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=Sabatier, Paul.= Modernism: Jowett lectures, 1908; tr. by C. A. Miles, with a preface, notes and appendices. **$1.25. Scribner.
W9–3.
“Furnishes some interesting details as to this movement, throws a little light on the separation of Church and State in France, and includes an indiscriminate eulogy on the modernists in general and M. Loisy in particular.”—Outlook.
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“The four appendices, giving English translations of the two papal encyclicals and of the syllabus as well as the petition of the French Catholics regarding the Separation act make the book the most valuable source-book in English for students of the movement.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 230w.
“No one can read the book without being impressed with its sincerity and moderation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 723. My. ’09. 270w.
“Champions modernism with unmeasured zeal and, it may be added, with unmeasured violence.”
− =Cath. World.= 89: 388. Je. ’09. 850w.
“This book is not a critical study of the modernist movement, but an ‘apologia,’ and an ‘apologia’ written by a Frenchman, and, if not a Catholic, yet a writer imbued with the Catholic tradition and Catholic feeling. But taking it frankly on that basis, let us say at once that it is an admirable and eloquent plea, written by a scholar of lofty intelligence on a theme which he has made his own by sympathy and by knowledge. It may be commended to all readers who wish to gain a general idea of the movement of which it treats without an extensive study of the French, Italian, and German authorities.” T. W. Rolleston.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 690. Ap. ’09. 1800w.
“It has the persuasiveness and conciliatory spirit of all of M. Sabatier’s writing. It seems to us, however, to come short of complete candor in failing to admit the revolutionary implications of modernism.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 120w.
“It adds little to popular knowledge of this movement or to a correct understanding of it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 243. Ja. 30, ’09. 280w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 70w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.=^{[10]} Bar B boys; or, The young cow-punchers. †$1.50. Crowell.
9–25392.
To wander alone on the mountains all night, run into a gang of cattle thieves, be rescued by a band of Indians, and finally adopted by the men of the Bar B ranch—this suggests the series of adventures thru which Phil Macowan passes after the train which was carrying him to California has gone on over the great divide leaving him behind. With the Bar B outfit he learns to ride a horse and throw a rope. He has further adventures with the cattle thieves and helps rescue a girl whom they have kidnapped. When he goes back East at the end of the summer he has found not only the health and strength which he came west in search of, but a new sense of manliness as well.
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“A rattling good story of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 130w.
“At times the happenings are somewhat too sensational.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 40w.
=Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–35065.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09.
“The materials here presented are, of course, very variable as to value. But there is enough of value in the contributions that do have scientific interest to make the work, as a whole, a very valuable contribution to that larger consciousness of the essentially world-wide character of the problem of moral education.” J. K. Hart.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 333. F. ’09. 830w. + =Ind.= 67: 252. Jl. 29, ’09. 800w.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the fairness that marks the presentation of all the conflicting evidence that has been poured into the inquiry committee.” J: Adams.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 239. Ja. ’09. 1050w. + =Nation.= 88: 305. Mr. 25, ’09. 260w.
Reviewed by J. A. Green.
+ =Nature.= 79: 154. D. 10, ’08. 700w.
“It is deserving of study not only by all who are particularly interested in educational affairs but by all to whom the progress of the human race is a thing of moment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 99. F. 20, ’09. 1350w. =Outlook.= 91: 150. Ja. 23, ’09. 580w.
“The chief value of the volumes lies in the material brought out by the inquiry. These volumes should mark an important step forward in the movement for moral education.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 17: 506. S. ’09. 930w.
=Sainsbury, Harrington.=^{[10]} Drugs and the drug habit. *$2.50. Dutton.
9–35796.
Includes a short historical review of the deductive medicine of the different “systems,” the definition of his subject, general aim of druggiving, the mental effect of treatment and the psychology of the placebo, and a discussion of the habitual use of narcotic and soporific drugs.
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“Like all of this excellent series, a popular work of the scholarly type and restricted in usefulness to the educated reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 48. O. ’09.
“Of all this, the history of pharmacology, the uses of drugs, their abuse, and the best methods of fighting the drug habit, Dr. Sainsbury gives an interesting account. He illustrates it with many apt quotations, which show him to be well read, a good scholar, and a judge of literature. These qualities enable him to take the wide view of a difficult subject which can alone lead to success, for in dealing with the drug habit a man requires a good knowledge of the world as well as technical skill.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 72. Jl. 17. 430w.
“To those who are not repelled by the exterior, however, we can promise much enjoyment from the perusal of this volume, which is written with the same distinction of literary style and with the same felicity of illustration as marked the author’s ‘Principia therapeutica.’”
+ =Nature.= 81: 271. S. 2, ’09. 650w.
“Many faults of style are to be noted, such as prolixity, diffuseness, triteness, and the somewhat pedantic interjection of Latin. There is need for a book which can deal with the drug habit directly, impartially, exhaustively, and entertainingly, and one can only feel sorry that the present volume falls short of its great purpose.” I. W. Voorhees.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 608. O. 16, 09. 1500w.
=St. Helier, Mary Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune, lady.=^{[12]} Memories of fifty years. *$4.20. Longmans.
The memories of a distinguished London woman who was first married to Lord Stanley of Alderly, and after his death, to Sir Francis Jeune, Baron St. Helier. “She gained a knowledge of the world ranging from a rough Nevada mining camp which she was the first woman to visit, to the brilliant society that frequented her drawing-rooms in Harley Street.” (Dial.) “The volume contains vivid, picturesque, and ... very faithful descriptions of those who were present at the brilliant gatherings in her London homes, and her recollections of that London life are preceded by the memories of her life in the Highlands, for Lady St. Helier came herself from an ancient and distinguished Scottish ancestry.” (Ind.)
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“The pleasant and readable character of the volume is hardly impaired by the errors to be detected in it by unfortunate possessors of accurate minds. The book is marred by the inclusion of one of the worst ‘diaries’ of the least interesting events of the Commune of Paris which it has been our misfortune to peruse.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 556. N. 6. 1800w.
“Delightfully readable book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 513. D. 16, ’09. 230w.
“At a time when there seems to have been something like a revival of the scandalous form of memoir it is especially gratifying to find that so thoroly encouraging a welcome has been given to those delightful personal recollections by an authoress whose finest and keenest humor never carries a heart-stain away on its blade.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1311. D. 9, ’09. 440w.
“Has the charms of veracity, of rich variety, of interest, of large knowledge of men and events, and broad human sympathy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 688. N. 6, ’09. 950w. + − =Sat. R.= 108: 536. O. 30, ’09. 1000w.
“It is the work of a gentlewoman, and we have an old-fashioned partiality for the race. It is the record of a life of most exceptional interest, written by a woman with a genius for appreciation.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 791. N. 13, ’09. 1500w.
=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Earth’s bounty. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–9235.
Combined with unusual managerial fitness is the author’s love for the open and all living things. Her book is a record of her experiments in husbandry beginning with twelve acres and increasing the farm to nearly two hundred acres. The chapters are as follows: Profit in winter lambs; Winter violets; Tillage and rotation of crops as regenerators; Building and operating a silo; The barn-yard wealth; The orchard; Dairy and young cattle; Rearing family and work horses; Quail and wild duck; Goats; The wood-lots; Thorough-bred poultry; Dogs; and Itinerary of the year’s work.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09.
“Its scholarly origin in combination with the previous city experience of the author gives the book at times a suburban tinge and fantastic touch which, however, does not keep it from being of interest to that large class in cities and elsewhere who would do well to follow the author’s example.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 613. N. ’09. 190w.
“The whole story has a satisfying effect of verity, and nearly all the advice to the reader is based on personal experience. An index would have been useful.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 220w.
“Every line of the present volume is instinct with the personality of a practical and devoted farmer, while the book has the charm of a vigorous imagination and forceful mind.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 80w.
“Some few of her recommendations may fail. But in general she is up-to-date, and the spirit of her book is modern, in that she is experimental. The farmer as well as the man or woman who hopes for profit in pets, can gain much from this book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 609. Je. 17, ’09. 800w.
“It is a practical statement of practical things, written entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 670w.
“An air of common sense and a sensible recognition that work is not always play, however congenial it may be, pervades the book, and will strengthen its appeal to the professional as well as to the amateur worker in nature’s shop.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 100w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.
“The book is full of interest from beginning to end for those who have a liking for such themes.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 210w.
=Sale, Edith Tunis.=^{[12]} Manors of Virginia in colonial times. **$5. Lippincott.
9–25286.
Treats of twenty-four colonial mansions and estates. Important because it “gathers together the rapidly-vanishing records of an age that is gone.... These stately halls echoed the voices of men and women whose names stood for all that was most worthy in the commonwealth. They were gentlemen and gentlewomen in the truest sense of the term. Their hospitality was as boundless as it was sincere; and it was exercised in an environment that was peculiarly their own. These were homes indeed.” (Dial.)
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“The author of this entertaining book writes with an enthusiasm which betrays her into some faults of style. The reader is carried along on a sea of superlatives that sometimes leaves him breathless. But in spite of such defects the reader will find many things to repay him in the perusal of Mrs. Sale’s book.” L. J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 509. D. 18, ’09. 650w.
“We look upon Edith Tunis Sale’s compilation as of a certain historical importance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
“It were well that her book should be in every library of our broad land; for none can read it without a new reverence for our forebears, a new sense of the ‘noblesse oblige.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 761. D. 4, ’09. 500w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness; a book of practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
8–31695.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A good popular book on hygiene.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09.
“Dr. Saleeby’s book is full of good advice, and will not add to the prevalent hypochondria. Neither will it inculcate indifference, or a go-as-you-please attitude. Here and there it errs on the side of indefiniteness, and elsewhere in strenuous enforcement of personally favored doctrines.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 142. Mr. 1, ’09. 380w.
“As a whole, the book is suggestive and likely to help many to whom a more exact treatise would be unwelcome.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.=^{[11]} Parenthood and race culture: an outline of eugenics. **$2.50. Moffat.
9–13927.
An attempt to define as a whole the general principles of race culture, or eugenics. The subject is treated in two parts: The theory of eugenics; and The practice of eugenics. “The author assumes that there is no wealth but life, that the culture of the racial life is the vital industry of any people, that conditions of parenthood, and especially as regards its quality rather than its quantity, are the dominant factors that determine the destiny of nations.”
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“The most valuable and scholarly work yet published on the theory and practice of eugenics, covering the field adequately and exhaustively. The first book to recommend to educated readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“May be well recommended to those interested in a vital subject.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1147. N. 18, ’09. 210w.
“To learn that there is nothing in real eugenics to inspire either impatience or disgust one need only read ‘Parenthood and race culture,’ by Dr. C. W. Saleeby, that extremely able, lucid, and enthusiastic purveyor of scientific information to the unscientific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 590. O. 9, ’09. 780w.
“Dr. Saleeby is an enthusiast, not a scientist.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 190w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.=^{[6]} Daughters of the rich. $1.25. Kennerley.
9–13920.
Deals with the murder of a wife by her husband who deemed it his duty to rid himself of the woman whose deceit had kept him from marrying the woman he loved and had won him for herself.
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“It is strange that a practised hand like that of Mr. Saltus should have released to any mark but the waste-basket a thing that suggests, both in tone and style, a muddy-minded schoolboy’s first attempts to imitate De Maupassant.”
− =Nation.= 89: 16. Jl. 1, ’09. 180w.
“As for the book itself, after reading it one would welcome a case of mal de mer as a relaxation and a means of returning to the normal and wholesome by easy stages.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 360. Je. 5, ’09. 300w.
=Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin.=^{[7]} Recollections of seventy years. 2v. *$5. Badger, R. G.
9–14197.
Reminiscences of a New Hampshire man whose life has been closely related to the literary and political interests of New England for the past sixty years. The first volume is historical while the second is somewhat autobiographical, and contains intimate sketches and incidents of the members of the Concord school of philosophy and others closely connected with literary Concord.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“There is nothing of second-hand or imitation in it; and this strong character of the work, with its flavor of Concord idealism and transcendentalism, constitutes its charm. It is a noteworthy piece of autobiography and we hope it will be continued and completed.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 46: 396. Je. 16, ’09. 2000w.
“These volumes are especially interesting and valuable for the personal insight they give the reader into the character and acts of John Brown.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 211. Ag. 7, ’09. 300w.
“Despite its formlessness, and the rather too frequent resort to scissors and paste, the book is very readable. We must call particular attention to the illustrations, which include many rare portraits.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 76. Jl. 22, ’09. 1100w.
“A highly detailed picture of that remarkable and interesting group [Concord school of philosophy], and of the times in which its greatest influence was exerted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 355. Je. 5, ’09. 1150w.
=Sandeman, George.= Uncle Gregory. †$1.50. Putnam.
9–6275.
After the death of Uncle Gregory, a banker of fabulous wealth, a will is read which imposes upon a nephew and a niece the execution of various eccentric philanthropic, educational and scientific schemes and the writing of a biography. When once the execution of the will’s provisions is well under way, discoveries are made which transform Uncle Gregory into a malefactor of deep dye. A fire which sweeps away the authorized “kingdom” built up about the memory of Uncle Gregory relieving two beneficiaries of a baneful task, reminds one of the symbolism of the fire in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
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“The character sketching is excellent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Sandeman skilfully sketches the effect which the study of the dead man has upon the narrator and his sister and brother-in-law.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 371. Mr. 27. 150w.
“This story possesses the peculiar interest and fascination that always accrue to a book, as to a person, that can suggest depths of significance below what meets the casual glance.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 220w.
“There is a lot of quaint humor in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 254. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.
“There is almost too much solid reading and too little humor and romance in the story to redeem it from the charge of being a thinly disguised tract.”
− =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 100w.
“As Mr. Sandeman proceeds it becomes apparent that we have in this book the finest and most deadly criticism of the ideals and conduct of nineteenth-century English liberalism that has ever found its way into a novel. But no orthodox, old-fashioned Liberal will be able to perceive this; such a man will find the book vaguely irritating and pretend that it is dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 534. Ap. 24, ’09. 220w.
=Sando, Roscoe Briant.= American poultry culture: a complete hand book of practical and profitable poultry keeping for the great army of beginners and small breeders. *$1.50. McClurg.
9–8806.
A book for the small breeder as well as for the extensive poultry raiser which furnishes valuable and practical information on the profitable care and management of poultry.
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“One of the best books on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09.
“The book is a brief, comprehensive and valuable introduction to practical poultry raising.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 150w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
=Sands, Beatrice.= Weepers in playtime. †$1.50. Lane.
8–20349.
A novel which exposes the cruelties inflicted upon children in the orphanages and children’s homes in New York.
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=Ind.= 66: 149. Ja. 21, ’09. 150w.
“We fear Miss Sands has made a great mistake in putting her appeal to the American public in story form. It is rather dull and preachy, so that we doubt if it will effect its very creditable purpose. Moreover, those who do read it will not be able to get from it a very clear knowledge of the methods of the institutions which we are told need reforming.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 450w.
=Sandys, John Edwin.= History of classical scholarship; with chronological tables. 3v. ea. *$2.75. Putnam.
3–33012.
=v. 2.= “This second volume deals with the Revival of learning in Italy, 1321–1527, and the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (excluding Germany).... It includes the years of most enthralling interest, when the Latin classics were discovered anew, and Greek literature introduced to Europe.”—Ath.
=v. 3.= Deals with the eighteenth century in Germany, and the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States.
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“These volumes are a marvel of compression and a marvel of accuracy; more, they are not only readable, but they also hold the attention.”
+ + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 282. Mr. 6. 880w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The number of comparatively little men whom he sees fit to commemorate get in the way of even a mature reader and give a blurred impression of those great figures which ought to stand forth in their full significance. The book has great merit as a work of reference and, at the present time, is the only one of its kind in any language.”
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 291. N. ’09. 560w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Two fascinating volumes. What Dr. Sandys has done is to construct an encyclopaedia of scholarship, which will be found absolutely indispensable to all students not only of the classics but also of history and literature. As a second edition of this work is sure to be required before long, it may be worth while to point out a few ‘desiderata,’ in the hope that Dr. Sandys’ passion for accuracy and completeness may lead him to consider them.” A. C. Clark.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 561. Jl. ’09. 3400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Our main criticism of this work is that history is at times submerged in biography.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 280. Mr. 18, ’09. 1650w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Viewed in the larger aspects of history, Dr. Sandys’s book is somewhat disappointing. In its minor details, however, it is unusually scholarly and accurate, and it will therefore make a most useful work of reference, particularly as he is everywhere careful to note his sources. He has given us not a history but the materials for a history of scholarship.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 277. My. 1, ’09. 2000w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“To venture, as he has done, on an almost untrodden field, to explore the obscure annals ‘of twenty-five centuries,’ and not only to set forth the facts with scrupulous accuracy and absolute clearness, but also to estimate them with a critical and just judgment,—this is a task from which most men would have shrunk, but which Dr. Sandys has achieved.”
