w.
“Altogether, the book may well engage the attention of him who wants to see English life of a century ago; and he will not fail to enjoy the character here revealed of what we, with a certain touch of fondness, are wont to style ‘a gentleman of the old school.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 500w.
“Her whole-hearted admiration for her distinguished ancestor has made it impossible for her to conceive that he was not in every way great, and so deep is her own interest in him that she imagines everything connected with him, no matter how remotely, must be of general interest.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 670. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
“Mrs. Stirling has done her work handsomely, and has plainly been helped by the good will of the Coke family and all its ramifications. If the biography is unnecessarily long, it contains much new material that is well worth unrolling from its wrappers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 869. N. 30, ’07. 1400w.
* =Stoddard, William Osborn.= In the open. †60c. Harper.
8–32332.
Wholesome adventure and excitement commend these tales of the exploits and frolics of a group of breezy, healthy children who hunt, camp, fish, encounter Indians, fight prairie fires, and roam about for worlds to conquer.
=Stoker, Bram.= Gates of life. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14957.
Miss Stephen Norman tries the working value of a theory that the wrecking of many lives can be avoided by a woman’s taking the initiative in the momentous question of marriage proposals. She offers herself and her estate to young Everhard, a dissolute man who makes light of the whole affair. Wounded pride takes its unlawful revenge on her real lover, but justly metes out punishment to Everhard who attempted to follow up his advantage from motives of graft.
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“Surely Mr. Stoker is still capable of better things.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 150w.
“A blatant melodrama, all the trashier for the grandiloquent moralizings—in which the word ‘sex’ is unpleasantly frequent—which punctuate the surprising actions of his characters.”
− =Nation.= 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 140w.
“There are novelty and variety in Bram Stoker’s novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
=Story, Alfred Thomas.= American shrines in England. *$2. Macmillan.
“A convenient summary of the English antecedents of a number of well-known Americans. Six chapters are devoted to a careful presentation of the evidence in regard to the Washington family, the last link in which was completed by the accidental discovery in the State department at Washington, in 1902, of the will of Mrs. Martha Hayward, née Washington. The ancestry and English home of Franklin, of Standish, of Winthrop and Penn, of Yale and Harvard, of the Lees and the Adamses, are discussed.”—Nation.
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“For those who like this sort of thing the book is unquestionably valuable, and it is probably just as well to have somebody do it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 60w.
=Stoughton, Bradley.= Metallurgy of iron and steel. $3. Hill pub.
8–5613.
A college text-book as well as a reference work which “fills a distinct gap in English metallurgical literature, in that it provides a clear, up-to-date, description of the apparatus, furnaces and appliances used in the metallurgy of iron and steel.” (Engin. N.)
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“Best single book on American practice for small libraries. Needed also by large libraries, because of its closeness to present methods.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is altogether a most complete and valuable work, as it gives the best methods of production and in addition records in a thorough and practical manner the most recent advances in the subjects of metallography, corrosion and the new alloys.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“It is a first-class illustrated description of the present state of the iron and steel industry, entertainingly written, splendidly illustrated, a little too detailed to be called superficial, yet not minute enough to be tiresome to anyone wishing to learn something about iron and steel. The book contains many minor errors in its descriptions, such as ascribing views and explanations to the wrong metallurgist. It also contains some major errors in questions of theory and calculation.” J. W. Richards.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 600w.
=Stratileseo, Tereza.= From Carpathian to Pindus; pictures of Roumanian country life. il. *$3.75. Luce, J: W.
7–28495.
“The author of this volume has set herself to put before her readers a full account of the condition and character of the Roumanian peasantry, the inhabitants of the lower basin of the Danube, as well as of their natural surroundings.” (Ath.) “The book is more than a mere record of historical, ethnological, and sociological facts in regard to the Roumanian. It is a treasurehouse of folklore, legends, ballads, and songs often with the music attached.” (Nation.)
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“The book will interest students of folk-lore and local customs as well as those who have visited or propose to visit, this somewhat neglected corner of Europe. The style, though lively, betrays in places that the writer is a foreigner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 350. Mr. 23. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 35. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 170w.
“She does not claim to be a politician and contents herself with descriptions of the Roumanian peasantry. These are very well done, with a light touch and with enthusiasm tempered by humour. She has made a careful study of folk-lore and tells some amusing stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Stratton, Alfred William.= Letters from India; with a memoir by his wife, Anna Booth Stratton. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–36147.
A volume which reflects the force of “American scholarship, tact, and energy in touch with modern India.” (Outlook.) A Canadian, educated in Canada and the United States, for a time connected with the faculty of the Chicago university, the author eventually served in the combined capacities of registrar of Punjab university and principal of the Oriental college at Lahore, India. His letters are valuable “for what they tell us of university life in northern India, of the class of native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.” (Spec.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 400w.
“They not only give a clear impression of a singularly conservative, lofty, and unselfish personality; they afford us a clear picture of an American scholar’s life in India, and also many interesting side-lights on social, educational, and political conditions in northwest India.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 600w.
“The letters are always interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Opera: a sketch of the development of opera with full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory; with an introd. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 3d ed. rev. and enl. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35265.
Brought to date by the inclusion of such operas as Puccini’s “Tosca” and “Madame Butterfly”; Charpentier’s “Louise”; Strauss’s “Salome”: Saint-Saëns’s “Hélène”; Giordano’s “Fédora” and “Siberia”; Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande”; and other new operas.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 123. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This very readable and trustworthy book may be commended to all lovers of music who wish to know something about the great works of the lyric stage.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The most laudable thing about this volume is the combination of clearness and conciseness in the telling of operatic plots.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 290w.
“He is as little without bias as may be expected of one who traverses so broad a field, and his view is clear as his style is entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Not remarkable for skill in character-drawing or probability of plot and event, but will hold the interest, and compares favorably with Mrs. Wister’s other translations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 20. Ja. ’08.
“It is done with Mrs. Wister’s trained skill, thorough knowledge of German, and admirable taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Strindberg, August.= The father (a tragedy); tr. by N. Erichsen. *$1. Luce, J: W.
8–13718.
The first appearance in English of a drama written by “the most pessimistic of living pessimists.” “‘The father’ reveals an amazing combat between mother and father for the control of their daughter’s destiny, the mother ultimately gaining her point at the expense of her husband’s reason. When it appears that he is to have the upper hand, she drops a fatal seed of doubt as to who the child’s father actually is. Presumably she has always been a faithful wife, but the poison of suggestion has been implanted in the husband’s mind and he is eventually driven mad by the thought. As a study of misogyny and abysmal pessimism ‘The father’ probably has few equals in any language.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“That it would exercise a powerful effect cannot be doubted, but it is unpleasant beyond expression. The present translation by N. Erichsen appears to preserve the general character of the original.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Stringer, Arthur J. A.= The under groove. †$1.50. McClure.
8–13274.
In a series of seven short stories an old offender against the law tells in the first person his experiences in New York while assuming the rather novel rôle of detective. With a facility born of long experience in practical criminality he makes use of the usual methods of perpetrating crime in order to ferret it out for his own private ends. The mental processes of the scientific burglar are analyzed so that the book is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a study of criminology.
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“Lively reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 268. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“In themselves the eight stories, with one or two exceptions, would make good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 300w.
“And if the whole thing moves with the lightness and spirit of the true adventure story, it none the less retains the importance of a sincere study in psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 190w.
“Would be far better if it had omitted the telepathic and hypnotic basis on which it is constructed.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Outlines of systematic theology, designed for the use of theological students. **$2.50. Am. Bapt.
8–30158.
An outline embracing the substance of Dr. Strong’s three-volume “Systematic theology,” a work which after twenty years has been revised and enlarged. The abbreviated work is at once a text-book for recitation, a minister’s hand-book, and a convenient guide for the busy layman.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Systematic theology: a compendium and commonplace book, designed for the use of theological students; new ed. rev. and enl. 3v. ea. $2.50. Am. Bapt.
7–37983.