+ + =Spec.= 102: 184. Ja. 30, ’09. 1750w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).=^{[10]} An autobiography, from my youth up, personal reminiscences. **$1.50. Revell.
9–22854.
Frank revelations of the secret of a busy woman’s literary success, leading up to which are glimpses of literary and other folk prominent in war and reconstruction times.
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“She has much to say that will interest the large following who have read her books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the undeniable thinness of certain chapters here, and the occasional ornateness of the writer’s style, there is a quality of homely moral earnestness in this autobiography that will, with its flavor of sentimentality, endear it to a host of readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 280w.
“It is more than a book of personal revelation. The book has a double value in being a rare production of the absorbing history of the last century and of the spirit, endurance, and suffering of the people on both sides of the civil war.” H. P. Spofford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 676. O. 30, ’09. 500w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 60w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Happy school days. $1.25. Forbes.
9–8054.
A thoroly enjoyable and instructive series of talks to healthy, happy girls upon the necessity of all-around school development as a preparation for business, professional life, society and the home.
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“Somewhat sentimental but contains much that is wise and sensible and that will help girls to be more useful and agreeable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 30. S. ’09. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 60w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.=^{[11]} Reminiscences of my life. **$4. Brentano’s.
“The author writes at the age of 74, and his reminiscences cover a period of active life in his profession of over fifty-five years. The book is replete with anecdotes of Mr. Santley’s contemporaries, such as Fanny Kemble, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, etc. In the discussion of his art the author confesses frankly that he belongs to the old school, and that he finds little or no virtue in Wagner.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 419. Ap. 3. 200w. =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 30w.
“There are many new and interesting statements of fact and expressions of opinions in the new book by the famous English baritone singer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 606. O. 16, ’09. 1750w.
=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.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Professor Savage displays familiarity with a wide range of Greek authors, and his citation of their opinions in connection with the various phases of family relationships, as well as the constant use of illustrative cases, adds greatly to the interest of the book. Not so commendable, however, is the habit of giving expression to his own opinion regarding customs and conduct by the free use of adjectives. The most effective chapters in the book are those dealing with ‘Parents and children’ and ‘Adoption.’ In other respects, the book seems calculated to appeal rather to the general reader or to the student of sociology. The work is well written and is practically free from typographical errors.” R. J. Bonner.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 4: 331. Jl. ’09. 450w.
=Scarfoglio, Antonio.=^{[10]} Round the world in a motor car. *$5. Kennerley.
A sort of companion volume to that giving an account of Prince Borghese’s trip from Peking to Paris in which Signor Scarfoglio “describes in amusing detail the incidents, the adventures, the thoughts, the emotions which accompanied his motor race from Paris round the world.” (Sat. R.)
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“The translation of the brightly written narrative is excellent. It is a good book for holiday reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 328. S. 18. 780w. =Dial.= 47: 515. D. 16, ’09. 200w.
“Well-told story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. Jl. 17, ’09. 730w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d ed. of the Realencyklopädie. per v. $5. Funk.
8–20152.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“In general, the famous encyclopedia, while much improved, has been by no means brought up to date.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 654. O. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is admirably edited, compact and yet full, and the list of articles is as nearly complete as can well be made. We recommend it heartily.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1299. Je. 10, ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 3.) =Ind.= 67: 551. S. 2, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Two qualities stand out for special commendation—the comprehensiveness of aim and the brevity of the articles.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The articles on modern and living theologians, both scholars and preachers, will be found useful. Not so high praise can be accorded to the treatment of biblical and doctrinal subjects.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 561. Je. 3, ’09. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The encyclopædia continues to evidence fair, non-partisan and thorough scholarship, broadly evangelical in spirit, and scientific in temper.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 362. O. 14, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.) + − =Nation.= 89: 604. D. 16, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It compares favorably with the first volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 133. Mr. 6, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“All in all, the new volume compares favorably with the earlier installments of the work in scholarship, authoritativeness, comprehensiveness, and other qualities that make for excellence in a cylopedic work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 396. Je. 19, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 3.) + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 643. O, 23, ’09. 260w. (Review of v. 4.) =N. Y. Times.= 14: 804. D. 18, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A work which, for the next quarter-century at least, churchmen of all creeds will recognize as a standard source of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 818. Ap. 10, ’09. 270w. (Review of v. 2.) + =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work occupies a place in Protestant literature corresponding very closely with that filled by the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ in the literature of the Roman church.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Schauffler, Adolphus Frederick.=^{[11]} Sparks from a superintendent’s anvil. $1. Wilde.
9–25950.
A Sunday school handbook compiled out of the experience of a successful practical Sunday school superintendent. It contains help on the conduct of the school, on the relation of officer to teacher and teacher to pupil, and upon the best methods of organization and successful maintenance of the Sunday school.
=Schauffler, Robert Haven.=^{[12]} Romantic Germany. **$3.50. Century.
9–28287.
A charming book of travel in which is told with poetic interpretation the story of Germany’s principal cities—their people, their customs, manners and beliefs, their legends, traditions and history. The illustrations are well-chosen and artistically reproduced.
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“A brightly written book which will be a welcome addition to the scanty travel literature on Germany.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 125. D. ’09.
“Well worth waiting for is this finely composed book with its numerous sidelights and its valuable habit of summing up the places in comparison from a common point of view.” Algernon Tassin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 346. D. ’09. 650w.
“Tested by novelty of view-point and charm of style, Mr. Schauffler’s book has few rivals among recent volumes of travel-sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 460. D. 1, ’09. 230w.
“The romance, or, better, the attraction of Berlin Mr. Schauffler feels but fails to convey, because it is hard to analyze and therefore to put down.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1145. N. 18, ’09. 230w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 26. N. ’09. 30w.
“Mr. Schauffler, though undoubtedly a Stevensonian and nice in his choice of words, leaves everywhere a blurred impression, as if he had been unable to escape the proverbial heaviness of the land he studied.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 603. D. 16, ’09. 210w.
“One regrets the absence of architectural interiors, just the precise aspect that photographs could not supply.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 840. D. ’09. 80w.
“Must be counted one of the most attractive books of the season because of its subject-matter, its delightful illustrations, and the vivid interest of the writer in the places with which he deals and the people whom he describes. The illustrations are for the most part well executed and belong to the text, which is more than can be said of many books of similar intention.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 240w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 70w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Some aspects of rabbinic theology. **$2.25. Macmillan.
9–2258.
Not a philosophical exposition of the body of doctrine of the synagogue but a presentation of rabbinic opinion on various theological topics. The successive chapters treat, among other topics, God and the world; God and Israel; The election of Israel; The kingdom of God, invisible, universal, material; The law; The joy of the law; Holiness and goodness; Sin as rebellion; Forgiveness and reconciliation with God; Repentance and means of reconciliation.
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“One of the weaknesses of Prof. Schechter’s method consists in its lack of historical perspective. Prof. Schechter has not only failed to treat the positive value of the documents on which he relies, but he may also fairly be charged with over-stating the negative side of the evidence. The volume is for the most part written in Prof. Schechter’s characteristic style, which betokens quickness of perception, liveliness of imagination, and a tendency to paradox.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 251. F. 27. 900w.
“Carries on every page evidence of its author’s erudition.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 360. My. ’09. 90w.
“A book like this of Dr. Schecter’s is most welcome because it comes from one of the greatest living Jewish scholars, who, with a profound faith in his religion and his people, nevertheless is a man of the world in his scholastic culture and his human sympathies.” J. A. Montgomery.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 111. O. ’09. 1050w.
“The work has the double advantage of being at once useful to the specialist, by the new light which it throws on the subject, and accessible to the layman by its simplicity of style, and by the life and enthusiasm which animate it throughout. While the attractiveness and charming style of the book do not conceal from the careful reader the scholarship of the author, the labor in gathering such a wealth of material, and the scientific treatment of the subject.” Nima Hirschensohn.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 463. Ag. 19, ’09. 1900w.
“What might become in the hands of one less admirably equipped a mere bundle of fragments, an encyclopædic epitome of opinions, of value purely for reference, receives here a fulness and completeness to render it a permanent and authoritative contribution in its field. Both the cultivated general reader and the theologian will find the work enlightening in a surprising degree.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 600w.
“He writes with a hammer as much as a pen. A vein of humor, caustic at times, adds lightness here and there. Altogether a book to be treasured. A word of praise is due Miss Henrietta Szold for her very helpful index.” A. S. Isaacs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 75. F. 6, ’09. 1450w.
“Dr. Schechter restricts himself to important aspects of Judaism which are often misunderstood and misrepresented. While this should especially commend his work to Christian readers, its profoundly religious and ethical spirit appeals to all that is best in modern Judaism.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 865. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w.
“Himself rabbinically trained, Dr. Schecter has added (one might almost say) a new chapter to the Talmud, and a chapter unlike all the rest in this, that it is immediately intelligible to any modern man who can read English, and so far as his selected topics are concerned it explains the rest.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 263. Ag. 28, ’09. 950w.
=Scheffler, Johann (Angelus Silesius).=^{[12]} Angelus Silesius: a selection from the rhymes of a German mystic; tr. in the original meter by Paul Carus. *$1. Open ct.
9–17318.
Verses of a German mystic whose sentiments, deeply religious and philosophical, anticipate Kantian idealism. The volume contains both the German text and the English translation.
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=Dial.= 47: 522. D. 16, ’09. 90w. =Nation.= 89: 412. O. 28, ’09. 60w.
“The introduction to his translation is a distinctly valuable contribution to our knowledge of mystics and mysticism. The translations are so literal that they faithfully reflect the crudeness of phraseology, which is a not unattractive feature of the originals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 526. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
=Schenck, Ferdinand Schureman.=^{[12]} Sociology of the Bible. *$1.50. Ref. (Dutch) ch.
9–10794.
An attempt “to gather the most important facts and principles of the society of the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation; to classify them in a sociological way; and to consider what light they throw upon some of the social problems of to-day.” “The author aims his work against socialism, inasmuch as socialism, or at least many of its leaders, hold that the Bible, and especially the teachings of Christ, favor their theory of society; the first principle of which is that private ownership is unlawful, and that the present evils of our industrial, social, and economic system can be cured only by substituting for private ownership the principle of collective ownership.” (Cath. World.)
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“Though one occasionally finds some ‘obiter dictum,’ or some interpretation of the text or fact, with which, as Catholics, we cannot agree in ‘The sociology of the Bible,’ yet Catholic sociologists, and others who give thought to the deep social movement of the age, will gratefully assign to this able work a place in the library of Christian sociology.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 100. O. ’09. 600w.
“He attempts to do a good thing. Unfortunately the result fails to satisfy. His book is of little value to one who really wants to study the social ideals and institutions of the people of Israel.” E. S. Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 260w.
=Schevill, Ferdinand.=^{[5]} Siena, the story of a mediaeval commune. **$2.50. Scribner.
9–10279.
Altho the author has dealt with the political evolution of the commune his aim is not so much that of presenting the political history of Siena as one of setting forth the problem of its civilization. His method is topical rather than chronological and “by isolating for examination the nobles, the clergy, the merchants, and the other classes of the commonwealth; by following separately the developments of public and private life, by reviewing the achievements of the various arts, he offers the reader a complete “mosaic of Sienese culture.””
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“The varied equipment of Professor Schevill has enabled him to present us with the most satisfactory monograph on Siena that has yet appeared.” V. D. Scudder.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 116. O. ’09. 1100w.
“Useful for the tourist and for reference and club work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09.
“There is room for such a book as this, which is neither a volume of snap-shot impressions nor a dry compilation of archeological monographs, but a well-digested, well-balanced and well-written story of the city from its origin to its overthrow in the sixteenth century.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 984. My. 6, ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Schevill has brought to his task a rich fund of scholarly information which he has put into attractive form.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 104. Jl. 17, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Schevill has compiled his text so skilfully, interweaving fine bits from the chronicles, that his book should fully hold its own with its many excellent predecessors. Its defect is merely in the minutæ of style.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 103. Jl. 29, ’09. 470w.
“His subject, however, is scarcely worthy of the toil spent upon it. He advances no new theories, demonstrates no new hypothesis. His book is like a well-arranged museum. Its curios are carefully tabulated, but their relation to modern life is not made discernible.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 334. My. 29, ’09. 700w.
“The fault is his who, purblind, tried to treat that living sorceress, Siena as a cadaver and demonstrate on her beauty his own notions of political economy and history and demography.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 562. O. ’09. 500w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Schloss, David Frederick.=^{[8]} Insurance against unemployment. 3s. 6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
9–22194.
“The main portion of the book is devoted to a detailed statement of the laws enacted in various European cities and states regarding unemployment, with some observations on the results of these plans wherever the law has been in operation long enough for the results to be at all valuable.” The conclusions are: “(1) the system should be organized by trades; (2) it must be national; and (3) it must operate in connection with labor registration agencies.”—Econ. Bull.
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“While the arguments are not by any means conclusive, the book presents an excellent, brief discussion of the subject of insurance against unemployment.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 611. N. ’09. 130w.
“Unlike Mr. Lewis the author is not an advocate, but an investigator. His conclusions consequently have more force.” M. H. Robinson.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 162. Je. ’09. 300w. =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 384. Je. ’09. 120w. + =Spec.= 103: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 230w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.=^{[9]} Youth of the Great Elector; tr. by G: P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
9–23015.
This story of Frederick William, “The Great Elector,” begins with his birth and closes with his accession to power. The period of the terrible and devastating “Thirty years war” when the Catholics and Protestants were struggling for supremacy is clearly portrayed.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 50w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.=^{[7]} Nervousness: a brief and popular review of the moral treatment of disordered nerves. **50c. Moffat.
9–5897.
A book for laymen in which the author “devotes a goodly portion of his book to analysis of the causes, mental, moral and physical, of functional nervous troubles, and then goes on with fairly full directions for the use of ‘mental therapeutics,’ which he calls ‘the Cinderella of medical science.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Might be read by people who would not undertake the large works. Does not duplicate Dr. Mitchell’s book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09. ✠ =Nation.= 88: 635. Je. 24, ’09. 230w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 100w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.=^{[9]} With Christ in Palestine. $1.25. Fenno.
Four addresses published in the hope that they may be a help in realizing some scenes in the life of Christ, and in learning the lessons connected with them. They are: Bethlehem, or the birth of Christ; Nazareth, or the life of Christ; Capernaum, or the work of Christ; Jerusalem, or the death of Christ. A dozen reproduced photographs accompany the text.
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=Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 30w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. *$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The author’s presentation of his subject is sane and just, and his views will generally command acceptance. It must be admitted, however, that the treatment is stronger upon the historic side than in its application of these ideals to present-day conditions. Again, the political ideas are more adequately presented than the social ones. This volume will prove of value as a helpful historical resumé of the origin and development of the political ideals which have prevailed in this country. Unfortunately there is no index.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 189. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“Safe, sane, and scholarly are the proper adjectives to apply to the book as a whole.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 88. F. 1, ’09. 400w.
“It is not too much to say that Dr. Schouler’s treatment of the constitutional and philosophical principles underlying the American government is masterly and that his pages are full of suggestions for those who are concerned with the problems of the present. We deeply regret that so important a book is without an index.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
+ =Forum.= 41: 388. Ap. ’09. 470w.
=Schryver, Samuel Barnett.=^{[8]} General characters of the proteins. (Monographs on biochemistry, v. 3.) *80c. Longmans.
Agr9–1615.
A monograph whose first section “deals with the physical properties of the proteins (solubilities, crystallisation, heat coagulation, rotatory power, electrical conductivity, and so forth); the second with their general chemical characters (tests, distribution of nitrogen, compounds with acids, bases, halogens, etc.); and the third with the precipitin reaction, which is commonly known as the biological test.”—Nature.
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“The whole is treated in a technical but clear manner; references are given to the authorities quoted, and the booklet will prove a useful addition to the library of the physiologist, and should be found in every laboratory devoted to biochemical research.” W. D. H.
+ =Nature.= 80: 307. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
“A review of progress in any field of study can serve a diversity of purposes. As a summary of discoveries made it brings an up-to-date appreciation of current knowledge and makes it ready for convenient reference; and if the résumé has been critically prepared, it may fulfill the almost equally important function of pointing out the limitations of our experience in any domain and the problems awaiting solution. In the latter respect especially, Dr. Schryver’s monograph deserves commendation.” L. B. Mendel.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 121. Jl. 23, ’09. 530w.
=Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
7–36232.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)
“No recent autobiography so fully deserves the attention of those interested in the development of our national life. The lives of few men furnish so adequate a picture of the times in which they lived.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 213. Jl. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“These recollections ... are undeniably interesting, but they by no means escape the fault of prolixity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 486. O. 23. 850w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Reviewed by W. H. Johnson.
+ =Dial.= 46: 82. F. 1, ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 3.)
“All of Schurz’s descriptions of battles are vivid. None is more so than his story of Gettysburg.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 536. Mr. 11, ’09. 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A complete story of a notable life in the political annals of this country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 907. D. 12, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work is well and sometimes brilliantly written by one whose sense of point and proportion as a newspaper man or journalist, has done him good service in producing a work which is as entertaining as it is historically valuable.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 391. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is but one serious disappointment in this third and last volume of Schurz’s ‘Reminiscences’: the reminiscences proper break off almost at the beginning of Grant’s administration and of Schurz’s own service in the senate. The proof-reading, as in the earlier volumes, has evidently not been particularly good.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 66. Ja. 21, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Bancroft brought with his knowledge an intimate friendship with the late writer, and has ably done his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The most interesting portion of the reminiscences themselves to be found in the volume is the chapter that tells of Mr. Schurz’s meetings with Bismarck in the winter of 1868.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Shows no falling off in the interest and charm which distinguished the first two.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 584. Jl. 10, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Schuyler, James Dix.= Reservoirs for irrigation, water-power, and domestic water-supply; with an account of various types of dams and the methods, plans and cost of their construction; 2d ed., rev. and enl. $6. Wiley.
8–36167.
“The work consists of nine chapters, dealing with rock-fill dams, hydraulic-fill dams, masonry dams, earthen dams, steel dams, reinforced-concrete dams, natural reservoirs, and a final chapter in which photographic illustrations and descriptions of work are given which were received by the author too late for incorporation in the body of the book.” (Engin. D.) The new material includes data concerning the achievements of the past ten years, 234 new illustrations, comparative sections of masonry and earth dams, and appendices containing a table showing the acre-foot cost of 75 reservoirs, of which 45 are in the United States and 30 in foreign countries.
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“The thoroughness characterizing the work of revision is certain to be cordially appreciated by the engineering profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 172. F. ’09. 480w.
“The book should still be judged chiefly as a collection of descriptions of the large and otherwise important dams of the world. As such it is of the highest value. No one really ought to find much fault with a book which contains such a vast amount of useful information as does this one, particularly when the information as a whole is in accordance with the plan of the author, is quite convenient for reference purposes, and much of it is nowhere else accessible.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 17. F. 18, ’09. 750w.
“The volume is the most complete compilation of data relating to dams which exists in any language, and many of the structures are described in no other books available to most engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 673. D. 11, ’09. 300w.
“The style and arrangement of subject matter of the book lack uniformity and its substance is rather a collection of facts relating to dams and reservoirs than a scientific treatise thereof. Sufficient new and rewritten material has been incorporated into the text to make the book essentially a new work.” F. W. Hanna.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 792. My. 14, ’09. 400w.
=Scott, A. Maccallum.= Through Finland to St. Petersburg. *$1.25. Dutton.
9–35583.
A book for the tourist, lover of nature and general reader which “deals especially with Finland in the summer, when, as the sun rises higher and its light and heat hold the land from day to day, a great tidal wave of green rolls over the country. The ‘white nights’ of summer, when the sky is suffused with a tender brightness, when there are neither stars in the sky nor shadows upon the earth, force the vegetation, because of the constant supply of light, to a hot-house rapidity of growth, and the whole country burgeons with a magic quickness into an almost tropical jungle.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A well rounded, useful work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Scott is a practical, experienced guide; he is also an intelligent companion whose interests are wide and varied.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1139. My. 27, ’09. 80w.
“Is a somewhat dry, but instructive reference book and guide for travellers. The illustrations are an important feature and give a good idea of the country.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 424. Ap. 22, ’09. 100w.
“The men and women in whose hearts burns the wanderlust will be grateful to Mr. Scott for his book in which he spreads forth the lures of a new pleasure ground beyond the Baltic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 1150w.
“Certainly Mr. Scott’s enthusiasm does not make him a less useful guide.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 27. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson.=^{[11]} Treasuretrove. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–10787.
A novel built up about the following situation: “A burglar, disturbed in his attempt upon Mrs. Smart’s plate, bolts in a panic, leaving behind a packet of valuable jewels just stolen from another house. To Mrs. Smart ‘finding is keeping,’ and the jewels are turned into the capital necessary to launch her children in life. But everything goes wrong with the illgotten wealth, and poor Mrs. Smart sees in the misfortunes of her family the punishment for what, too late, she discerns to have been her sin. The author proclaims stridently that this view is absurd, but—well, things do happen very oddly in real life on these lines.” (Sat. R.)
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“The work contains interesting and well-contrasted characters, and the instances of heredity provided are ably selected and chronicled.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 581. My. 15. 130w.
“There is considerable that is clear and original in ‘Treasure trove,’ but as a whole it is a weak, scattering and unconvincing story.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 646. O. 23, ’09. 220w
“All the characters are well drawn, and the matron’s two interviews with the burglar are delightful.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 112. Jl. 24, ’09. 190w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn. 8–17822
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Its parts are of varying degrees of merit. In those chapters in which the author deals with the experiences of himself and his coworkers, there is much that is suggestive, and it would have been well worth the while to have developed the subjects presented.” K. E. Dopp.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 534. Ja. ’09. 1050w.
“Somewhat radical, but offers valuable material for discussion to advanced thinkers on educational lines.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 109. Ap. ’09.
“In the chapter on manual arts many valuable suggestions are given and the social mission of the common school is set forth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 189. Jl. ’09. 280w.
“It is a long look forward and a wide one that Dr. Colin A. Scott takes in ‘Social education’ and one that social workers other than the teachers for whom the book was primarily written, will find themselves enriched by sharing. To one judging socially and not pedagogically the closing chapter on the Education of the conscience is disappointing.” H. F. Greene.
+ − =Char.= 21: 782. F. 6, ’09. 1000w.
“Illuminating as it does the problem of socializing pupil activities in school life, ‘Social education’ deserves a wide reading by superintendents, principals, and teachers.” W. F. Gordy.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 196. S. ’09. 670w.
“No one who thinks about education at all, even if he has never heard of the social movement can afford to miss the book.” H: W. Holmes.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 580. O. 14, ’09. 2150w.
“The strictures above noted do not blind us to the special value of the work, which taken as a whole, makes a contribution to the school theory and practice of to-day. The author writes with an attractive and compelling style and sustains the interest to the end.” E. F. Buchner.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 111. Mr. 15, ’09. 750w.
=Scott, James Brown.=^{[12]} Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907: a series of lectures delivered before the Johns Hopkins university in the year 1908. 2v. $5. Johns Hopkins.
9–14717.
“The first volume is ‘based upon a series of lectures delivered before the Johns Hopkins university in the year 1908....’ The first three chapters give a general survey of the Genesis of the International conference and the results of the two Hague conferences. Then follow two interesting chapters on the composition of the conferences and the nature, origin, and practice of international arbitration. In the remaining eleven chapters, the various conventions, declarations, resolutions, and wishes (voeux) are carefully analyzed. The second volume contains the instructions and official reports of the American delegation, diplomatic correspondence of our government, and the texts of the various conventions, etc., of the two conferences (French and English on parallel pages).”—Am. Hist. R.
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“There has been great need of a volume in English which should analyze the work of the Second Hague conference in a manner at once interesting to the general reader and satisfactory to students and teachers of international law. For the successful accomplishment of this task Professor Scott deserves our heartiest thanks.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 151. O. ’09. 930w.
“Should be part of the equipment of college, reference and large public libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“His work shows not only the precision and balance of the scholar, the force of the statesman, but even the vision of the prophet. The work is monumental. It places the author in the very front rank of living publicists. In no matter of essential importance do we think him in error. Still we venture to point out a few trifling sins of commission and omission.” H. H.
+ + − =Ind.= 67: 598. S. 9, ’09. 2000w.
=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.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“There are a few errors and some awkward constructions which more care could have eliminated; but these are comparatively slight defects in a very creditable piece of work. Most of the documents have been published elsewhere and some of them many times, but it is well worth while to have them brought together in this convenient form.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 615. Ap. ’09. 550w.
“This is an excellent collection of documents.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 464. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“A valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 26. Ja. 1, ’09. 70w.
“An excellent volume of reference indispensable to the student of public affairs.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 317. Mr. ’09. 60w.
“Little of significance has escaped our author.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 600w.
“An authoritative account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 417. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
“The extent to which these finely formulated instruments have become by ratification binding upon the several states is not indicated.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 168. Mr. ’09. 280w.
=Scott, John Reed.=^{[5]} Woman in question. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–13917.
A story whose main action takes place on a Virginia estate whither the owner conducts a few friends for a house party. Two young widows divide the honors of the heroine, both of whom interest the eligible master of Egerton. The situation becomes complicated by the presence of the husband of one of the “widows,” a man who is a blackmailer and scoundrel—hence the separation ten years before. The release from oppression involves a crime which the author has dealt with summarily but which furnishes a mystery equal to many that require four or five hundred pages for solution.
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“Showing no special gift or skill.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 680. N. ’09. 470w.
“An ingenious and interesting narrative, light-hearted (except for the underlying tragedy), and gracefully related.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 180. S. 16, ’09. 250w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Scott’s fiction is light, but it is excellent of its class. The story has dash and verve.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 402. Je. 26, ’09. 250w.
=Scott, Robert.=^{[8]} Pauline epistles: a critical study. (Literature of the New Testament ser.) *$2. Scribner.
A study in which the author “rejects the Pauline authorship of eight out of the thirteen Pauline epistles, and regards the remaining five as in part composite. His argument is based entirely upon internal data—‘a theory of authorship based on characteristics of thought and style.’ The clue he uses is, certainly, only a hypothesis, and may, on this ground, be called unscientific; but do not all inquiries need some theory to give them coherence, and to supply a centre around which facts may crystallise?”—Hibbert J.
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“Unfortunately Dr. Scott’s arguments are not always so important as his conclusions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 530w. =Bib. World.= 33: 432. Je. ’09. 120w.
“This neglect of historical situations is perhaps the greatest weakness of the presentation. This book is not entirely valueless. It has pointed out with fresh emphasis variations of thought and expression in the Pauline writings, but the theory offered for the solution of the problem is of doubtful worth.” S. J. Case.
− + =Bib. World.= 34: 355. N. ’09. 1200w.
“The attitude of Dr. Scott is frank and fearless, but, unlike critics such as Dr. Van Manen, he is no iconoclast. His work is a sane and moderate attempt to solve the problem of these epistles by the application of critical methods.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 942. Jl. ’09. 1650w. + − =Ind.= 67: 881. O. 14, ’09. 620w.
“He writes with insight and ability, and he desires to be taken seriously. But in order that his results may be taken seriously, it would seem imperative that he should state with distinctness the canons of criticism in accordance with which he accepts as Pauline so much as he does.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 150w.
“The author has worked out his theory with care and ingenuity; but it is too complicated and elaborate, and only proves to us how subjective the ‘internal-evidence’ argument can become, and consequently how weak. Dr. Scott himself is far more convincing when he is pointing out resemblances than when he is detecting discrepancies. This book is more conservative than the author imagines.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 203. Ag. 14, ’09. 650w.
=Scott, Temple.=^{[11]} Pleasure of reading the Bible. *50c. Kennerley.
9–28013.
An essay, quite free from sectarian doctrinal bias, in which the Bible is viewed only in the light of literature. The author emphasizes the purity of the pleasure of reading the Bible leading to the cultivation of one’s sense of beauty in language and thought.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 693. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 20. Ja. ’09. + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 612. N. ’09. 170w.
“The book is practical, and fills an important position in advertising literature.” F. H. Elwell.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 64. Ap. ’09. 250w.
“The volume will be found of value both by the psychologist and the advertiser, and of unique interest to the general public that reads advertisements. It is, however, curious that a psychologist should have failed to include an index.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 93. Jl. ’09. 310w.
“The book is decidedly worth reading, especially by the increasing number of hard-headed folk who believe that a science, like a soul, is known unto all men by its fruits. Books like this deserve to be welcomed on all hands.” T: P. Bailey.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 190. Ap. 1, ’09. 1200w.
“The illustrations might have been better chosen in many cases, inasmuch as readers of the book often get from them an impression quite different from that which they are alleged to produce. To the scientific reader, also, the analysis will seem too slight and popular to be of great interest. But there is doubtless instruction in the book for the professional advertiser or the man of business who wishes to know whether or not his advertising is intelligently done.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 105. F. ’09. 120w.
=Scott, W. Major.=^{[8]} Aspects of Christian mysticism. $1. Dutton.
“Includes brief studies of twelve of the great Christian mystics, beginning with St. John and St. Paul, and ending with Peter Sterry, of Cambridge, who preached before Oliver Cromwell and who died in 1672. Each of the twelve is studied only from the point of view of his mystical teaching and as illustrating Mr. Scott’s definition of a mystic. The mystic, according to this definition, is the man who lives not in time, but in eternity. He does not regard life from the viewpoint of temporal things, but he establishes eternal correspondences with things unseen.”—Ind.
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“The sketches which Mr. Scott gives are brief and slight. They are not intended to be complete or exhaustive even of the mystical side of his subject. In fact, they may be regarded rather as hints as how to discern the mystical element in the lives of the saints. In many cases even the hints are imperfect, and there is a distinct feeling of disappointment over Mr. Scott’s failure to reach to the real heart of the subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 251. Jl. 29, ’09. 250w.
“In his treatment of mysticism the author is quite uncritical. He fails to recognize, for example, the abnormal element which almost invariably attends the more pronounced types of mystic experience, the nervous instability and the depression, often intense and protracted, by which the devotee purchases the moments of emotional exaltation.”
− =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“The book is not so much for the technical scholar as for the general reader who wants a sympathetic insight into the spiritual message of Christian mysticism.” E: S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 455. Jl. 24, ’09. 100w.
=Seabury, William Jones.=^{[5]} Memoir of Bishop Seabury. *$2. Gorham.
9–6964.
“The career of Bishop Samuel Seabury, prominent in American affairs, civic as well as religious, before, during, and after the revolution, which is of especial interest because of the important part he took in the breaking away of the American Episcopal church from the church of England.”—N. Y. Times.
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“He was a virile, energetic man of wide interests and of deep religious zeal, and his biography is full of the spirit of his times.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 16. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.
“The volume may be read with advantage, but we are not greatly impressed either with the narrative itself or with the way in which it is told.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Seager, Henry Rogers.= Economics: briefer course. *$1.75. Holt.
9–2542.
A text prepared with special reference to the needs of technical and professional schools. “The qualities chiefly aimed at in the first, or theoretical, half of the book have been clearness and brevity, and those sought in the second, or practical, half, adequacy and up-to-dateness. The treatise is thus intended primarily for teachers who wish to give only that amount of attention to economic theory that is essential to the intelligent discussion of practical economic problems.”
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“Its admirable arrangement as an elementary book for students of technical schools is its greatest merit.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 190. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“Clearness of statement, logical cogency, and the quality of up-to-dateness are the distinguishing marks of this admirable treatise, which we take pleasure in commending.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 80w.
“An interesting chapter, not found in many new text-books, is the final one on economic progress. This serves to bring the whole discussion to a head and will help to make the student feel that he has got somewhere. The book seems well adapted to its purpose.” T. N. C.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 122. Je. ’09. 120w.
“The ‘Briefer course’ contains some material not found in the larger work, and the bibliographical material is full and useful.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 60w. =Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w. =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 168. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“The ‘Briefer course,’ as one scans its pages, seems to have kept the best of the larger book, and to have shaken off a considerable part of the weight under which it labored.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 106. My. ’09. 200w.
=Seaman, Owen.= Salvage. *$1.25. Holt.
Selections, chiefly, from the author’s contributions to “Punch.”
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“The book, despite its occasional unevenness, is worthy of its author’s reputation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 815. D. 26. 320w.