Dr. Strong with his “open mind, broad sympathy and keen vision” has kept pace with the progress of the times and now presents his hand-book modernized. Volume 1 deals with The doctrine of God, volume 2, with The doctrine of man, and volume 3, The doctrine of salvation.
=v. 2.= Doctrine of man. Deals with anthropology or the doctrine of man. The origin, the nature and the fall of man are treated and the consequences of the fall—physical and spiritual death.
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“It is the more to be regretted that the insight so clearly expressed in the passages cited should not have been allowed to determine the treatment in other parts of the volume.” W: A. Brown.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 150. Ja. ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume like the first, contains an amazing wealth of quotation drawn from wide circles of thought; sometimes the passages are more cogent and convincing than his refutation of them.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 502. Jl. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Stroup, Ner Wallace.= Fact of sin viewed historically and doctrinally. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–29856.
A discussion of the vital relation of the fact of sin to the divine plan of salvation.
=Stuart, Eleanor.= The postscript. †$1. McClure.
8–14333.
A slight story set in Italy in which an American girl, the widow of a count; a scheming Italian, bent upon besmirching the good name of the dead count; and a wronged woman are the principal characters. When all misunderstanding is cleared away the postscript which the wife adds to her former joy and trust in her husband is “I know in whom I have believed.”
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“A tale of rather delicate workmanship, in which the characters are drawn with more than ordinary skill and charm and the plot is rather painful and melodramatic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The heroine is a rather commonplace little person, and one feels that the writer somewhat exaggerates the importance of her experience.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 350w.
“Talent and care have evidently been expended on this novelette.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Stuart, Gerald Villiers.= Soul of Croesus. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–17792.
The fantastic story of a modern Croesus, whose father had bequeathed him an enormous fortune with the injunction to spend all. Warring against the merciless debauchery is the better personality, which thinks, philosophizes and exerts a strength that grows impotent when the whole army of lower personality imps come trooping back. The story from a subjective standpoint stimulates the reader’s thought and interest.
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“There is a lot of trimming to the story that is extremely entertaining, and it is that which makes Mr. Villiers-Stuart’s book worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 720w.
=Stuart, Henry Longan.= Weeping cross: an unworldy story. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–23103.
The adventures in New England, about the middle of the 17th century, of an Irish bond servant “who had been first a Jesuit pupil, then a royalist soldier. He is sent to the hard mercies of the Pilgrims by Cromwell, indentured to a noble-minded master, but has the misfortune of being loved by that master’s daughter. The conflict between religion and passion that follows is analyzed with extreme keenness, but is hardly edifying in its bold realism, and is agonizing in its relation of mental and physical suffering.” (Outlook.)
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“It is the matter rather than the manner we confess to finding distasteful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 170w.
“The book is eminently worth reading.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 142. O. ’08. 770w.
“It makes a vivid and robust tale, but its effectiveness is dulled by interminable passages of description and introspective analysis.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 550w.
“A book which, for the present day and hour at least, must be set down as a novel of some importance. He has given fearlessly and honestly, without fear of offense, a record of sinful love that nevertheless does not lose its dignity nor its claim upon our sympathy and our esteem.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 40: 224. S. ’08. 1100w.
“Is not the ambitious success its author has aimed at, but it is a serious piece of work, creditably carried thru.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
“With more restraint of manner and maturity of thought, Mr. Stuart’s vivid fancy gives promise of work of real value.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The story, although full of misery and tragedy, deserves commendation. Its literary merit is of a high order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 200w.
“There is much that will offend the taste in the ultra-realism of the narrative. This is all the greater pity because the author has an imagination of unusual power, a style vivid and forceful, and an honest intention to present the tragic struggle between a man’s better nature and cruel temptation.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 160w.
“It is a fine tragedy, clothed in real eloquence and dignity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 260w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William.= Germany in the early middle ages, 476–1250; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2. Longmans.
8–19595.
“Contrary to one’s natural expectations, the volume is narrative rather than constitutional, but there are to be found in its pages several of those remarkable characterizations of medieval personages in which Stubbs was an undoubted adept. The chapters are so arranged as to form a tolerably complete account of Germany from the great migrations to the death of Frederick II in 1250, and the style, less severe and impersonal than the stately diction of the constitutional history, will make the book more acceptable to the general reader.”—Ind.
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“The book offers little or nothing to the specialist, is not adapted to use in the class room, and will hardly hold the attention of the general reader, but it may be recommended as collateral reading to college classes in medieval history.” O. J. Thatcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 167. O. ’08. 600w.
“Tho the lectures throughout impress one with the soundness and breadth of the learned historian’s studies, there is a certain ancientry in their doctrines and temper.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 493. Ag. 27, ’08. 330w.
“Nor can we feel that this volume goes far toward supplying any lack that really exists.”
− =Nation.= 87: 388. O. 22, ’08. 660w.
“It is difficult to see what purpose is served by the publication of this volume. We regret that we must add that the editor has not made it easier to approve of the publication by the way in which he has performed his share.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 661. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= Lands of summer: sketches in Italy, Sicily, and Greece. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13684.
Seven sketches which the author’s travel in the Mediterranean countries has inspired. They are spring-time with Theocritus, From Athens to Corfu, Midsummer in Tuscany, Bergamo and the Bergamasque Alps, The centenary of Alfieri at Asti, The wraith of a ducal city and Life on a Tuscan farm.
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“It is slight and superficial, but is at least as good to read as, and much less pretentious than, the majority of ‘travel books’ written on these well-known lands.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 180w.
“An unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 470w.
“The classical student may read him at home, with pleasure and some profit; the tourist will find him of some service on the spot.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The work lacks distinction. As a whole it is scarcely less monochrome (but more attractive) than its sickly blue cover.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
“It is neither bad enough to infuriate nor important enough to arrest.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 4: 746. S. ’08. 270w.
* =Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.= Origin and character of the Bible and its place among sacred books; new ed. rev. and enl. *$1.20. Am. Unitar.
8–33168.
Embodies the results of the latest investigations along the lines of origin, authorship, growth, real character, transitory elements and permanent value of the Bible. It contains illustrative tables, lists of best books for reading and study, and several entirely new chapters.
* =Surette, Thomas Whitney, and Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Appreciation of music. **$1.50. Baker.
A volume which “presents ‘in clear and untechnical language an account of the evolution of musical art from the primitive folk-song up to the symphony of Beethoven,’ illustrating the stages of this development by musical examples, and providing detailed analyses of many typical compositions. The volume has several portrait illustrations.”—Dial.
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“A useful book for students, for music clubs and for the individual reader who has a fair knowledge of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
=Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Teachers will no doubt find not a few useful hints in it, and the general reader also would do well not to ignore it. There are excellent things, notably in the chapters on Bach and Beethoven. The best thing in the book is the chapter on Beethoven’s humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 548. D. 12, ’07. 840w.
* =Swett, Sophia Miriam.= Princess Wisla. †$1.50. Little.
8–30702.
The story of a child that was rescued from drowning by an Indian woman, dyed with pokeberry ink to resemble an Indian child, and made into an Indian princess.
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=R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
=Swift, Edgar James.= Mind in the making: a study in mental development. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–12179.
“As a sound-hearted and clear-minded social reformer, taking a common sense view of social problems,” (N. Y. Times.) the author makes a plea for a broader interpretation to education. “Mental plasticity, capacity for understanding and controlling new situations and for making them” should be the outcome of education. See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“As a whole the volume embodies a systematic knowledge of children and sane ideas of their needs. The book is bound to have a wide and a wholesome influence, and largely because of this the reviewer wishes to call attention to what seems to be an unwise emphasis in the chapter entitled, ‘Criminal tendencies in boys.’” K. E. Dopp.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 261. S. ’08. 570w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book’s chief defect is an evident lack of wide acquaintance on the part of the author with sociological and anthropological literature. This gives rise to many omissions and several slips.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 640. N. ’08. 420w.