“It is satirical and society-verse after the manner of Calverley—and rather a long way after. A gentle but constant smile is its highest tribute.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 368. Je. ’09. 90w.
“Those who have enjoyed his parodies will not be disappointed by these skits, in independent vein.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 762. S. 30, ’09. 60w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 133. Mr. 6, ’09. 380w.
“In Mr. Owen Seaman’s work there are no flaws that intelligence can avoid, but a hundred such as it can easily permit. Let us admit at once that he who reads one page will probably read every one. We chiefly admire the slenderness of the means by which Mr. Seaman tickles us.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 280w.
“Well sustains the reputation for fine craftsmanship and sober wit which has long been his. The satire, keen as it is, seems now and then a trifle hampered by the extreme artificiality of its medium.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 305. F. 20, ’09. 330w.
=Sears, Lorenzo.=^{[11]} Wendell Phillips, orator and agitator. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–23991.
A summary of the life of Wendell Phillips in which are set forth the qualities that made him one of the greatest of the abolitionists. “Gradually he undertook a life-long fight against slavery, and that fight he waged with courage, physical and moral; with absolutely unselfish fidelity, with intellectual force and brilliancy, and with the use of such resplendent oratorical powers as, it is safe to say, no other American has shown in like quality and measure.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The earlier biographies are fuller and take up his private life. Sears is more conservative and probably more trustworthy because the lapse of years has defined more clearly the value and significance of Phillips’ public services.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“Dr. Sears’s style suffers from an intrusive jauntiness, but it is at least clear and readable. For the thoroughness with which he has studied his sources, as well as for the skill with which he has avoided writing a history of the period instead of a life of Phillips, he is entitled to praise.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 544. D. 2, ’09. 680w.
“It is not entirely satisfactory; is somewhat lacking in discrimination and perspective, and is rather long for the amount of really valuable matter presented. But it is sincere and conscientious, and in the later part, especially in the analysis of the substance and form of Mr. Phillips’ oratory, rises to the dignity of the subject.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 538. S. 11, ’09. 900w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 100w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1. Holt.
8–15310.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The chapters are of somewhat unequal merit: those on visual contrast and after-images and on geometrical illusions seem the most adequate, and those on visual space and on association least so. On the whole, for the purpose which it has in view, that of increasing the amount of first-hand observation by beginners in psychology, the book seems likely to do good service.” R. S. Woodworth.
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 311. Mr. ’09. 480w.
“It is a valuable addition to the handbooks in psychology, and ought to be warmly welcomed in every quarter.” V. A. C. Henmon.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 53. Ja. 21, ’09. 740w.
“His formal directions are clear, and his comments illuminating. A surprising amount of general psychological information is sprinkled about.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 100w.
“The statements and directions are notably clear, and concise, and the accompanying discussion and illustrations apt and illuminating.” W. F. Dearborn.
+ =School R.= 17: 210. Mr. ’09. 470w.
=Seaton, Albert Edward.=^{[10]} Screw propeller, and other competing instruments for marine propulsion. *$4. Lippincott.
9–35798.
“This work is an expansion of the portion of the author’s ‘Manual of marine engineering’ which dealt with the subject matter. While its main subject is the screw propeller, there is space devoted to the resistance of ships, to paddle-wheel propulsion and to hydraulic propulsion.” (Engin. N.) Chapters are devoted to the following subjects: History of propulsion; Resistance of ships; Slip, cavitation and racing; Paddle wheels and their design; Internal and jet propellers; Screw propellers; Thrust and efficiency; Number and position of screws; Number, shape and proportion of propeller blades; Details and dimensions of screw propellers; Geometry of the screw; Materials of construction; Trials; Analysis of Sells’ experiments with propellers varying in pitch and surface ratio.
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“Valuable in large libraries and in small libraries in a ship or boat-building district.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09. =Engin. D.= 6: 247. S. ’09. 200w.
“There are a number of typographical and clerical errors, some of which are important. While this book is avowedly deficient from the scientific side, it contains a great deal of valuable practical information, and its empirical and semi-empirical formulas, being based upon wide experience, are of value, though not to be trusted implicitly. While the meaning is obscure in a few places, the book as a whole is clear and well written. It is interspersed here and there by pungent characteristic comments.” I. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 62; sup. 2. Jl. 15, ’09. 1550w.
“The designer will find a considerable amount of interesting and valuable material, but he will not find it presented in such a manner as to be most fruitful with reference to the application of modern experimental information to the solution of the actual problems of design. The chapters on experimental data are disappointingly meager, most of the information quoted relating to experiments distributed over a period from about 1850 to 1890.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 617. N. 27, ’09. 320w.
“As a work of reference will be found of service to all interested in the propulsion of ships.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 213. Ag. 19, ’09. 1000w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Imprisoned midshipman. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–21618.
A juvenile story which tells about two boys who sailed as midshipmen under Commodore Bainbridge when President Jefferson sent him forth to silence Tripoli in the early nineteenth century. The incidents attending capture, imprisonment and final liberation are informing and thrilling.
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“Though the style is rather lifeless and stilted, boys will find it interesting to read in connection with the author’s ‘Decatur and Somers.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
“It is full of stirring patriotism, and will interest old and young alike.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Seignobos, Charles.=^{[10]} History of contemporary civilization; translation edited by James Alton James. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–2518.
Covers “the social and economic development as well as the political events of the period from the opening of the eighteenth century to the year 1888.” (Ind.) “The later chapters have especial interest, discussing European peoples outside of Europe; arts, letters and sciences in the nineteenth century; industry, agriculture and commerce; economic reforms; democracy and socialism. A bibliography and books for supplementary reading cover seven pages.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
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“An excellent text for secondary schools and useful for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“Professor Seignobos combines the rare qualities of a profound scholar and a skillful maker of school books. It is only to be regretted that the editor did not make arrangements to bring the work up to date; in fact, this failure seems to be a fatal error for the purposes of a modern history.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 302. Ag. 5, ’09. 150w.
=Semenov, Vladimir Ivanovitch.=^{[7]} Rasplata (The reckoning). *10s. 6d. Murray, John, London.
9–23804.
A diary of the naval fighting in the Russo-Japanese war in which the author’s records made on the spot are not changed tho conflicting with later information. “He travelled overland to the seat of war, and the introductory scenes during his journey will be recognized as genuine by any one who has passed through the experience of being in a country which is on the verge of war and yet doubts the possibility of such a thing.” (Spec.)
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“We strongly recommend the account of the naval operations by Capt. Semenoff, as we did that of the land warfare by General Kuropatkin. The two books together present a complete picture of a memorable series of campaigns.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 754. Je. 26. 150w.
“Apart from its value to the future historian, is uncommonly interesting as a human document, a seemingly unpremeditated revelation of the Slav temperament among officers and men.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 340w.
“An exceptionally readable account of Russia’s naval campaigns, written from the anti-governmental standpoint, with much grasp and authority and without excessive prejudice.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 360. O. 14, ’09. 470w.
“This account ... should be read, together with the book called ‘Human bullets,’ written by a Japanese commanding in the land forces before Port Arthur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 527. S. 4, ’09. 1700w.
“An absorbing account of the voyage of the Russian Baltic fleet.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 160w.
“Those who read the book [‘Battle of Tsu-Shima’] will not care to miss ‘Rasplata’ (‘The reckoning’), which has the same qualities and is excellently translated.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 1031. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w.
=Sera, Leo G.=^{[11]} On the tracks of life: the immorality of morality; tr. from the Italian by J. M. Kennedy; with an introd. by Oscar Levy. *$2.50. Lane.
A work by a sophist of Nietzsche’s school who divides all mankind into aristocrats, workers and the transitional types between the two. “The leading topics of the book, giving its chapter-headings, are Love, the Origin of society, Work and morals, North and South (the characteristics of the peoples), Social rhythms, the Creation of genius, a Conception of civilization, two disquisitions on Aristocracies, and a chapter each on Stendhal and Nietzsche.”
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“We would not say that he is unworthy of critical notice. Despite his unfortunate immoralism, his dogmatism (as of a man who is unaccustomed to address his equals, or has a feud with them all), and the prolixity and confusion of his book, we neither dislike Signor Sera nor despair of him. He has gifts as a writer, though he wastes them through unrestraint from page to page. He also has a mind, if he could make it up; but the form he at present affects seems to us to forbid cohesion.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 401. Ap. 3. 1450w.
“His theses are clearly and vigorously expressed, his book is very diverting, or very shocking, according to the reader’s temperament, and, after all, nothing sharpens the teeth of the mind like setting them firmly into a fallacy of the tougher order.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 1500w.
“Dr. Sera is a thinker of more brilliancy than depth; his range of knowledge is wide but his conclusions often rest on very insecure and inadequate foundations. The chapter on ‘North and South,’ while containing many acute anthropological observations, is scarcely the work of a scientist. The book is, none the less, most stimulating and suggestive; it piques the reader to thought, and while much of its philosophy might prove subversive to immature minds, it is a distinctly valuable comment on modernity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 612. O. 16, ’09. 550w.
“There is much in this book over which we might naïvely wax angry, but at which a little common-sense and sense of humour will rather make us smile.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 728. Je. 5, ’09. 310w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.=^{[12]} Curiosities of the sky: a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy. **$1.40. Harper.
9–29243.
A clear, authoritative description of heavenly bodies in which the treatment is as scientific as plain language will permit. The chapters give the latest information on such topics as the coming and going of comets, the origin and career of meteors, the aurora borealis, the corona and spots on the sun, the surface of the moon, the zodiacal light, star clusters and the discovery of new stars, nebulae, and constellations, and how the constellations change.
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“Another contribution to popular science of interest and value.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1148. N. 18, ’09. 100w. + =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Biography of a silver-fox; or, Domino Reynard of Goldur town. †$1.50. Century.
9–7445.
A biography whose purpose is “to show the man-world how the fox-world lives—and above all to advertise and emphasize the beautiful monogamy of the better-class fox.” The story is built up from incidents gathered from different regions and woven into a unity whose bearing upon animal psychology is important.
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“As well suited to adults as to children, and less interesting to the latter than Mr. Seton’s earlier stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 150. My. ’09.
“It is a stirring, sympathetic narrative, and has the merit of being taken conscientiously from nature. Moreover, it is well written.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 649. My. 29. 130w.
“The story is well told, and is as interesting as any of those that have come from this author’s pen—which is as high praise as a critic could well give.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 46: 363. Je. 1, ’09. 350w.
“Tells a lively animal story in a way to interest old and young.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 867. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.
“In his hundred clever and suggestive illustrations Mr. Seton maintains his reputation as not only an artist but a naturalist.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 854. My. 15, ’09. 260w.
“As a matter of fact, Mr. Roberts’s chief advantage over Mr. Seton, aside from priority of publication, is that his is the better, more vivid, and more dramatic story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 209. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 160w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
“Mr. Seton tells one of his stories of woodland life with all his accustomed skill and sympathy.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 180w.
=Seward, Albert Charles=, ed.^{[8]} Darwin and modern science: essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Ed. for the Cambridge philosophical society and the syndics of the University press, by A. C. Seward. *$5. Putnam.
9–22596.
A symposium of twenty-eight essays contributed by eminent English and foreign scientists in commemoration of the Darwin centenary and of the jubilee of the publication of the “Origin of species.” “It is no exaggeration to speak of this work as monumental; it is a monument of greater durability than bronze or marble, because it stereotypes the collective thought of our age. For the future historian of science it must for all time serve as a landmark indicating the present stage of development of scientific doctrine in every department of human thought where science holds sway, and where the great principle of evolution has, under Darwin’s influence, served as a guide in the interpretation of both organic and inorganic nature.” (Nature.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 125. D. ’09.
“This volume is a worthy tribute to the labors of a great man. It is no ordinary panegyric, but an examination of the principles of Darwinism in the light of our present knowledge.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 704. Je. 12. 920w.
“All of these essays address themselves primarily to the intelligent public rather than to investigators, and therefore they are in a sense popular statements and not contributions to knowledge. In spite of this, they are very interesting to investigators, for personal and recent points of view are in evidence throughout, and the whole group of related topics is brought together in clear and compact form.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 308. O. ’09. 380w.
“It is a book that should be on the shelves of every library, whether public or private, which aims to reflect in its choice of books the progress of contemporary thought.” Raymond Pearl.
+ =Dial.= 47: 92. Ag. 16, ’09. 1350w.
“As an expression of modern thought concerning evolution and its tributary studies of heredity and variation no more admirable compilation than these essays has appeared in recent times.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 441. N. 4, ’09. 1050w.
“It detracts in no way from the value of this volume that it is in the best sense ‘popular’ as distinguished from technical. It is difficult, if not impossible, to impose any restriction with respect to the class of reader to which these essays will appeal.” R. Meldola.
+ =Nature.= 80: 481. Je. 24, ’09. 4000w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 237. Ap. 17, ’09. 4600w. (Detailed advance notice.) =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 50w.
“These essays then are to be welcomed as giving a frequent glimpse of that ‘onward rush of science’ which was Darwin’s fitting image and of which his own mind has been so vivid and copious a source.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 109. Jl. 24, ’09. 1300w.
Reviewed by D: S. Jordan.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 527. O. 15, ’09. 1000w.
=Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry.=^{[12]} Heart of the Antarctic: being the story of the British Antarctic expedition, 1907–1909; with an introd. by Hugh Robert Mill; an account of the first journey to the south magnetic pole by T. W. Edgeworth David. **$10. Lippincott.
9–29523.
The record of an expedition in search of the south pole. “The first volume relates the story of the expedition; the second records the various scientific data gathered by the explorers. These data, narrating what was done in the domains of geology, biology, magnetism, meteorology, and physics, will have but little interest for the reader who is more concerned with the manner of getting the material than he is with the matter itself. Of the manner—the heroic efforts and the almost Promethean suffering of the men who made the remarkable journey—the first volume is sufficient for the most greedy lover of a tale of daring-do.” (Dial.)
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“The first volume is a lucid and businesslike record of facts, all the more effective for no conscious straining after literary effect. The uniform excellence of the illustrations, which number over three hundred, is notable. The high standard set in Capt. Scott’s volumes and in the Royal society album of discovery photographs is fully maintained in this work.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 626. N. 20. 1800w.
“No one reading it will question its author’s title to a place in the ranks of the Great Explorers.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 448. D. 1, ’09. 1550w.
“We congratulate him on the reserve and the modesty which characterize his narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Valuable, however, as are the scientific results set forth in these volumes, and interesting as are the numerous illustrations, it is to the narrative of the explorations that the reader will turn with most curiosity. He will not be disappointed.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 626. D. 23, ’09. 1800w.
“A more interesting book of polar exploration than ‘The heart of the Antarctic’ has yet to be written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 765. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.
“Mr. Shackleton’s own narratives are well told and will no doubt be popular with the general reader.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 634. N. 20, ’09. 1650w.
“It would be incomprehensible to us if boys should ever want to turn to blood-and-thunder stories before they had finished the narrative in this book. Sir Ernest Shackleton has just the right combination of scientific interests and love of reckless adventure, and in this book we see the two sides of him balancing one another to perfection. The book will take its place among the great records of adventure in our language.”
+ + =Spec.= 103: 848. N. 20, ’09. 1800w.
=Shakespeare, William.=^{[6]} An evening with Shakespeare; arranged by T. Maskell Hardy. *80c. Duffield.
9–8773.
This extra volume of the Lamb Shakespeare for the young “comprises twelve tableaux, illustrated by half-tones from photographs, with introductory readings, and a prologue comprising the verses contributed by Ben Jonson to the First folio.” (N. Y. Times.) The favorite Shakespeare songs are included.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 101. F. 20, ’09. 120w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 768. Je. ’09. 40w.
“A program of an entertainment which might very well be utilised for the amusement—we might add instruction—of a young, or indeed a grown-up audience.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 646. Ap. 24, ’09. 30w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.=^{[7]} Autobiography of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler; with a supplementary memoir by his wife. **$4. Houghton.
9–16433.
A work of nearly five hundred pages which after counting out the thirty-five pages given to the index and list of the author’s publications is nearly equally divided between the autobiography and the wife’s memoir. It places special emphasis upon the influences that shaped the author’s scientific career, and reveals the character and quality of his monumental service for science.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“The wife’s continuation of her husband’s unfinished life-story could not fail to be an admiring tribute to his many virtues, while at the same time it is, by help of numerous excerpts from letters and data from other sources, a satisfying completion of the book.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 40. Jl. 16, ’09. 1200w. + =Ind.= 67: 479. Ag. 26, ’09. 800w.
“This book is a most admirable example of what a true biography of a savant ought to be if it would not only charm the scientist, but in the words of Beaconsfield, ‘appeal to the domestic sentiments of mankind.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 543. O. 2, ’09. 600w.
“One of the notable autobiographies of the year.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 100w.
“One is moved to begin whatever one may say of the whole with a word of hearty admiration for the way in which Mrs. Shaler has met the demands, and resisted the temptations, of her task.” W. G. Brown.
+ =Nation.= 89: 230. S. 9, ’09. 3600w.
“The simplicity and directness of the style of composition admits the reader of this ‘Life’ into a hospitable mental house of wide views.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“The most important book of the year in the field of biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 170w.
=Sharman, Henry Burton.= Teaching of Jesus about the future, according to the synoptic gospels. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–9476.
The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke have been used as sources for this study. The word “future” as used in the title covers the time subsequent to the final severance of relations between Jesus and his disciples. There is excluded the study of the reputed teaching of Jesus about his rejection, sufferings, resurrection and appearances after resurrection. There is included a study of such teaching about the future as is reported to have been given in the post-resurrection period of Jesus’ life.
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“A noteworthy contribution to the study of one of the most complex problems presented by the Synoptic gospels. A large number of instances might be adduced in which, in our judgment, Dr. Sharman has not done justice to the data. A discussion which is of high value even for those who are obliged to differ from the author in regard to many of his detailed results.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 450. Jl. ’09. 1050w.
“Important work.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 431. Je. ’09. 130w.
“This book is a credit to American scholarship. The strength of the book lies in its emphasis on the historical occasion and setting of Jesus’ words about the future, in the skilful and persuasive way in which in detail the different records are compared and the original words recovered, and in the general defense of an ethical, in contrast to an apocalyptical, interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. I would urge the interest and importance of the study and its value toward a right understanding both of the nature of the gospel writings and of the mind of the Master.” F. C. Porter.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 134. Ag. ’09. 1800w.
“It is a carefully paragraphed essay in documentary criticism. The historical conclusions, though reached independently, are neither novel nor startling.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 90w.
“The volume is worth thorough study by every student of the subject.” E. S. D.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 70w.
“Professor Sharman’s arguments are clearly stated and his theory logically applied.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 721. N. 6, ’09. 190w.
=Shaw, Adele Marie, and Beckwith, Carmelita.=^{[5]} Lady of the dynamos. †$1.50. Holt.
9–8814.
This narrative “takes us from the selfish society life of New York direct into the green glooms and lights of tropical life, where the hero finds his ‘lady of the dynamo,’ and where by a strange twist of fate the other woman follows him. There is acute human interest in every page of the development, while the technical part relative to the plant, the dam and the power transmission is cleverly and briskly worked out. Possibly the authors have founded their story on fact; it is certainly true that in the enterprises of this kind that are now taking electrical engineers into so many remote parts of the world, an abundance of exciting adventure presents itself.” (Elec. World.)
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“A readable tale of love and adventure.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 403. Je. ’09. 300w.
“We can heartily commend this swiftly moving story with its fine local color, as one of the books for the coming summer months.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 1113. My. 6, ’09. 220w.
“It takes high rank among stories of its genus; its species is made quite its own by many traits of cleverness and wit, and of genuine feeling for beauty of the worlds without and within.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 400w.
“A story quite capable of holding the attention of the reader whose concern is pastime—not art or edification.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 214. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.
=Shaw, Charles Gray.= Christianity and modern culture: an essay in philosophy of religion. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–6169.
“Professor Shaw is of the opinion that we have reached a crisis in the history of Christianity, and that the question is pertinent whether, in view of modern culture, we are still Christians. He undertakes to answer this question and his answer is affirmative.”—Philos. R.
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“His survey and insight are of commendable order, much as his conception of the bearing of historical criticism and consequent historical doubt does not seem to me to be quite adequate.” G: B. Foster.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 147. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“The book, taken as a whole, makes upon the reviewer the impression of opening up and slightly touching upon a great many fundamental problems without working out any of them.” J. A. Leighton.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 560. S. ’08. 480w.
=Shaw, Charles Gray.= The precinct of religion in the culture of humanity. *$2. Macmillan.
9–9816.
Contains in substance the lectures delivered in the New York university on the philosophy of religion. The subjects treated are: The essence of religion; The character of religion; The reality of religion; and The religious world-order.
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“With a strong bias for the subject—the Philosophy of religion—the writer of this slight notice is constrained to utter a protest against the many polysyllabled words, the long disquisitions which seem to lead nowhere, the arguments which fall short of the mark and prove nothing. This is the more to be regretted, as in many parts of the book, notably the latter part, the reasoning is forcible and well sustained, the thought well brought out, the statements clearly put, and instead of a woeful waste of words, the phrases are clean-cut, almost epigrammatic in their terseness.” Mary Lloyd.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 215. Jl. ’09. 170w.
“The importance of the subject deserves a clearer vision and a firmer grasp.”
− =Bib. World.= 33: 144. F. ’09. 50w.
“The reviewer cannot share the satisfaction which the author no doubt feels at having succeeded in excluding psychology almost completely from his treatment of religion. And he regrets having to record another achievement of the author as unfortunate as the first: the rich stores recently added to their respective sciences by the students of anthropology and of primitive religions have remained unused. The result of this voluntary exclusion, or ignorance, is the production of a volume as formal, remote from religious life, and therefore unprofitable, as any we have seen for a long time.” J. H. Leuba.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 250. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“It is in such statements as those just quoted that the logical defect of the work lies. While its spirit is admirable, its learning competent, and its philosophical, social, and historical criticism suggestive, it does not clearly distinguish between creation and adoption—it represents religion as originating what it only accepts and defines.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 516. My. 20, ’09. 500w.
“The book is not easy reading, and will appeal principally to the philosophical student.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 127. Mr. 6, ’09. 60w.
“What is intended to be illuminating is, through a certain lack of incisiveness, too apt to be, instead, cryptic and a little disheartening, and the real merits of the book are therefore likely to be overlooked by the less persevering. Whatever the judgment upon its results, the book shows an originality and independence which clearly indicate that it is drawing upon a fund of genuine and first-hand experience.” A. K. Rogers.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 347. My. ’09. 1000w.
=Shaw, Joseph Thompson.=^{[7]} Spain of to-day: a narrative guide to the country of the Dons, with suggestions for travellers. **$1.25. Grafton press.
9–16942.
A little volume compiled from the author’s memoranda jotted down during a season of exploration and sight-seeing in Spain. Impressions gained on the spot have made possible a “picture of scenes and conditions drawn without glamor,” showing sections a little out of ordinary line of travel.
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“It will make prime reading on the trip, after the trip, or even if one remains at home.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 220w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 30w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.=^{[12]} Blindness of Dr. Gray; or, The final law: a novel of clerical life. †$1.50. Longmans.
9–28394.
“Depicts the struggle between conservatism and modernism, the author showing a thorough comprehension of both sides as well as a large tolerance joined to an unswerving Catholic piety. The blindness of Dr. Gray is twofold, not only physical, but spiritual, in that he is under bondage to rigid theological law, and so misses a clear Christian vision and the ‘sweetness and light’ of love. Through a bitter experience ‘he saw at last the “new commandment” was the “final law” of the universe, although everything in nature and in man seems to disprove it.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“On its theological side the book is of even greater interest than on its national. The book holds its romance, and many episodes of interest; but it is too long, and over-much incumbered with side issues. Some of the characters and scenes are exaggerated, nor can we always agree with the author’s ethical estimates. It is, however, admirable in its spirit, and, on the whole, full of sound sense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 782. D. 11, ’09. 550w.
“This novel is not very artistically constructed. There are parts of it which might be retrenched without loss, and even with advantage. But, whatever its defects, the book is profoundly interesting.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 953. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.=^{[12]} Sacerdotalism in the nineteenth century: a critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
9–4570.
“Professor Sheldon has given us in this volume a concise statement of the systems of faith which exalt the priestly hierarchy, and bases his criticisms of them upon the principle that ‘so far as the church is controlled by sacerdotalism, it has turned away from the spiritual ideal of Christianity.’ The first half of the volume is concerned with the Roman type of sacerdotalism.... The Anglo-Catholic or High church movement is traced in the church of England. Patristic authority in interpretation and apostolic succession are discussed.... Less important developments of sacerdotalism are represented by the radical Neo-Lutherans, the Irvingites and the Mormons. In conclusion the author urges evangelical Protestantism to recognize its great task of maintaining itself against the sacerdotal attempts to subjugate the world to the dominion of priestly sovereignty, which is already menaced by increased intellectual activity.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“With ample learning, fine logical acumen, and sufficient polemical zeal, this well-known church historian has produced a very useful polemic.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 653. O. ’09. 80w.
“As a work in polemics this volume is generally strong and is of value to the student of the relations of church and state as well as to the theologian.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 190. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“It is questionable whether the book does anything more than retell a twice-told tale. However, so long as such views are held it is as well that they should be generally known and clearly stated. Prof. Sheldon has contributed to such a clear understanding of them. And for a controversial work his book is fairly free from the spirit of bitterness.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
=Sheldon, Samuel; Mason, Hobart; and Hausmann, Erich.=^{[5]} Alternating-current machines; being the second volume of Dynamo electric machinery, its construction, design and operation. 7th ed., completely rewritten. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
8–30354.
“In the present edition the subject-matter has been thoroughly revised in order to keep it abreast of the best going practice.” (Engin. D.) “On comparing this seventh edition with the first, one of the most important additions noticed is the group of 12 problems placed at the close of each chapter, and embodying the application of principles studied therein. The use of imaginary complex numbers has been resorted to for extended study of impedance and admittance of circuits. This was carefully avoided at first. A third important addition is the matter of single-phase series motors, which have come into prominence through recent notable advances in alternating-current railroad engineering.” (Engin. N.)
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“The descriptive matter relating to the various types of apparatus is somewhat brief, but it is to the point and covers the features of interest sufficiently for the ordinary needs of the engineering student.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 1604. Je. 24, ’09. 350w.
“Engineers, other than electrical, who have occasion to inform themselves on any particular phase of the subject, will find the book of value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 417. Ap. ’09. 230w.
“The rearrangement will add to the value of the book for many teachers and students, but will probably detract from its popularity with a few others on account of an apparent loss of simplicity.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 50. Ap. 15, ’09. 340w. + =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 50w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.=^{[11]} Gilbert White and Selborne. *$1.50. Scribner.
An appreciation of the naturalist, Gilbert White, and his writings, especially “Cameos from the Natural history of Selborne.”
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“For a charming and easy glimpse into the best aspect of eighteenth-century life we can commend these fluent pages.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 439. N. 4, ’09. 130w.
“This little book is not badly done so far as it goes, but there is nothing in it that has not often been said before.”
− + =Nature.= 81: 334. S. 16, ’09. 100w.
“Affords a biography of the famous naturalist which can be read with pleasure and profit as a sort of preface to his work. It is written in an easy, well-rounded style, but is rather more verbose and inclined to the use of ornament than usually suits the fancy of American readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 769. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“This is in every way a worthy tribute to the character and genius of the great naturalist.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 425. S. 18, ’09. 280w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.=^{[11]} Inns and taverns of old London. $3. Page.
9–28080.
Sets forth the historical and literary associations of the ancient hostelries, together with an account of the most notable coffee houses, clubs and pleasure gardens of the British metropolis. “From Chaucer’s old Tabard Inn, with which he starts, to Finch’s Grotto Gardens, with which the author closes, he keeps the reader almost in a state of bewilderment with the names of the great and witty of England, and with anecdotes of their social life.” (Nation.)
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Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 67: 1350. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“The book is a notable addition to the series of popular travel books issued in late years in uniform style by the same publishers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 788. N. 6, ’09. 100w.
“In a good part of the book he traverses the same ground as Timbs, in his well-known ‘Club life of London,’ and the later work, by its too great jauntiness and rapidity, suffers from the comparison. But Mr. Shelley has a good subject, and his writing certainly cannot be condemned for heaviness. Though his style is light, there is evidence that he has turned over many books to get his material together.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 180w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=^{[12]} Letters; collected and ed. by Roger Ingpen. 2v. **$6. Scribner.
“Into the two volumes before us Mr. Ingpen has collected with pious and indefatigable labour the whole scattered mass of Shelley’s extant correspondence; he has arranged it in chronological order and annotated it throughout, giving besides a sketch of the personal history of each correspondent. So that if a man’s character, as Cardinal Newman thought, is best revealed by his familiar letters, every reader now may draw his own portrait of the ‘real’ Shelley.”—Spec.
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“The text of the letters and their annotation show commendable care and study. The unavoidable vice in a work like this, if vice it must be called, is that any one disposed to take it as a book to be read right through will probably find himself near the end of the first volume before he begins to be deeply interested in what the poet has to say to his correspondents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 550. N. 6. 1700w.
“Mr. Ingpen’s edition of the letters represents a new documentary contribution to our knowledge of Shelley rather than a new interpretation.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 778. D. 11, ’09. 360w. =Spec.= 103: 889. N. 27, ’09. 2100w.
=Sherman, William Tecumseh.=^{[11]} Home letters of General Sherman; ed. by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. **$2. Scribner.
9–26989.
“During the first years of the war his letters are grim pictures of undisciplined and often cowardly troops, whose conduct filled him with disgust. As the effect of his rigorous discipline began to show, and as his position became more assured, and the hated politicians let him more alone, his spirits rose, and his letters were more hopeful. It is a fine study of gradual growth in efficiency, and the contrast between the beginning and end of the war is really wonderful. The early letters are of interest as showing the conditions under which Sherman’s character was formed, but the war-time correspondence is truly thrilling, though couched in the cool, measured language characteristic of the great general.”—Outlook.
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“Apart from the popular interest, which must be roused by this unique collection of letters, its historical value will be recognized by every specialist.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
“No one can read the ‘Home letters of General Sherman’ without being conscious of electrical contact with a nature of exceptional strength and contagious energy.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 190w.
“Their historic importance, not to speak of their biographical significance, is very great.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 170w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.=^{[10]} Stained glass tours in England. *$2.50. Lane.
9–35797.
“In this book the author has done for England what he did in a previous work for France. He conducts the reader through various tours to cathedral cities and other places of interest, where fine examples of stained glass may be seen. Mr. Sherrill has all an American’s enthusiasm for things English, and writes as interestingly and as sympathetically about stained glass in this country as he did in ‘Stained glass tours in France.’ The various itineraries he maps out for the reader strike one as being extremely well arranged.”—Int. Studio.
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“The glass in cathedrals, churches, universities, and civic and private buildings is described with enthusiasm and discrimination.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“Apart from its undoubted charm, the work should prove of very practical value as a guide book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 328. O. ’09. 100w.
“A volume which European tourists will find readable and instructive.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 544. O. 2, ’09. 60w.
“A companionable and useful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 567. S. 25, ’09. 220w.
“A book which not only proves him to be a true lover of mediaeval glass, but proves also his enlightened comprehension of its evolution and its changing style.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 96. Jl. 17. ’09. 1600w.
=Shield, Alice.= Henry Stuart, cardinal of York, and his times; with introd. by Andrew Lang. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–37058.
“Although the ambition to recapture the crown of England made no appeal to the heart of Henry, Duke of York, and he would have nothing to do with intrigues and struggles looking toward that end, Miss Shield has written his story as a part of the troubled domestic and political history of his house, and closely intertwined with the activities, misfortunes, and fates of his father and his brother. Her book evidences profound and careful study of the men and movements of the time, and shows a penetrating appreciation of the characters of her subject and his near relatives.”—N. Y. Times.
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“There is abundant evidence of the keenest research; but the result is desultory in its preoccupation with the detail of what was at the same time a romantic and a quiet life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 611. My. 22. 1100w.
“The newest part of the book is the account of the quarrels and ‘tracasseries’ which took place time and again between the prince and his ‘just’ father, but even here we should have been glad if the writer had not tried so conscientiously to be loyal to her Stuart ideals.” A. F. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 409. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“She writes well, with an ever-present sense of the purely human interest and value of incident and character and with a freshness of touch which makes her work interesting without lessening its scholarly quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 210w.
“The present biography is well and sympathetically written, and contains much interesting information, especially on the miserable married life of Prince Charlie.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 601. My. 8, ’09. 670w.
“There is much that is pleasant reading in Miss Shield’s account.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 308. F. 20, ’09. 430w.