“One by one, the more concrete and the more comprehensive questions of the applying psychologist are reviewed in this collection of essays; and each brings a tangible addition to the insight that can assimilate data while it yet directs their accumulation and dominates their interpretation.” J. Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 40. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Some of his psychological studies are particularly shrewd and practical, and the book as a whole deserves attention.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“We can scarcely conceive that any teacher or thoughtful parent would not be interested in nearly all the essays, and no one engaged in educational or social improvement can rise from its reading without both stimulation and encouragement.” J. H. T.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 162. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 180w.
“A more significant book or a more attractive one has not lately been published because it presents facts clearly and accurately, its deductions are reasonable, its logic denotes a broad, well-cultured mind, its historical perspective is suitable, its style is good. He may go too far in some of his deductions, but the influence of his book ought to be beneficial beyond the field of pedagogy.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w.
“As a plea for the personal element in education, and for the extension of the experimental method ‘in the interest of a soundly constructive pedagogy,’ this is an eminently luminous and influential work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 390. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Is of real value to both investigators in educational psychology and students of college grade. Concerning some of the conclusions which Professor Swift does definitely accept, ... it must be noted that other intelligent investigators possessed of the same facts as the author would still not proceed to his conclusions.” E: L. Thorndike.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 212. Ag. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Swift, Ivan.= Fagots of cedar. $2. Ivan Swift, Harbor Springs, Mich.
8–240.
A collection of verses of the Michigan woods and lumber camps.
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“Mr. Swift’s poems have much of the strong, virile, thought-suggesting quality of Whitman’s work.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 495. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“At its best Mr. Swift’s verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of meaning, suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 138. My. ’08. 100w.
“The breath of the woods is in them and the perfume of the cedar, though there is nothing to suggest that they have come out of an ancient chest. On the contrary, they are what would be called up-to-date poems. While there is at times a touch of self-consciousness, there is throughout the evidence of genuine feeling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 350w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Age of Shakespeare. **$2. Harper.
8–27774.
Nine critical papers which deal with Shakespeare and the writers of his age. Marlowe, Webster, Dekker, Marston, Middleton, Rowley, Heywood, Chapman and Tourneur are in turn compared with Shakespeare; and the latter’s indebtedness to each is pointed out.
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“Even those who have long been familiar with the greater number of these essays will read them with the certainty of lighting on matter well worth study, and will find fresh interest in tracing the few changes time has brought about in his judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 674. N. 28. 1000w.
“The book is a good book, a serious and illuminating piece of criticism.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 265. N. ’08. 1800w.
“Full of wonderful little flashes of delicate perception, epigrammatic summings-up that refuse to be forgotten, and then, at the turn of a page, a blast of turbulent adulation, a whirlwind of redundant hyperbole, full of sound and fury. Nevertheless, such as it is, it is a book indispensable to any one who is making a study of Mr. Swinburne the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 405. O. ’08. 1950w.
“As a critical work, it cannot be taken seriously.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1310. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 854. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“As a whole the book must impress any sane reader as the cry of an enraged and baffled romanticism, of a romanticism that, like some wild beast at bay, snaps and snarls at common-sense.”
− =Nation.= 87: 445. N. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“Swinburne guides us to a study and comprehension of a form of literary art now extinct, and helps us to comprehend its beauty.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 633. O. 31, ’08. 2000w.
“The essay on Dekker is perhaps the most delightful in the volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 422. O. 3, 08. 1550w.
“The defects of his book would certainly have been avoided by an unsparing use of the comparative method. These essays are excellent from many points of view; but their crowning excellence is the force which is in them that compels whoever opens them to go back once more for light and refreshment to the works of the great Elizabethans.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 502. O. 3, ’08. 1600w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Duke of Gandia. **$1.25. Harper.
8–11735.
Rome in the latter part of the 15th century is the scene of this Borgia story told in poetry. It is a domestic drama, which depicts a tragedy in the life of Pope Alexander VI. The jealousy of the younger son which causes him to kill his elder brother, and the father’s ultimate reconciliation with the wrong-doer form the main basis of the plot. The characters of mother and daughter add lightness and human interest to the story.
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“Here in this briefest and most actual of his plays—an act, an episode—he has concentrated much of this floating beauty, this overflowing imagination, into a few stern and adequate words, and made a new thing, as always, in his own image.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 469. Ap. 18. 1200w.
“Marvellous work, which no other poet now living could dream of equalling.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 60. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
“Has one virtue that strikes the eyes. It is brief. Mr. Swinburne’s excessive use of Catholic symbol and phrase in the mouths of these inhuman creatures of blood and lust will be wantonly offensive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
“The book cannot hurt a poet of great renown, but the contemplation of its hideous subject cannot help anybody. It is a mistake.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Mr. Swinburne’s hand has not entirely lost its power.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“‘The Duke of Gandia,’ which is perfect of its kind, proves once more the surety of an artistic instinct which can not only choose, but reject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 532. Ap. 25, ’08. 1600w.
“It is stamped with all his old mastery of craft.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 20. Jl. 4, ’08. 430w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities of Italy. **$2. Dutton.
7–38637.
In studying Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Pisa, Sienna, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo and Brescia, Mr. Symons’s “intention has been that they should tell him their story, that they should ‘give up their own secrets,’ rather than that he should judge them according to his own eyes, ears and artistic prejudices.” (Spec.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
“This is a beautiful and quiet book, full of delicate observation and fine criticism expressed in the sensitive prose we expect from Mr. Symons.... He has cared for [Italy] as it were by the way, as he might do for any work of art with which he found himself in sympathy—not more, but assuredly not less.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 185. F. 15. 1000w.
“It is a volume well worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers; it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those who have basked long enough in Italy’s smile and learned enough of her nature to compare impressions and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent controversies that add so much flavor to literature of this type.”
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book, as are most of the writings of this English poet and critic, is decidedly worth reading.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
“The amateur, or, if you will, the dilettante spirit, pervades Mr. Symons.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 450w.
“The secrets he surprises are always the artist’s secrets—never humanity’s. They are grown in the garden of culture, not in the wilderness of life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 116. F. 29, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book of sensitive English prose, full of unexpected rhythms and words which rather evoke than describe the places of which they speak. The best chapters of the book are devoted to that tragic wilderness [the Campagna].”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
“If, as he desires, the personal note were absent, the book would be really delightful reading, and its presence is only occasionally irritating. Mr. Symons sees vividly and describes brilliantly. If his cities have not given him their inmost soul, their outward aspect is entirely his.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Symbolist movement in literature. *$2. Dutton.
A new and revised edition of a work appearing eleven years ago. “The book presents studies, both biographical and critical, of the writers, chiefly French, whom Mr. Symons regards as the leaders of the Symbolist movement, and the value of the book lies chiefly in the facts and impressions which it gives of this little group of writers, the best known of whom by American readers are Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Huysmans. There is a chapter on ‘Maeterlinck as a mystic.’” (Outlook.)
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“A body of delicate criticism.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 637. My. 23. 60w.
“One may quarrel with this frankly partisan historian at whatever turn one will; but his book remains exceptionally attractive and enlightening. We have before us not a searching philosophical treatise, but a delightful bit of literary history and æsthetic appreciation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 374. Je. 16, ’08. 3200w.
“It is the most sympathetic study and the most illuminating interpretation that has yet appeared in English of that curiously interesting group of French writers.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 86: 330. Ap. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Students of literature have much to be grateful to Mr. Symons for, and this little collection of essays increases measurably their debt to him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 600w.
“Whatever one may think of its doctrine, its charm of style and the interest of its contents will certainly recommend it. His little studies are relevant and illuminating. We think he is wrong, however, when in his conclusions he attempts to fuse his pessimism and mysticism.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 454. S. ’08. 400w.
“The book is valuable as an impressionistic study of one of the minor currents of the literary movements of the last generation.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
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=T., L. G.= Three years behind the guns: the true chronicles of a “diddybox.” †$1.50. Century.
8–25121.