=Shields, Thomas Edward.=^{[6]} Making and the unmaking of a dullard. *$1. Catholic education press.
9–6592.
A book of distinct educational value which traces the career of a dullard from the early cause found in the assignment of too heavy tasks by a stupid teacher to the awakening to self-confidence after years of toil on a farm. The invention of a grubbing machine marks the beginning of his ascent which in time leads to a doctor’s degree. “As in all modern books on education, our present elementary school system is severely criticised.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Cath. World.= 89: 397. Je. ’09. 350w.
“He has opened up new links of thought in a delicate and abstruse field of inquiry, and no one who knows and loves children will fail to see and follow the wisdom of his prescriptions.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 105. Jl. 17, ’09. 140w.
“Although Dr. Shields handles the form rather awkwardly, the persons being far too impersonal, and quoting, like a book, long passages from newspapers and periodicals, still the chief character, Dr. Studevan, holds our attention throughout with the convincing narrative of his boyhood and youth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 500w.
=Shillington, Violet Mary, and Chapman, Annie B. W.= Commercial relations of England and Portugal. *$2. Dutton.
8–3943.
“In this work, containing the substance of two theses approved for the degree of Doctor of science (economics) in the University of London, the authors have dealt systematically with the subject of the famous commercial intercourse between this country and the Portuguese kingdom from 1200 to 1807.” (Ath.) “For the student of American colonial history much light is thrown by this book on England’s commercial policy and the effects of colonial trade on her attitude toward other European countries.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The importance of the subject and the absence of any previous general treatment fully justifies their presentation in their present form. The two parts of the book are of unequal length and of unequal value to the student, though this does not indicate any inferiority in Miss Shillington, who discusses the medieval period down to 1487. Lack of material has necessarily made her treatment of this portion rather sketchy.” A. C. Howland.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 216. Ja. ’09. 580w.
“It may be fairly admitted that the historical method pursued by the authors is both original and scientific. We have no hesitation in predicting that this work will at once take a place amongst the recognized authorities for the history of English commerce. The arrangement of the book, if somewhat inconvenient, is at least methodical and suggestive.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 509. Ap. 25. 300w.
“Such general outlines are not at all unfamiliar, but they are supplemented in this volume by a mass of detailed information, which bears witness to wide and discriminating research. Fresh light is thrown upon the period 1756–86. Beawes’s ‘Lex mercatoria’ might perhaps be added to the authors’ excellent bibliography; the map that faces the title-page requires some explanation.” G. B. H.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 615. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Brontës; life and letters. *$6. Scribner.
9–557.
An attempt to present a full and final record of the lives of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, from the biographies of Mrs. Gaskell and others, and from numerous hitherto unpublished manuscripts and letters.
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“The most complete and authoritative biography in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“We close the book with the feeling that any man of discernment who has mastered its contents should have a just view of the author of ‘Jane Eyre.’ Of the splendid and secluded genius of ‘Wuthering Heights’ all that industry can gather is here, but she remains an inscrutable figure.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 535. O. 31. 1200w.
“A stern critic might argue that these two great tragic volumes are lengthy, are monotonous, contain among their seven hundred and eleven letters many that were not worth preserving from a literary point of view, or even, in some cases, for any purpose of throwing fresh light on the character or genius, the joys or sufferings, of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. There would be more than a grain of literal truth in all this. Yet, in spite of these objections, we doubt whether any really open-minded reader would find it possible to lay these volumes down with a page still unread.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1058. D. 19, ’08. 1650w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Napoleon and his fellow travellers: ed. with introd. and notes. *$4. Cassell.
9–18479.
“A collection of some little-known narratives by eyewitnesses relating to Napoleon’s sojourn on the ‘Bellerophon’ and the ‘Northumberland.’” (Spec.) “The most valuable of the narratives in this volume is that of the Hon. W. H. Lyttleton. It describes his interview with Bonaparte on board the Northumberland.” (Ath.)
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“If Mr. Shorter had given us a really critical study of these narratives, his book might have been welcomed; but his footnotes are in the main biographical notices of the persons named in the text. Here and there he adds a few trifling corrections, but they are, as a rule, on trivial personal matters. His introduction bears marks of partisanship and does not impress us with his knowledge of the Napoleonic age.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 40. Ja. 9. 550w.
“Of more real interest, however, than any of these narratives is Mr. Shorter’s introduction in which he criticises the existing biographies of Napoleon.” H. T. Peck.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 303. My. ’09. 1400w.
“The accounts of all these eye-witnesses, written from different angles of vision and with varying emotions, are of intense human interest and offer valuable material for historical and psychological study.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 170w.
“Every reader who has a taste for curious and personal details connected with great historical events—and who has not?—will be grateful to Mr. Shorter for bringing these forgotten narratives once more into circulation.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1101. D. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Oratory of the South: from the civil war to the present time. *$3. Neale.
8–35842.
A book of excerpts culled from the addresses of prominent latter-day southern speakers. Together they form a volume of representative southern oratory since the civil war.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 45. Ja. 23, ’09. 170w.
=Shute, Henry Augustus.=^{[12]} Farming it. **$1.20. Houghton.
9–29850.
A story of a commuter’s life on two and a half acres of land, in which lively emphasis is placed upon a series of barnyard adversities. He has the usual trying experiences of a farmer which are related humorously and from which he finally emerges to view calmly and dispassionately the accrued advantages of such a life: “I have brought my farm to a high state of fertility, hardened my hands, strengthened my muscles, cured my indigestion, and benefited every member of my family, and I have never neglected in any way the duties of my profession.”
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“This is a wholesome and invigorating sort of book, take it all in all, with an abundant leaven of common sense to relieve its obstreperous play of drollery. It contains passages also, of a serious quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 739. N. 27, ’09. 1000w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullmann), and Paynter, Mrs.=^{[12]} Children’s book of gardening. *$2. Macmillan.
An attractively illustrated book whose aim is that of telling juvenile readers how to make their gardens grow, and the information, free from description, reflection or amusements, keeps within the limits of what a child can do. The author discusses the situation and soil, tells how to make certain annuals and hardy perennials yield satisfaction; talks about rock and wall gardens; difficult and shady gardens; window, room and Japanese gardens; fruit and vegetables; and adds a calendar of work and an index.
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“Will bring much satisfaction to English young people.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1370. D. 16, ’09. 20w.
=Sidgwick, Frank=, ed. Ballads and lyrics of love. **$2. Stokes.
Consists of selections from Percy’s “Reliques of ancient English poetry.” including “King Estmet,” “Lord Thomas and fair Annett,” “Fair Margaret and sweet William,” “King Cophetua and the beggar maid.”
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“Chosen with scholarship and taste. We note as a distinct blot in the editing that no indication of the authorship of the known lyrics is given. Mr. Byam Shaw has caught the romance and humor, the simplicity and colour and ‘abandon,’ which characterize these indigenous flowers of the British soil.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 332. S. 19. 160w.
“Illustrated, not without crudeness, after Byam Shaw.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Sidis, Boris.=^{[5]} Experimental study of sleep. *$1. Badger, R: G.
9–140.
To atone for the indifference of school-physiology to the subject of sleep the author gives an exposition of his observations and experiments on sleep. The pamphlet treats the subject experimentally and theoretically.
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“A bibliography of about 250 titles is appended, but it has no relation to the matter of the monograph, for few of the books and articles are referred to in the body of the work, and some of those to which attention is called are not included in the bibliography. It is unfortunate that the author did not consider it necessary to be more specific in the bibliography because dates, and, in referring to general works not especially pertaining to the subject, page references would have added to its value.” S. I. Franz.
− =J. Philos.= 6: 442. Ag. 5, ’09. 450w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy, and Lyall, Sophie.=^{[9]} Dutch bulbs and gardens; 24 plates by Mima Nixon. (Color books.) *$2. Macmillan.
9–35799.
“A book that leavens technical information with a bit of comment and reflection here and there on Dutch character and life, and adorns both with all the colors of tulip and hyacinth and crocus and snowdrop in the twenty-four full-page plates painted by Miss Mima Nixon, and reproduced by the color process. The text is credited to Miss Una Silberrad and Miss Sophie Lyall, the descriptions being probably mostly Miss Lyall’s; the touches of human interest Miss Silberrad’s. But the bulb’s the thing in text and picture, not the people who grow it and sell it. To lovers of flowers the book is therefore primarily addrest.”—R. of Rs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“Is naturally a book to delight all lovers of flowers and gardens; but the story of bulb-growing in Holland is entertaining enough to make a much wider appeal, and the authors have taken full advantage of that fact to introduce a variety of interests besides the horticultural one.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 270w. + =Ind.= 67: 484. Ag. 26, ’09. 120w. + =Nation.= 89: 288. S. 23, ’09. 330w. + − =Spec.= 102: 983. Je. 19, ’09. 160w.
=Silburn, Percy Arthur B.=^{[8]} Colonies and imperial defense. $2. Longmans.
A discussion whose burden is cooperation between the colonies and the mother country. The author “does not believe in direct monetary colonial contributions for the support of the Imperial navy, although he is convinced the colonies should depend upon that navy and not undertake to have navies of their own. His contention is that each unit in the empire should, at its own expense, provide adequate land defenses for its coasts, and establish absolutely safe harbors of refuge and coaling stations for the use of the Imperial navy. In addition each unit should assume some responsibility for the Imperial army in men, money, horses, and equipment.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 200w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 260w.
=Sill, Louise Morgan.= Sunnyfield. †$1.25. Harper.
9–7336.
Sunnyfield is the playground of two lively, resourceful town children where they romp, dig, plant, have picnics and circuses. To be sure they are very much guarded and tended by maids and coachmen; which fact reduces to a minimum the round of accidents falling to the lot of the normal boy and girl.
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“The authoress shows a thorough sympathy with child life. Not a single ‘goody-goody’ type is to be found.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 730. Ap. 24, ’09. 240w.
=Simpson, Frederick Moore.=^{[7]} History of architectural development. (Architects’ lib.) 3v. ea. *$6. Longmans.
=v. 2.= Mediaeval.
“The first half of the volume is occupied with such details of churches as arches, arch-mouldings and labels, columns, piers, capitals, bases, walls, buttresses, plinths, windows, vaultings, towers and spires, mural decoration, and other ornamental adjuncts, all discussed and illustrated seriatim, much valuable technical information being given; and the second part is devoted to a consideration of the churches as integral structures.”—Int. Studio.
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“Though the churches dealt with by Prof. Simpson have been described many times before, there is so much freshness and originality in the author’s treatment of the subject, the result of personal acquaintance with most of the structures he deals with, that the work has every right to rank among the standard literature of the subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 77. Jl. ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The quality of sympathetic understanding of a difficult subject distinguishes Mr. Simpson’s work on mediaeval architecture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These oddities with some of spelling are worth noting solely because the book is so admirable; sound, compact, amazingly complete, within the moderate compass of three hundred and seventy-five pages, and not a little delightful.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 258. Ag. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Simpson, Patrick Carnegie.=^{[12]} Life of Principal Rainy. 2v. *$6. Doran.
“More of the man is revealed in Mr. Patrick Carnegie Simpson’s ‘Life of Principal Rainy,’ but here, too, the chief interest is historical, not biographical in the closer personal sense—historical and sometimes almost controversial. This was unavoidable, for, as his biographer says, Rainy’s ‘ambition was to study and teach or write church history; his task, to make it.’ Rainy’s close connection with the history of the Scotch church during the last half century—its ‘apologia’ Mr. Simpson calls him—has given the book its color and direction.”—Ind.
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“The interest of these volumes is politico-ecclesiastical rather than literary. Mr. Simpson is a Free churchman, looking at things from his hero’s point of view, misreading some, and extenuating many proceedings which an impartial biographer would have interpreted otherwise or condemned.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 584. N. 13. 1350w. =Ind.= 67: 1140. N. 18, ’09. 90w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 784. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
“A book which, in spite of certain blemishes, is worthy of its subject. To begin with, he has the proper standpoint for such a task. But, further, he is a student of general church history and an interested observer of secular policies, so his book has none of the narrowness of too many ecclesiastical biographies. When he is picturesque, he falls into odd grammar and strange locutions. As our final criticism of a remarkable piece of work, we would note that in one or two passages his mind scarcely seems to bite upon the subject at issue.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 557. O. 9, ’09. 1850w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr., and Williams, Michael.= Good health and how we won it; with an account of the new hygiene. **$1.20. Stokes.
9–2074.
A book which represents the combined efforts of two health seekers to gather up the present day new health knowledge and to present it in form that can be used by the average man. Here are brief, practical results of investigators, path-breakers on the journey to health. Important facts are furnished on what to eat, how to eat, health and the mind, diet reform, breathing, exercise, bathing, cleanliness, etc.
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=Ind.= 67: 1092. N. 11, ’09. 340w. =Lit. D.= 38: 474. Mr. 20, ’09. 140w.
“In brief, compact, and simple form it presents a compilation and summary from which one may quickly and easily learn what the great food reformers think and know about their subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 260w.
=Sinclair, William Macdonald.=^{[12]} Memorials of St. Paul’s cathedral. *$4. Jacobs.
Although it was supposed that Dean Milman’s “Annals” contained the final history of the great cathedral, changes have taken place since 1868 when that volume was written. The record of these changes and the reforms that have been instituted there have furnished the author an incentive for bringing the history down to date.
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“He has evidently read widely all that is of any worth among the numerous printed books which have, in whole or in part, dealt with the history or fabric of the great cathedral church of St. Paul, and shows no small ability in the assimilation of his materials.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 701. D. 4. 1500w.
“The book is both a history and a guidebook, and contains many valuable biographical notes.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 360w.
“The book before us is one which no lover of St. Paul’s would willingly be without; it is at once a chronicle of the highest interest and a valuable guide. But the Archdeacon must give it a careful revision in future editions.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 716. N. 6, ’09. 720w.
=Sindall, R. W.=^{[8]} Manufacture of paper; with illustrations, and a bibliography of works relating to cellulose and paper-making. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–14835.
An elementary textbook telling what paper is made of and how it is made. “What the skill of the engineer does, and what the knowledge of the chemist supplies, are here set forth. Analyses of the substances chiefly used, esparto grass, for instance, and wood-pulp, are given. Various quantities and uses of the article are distinguished.” (Spec.)
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“The author’s well-known ability to deal with his subject is displayed in a concise and thoroughly well-planned book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 430. O. 9. 90w.
“The book will be of practical service to those who purchase as to those who manufacture paper.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 633. D. 23, ’09. 40w.
“Is as regards matter, a series of sectional chapters dealing with aspects of the industry and its processes, with no continuity or cohesion of plan; and as regards ‘form’ there is not merely an absence of style, but a disregard of accuracy of definition and precision of statement which, in an elementary text-book, as it claims to be, is a usual feature of distinction as of moral influence on the mind of the student reader. Such a work can be commended to a certain class of readers, notably those representing the stationers or consumers, and also those who require general information without regard to close accuracy. There is certainly room for a work of this character, and with a rigorous revision the volume might be made a useful addition to the literature of paper making.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 422. Je. 10, ’09. 580w.
“The book should be in the hands of every newspaper, magazine, and book producer.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 470. Ap. 10, ’09. 100w.
“The whole subject is treated by an expert.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 544. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Singleton, Esther.=^{[10]} Dutch New York: manners and customs of New Amsterdam in the 17th century. *$3.50. Dodd.
9–24462.
“A picture of the daily life of the worthy burghers, their wives and children, their orchards and gardens, their houses, furniture, silver, glass, curios and ornaments, their housekeeping, servants and slaves, their provisions for the education of their children, their business, recreations, sports and festivals, their courtship and marriage customs, their physicians and surgeons, tavern and excise laws, their religion, superstitions, and many other things.”—Ind.
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“Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer’s ‘Gude vrouw of Mana-ha-ta’ and Alice Morse Earle’s ‘Colonial days in old New York’ cover the same ground but not so thoroughly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09.
“Miss Esther Singleton brings to her latest research a valuable background of related information.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 453. D. 1, ’09. 360w. =Ind.= 67: 757. S. 30, ’09. 150w.
“Is perhaps the most important book thus far issued that bears the name of Esther Singleton as author.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1352. D. 16, ’09. 110w.
“The work is not only timely in its appearance, but should remain a valuable storehouse from which historians may derive illuminating paragraphs for their own future books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 638. O. 16, ’09. 130w.