The chronicle of a San Francisco youth who ran away from home, enlisted in the navy in time to cross the Pacific on the Olympia and take part in the battle of Manila bay on the flagship with Dewey. Keen observation and quick wit characterize the intimate record of happenings on an American battleship, and the descriptions of people, climate and scenery.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The book affords an entertaining and occasionally edifying, confidential account of all that one particular man-o’-war’s man thought and felt and did during three years’ service.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Taft, William Howard.= Present day problems: a collection of addresses delivered on various occasions. **$1.50. Dodd.
8–19618.
Two of these addresses deal with the Philippines, two with the relations of China and Japan to the United States, two with the present administration, two with the judiciary, and others with General Grant, the army, the panic of 1907, labor and capital, the achievements of the Republican party, and southern democracy and Republican principles.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 242. O. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 110w.
“Matters of public policy and public interest are discussed in Mr. Taft’s informed and persuasive style, and whether one is for or ‘agin’ the administration and its policies, the collection provides valuable and instructive reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“Characterized by the traits which have made Mr. Taft the power that he is in America to-day—a warm and intelligent sympathy with his fellow-men; ... a judicial spirit; ... a higher regard for substance than form; ... a delight in achievement; and an almost ingenuous trust in the intelligence and good sense of the people, whether they be those whose government he is helping to administer or those whose attention, as an audience, he is undertaking to engage.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 776. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Takahashi, Sakuyei.= International law applied to the Russo-Japanese war, with the decisions of the Japanese prize courts. (American ed.) *$8. Banks.
8–17983.
“The most recent addition to the extensive literature on the international questions and legal relations raised by the Russo-Japanese war.” (Nation.) “The book is not a defense of Japan in any sense, although Japan’s conduct was bitterly criticised by her adversary. Instead of an apologia the book is a legal history of the memorable conflict, which has supplied a new set of precedents. Its usefulness is enhanced by its liberal citation of the original correspondence upon many disputed points.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Careless statements, English far from idiomatic and bearing unmistakable marks of its foreign authorship, misprints in quotations from foreign languages, and a general tone of extolling Japanese observances in contrast to Russian breaches of international law mar the value of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“It is hard to recall any war of which the legal phases have been treated with similar fulness, and in a similar manner; that is, with equal citation of original documents. It is this which gives the book its value, apart from its logical and convenient arrangement.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 1500w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Chaucer story book. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–28994.
Twelve stories in the “Canterbury tales” retold in the prose of to-day. The stories chosen are those that require fewest omissions in adapting them to modern taste.
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“We cannot say that she has successfully retained the ancient flavor, and unless that is done, the task were hardly worth while doing at all.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
“The transcription is fairly and faithfully done.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
“Told in a readable fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= ed. Children’s hour, 10v. $17.50. Houghton.
7–31214–23.
A ten volume anthology of the best children’s literature in story, poem and narrative.
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“It cannot be recommended for the library with limited funds. It will make, however, a valuable addition to any library that can afford it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 93. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1476. D. 19, ’07. 280w.
“Have much of interest in them. For the village library and for the home there is offered a rich choice and variety for ‘the children’s hour.’”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 625. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w.
“The selections suit all ages of children, and the work as a whole forms an almost ideal story-book-present for the holidays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Letters from colonial children. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23916.
This collection of chatty letters, with the intimate personal note, introduces grown-ups and children of our early colonial days—the days of privation and valorous deeds, the days of John Smith and Pocahontas, of Roger Williams, William Penn and Peter Stuyvesant.
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“These letters reflect admirably the child’s point of view on conditions and life in colonial times, and are both good history and delightful literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“She has kept the letters historical on the one hand, yet has not deprived them of their youthful tone on the other.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“The letters form an interesting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 30w.
=Tardieu, André.= France and the alliances: the struggle for the balance of power. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–31144.
In substance eight lectures given under the auspices of the French circle at Harvard. Mr. Tardieu’s aim is to show Americans the France of to-day, in presence of Europe and the world, such as she has been shaped, after painful experiences, by thirty-eight years of sustained effort and diplomatic action. His chapters are as follows: France and the Russian alliance; France and the English “entente”; France and the Mediterranean understandings; France and the Triple alliance; Conflict of the alliances; The new Asiatic and European understandings; and France and the United States.
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=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 200w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= Guest of Quesnay. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27810.
Thru an automobile accident in the streets of Paris a young American loses the memory of his life that had gone before—a life which was rapidly winning him one of the most unsavory reputations on the continent. He becomes the charge of a scientific celebrity who undertakes a unique psychological experiment of restoration. The professor’s ends are all but defeated by the pursuit and vulture like claims of a Spanish dancer to whom his ward had formerly been prey. By rare strategy the dancer and her spies are baffled, and the “real man” comes to his own and to the love of a strong and charming woman—the guest of Quesnay.
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“Not wholly convincing, but has much of the charm of Tarkington’s earlier stories and some delightful minor characters.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“But if Mr. Tarkington never gets beneath the surface of his subject, he at least displays all the merits of the method he seems deliberately to have chosen. It is a charming surface that he presents.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 278. N. ’08. 940w.
“We discover in his new novel—metaphysics, subjected to the alchemy of a genius’s imagination, freshened with the immortality of hope, sweetened with the phenomena of love.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1061. N. 5, ’08. 760w.
“A bright and interesting story for all the metaphysics we found in it.” W: G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made a hit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is not quite convincing in its theme. But the book has movement and some fun in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
“If Mr. Booth Tarkington had only kept his story out of ‘The guest of Quesnay,’ he might have given us a delightful book.” Agnes Repplier.
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 700. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
* =Tarkington, Booth, and Wilson, Harry Leon.= Man from home. †$1.25. Harper.
8–32634.
The play in which William Hodge has scored such a genial success. It turns upon an international marriage, in the preliminary settlement for which the Kokomo, Indiana guardian of the American girl marrying a title, crosses the ocean and takes a hand in revealing to the hoodwinked girl the precise character of a group of sharks bent upon benefiting by the settlement. A good plot, shrewd interpretation of human nature, and irresistible humor give merit to the play.
* =Taylor, David Clark.= Psychology of singing: a rational method of voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and modern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–34628.
After examining the numerous scientific treatises on voice culture and testing their practical value, Mr. Taylor’s conclusion of the whole matter is that mechanical vocal management is all wrong and that instruction by imitation is the one scientifically sound method for teachers to follow. The divisions of his discussion are as follows: Modern methods of instruction in singing; A critical analysis of modern methods; Basis of a real science of voice; and Vocal science and practical voice culture.
=Taylor, Hannis.= Science of jurisprudence. **$3.50. Macmillan.
8–28859.
“A treatise in which the growth of positive law is unfolded by the historical method and its elements classified and defined by the analytical.” “It is a systematic, comparative study of Roman and English law, revealing the fact that the ultimate outcome of the one is a dominating code of private law, the ultimate outcome of the other, a dominating code of public law.” Out of the fusion, the author shows, is arising the typical state law system of the future.
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“He does, indeed, make a useful contribution to the comparative study of law. Dr. Taylor’s work in this respect is qualified to stand beside the best, and the good faith of his title is redeemed. But it is hard to resist the suspicion that his prime motive was to assert his belief that an American had influenced the development of the public law of the world fundamentally, in a manner, indeed, worthy to place the United States beside Greece or England as a molder of destinies of mankind.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 649. N. 7, ’08. 1400w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 90w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Lady Jane Grey and her times. *$4. Appleton.
8–34205.
Sound historically this biography outlines the brief life of Lady Jane Grey, the “little saint of the iconoclasts,” against the background of sordid ambitions, religious quarrels and political intrigue. There are also sketches of Mary and Elizabeth, of Edward, Katharine Parr, Dudley and Somerset, and the parts they played in the brief drama of Lady Jane’s latter days.
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“She has gone carefully over the ground for herself, made a judicious use of authorities new and old, and embodied the results in a clear and readable narrative. The book may be recommended as a sound piece of work, likely to be of use to those who are mainly interested in the personal history of the period.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 409. Ap. 4. 1600w.
“‘The times’ bear, necessarily, a disproportionate relation to the heroine. It is the fault of all these popular biographies to avoid anything that is not superficially interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“We have enjoyed the book, and would only venture to recommend to the author a little more fearless certainty of touch and confidence in her own intuitions. The spirit and the colour of the time break out too seldom. When they are allowed to have their way, the effect is convincing.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 623. Ap. 18, ’08. 540w.
=Taylor, John Metcalf.= Witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
8–17703.
The author shows from sources long hidden that Connecticut in no way repudiated witchcraft practices but took an active part in the persecution of its alleged demon-governed victims. In what manner the delusion took root in the minds of the colonists, its growth and final passing are set forth with due attention to an authentic colonial setting.
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“His book shows marks of haste, especially in the somewhat chaotic and inaccurate opening chapters, and one may be permitted to suspect some errors in his transcripts and even a possible incompleteness in his roll of witches, but, such as it is, the little volume is most welcome.” G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 179. O. ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Taylor has done a service to psychology as well as to history in searching out and publishing the original documents in the most important of the Connecticut witchcraft cases.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 208. Jl. 23, ’08. 700w.
“Despite his apology for the first four chapters they show that the history of witchcraft is beyond the scope of his powers and the bibliographical note at the end displays little familiarity with the literature of his subject.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 500w.
“In an authoritative and concise manner, yet with all the charm of a narrative, the author sets forth ... the story of the rise, spread, and passage of the delusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 512. O. ’08. 80w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Reaping. il. †$1.50. Little.
8–1781.
A cross section of Washington’s social and political life. No special lens is turned upon the slide; one sees with the naked eye a woman’s misery resulting from an unhappy marriage and the devotion of a young congressman, formerly her lover, who sacrifices political advancement and the girl he loves to aid the sufferer to obtain her lost happiness.
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“It is not a pleasant story ... and it is not particularly convincing in its treatment of social problems; but it is undeniably readable, and the dialogue is excellent.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 407. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The general atmosphere of the social life of the capital is interestingly and almost brilliantly reproduced.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Where credit for freshness is due is in the characterization.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Temple, Alfred George.= Modern Spanish painting. *$20. Lippincott.
8–13286.
“Pictures by modern Spanish painters being in great demand, it may be concluded that Mr. Temple’s volume supplies a want. He offers a copious list of the chief members of the school, the titles of their principal works, and in some instances the owners of those works—information which is not obtainable in any other work on the subject, and which must have cost a good deal of trouble and research.” (Ath.) There are 60 photogravure reproductions of the recent Spanish paintings of note.
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“We might allow for a certain degree of complaisance in an author indebted for some of his store of information to the courtesy of artists and owners, but either gratitude distorts beyond measure the expression of his true opinion, or he takes a too lenient view of what are only masterpieces of shallow frippery.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 570w.
“Mr. Temple’s book supplies the entertaining record that we needed for English readers.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 57. D. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
“A very beautiful book and one of unique value to all who are interested in contemporary European art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 782. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–13746.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Lady Tennant has exploded the frowning fortress of art criticism, and shown us the real way to see pictures—to become as little children.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 213. D. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“One of the happiest books for children that we have seen.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 334. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
“A very pretty and readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Tenney, Alvan Alonzo.= Social democracy and population. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *75c. Macmillan.
7–36152.
“An attempt to answer the question whether it is possible for modern society to realize the democratic ideal—that every man shall have a chance and know that he has it. The author assumes that this ideal, which he terms ‘social democracy,’ can exist only where the plane of living is relatively high; and he investigates, from the ‘sociological’ standpoint, the effect of the growth of population upon the ‘plane of living.’”—Nation.
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“The sample given indicates the originality, foresightedness, and statesmanlike breadth of an essay that no scholar or public man can afford to overlook.” E: A. Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 571. Ja. ’08. 870w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 511. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“An able summary of the biological principles of population in their relation to modern democratic civilization.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 154. Je. ’08. 330w.
“With its combination of things obvious and things past finding out the monograph well illustrates certain tendencies in sociological writings of the day.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Terhune, Albert Payson.= World’s great events. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–24298.
From “Marathon, the first struggle between democracy and despotism,” “the half hundred chapters come on down through the ages, choosing here a decisive event, there a political movement, or again the life of a great man, but always aiming to present the crucial time or happening, and end with “Chinese” Gordon and Egypt.’ Each narrative is very brief, rarely exceeding five or six pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Each narrative ... is written in crisp, concise style, with the aim of giving the reader the gist of events and presenting to him an attractive birds-eye view of the progress of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
“They give the essential facts of each event in their proper historical setting, and they do this in a way calculated to interest the casual reader. The book makes excellent supplementary reading for high-school classes in history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 100w.
* =Terry, Ellen Alice.= Story of my life: recollections and reflections. **$3.50. McClure.
A frank autobiography, entirely tuned to the personal note, which in its history, stage gossip, and stage criticism merges into the life of the stage in England for the past fifty years. Actors, artists and men of letters cross and recross the stage of her book, where all are seen in the light of her emotional fervor. The illustrations cover the entire period of her stage life and show the actress in her great variety of characterizations.
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“Candid often to the point of indiscretion, they have the piquancy of good conversation—of a woman’s conversation, apt in its very inconsequence, intimate in its reserves, strangely shrewd even in its too expansive moments.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 411. O. 3. 1700w.
“The pages of her book are rich not only in anecdotes of the stage, but they deal to a large extent as well with the personages who have taken a leading part in the last half-century of England’s art, literature, and politics.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is an agreeable but disappointing volume: agreeable because characteristic in its butterfly style of one of the brightest personalities known to the modern stage; and disappointing because, abounding as it does in evidences of quick and shrewd observation, it is so comparatively poor in those revelations of close personal intimacies in which the memory of Miss Terry must be so rich. The whole book would be the better for judicious editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 1100w.
“It makes an interesting book, and in some way a remarkable one, for a large part of it is truly autobiographical, ingenuously self-revelatory. The book is so well written that it holds the reader’s attention for 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 753. D. 5, ’08. 2300w.
“Her writing is for the most part frankly the writing of an amateur. But when an amateur happens, like Miss Terry, to be a born writer, the result is always charming, and one may well be thankful for the lack of professionalism.” Max Beerbohm.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 449. O. 10, ’08. 1400w.
“Here we have some criticism of actors by an actress, and a great actress. That alone will give this book a permanent worth which belongs to very few works of its kind. The criticisms of Irving are, to our mind, the most interesting and instructive part.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 447. S. 26, ’08. 1900w.
=Terry, Hubert L.= India-rubber and its manufacture; with chapters on guttapercha and balata. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–26204.
Not a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer but rather a book of information for the general reader. It gives the history of the rubber industry, treats of the production of raw rubber, and rubber plantations, outlines the steps taken in preparing it for commercial purposes, treats of the manufacture of various mechanical goods, and discusses the subject of contracts for india-rubber goods.
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“Accurate yet popular. Not too technical for general use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 151. My. ’08.
“Mr. Terry writes on these subjects with the authority of personal knowledge, though perhaps without the lightness of touch desirable in a work of this character.” C. Simmons.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 296. Ja. 30, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 270w.
“Though dealing with a distinctly technical field, the author has succeeded in making a very readable book, and this is due not a little to his pleasing style, occasional prolixity to the contrary notwithstanding. One experiences a slight feeling of disappointment in reading the first two chapters, those dealing with the history of the matter and with the botanical origin of crude rubber. It would have been justifiable to have dealt with these topics with greater liberality.” F. E. Loyd.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 890. D. 18, ’08. 730w.
=Terry, Milton Spenser.= Biblical dogmatics: an exposition of the principal doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. *$3.50. Meth. bk.
7–16991.