“Presents as far as it goes a faithful and interesting picture. One fault to be found with it, however, is that she sometimes fails to specify plainly enough whether she is writing of life in old or new Holland.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 547. S. 18, ’09. 950w. + =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
“This volume on the American metropolis during the period of Dutch dominion seems to us particularly well done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 150w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp.^{[12]} Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
9–27135.
“It was of course impossible to include in one volume all the notable cathedrals; so Miss Singleton has added to those universally agreed upon as the most celebrated, others that will offer to the reader the greatest possible variety of instruction and pleasure. A still more varied programme is secured by mingling architectural, descriptive, and historical selections and including a few impressionistic pictures, like Mr. Arthur Symons’s of Bourges, and Gautier’s of St. Isaac. Each selection is accompanied by an excellent photograph of the cathedral in question.”—Dial.
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“Altogether Miss Singleton has achieved an excellent handbook, interesting in itself and well adapted to introduce its readers to more detailed and less alluring studies of cathedral lore.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 462. D. 1, ’09. 90w. + =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 60w.
“It will be useful as a traveling-companion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“This sort of stitchery does not lend itself to criticism, but possibly what Goethe had to say about Strassburg might still afford a titbit, while Viollet-le-Duc, if only for piety’s sake, should not have been ignored. Still for those who take their reading in capsules there are few more intelligent and amiable pharmacists than Miss Singleton.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 582. D. 9, ’09. 130w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
=Singleton, Esther. Holland.= (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Will be found useful in supplementing cyclopedias and art histories for information about minor Dutch artists.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 84. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It is not only comprehensive in scope, but salient in matter.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 100w.
“A compilation from all sorts of sources, put together without discoverable method.”
− =Nation.= 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 180w.
“So far as a general impression may be trusted there are few if any errors in the statement of known facts. Occasionally, in giving a colloquial turn to her accounts of the artists, the author seems to mix things up somewhat.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’09. 230w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 125. Ja. ’09. 20w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Turkey and the Balkan states, as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–35947.
“Gives a general idea of the history, the present conditions, and the character of the people of Turkey, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Roumania by means of quotations from the published works of modern travelers. Among the authors who are thus quoted are Edward A. Freeman, for the history of Turkey; William J. J. Spry, John Foster Fraser, Harry de Windt, Helene Vacaresco, Herbert Vivian, Lady Thompson, Sutherland Menzies, and others. A good deal of space is devoted to description of the life, manners and customs of the Balkan peoples and of the Turks. The illustrations, of which there are many, are from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A very timely book and one which shows how quickly and acceptably such a volume can be prepared by the trained compiler.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 3: 808. D. 26, ’08. 160w. + =Outlook.= 91: 64. Ja. 9, ’09. 170w.
=Singmaster, Elsie.=^{[10]} When Sarah saved the day. †$1. Houghton.
9–27449.
The story of a little Pennsylvania Dutch girl who, orphaned at the age of fifteen, resolutely sets to work alone to fight a whole colony of uncles and aunts who had designs on the farm left her and her small brother and sisters by her parents. How she saves the day with the aid of the village school teacher is quite dramatically told.
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“It is not often that we find among children’s books a story that is so full of local color, and so Dickenslike in its humor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 60w.
=Slater, Rev. Thomas.=^{[10]} Short history of moral theology. 50c. Benziger.
9–26330.
Traces the chief stages in the development of Catholic moral theology. Two periods are treated: The patristic period, and The modern period.
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“He does not write for the scholar who delights in and demands detailed analyses of problems and evidences, but for the busy man of affairs, of students of other sciences, who want only a general but reliable knowledge of this subject. Such readers will find his book interesting and instructive.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 258. N. ’09. 70w.
=Sloan, Patrick James.=^{[5]} Sunday-school director’s guide to success. *$1. Benziger.
9–7555.
A book for the Sunday-school organizer and director. “Here teacher and pupil, methods and material equipment, souls and bodies, are all considered from the point of view of the man who is ultimately responsible for the success or failure of this serious charge. How serious it is, and how far from successful, commonly speaking, it is in one or two very important respects, Father Sloan tells us very clearly.” (Cath. World.)
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“He treats the entire subject systematically and in an eminently practical way.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 251. My. ’09. 200w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.=^{[11]} Cameralists: the pioneers of German social polity. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–26389.
A second volume in a series on the preparation for sociology in the fragmentary work of the nineteenth century social sciences. It deals with cameralism as a single factor of the German state and presents a digest of everything in the writings of the leading cameralists which is necessary to an impartial conclusion about their meaning for the German social sciences.
=Smile= on the face of the tiger. 50c. Bacon & Brown, Boston.
8–33306.
A group of limericks supposed to be edited by Charles Knowles Bolton of the Boston Athenaeum. Its contributors include David Starr Jordan, Arlo Bates, Carolyn Wells and Du Maurier.
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“A diverting collection of limericks.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 80w. =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Arthur D. Howden.= Fighting the Turk in the Balkans: an American’s adventures with the Macedonian revolutionists. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–540.
Not a history of political events but a presentation of a phase of twentieth-century life which is unknown to the general reader. The author says: “I have pictured Macedonia as I saw it. I have tried to put into the pages the feelings of the chetnik life, with its wild surge of emotions, tense and over-strained. I have tried to portray the swift moving procession of picturesque types that I have met, each with a strange and distinctive individuality—brave women, Turkish askares, chetniks, priests, doctors, lawyers, peasants, white-kilted mountaineers, and voivodes. And I have tried to picture, too, the land that was the stage for the drama, with its rugged towering mountains, its dark ravines and the torrents that swept impetuously through them.”
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 85. Mr. ’09. ✠ + =Dial.= 46: 191. Mr. 16, ’09. 340w.
“He has made a very readable book out of his adventures, and has done so without adventuring too far into heroics or calling to his aid the dazzling vocabulary of the modern war correspondent. One reservation we would make is that the Bulgarians cannot quite be the utterly angelic folk our author makes them.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 44. Ja. 14, ’09. 300w.
“A very remarkable story of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 36. Ja. 16, ’09. 720w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“A vivid and readable description of the fighting on the part of the Bulgars.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 293. F. 6, ’09. 330w.
“His style is graphic and entertaining.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 50w. =Spec.= 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 80w.
=Smith, Arthur W.=, comp.^{[7]} Selected bibliography, sanitary science and allied subjects; prepared for the use of classes in sanitary science in the College of liberal arts, University of Colorado, pa. *50c. Stechert.
W9–150.
A bibliography prepared for Colorado students containing 420 titles carefully arranged under fourteen heads. While in point of books and periodicals referred to there is a suggestion of local needs, the book will be generally useful.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 182. Je. ’09.
“Although limited and somewhat unbalanced in range, this bibliography contains a considerable number of useful references. The bibliography promises to be serviceable to many aside from those for whom it was specifically designed.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 59. My. 13, ’09. 200w.
=Smith, Charles Foster.=^{[10]} Reminiscences and sketches. *$1.25. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
9–12185.
Contains reminiscences and biographical sketches of prominent educators and writers, chiefly Americans, Matthew Arnold being a notable exception, with a few essays at the end of the volume.
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“Entertaining essays written in a sprightly and reminiscent vein.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 592. O. 9, ’09. 100w.
=Smith, David Eugene.=^{[10]} Teaching of arithmetic. (Teachers’ college record, v. 10, no. 1.) 75c. Teachers college.
9–28791.
A reprint, with revisions and additions, from the Teachers’ college record, volume 10, no. 1.
=Smith, Edwin Burritt.=^{[6]} Essays and addresses. **$2.50. McClurg.
9–14434.
A group of twenty-two papers that have grown out of the author’s life long study of municipal government, his earnest thought about the problems of the nation, and his intimate knowledge of stirring passages in the history of Chicago and Illinois. The civic student will find much food for thought in the author’s observations made chiefly in the city whose municipal government, he says, “is one of the most complex, insufficient, and corrupt in the world.”
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“The book is full of information, suggestion and purpose. It is a valuable contribution, because while it solves no problems, it shows us where they really lie.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 430. S. ’09. 350w.
“Their enduring value lies in the sterling quality of their Americanism, their sturdy upholding of its true ideals.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 984. O. 28, ’09. 170w.
“A dignified memorial of a life dedicated to public service.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 139. Ag. 12, ’09. 330w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.=^{[11]} Forty minutes late, and other stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–25819.
“Mainly character studies presented with the vivacity and human interest of the short story. Mr. Smith has a wonderful gift for dramatization. Such an incident as arriving forty minutes late at a lecture hall in the west, which would be a mere nothing in the hands of a man less keenly observant of character and less vivacious in presenting situations, becomes a capital piece of narrative, full of humor, with neat little etched portraits of half a dozen country people of various kinds, and especially of the lecturer himself. ‘The man in the high water boots’ is another example of Mr. Smith’s extraordinary gift of portraiture. It is an outline drawing of an artist executed in a spirit of royal good fellowship and also of keen discernment of artistic values.”—Outlook.
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“All evidencing the author’s genial interest in people and events and his ability to find picturesque or diverting elements in the slightest or most unpromising situations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 93. N. ’09. ✠
“He has the true artist’s propensity for depicting Bohemian life and seems never so happy as when lost in some out-of-the-way nook in the old world.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 688. O. 23, ’09. 180w.
“Their gathering together under a common title and between the covers of a real book does not very much disguise the ephemerality of F. Hopkinson Smith’s most recent tales. The faults and the merits of Mr. Smith’s short stories, at their average degree of both, are as the faults and merits of our monthly journalism of shilling quality.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 461. N. 11, ’09. 200w.
“They are all good, and each will give Mr. Smith’s old and new friends assured pleasure in the reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 667. O. 23, ’09. 630w.
“One might say of this collection of stories, as of its predecessors, that it overflows with friendliness and enjoyment of life, and that it furnishes a capital example of impressionistic writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 170w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.=^{[11]} Lady of Big Shanty; with a foreword by F. Hopkinson Smith. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–27447.
A story of the Adirondacks in which a New York banker, worn out with artificial society and alarmed over the peril of inconstancy threatening his wife, prepares a wilderness habitation as sumptuous as money and skill can make it, and, with authority that precludes opposition, sets down in the midst of it a rebellious wife and a delightful daughter. The story concerns itself chiefly with the Lady of Big Shanty’s awakening, in this primeval environment, to the real and fundamental facts of life.
=Smith, Geoffrey.=^{[6]} Naturalist in Tasmania. *$2.50. Oxford.
9–18498.
A volume which embodies the results of an expedition undertaken to study the fresh-water life of Tasmania. “The book itself is devoted to descriptions of the fauna and flora of the island, descriptions given with much literary skill, and pleasantly diversified with the personal experiences of the author. Tasmania is more favoured by nature than its great neighbour Australia. It can even boast a native tiger, and its streams and lakes had not to be peopled from Europe. The volume is amply illustrated.” (Spec.)
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“One rises from the reading of this admirable book feeling that the author has kept faith with one, and has given, a good view of Tasmania and its natural characteristics.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 517. My. 20, ’09. 580w.
“The most striking part of the book is Mr. Smith’s valuable contributions to knowledge of the primitive Tasmanian fresh-water shrimps, of which he discovered a new genus.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 61. Jl. 15, ’09. 520w.
“Mr. Geoffrey Smith has made a very pleasant and readable book out of his scientific researches in Tasmania.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 311. F. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Smith, Goldwin.=^{[5]} No refuge but in truth. **$1. Putnam.
9–15873.
“The author deals with the ordinary and well-known difficulties that attend religious thinking to-day, and trusts that in spite of them there is a spiritual order as well as a physical one. But he brings no new contribution to the problem, and he utterly fails to appreciate the present methods of theological thought.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Although the beautifully printed book contains less than a hundred pages, yet, like the tiny branches of a loaded fruit-tree, they are richly stored with great thoughts and noble sentiments.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 103. Ag. 16, ’09. 220w.
“A very commonplace production. Our author’s concept is as outgrown as the concept he seeks to overthrow.” E. S. D.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 220w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 30w.
“The little book, a mere pamphlet, is well worth reading, though only indirectly can it be said to throw light upon the questions at issue.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 293. F. 20, ’09. 1500w.
=Smith, Jonah Walker.=^{[9]} Dustless roads, tar macadam: a practical treatise for engineers, surveyors and others; with numerous il. and tables. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–18587.
“The subjects dealt with are divided into fifteen chapters relating to tar macadam as a remedy for dust nuisance; the necessity for standardisation in construction; tar; aggregates for tar macadam; preparation and laying; mechanical mixing; effect of wear and tear; scavenging, watering, and maintenance; camber, gradient, noiselessness, and hygienic advantages; tractive effort; statistics of road mileage; cost of maintenance; and tar spraying. There are twenty-four illustrations and a tabulated analysis of the replies to queries.”—Nature.
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“The small or moderate sized library having Judson’s ‘Road preservation’ will scarcely need this.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09. =Engin. D.= 6: 156. Ag. ’09. 170w.
“The serviceability of the book is slightly impaired by an unfortunate lack of attention to proper paragraphing. The book contains scarcely a reference to any other form of dustless road construction or dust palliative other than those which involve the use of tar. We wish there were more engineering books equally satisfactory in character.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 900w.
“This book ought to be carefully studied by all surveyors having charge of roads subject to motor traffic.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 92. Jl. 22, ’09. 1150w.
=Smith, John Bernhard.=^{[6]} Our insect friends and enemies: the relation of insects to man, to other animals, to one another, and to plants, with a chapter on the war against insects. **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–12630.
The influence of insects on human life is given due importance in this volume which treats both the disastrous and beneficial aspects. A chapter on their influence in agriculture and an account of the war that is waging against them by the sanitarium, the householder and the agriculturist add interest to the book.
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“Of value to farmers, house-wives, sanitarians and general readers in search of information.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09. ✠
“One would have to search far in the literature of entomology to find a volume at once more readable and informing than is this book by Mr. Smith.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 544. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“The service which this book renders in giving us accurate and easily available knowledge on this little-understood subject is inestimable.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 74. Ag. 1, ’09. 320w.
“The pages are crowded with information interesting to the casual reader and specifically valuable to whom it may concern.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 110w.
“One may confidently say that it is his best work. It retains the features of thoroughness and accuracy that mark his former publications and give them such technical scientific and economical value.”
+ + =Nation.= 89: 216. S. 2, ’09. 900w.
“A very timely contribution to our summer literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 770w.
“A careful reading of this book shows it to be quite different in scope from any of its predecessors. The book is remarkably free from typographical or other errors, the only one noticed being a mis-spelled specific name. This volume should find a place in every library of entomological works, and every public library should have a copy.” W. E. Britton.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 30: 283. Ag. 27, ’09. 550w.
=Smith, Joseph Russell.= Ocean carrier: a history and analysis of the service and a discussion of the rates of ocean transportation. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–37658.
An economic discussion which is the outgrowth of the study of three questions—the development of line traffic, the combinations among carriers to control rates, and the combination of steamship lines and railways. From a wide range of material the author has traced the main lines of past development and reveals the dominant factors in the present situation. Part 1 treats The service of the ocean carrier; Part 2, The rates of the ocean carrier.
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“A valuable work that has had no predecessor either in point of subjects covered or extent and authority of information.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 50. F. ’09.
“Is the best treatment we have of the subject in the English language.” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 133. Je. ’09. 600w.
“It is as fascinating as a novel. One or more copies ought to be placed in the library of every engineering school and its reading might well be required in the course. The student will gain from it some history and economics that he will obtain from no other source, in addition to accurate knowledge concerning a world industry that may at some future day be of great value to him.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 17. F. 18, ’09. 450w.
“Despite its obvious merits, the book falls short of the expectations of the reader. The work is announced by the author as, primarily, an economic study of the development of line traffic; of combinations among carriers to control rates; and of combinations among steamship lines and railways. In the opinion of the reviewer, little has been developed on the economics of the subject which is not as adequately and more compactly presented elsewhere.” R. H. Hess.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 376. Je. ’09. 900w.
“Dr. Smith’s book may be recommended alike to all interested in transportation. Its style is interesting enough for the general reader, and its illustrations are excellent.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 1100w.
“His treatment of the subject is both novel and interesting.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 60w.
=Smith, Mary Prudence Wells.=^{[11]} Boys and girls of seventy-seven. (Old Deerfield ser.) †$1.25. Little.
9–25388.
The fourth in the “Old Deerfield series.” It centers around the family of Colonel David Wells of the Massachusetts militia. The historical events, with which the characters of the story are concerned, are those of the time just preceding Burgoyne’s surrender.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 139. D. ’09.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 67: 1365. D. 16, ’09. 30w. =Lit. D.= 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 30w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 785. D. 11, ’09. 50w.