“An attempt, as the author says, to present ‘the old abiding truths’ in a manner somewhat new. In fact, he is careful not to exploit any ‘strange doctrines.’ His method of exposition is based on the persuasion that the Bible is ‘a remarkably self-interpreting book,’ when its different portions are studied in their proper historical connections and in the light of contemporary literature and circumstances, so that a single system of theology may be constructed out of it. The difference in view-point of the biblical writers is not overlooked, but they are regarded as mutually complementary, never as opposed.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The whole work exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the language of the Scriptures and a reverent submission to their teachings, without any of the bitterness toward opponent, which, unfortunately, so often appears in works similarly conceived. On the contrary, there is a frank acknowledgment of the value of critical studies. None the less it seems to the reviewer that the harmonistic purpose interferes at times with freedom of interpretation and a full recognition of differences in the writers, while at times they appear to be made to say more or less than they really do.” G: Cross.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 160. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Its tone and spirit are admirable—non-controversial, open-minded, alive with warm religious feeling. Dogmatizing is avoided, and some deep questions are left open with candid and cautious reserve.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
=Thayer, James Bradley.= Legal essays. *$3.50. Boston bk.
A collection of papers on a variety of subjects connected with legal theory and practice. “There are a few of a distinctly general interest, notably an essay on the origin and scope of the American doctrine of constitutional law, a second on legal tender, a third on Sir Frederick Pollock’s suggestion that the English House of Lords and Privy council and the United States supreme court might reciprocally consult for the settlement of difficult questions of common concern, a fourth on the legal stateus of the Indian, and a fifth on ‘Our new possessions.’” (Outlook.)
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“Like all posthumous collections, these essays lack the freshness given by the final touch of the author’s hand. The best of the contributions of the book are the critical chapters on authorities and decisions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 723. My. ’08. 100w.
“While [the layman] cannot judge the learning of the author, he may at least admire his lucidity, and will come to the conclusion that Prof. Thayer is entitled to rank with such philosophical and literary expositors of the principles of the law as Sir Frederick Pollock, Prof. Maitland, and Prof. Dicey, a class of which the American representatives are rather surprisingly few.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“All of the essays, and particularly those dealing with constitutional topics, bear abundant testimony to the enthusiasm, insight and thoroughness with which Professor Thayer attacked the many problems that came before him as a student and exponent of law.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Italica: studies in Italian life and letters. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13685.
With the freshness, vividness and bias which the land inspires, these papers catch and hold passing aspects of Italian life and thought. The following essays are included: Fogazzaro and his masterpiece, Venetian legends and pageants, Mazzini’s centenary, Dante in America, Giordano Bruno’s “Expulsion of the beast triumphant,” Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, Leopardi’s home, Election of a pope, Thirty years of Italian progress, Luigi Chiala, Dante as lyric poet, Cardinal Hohenlohe—liberal, Italy in 1907, and Giosuè Carducci.
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“Recommended because of the comparative scarcity of material in book form on recent Italian literature and history. In the literary essays there are some surprising lapses.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 266. N. ’08.
“Altogether this is not a very serious contribution to the growing number of books on Italian subjects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 437. O. 10. 250w.
“The reflections and verdicts recorded in the volume are such as we should expect from a student and critic of Mr. Thayer’s standing.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thayer has earned a right to claim our attention on matters literary and historical relating to modern Italy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 450w.
“He writes with a zest often verging on passion, and at times, perhaps, allows his feelings to permeate his facts, tingeing them with strong colors of his own. Being interested himself, he interests the reader, but his method will not gratify those historians who demand documentary evidence at every step.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 540w.
“Mr. Thayer has a pleasing style, his knowledge is broad, his scholarship unquestioned, and his critical acumen satisfying to foreigners.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“No chapter of ‘Italica’ is uninteresting or unsuggestive, but the most impressive seem those in which the critic makes all Dante students his debtors.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 271. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
“Quite apart, however, from these fulminations of a fervent believer in the Italy of progress and taxation to the starving-point, there is much of great interest in the book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 747. S. ’08. 560w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Thibaudeau, Antoine Claire.= Bonaparte and the consulate; tr. and ed. by G. K. Fortescue. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–23294.
“The present memoir covers the four years of the Consulate from 1799 to 1804, when Napoleon became emperor. Their special character consists in their reporting the conversations and discourses of Napoleon on important questions in the Council of state or in private conversation and of conversations with Josephine on political events. They are not speeches but talk as in a committee round a table.”—Sat. R.
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“This volume will give the general reader a good insight into the administrative genius of Bonaparte, but the student will consult the original edition.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 320w.
“Dr. Fortescue’s introduction here and there invites criticism. Perhaps it is a desire for brevity which is accountable for exaggerations at some points and omissions at others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 430w.
“The [memoirs] certainly rank with the memoirs of Miot or Mollien. and the ‘Recollections’ of Chaptal. The volume has an unnecessary number of misprints or slight errors.” H: E: Bourne.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“It is a pity that the printing of [the notes] was not seen to with more care, as there are some annoying but not serious slips. The book is to be warmly welcomed.” L. G. W. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 832. O. ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Fortescue has done his work with the utmost care. All has been done that could be done to make the book useful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 560w.
“No one could have provided a more authoritative edition of the valuable Thibaudeau memoirs. The translation is splendidly done, and the introduction and notes provide admirable matter to supplement the text as it appears in the original work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 88. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1350w.
=Thomalen, Adolf.= Text-book of electrical engineering; translated from the German by George W. O. Howe. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–15869.
Covers “the whole range of electromagnetic phenomena usually taught to students of electrical engineering in high-grade colleges. Starting with the elementary principles of electrophysics and electrochemistry, and stating Ohm’s law in its simplest terms, the author leads the student into the involved electromagnetic relations in dynamos by way of the most easily traveled routes.” (Elec. World.)
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“[An] excellent treatise ... that will be welcomed alike by the student and the instructor in electrical engineering.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 310. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 299. Mr. 12, ’08. 950w.
“The treatment of the polyphase induction motor is unnecessarily complicated, but that of the single-phase motor is better. It is not a ‘popular’ book, but a substantial, scholarly work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The translator has done his work with marked success; it is sufficient to say that the book does not read like a translation from the German, and all who have done such work will agree that this is high praise.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 124. D. 12, ’07. 670w.
=Thomas, Augustus.= Witching hour. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30012.
Mr. Thomas has novelized his own play, so insuring no loss of the drama’s compelling interest that was due to telepathy, mental suggestion and hypnotism.
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“A story of considerable interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“A lively and interesting narrative of romantic events brought about under remarkable conditions, and whether you are disposed to grant the facts or not, it can hardly be denied that the conclusions are entirely in accordance with the promises the author has laid down.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 500w.
=Thomas, John M.= The Christian faith and the Old Testament. **$1. Crowell.
8–14748.
The author discusses the contributions of the Old Testament to Christianity in its moral, religious, and theological teaching and in affording Christians a sense of continuity with the life of the past; but he admits that in the allegorizing of the Old Testament, and in the acceptance of all as of equal value, the true spiritual significance of the Old and much of the New Testament was lost sight of. Modern criticism is rediscovering, restoring our Bible and of the process and results of this discovery the author gives a brief but comprehensive account.
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“Brief, reverent, logical; for the general reader not familiar with the achievements and benefits of higher criticism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The author’s point of view is scholarly and he is thoroughly in sympathy with modern thinking. To those who doubt whether anything of usefulness is left to the Old Testament as interpreted by the modern scholar, this volume may be warmly commended.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 50w.
“A serious and scholarly treatment of present-day religious problems and difficulties.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 40w.
“It represents frank, free and devout study of current biblical problems, by one who has the taste of study and the art of expression. We commend it heartily to thinking people.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Thomas will succeed, in our judgment, in stirring up in his readers the desire to study the Old Testament with intelligent appreciation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
“He combines a full acceptance of the modern point of view with a deep sense of the value of the Old Testament and shows clearly that these two attitudes are not opposed.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“This little book is, for plain readers with scant leisure, an admirable presentation of what all ought to know who care to understand the essential facts and their significance.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
* =Thomas, William Jenkyn.= Welsh fairy book. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–26193.
“This is the first English collection ever made of an excellent source of folk- and fairy-lore.... The stories are varied, derived from old writers like Giraldus Cambrensis and the stores of accomplished modern scholars like Sir John Rhys. ‘Nothing has been inserted which is not genuinely traditionary,’ adds the author, and the book shows the richness of the mine which he has opened for English readers.”—Ath.
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“‘The Welsh fairy book’ is worth reading for several reasons. The Welsh are spiritual and musical, and they have waited for their Grimm till to-day.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 218. D. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“Adults as well as young people will rejoice in ‘The Welsh fairy book.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 544. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“It will form a welcome and even necessary addition to any child’s collection of fairy-tales.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
“On the whole, there is much novelty about the collection.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 905. D. 7, ’07. 110w.
=Thompson, Charles Miner.= Calico cat: a rural detective story minus a detective. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–30016.
In attempting to rid his premises of a mocking calico cat, a respectable Yankee shoots a tramp, slips away from the scene of trouble, and allows an innocent boy to be sent to jail. He is chosen juror on the very jury that is to try the case when his conscience goads him to a confession. The clearing up of the tangle reveals that the victim, entirely unhurt, was posing for money; that the boy believed his father to have fired the shot and was shielding him; and that a termagant wife really did have a heart.
* =Thompson, Francis.= Selected poems; with a biographical note by Wilfrid Meynell. **$1.50. Lane.
Selections contained in this volume have been made from “Sister songs,” “Poems” and “New poems,” which with a biographical note and a number of “appreciations” are intended to bear witness to a fine quality of genius.
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“I feel much in him that is great. Even in this residue from which all the dross of his work has supposedly been drawn off, there is still so much to harass the ear and tease the mind.” P. E. M.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 486. N. 19, ’08. 3500w.
“Francis Thompson’s work is of such excellence in its own kind that no selection can be satisfactory except to those who have not time for more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 395. S. 26, ’08. 1250w.
=Thompson, Peter Anthony.= Lotus land; being an account of the country and the people of southern Siam. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37975.
“Opening with a chapter on the history of Siam which suggests that research might well be turned in that direction, Mr. Thompson gives an account of the capital and then takes us right into the country.” (Sat. R.) “The picture of country life among the people, the study of their habits and beliefs—where the Buddhist faith is laid over deep-seated superstitions, tree-worship, taboo, ghost-terrors, charms, and curious rites and precautions—the descriptions of their sport, fishing, elephant driving; these, to our mind, constitute the best part of Mr. Thompson’s volume.” (Ath.)
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“It is not easy to hit the mean between a globe-trotter’s transient impressions and a resident’s cumbrous statistics, but Mr. Thompson has achieved this. [An] admirable account of a singularly attractive people.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 506. O. 27. 1570w.
“The historical sketch of Siam will well repay a careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“No more intimate book on southern Siam has appeared than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A delightful picture of a people not overanxious to march in the van of progress and of a country the wealth of which lies at present almost dormant.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 230w.
* =Thomson, John Arthur.= Bible of nature: five lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross. (Bross lib. v. 4.) **$1. Scribner.
8–25139.
Five lectures which state “some of the lessons which man—minister and interpreter—may learn from Nature.” They are: The wonder of the world; The history of things; Organisms and their origin; The evolution of organism; and Man’s place in nature.
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“The book is a joy to read and is to be heartily commended to all religious persons who feel the difficulties caused by the present scientific situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 777. D. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Not only for its clarifying of many hazy ideas, but for its correction alike of dogmatic scientists and dogmatic theologians, this volume should be in every Sunday-school library.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Heredity. (Science ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
A thoroly practical exposition based upon conclusions reached thru microscopic study of the germ-cells, thru the application of statistical methods, and thru experiment. The aim is to expand the facts of heredity and inheritance as known at present, to give the securely established conclusions and the more important theories. The handling is impartial altho the author adheres to what is called Weismannism, or—to take a particular case—the conviction that we do not know of any instance of the transmission of an acquired character.
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“The best book on the subject for the general reader; comprehensive, scholarly and popular in the best sense of the word.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The English student will welcome a volume which places within his grasp an adequate summary of the work not only of leading English authorities but also of continental writers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 47. Jl. 11. 1000w.
“This newest work, strikingly like the older ‘Evolution of sex’ in method, may well attain the same high repute.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Is intelligible, pleasant to read, and distinguished by a broad outlook.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 59. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“It is ‘easy’ reading; the clearness and force of the style hold the reader’s attention so that he forgets for the moment that it is an abstruse scientific matter which is under discussion. The chief particular in which the book is open to criticism is in the matter of construction.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 376. Ag. 13. ’08. 900w.
“In spite of its condensation, this is the only book in the language which has methodically handled heredity from its origin in physical reproduction to its further development in social phenomena.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 350w.
“In addition to a clear statement of current theories, there is much instructive criticism and comment, often requiring very attentive perusal, which the reader will find most stimulating and suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 650w.
“The outstanding feature of the book is its great, perhaps its excessive, kindliness and toleration.” G. A. Reid.
+ =Nature.= 78: 361. Ag. 20, ’08. 2200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The volume, if not quite so readable and full of suggestion as Metchnikoff’s, is yet of more immediate application to the problems that confront them.” Charles De Kay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 236. N. ’08. 660w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 70w.
“It is in fact a vast encyclopaedia article, in which all the aspects of the subject are presented in orderly fashion and from many points of view, always with the historical development of each, and with its varying controversies summed up with clearness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 791. Je. 20, ’08. 1450w.
“The few imperfections that might be noticed do not interfere materially with the value of the book. It fulfils its purpose as an ‘introduction to the study of heredity’ excellently well, it is rich in illustrative facts and judicious criticism, and is written in a style which is clear, consecutive, forcible and at times, even picturesque.” J. P. McM.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 210. Ag. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Thomson, William Chase.= Design of typical steel railway bridges: an elementary course for engineering students and draftsmen. *$2. Eng. news.
8–11716.
A sequel to “Bridge and structural design.” “The present volume is devoted chiefly to the presentation of six examples in design of steel superstructures. An introduction gives the necessary extracts from a specification, with some annotations, tables and a moment diagram; and there is a final chapter on latticing of compression members. The examples are selected with good judgment and cover the range of average railway bridge superstructures in a way that may be called typical.” (Engin. N.)
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“The thoroughly practical character of the work would seem to make it well suited for use as a text-book in engineering schools and of marked value to junior draftsmen in bridge shops and to those who desire to fit themselves for such work.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Notwithstanding these shortcomings, which are mostly non-essentials ... the book is a commendable effort to fill a long-felt want. It should be in the possession of all the younger men engaged in structural steel work, and many older ones will find it useful.” A. W. Buel.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 60: 73. Jl. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“Has the character of a set of rules for designing issued by a bridge company to its draftsmen.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 476. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
* =Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with introd. and il. by Clifton Johnson. **$2. Crowell.
8–22336.
A holiday edition of “Cape Cod” whose careful word pictures are aided by a series of illustrations produced by Mr. Johnson’s camera during a leisurely tramp over Thoreau’s own course.
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“An unusually attractive reprint of the work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 240w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Thorndike, Ashley Horace.= Tragedy. (Types of English literature ser.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–15303.
The third volume so far published in a literature series which disregards the usual chronological divisions and proceeds on the basis of a division according to types. This book traces the course of English tragedy from its beginning in England in 1562, the year of the production of “Gorboduc,” thru Marlowe and his contemporaries, Shakespeare, the later Elizabethans, the Restoration, the eighteenth century, and the romantic movement, to the middle of the nineteenth century. It indicates the part tragedy has played in the history of the theatre and of literature.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The interest of the book consists in its handling of familiar matter from this unifying point of view, rather than in its contribution of new facts to scholarship. On the whole he is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a piece of sound scholarly work.” C. M. Hathaway, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 116. S. 1, ’08. 640w.
“Professor Thorndike’s book, taken as a whole, is mildly disappointing. We find ourselves in constant agreement with him, but with no enthusiasm. The latter part of the work is somewhat breathless, as though the writer were acutely aware of the fact that the volume must not exceed a certain length, and that everything must somehow be mentioned.” W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 592. D. ’08. 1600w.
“We must insist then that a good deal of the present work is necessarily unsatisfactory. It is not complete enough in detail to serve the scholar; it is often too meagre to preserve human interest. But, within the limitations, Prof. Thorndike has succeeded commendably.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 830w.
“Comprehensive treatment of his large subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Able review of the tragic drama in England.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 266. Ag. 22, ’08. 480w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Fly on the wheel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–27495.
A determined young Irish councellor married five years to a placid, unthinking woman whose personality he completely dominates, attempts to break up the love affair of his youngest brother and a spirited young girl. He yields to the spell of this girl’s power, finds himself in love with her as she is with him, and in his madness confesses his love. The reaction comes, he knows his duty; but the girl, young, motherless, gives up to morbid despair and ends her life as did Oswald in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
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“It is a study of sexual passion rising at times to real power. It is a conscientious and clever piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 120w.
“Best work she has done thus far.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“As a story is less sensational than some former stories by this author, but it far exceeds any of them in perfection of development and in real interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
“The end is startlingly tragic, in what seems to us a forced, unlikely way. What she does well is the description of emotions, moods, and behaviour, her sense of ordinary character is true and perceptive, and is shown in one or two quite excellent sketches, notably that of Father James.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The story is well told and interesting in its way, but singularly lacking in elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 780w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold, and Kellogg, Louise Phelps=, eds. The revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775–1777. $1.50. Wis. hist. soc. Madison.
8–8546.
Compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin historical society, the events chronicled in this volume “immediately succeeded and in a considerable degree were the direct outgrowth of Dunmore’s war.... The documents chosen for publication herein do not afford a continuous history of any one campaign or group of men. They do, however, shed light upon the principal incidents and the prominent characters of the long frontier stretching from the Greenbrier region in Southwestern Virginia to the post at Kittanning on the upper Allegheny.” (Preface.)
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“Much credit is due the editors for the excellent compilation of these documents.” V. A. Lewis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 183. O. ’08. 630w.
=Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid, pseud.).= Princess Nadine. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–42008.
“A novel involving an heiress of American birth and her ambition for a European title. Nadine is everything exquisite, aristocratic, and fascinating. About to be betrothed by her American grandmother to a lovely prince who hopes to be king of ‘Serabia,’ she meets a money king from America, whose advent completely changes her future.... Of the complications between an imprudent and revolutionary young Russian, a daring American girl, and a diplomatic Slav, the reader must learn for himself.”—Outlook.
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“The character of Nadine is the artistic merit of the story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 150w.
“The game of intrigue, which brings about Nadine’s defiance of the Czar’s government, is played light-heartedly enough, hero and heroine holding the usual marked cards.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Upon the whole, the most fitting adjective for this novel is ‘elegant.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
=Tilden, Samuel Jones.= Letters and literary memorials of Samuel J. Tilden; ed. by John Bigelow. 2v. **$6. Harper.
8–4918.
From a vast collection of papers the executors of Mr. Tilden have selected speeches, public documents and letters which not only offer sidelights on the latter half of the last century’s history but give proper proportion to public services of this man whose party standards were “too high for the multitude.” His battles and their victories are traced thru these documents.
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“If we find somewhat too much of the genial editor in the volumes, he has good examples to quote, and we should be grateful for what he has given.” F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 152. O. ’08. 1500w.
“Necessary for the historian because of details of politics, especially in New York state, but not particularly valuable or interesting to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The work as a whole is an important and historically valuable supplement to Mr. Bigelow’s earlier publications in the same field.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 205. Ap. 1, ’08. 1650w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“There is less material of first-rate political importance in these volumes than one had hoped. Though these letters add but little to our knowledge of the man, they fall in perfectly with that conception of his character which those who have studied it most closely have slowly formed.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 600w.
“Absorbingly interesting volumes. They are of the highest class of ‘memoires pour servir.’” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 109. F. 29, ’08. 2450w.
“It aids in the understanding both of Tilden’s conduct of life and of the seemingly extravagant esteem in which he was held by his intimate friends.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 862. Ag. 15, ’08. 540w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 300w.
* =Tileston, Mary Wilder=, ed. Children’s treasure trove of pearls. †$1.50. Little.
Contains some forty stories rescued from oblivion for children from five to nine years to enjoy. Among them are: Fiama; Bean Flower and Pea Blossom; Tatterhood, Tom Tit Tot; Tom, nurse’s story, etc.
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Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Tipping, H. Avray=, ed. Gardens, old and new. 3d. series. *$12. Scribner.
8–23521.
=ser. 3.= Country house and its garden environment.
“Contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield house, Holland house, Lyme hall (Cheshire, belonging to Lord Newton), South Wraxall manor, Wilton house, and Wotton house (near Aylesbury). An introduction, itself fully illustrated, gives particulars of other places.”—Spec.
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“Notable addition to garden literature.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 320w (Review of ser. 3.)
“The volume has an interest extending quite beyond that of a guide to a house or garden building.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w. (Review of ser. 3.)
“This is a very handsome and interesting volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 101. Jl, 18, ’08. 80w. (Review of ser. 3.)
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–21948.
“The book discusses analytically the ultimate mode of conceiving the nature of the fundamental psychological processes. For current usage as coins of the intellectual realm, the value of such terms as feeling, sensation, attention, is sufficiently understood; but an accurate essay is indispensable when technical definition and analysis are to be reached. As an example of the clarification of concepts, as a contribution to the mode of extracting the metal from the crude ore, the work may be strongly recommended to the student analyst.”—Dial.
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“The treatment suitable to a general audience is equally suitable to the general reader.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It cannot be said, however, that the writer is without his own bias. This bias in our author’s case is in favor of sensationalism. Collections of classroom lectures are not often inspiring, but this work is a welcome exception to this rule. It must add much to its author’s reputation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 630w.
“The entire treatment of attention as sensory clearness as set forth by Professor Titchener, however, is the best which has appeared thus far. His unbiased discussion of the leading authorities and his interesting style render the book worth reading apart from its psychological value, while the list of authorities which is given makes the volume probably the best of its kind for the research student.” Felix Arnold.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 367. N. 15, ’08. 730w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city. (Grafton historical series.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–36943.
A series of sketches brought forward from twenty years ago which describe types and conditions, landmarks and structures, that no longer exist.
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“It cannot supersede or compete with definite historical treatises on the state, but it offers interesting sketches and will prove of use for certain phases of old New York life.” E. K. Alden.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 655. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“What with text and pictures, an amusing little book to look over.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
“It is well that this valuable and curious information, at first prepared for more ephemeral publication, has been preserved and collected in this tasteful volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Camp-fire of Mad Anthony. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–29723.
Tells of a tea party which took place in Philadelphia, and involved the heroes of this story; also relates the adventures of the Pennsylvania troops under Anthony Wayne, from 1774 to 1776.
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“A story used as a vehicle becomes stereotyped and Mr. Tomlinson’s strength does not lie in his plots.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1482. D. 19, ’07. 150w.
“In his customary manner, Mr. Tomlinson bases his incident upon fact. In this respect he is a seasoned writer, but he falls short in the development of his plot, and his style is not irreproachable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Mad Anthony’s young scout: a story of the winter of 1777–78. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–20024.
Philadelphia, Valley Forge and the outlying country furnish the setting for this tale of exciting adventure based upon the happenings of the hard winter of 1777–78. Noah Dare is the hero, and into the story are introduced “Mad Anthony” Wayne, Washington, Lafayette and other revolutionary generals. Also there is among the historical sidelights a clear presentation of the division among the Quakers—one portion swearing allegiance to the British government, the other, to the cause of the colonists.
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“No boy who once begins the book will want to lay it down until it is finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12. ’08. 170w.
* =Tompkins, A. E.= Marine engineering: a text book. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Gives a very full history of the development of the steam engine from Savery in 1688 to the turbine and gas producer of to-day. Much information is given to the one wishing to practise the art of designing the different structures, but the most to those desiring to become skilled in the construction, operation and care of the marine engine, as the designing of such machinery demands a line of study outside of what can be given in a treatise of this kind.”—Science.
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