=Smith, Nicholas.=^{[8]} Grant, the man of mystery. *$1.50. Young ch.
9–16449.
A work growing out of the author’s genuine admiration for Grant the man, soldier and statesman. He says: “I wish to illustrate and illuminate with exactness the qualities of this great man: His true manliness; his stern justice and womanly gentleness; his supreme self-possession, and simplicity and rectitude; his single-heartedness; his true-hearted patriotism; his justice and mercifulness in peace as well as his terribleness in war; his absolute freedom from corrupt communication; his greatness unmixed with personal ambition; his abiding faith in himself, in his tried friends, in his comrades in arms, and in his God.”
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“The personal note in the book is eulogistic thruout, but while the eulogy is somewhat lavish, it is on the whole discriminating. The volume is an excellent one out of which to get a first acquaintance with the great commander.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 256. Jl. 29, ’09. 130w.
“We may not have needed another Grant book, but it will not hurt any of us to have this one, and very likely it will be of more or less service in the excellent portrayal it will make of Grant’s personality to some benighted ones, who, up to the present moment, have not learned what an admirable man he was.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.
=Smith, Percy J.= Lettering and writing: a series of alphabets and their decorative treatment, with examples and notes illustrative of construction, arrangement, spacing and adaptation of letters to materials. *$1.50. Scribner.
9–4093.
“Consists of 16 plates in a neat case, each 13–1/2 in. by 8–1/2 in., giving examples for a course of systematic study of lettering and writing.... We are glad to welcome any sign of growing interest in this most simple of the decorative arts—one within the reach of everybody with the sense of form and pattern. These sheets, or some like them, should be hung up in every school in the country, elementary or middle-class, as well as in the schools of art for which they are particularly designed.”—Ath.
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“These sheets will be found useful by teachers of the subject and students who desire to continue their work at home.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 21. Ja. 2. 150w.
“They are well worth study by all who are interested in the art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 791. D. 19, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Sheila Kaye-.= Tramping methodist. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A story depicting the times immediately succeeding Wesley and his work for methodism. The hero, distrait with the narrow practices of the Established church, breaks away and joins a group of traveling methodists. “And now begins the fermenting of a real plot in a good old English way. It deals with past injuries and present vengeances; with faithful love and loyal self-sacrifice; with treachery, murder, and sudden death; with foul prison life, and freedom on Sussex downs; with fervent religious faith, even to the brink of martyrdom, and rescue by the arm of the Lord.” (Nation.)
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“She has the gift of impregnating her story with the atmosphere of the period, and has contrived to give a wonderfully life-like picture of rural life in Kent and Sussex at the close of the eighteenth century. Written with considerable beauty and pathos.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 220w.
“After the slight preliminary depression, after dogma has yielded to piety, it is a story of real substance and interest, in a vein uncommon now, a welcome return to dignified ways of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 93. Ja. 28, ’09. 370w.
=Smoley, Constantine.= Smoley’s tables; parallel tables of logarithms and squares, angles and logarithmic functions corresponding to given bevels, together with a complete set of five-decimal logarithmic-trigonometric tables, for engineers, architects and students. 5th ed., rev. *$3.50. Eng. news.
8–21492.
“This new edition of the well-known tables of squares and logarithms of foot-and-inch dimensions has been enlarged by adding (1) a multiplication table of rivet-spacing up to 30 spaces, for eighths of an inch from 1 in. to 6 ins.; (2) five-place logarithm tables of numbers and of trigonometric fractions, and (3) a table of the natural values of trigonometric fractions. The book becomes more bulky through the increase in contents, but not enough to become unhandy.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Elec. World.= 53: 583. Mr. 4, ’09. 110w.
“With these additions the book not only is adapted for all classes of technical work, excepting such as requires 7-place tables, but becomes a universal calculator, being available for computation with British or metric measures.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 55. Ja. ’09. 280w. + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 37. Mr. 18, ’09. 80w.
“The table of logarithmic functions is arranged in an unusually clear manner and accompanied by proportional parts in fairly large type, so that it is particularly handy for frequent use.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 706. D. 19, ’08. 150w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Araminta. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–4191.
“Having given us a clinical novel in Henry Northcote, Mr. Snaith has now been happily moved to open a Georgian casement on modern Mayfair.” (Spec.) It deals with the social success of a country girl who when decked out by a Paris dressmaker bears resemblance to an ancestral Gainsborough portrait. Her worldly-minded aunt, an earl and a duke and a young artist are the foils for this heroine who “talks like an adorable idiot, who has a child’s heart and the intellect of a baby.” (Ind.)
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“A clever story, in light satirical vein.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 93. Mr. ’09.
“Mr. Snaith has pushed the ‘ingénue’ beyond the borders of our faith, but he has made the results amusing. Indeed, there is only one objection we have to his story, and that is in the ‘volte-face’ which he makes Cheriton take. However, this is an extravaganza, and a most entertaining one.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 220w.
“Mr. Snaith here, as in ‘Lady Barbarity,’ does not always know when he has given us enough, and his undoubted skill in working out a humorous situation would have shown to far better advantage if Araminta’s adventures had been half as long.”
− + =Atlan.= 103: 702. My. ’09. 780w.
“New and quite remarkable volume with which Mr. J. C. Snaith has fulfilled the splendid promise already shown in ‘Broke of Covenden’ and ‘William Jordan, jr.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 315. My. ’09. 860w.
“Delicious comedy of manners. The book has some degree of kinship with the later novels of Mr. Locke, and even more with Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Halfway house,’ but it is by no means an imitation of anything.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 480w.
“It is full of humor and of good humor, a touch of cynicism like a slight hoarfrost adds piquancy to its clever characterization of a few London types.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 707. Ap. 1, ’09. 270w. =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 250w.
“Readers need look for nothing but entertainment, but they will find that in plenty, and in company of which they need not be ashamed. Araminta is a book of quality about quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 440w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
“A fresh entertaining tale. All in all, it is a wholesome, humorous, beguiling tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 250w.
“It is a story which pleases one in the reading and leaves one with the sense that life is not all ‘hustle.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 469. Ap. 10, ’09. 220w.
“It is disfigured at times by lapses in taste and gross improbabilities in the treatment of incident. But with all reserves, it is a work with many engaging qualities—high spirits, a sense of the human comedy, and an exuberance of style which harmonises with the theme.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 504. Mr. 27, ’09. 750w.
=Snider, Denton Jacques.= Abraham Lincoln: an interpretation in biography. $1.50. Sigma pub. co., St. Louis, Mo.
8–37344.
“Here Lincoln is treated as “an instrument in the hands of the Almighty and of the people to fulfil the grand behest of the ages” and as mediating this particular American folk-soul of ours with the universal world-spirit, the prime mover in and over history.”
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“That he had a heart for woman’s as well as mother’s love, is told with pleasing effect by Mr. Denton J. Snider, in a style perhaps a little over-studied and over-conscious.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 262. F. 4, ’09. 180w.
“This conception of Lincoln will appeal only to a select few; ordinary folk will find it uninteresting and hard to understand.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 100w.
=Snyder, Charles McCoy.=^{[12]} Flaw in the sapphire. **$1. Metropolitan press, 1 Madison av., N. Y.
9–24257.
A tale within a tale. “A young man in the old clothes’ business, possessing a rich Irish brogue and a face like Disraeli’s, is the starting point. This nondescript buys a ‘dickey’ in three layers, and finds on the back of each layer an installment of a wild yarn about a sapphire, which keeps him buying dickies and ever more dickies to find out what happened next.... Sandwiched in between the reading of the dickies is the narration of the young man’s quest for work, his experiences after he finds it, and his adventures with a lovely widow.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The tales show considerable ingenuity and fertility of invention, and the between stories accounts of the young man’s doings reveal not a little knowledge of real life and ability to express it with brevity and humor. But the impression the book leaves can be compared only to that of a night full of unassorted dreams.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 675. O. 30, ’09. 220w.
=Snyder, Edwin Reagan.=^{[12]} Legal status of rural high schools in the United States, with special reference to the methods employed in extending state aid to secondary education in rural communities. (Teachers college, Columbia univ., Contributions to education, no. 24.) $1.50. Teachers college.
9–18047.
Presents “the development and the legal status of rural high schools in the United States and the influence of legislation upon the number and location of new schools, particularly in so far as the same may have been influenced by the extension of state aid in certain of the commonwealths.”
=Snyder, Harry.= Human foods and their nutritive value. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–34269.
Covers the character of the different foods, their composition, preparation and preservation; explains the nutritive value of foods; and includes a chapter on laboratory practice.
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“The book is well adapted to school and college use.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 315. Mr. ’09. 70w.
“A very valuable textbook. He takes no sides and his discussion of food materials is excellent.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1091. N. 11, ’09. 60w.
“Smacks of the experiment station, and is a text-book of decidedly elementary quality.”
− =Nation.= 88: 231. Mr. 4, ’09. 200w.
“Naturally in so small a book the information is often meagre, but it appears to be generally trustworthy. The treatment, though elementary, should serve to make the work a good introduction to the study of dietetics.” C. Simmonds.
+ =Nature.= 80: 366. My. 27, ’09. 380w.
“A conveniently arranged, compact textbook on the nutritive value of foods.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 30w.
“This volume will not only supply a need, but will satisfy a real want. Not only teachers and students but the business man who has been warned by his physician to take thought for his diet, the club woman who has to ‘write up a paper’ will find sound science as well as useful information about the many kinds of human foods. It would have added to the value of the volume as a text-book if some of the illustrations had been better prepared. The water analyst wishes there had been a word of caution on page 278 as to the metals of which cheap water stills are often made.” E. H. Richards.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 187. Ja. 29, ’09. 470w.
=Snyder, Harry.= Soils and fertilizers. 3d ed. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–19269.
“The first edition ... gave in logical and systematic form a brief course in agricultural physics and chemistry, and in the practise deducible therefrom, and was widely used in our agricultural colleges by both students and teachers.” (Science.) For the present edition the body of the text has been revised to include the rapid advance of agricultural science, and many illustrations have been added.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 67. F. ’09.
“A large amount of well-arranged information which should prove interesting to many general readers.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 418. O. 29, ’08. 430w.
“One recognizes plainly the ring of the diction of one who knows whereof he speaks from personal investigation. The index is somewhat scantier than it should be for convenience of reference.” E. W. Hilgard.
+ − =Science.= n.s. 28: 926. D. 25, ’08. 580w.
=Soares, Theodore Gerald.= Heroes of Israel: text of the hero stories with notes and questions for young students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–1398.
A textbook for students which will be followed by the teacher’s manual. “The volume contains the text of the stories, with explanatory notes and questions intended to stimulate study. Each lesson consists of a complete story arranged in such a way as to impress the main features of the narrative clearly upon the student’s mind. The explanatory material is reduced to a minimum.” (Preface.)
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“In this book the author separates the stories from the mass of often unsuitable material in which they lie; he edits the old text with care, and he presents vivid, dramatic narratives of the great personalities of Israel.” H: F. Cope.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 351. My. ’09. 370w.
=Soddy, Frederick.=^{[7]} Interpretation of radium. (Science ser., no. 26.) **$1.75. Putnam.
W9–194.
A story of the discovery of the radio-active substances and of the rapid development of our experimental and theoretical knowledge of the subject, with its possibility of the transmutation of the elements and the existence of atomic energy.
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“The subject is too simply presented for the specialist and hardly simply enough for the casual reader, but it will interest readers having some knowledge of science, and be valuable to teachers and students of kindred subjects.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 126. D. ’09.
“Is certainly timely. Mr. Soddy’s book, even to those who are not expert in its subject, [is deeply interesting.] There only remains to be pointed out some small slips which are probably to be attributed to the carelessness in preparation which is perhaps inseparable from the occupations of an ardent experimenter. If, as seems likely, the book becomes a standard work on the subject, these trifling faults may be worth correction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 562. My. 8. 1900w.
“Although the matter has been worked over and expanded, it still bears the impress of the lecture-room, and in consequence suffers somewhat when read in book form. It is a pity that a book that is in other respects so good, should be marred by such crudities. Mr. Soddy’s work bears the stamp of the trained scientific thinker, and he should not permit himself to set so pernicious an example.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 585. Je. 10, ’09. 800w.
“The book will be found quite up-to-date.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 368. My. 27, ’09. 160w.
“It is quite impossible within the narrow limits of a newspaper review to do justice to the manner in which Mr. Frederick Soddy has performed his task—to the judgment, restraint, lucidity he has used in building up bit by bit the whole amazing revelation—so that he who reads finds himself at the end sitting firm, and, as it were, accustomed, in face of a set of solid facts which at the beginning he could have regarded only as figments of the wildest fantasy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 431. Jl. 10, ’09. 1150w.
“A most admirably conceived exposition which ... supports its unfailing charm by the legitimate interests—pointed here into a fascination that may arrest even an habitually desultory reader—of science at once genuinely and delightfully taught.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 167. Jl. 31, ’09. 1400w.
=Solereder, Hans.= Systematic anatomy of the dicotyledons: a handbook for laboratories of pure and applied botany; tr. by L. A. Boodle and F. E. Fritsch; rev. by D. H. Scott. 2v. ea. *$8.75. Oxford.
9–572.
Valuable “to any one actually working in the laboratory at the comparative anatomy of a natural order or a group of genera.” (Science.) “The work is encyclopaedic, gathering to itself every reference which was accessible to the author, and it thus possesses high bibliographical importance.” (Nation.) Contents: v. 1, Introduction, polypetalae, gamopetalae, with 153 figures in the text; v. 2, Monochlamydeae, addenda, including remarks, with 36 figures in the text.
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“The work is essentially one for use in the laboratory, and for advanced students generally. For such it is well fitted and instructive.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 412. Ap. 3. 350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Considered from the side of applied botany, the work may be regarded as indispensable to the economic botanist and the pure-food expert.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 101. Jl. 30, ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In our notice of the early volume attention was called to the thoroughness with which the literature of the subject had been ransacked and coordinated. In this instalment the thoroughness is as marked, and the vast amount of material brought together is made accessible by a copious index.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 418. O. 29, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Solereder’s work will occupy much the same position as a work of reference for the morphological botanist as the ‘Index Kewensis’ does for the pure systematist. One looks through its pages in the hopes of finding that some light may be shed on complicated taxonomic problems, only to be disappointed. It only remains to praise most highly the way in which Messrs. Boodle and Fritsch, under the careful editorship of Dr. Scott, have carried out the very arduous work of translating a volume, every page of which seems scarcely large enough to contain the solid and pregnant matter with which it is crowded.” A. W. H.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 211. D. 24, ’08. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Sonnichsen, Albert.=^{[10]} Confessions of a Macedonian bandit. **$1.50. Duffield.
9–24946.
A sprightly account of the author’s hazardous experiences among the Macedonian bandits whose costume he adopted and whose ways he studied while looking into conditions in the turbulent Balkans for the Macedonian committee of revolution of which he was a member.
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“Interesting as an inside view of the situation but is raw material for a book rather than the finished product.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 50. O. ’09.
“As a picture of people and conditions unfamiliar to most readers the book has decided merits. A lack is felt in the absence of any preliminary or supplementary chapter to acquaint the forgetful or ignorant reader with the political conditions bearing on the narrative, and to explain more clearly how and with what ostensible purpose the writer gained so speedy access to the companionship and confidence of the brigand chiefs. Finally, either a glossary defining the local terms used, or a condescending willingness to use English equivalents, would have been appreciated by the plain reader.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 239. O. 1, ’09. 350w.
“Delightful reading. The only criticism to be made is that it should have been longer, for Mr. Sonnichsen gives barely enough information concerning the feuds and counter-feuds, plots and counter-plots, of the various revolutionary factors at work in Macedonia and across the frontier in Bulgaria.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 230w.
“Aside from its interest as a book of travel out of the beaten path, the ‘Confessions’ throw a good deal of light on the recent revolution in Turkey.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 560w.
“A lively story of adventure, with a good deal of useful historical and political description and comment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 70w.
=Sons= of the Puritans: by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“This book is a volume that it would be well for fathers to place in the hands of their children. Works like this should be in every private as well as public library.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 605. D. ’08. 730w.
“A worthy memorial of the eleven men whose names adorn its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 144. Mr. 1, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Soper, George Albert.= Air and ventilation of subways. $2.50. Wiley.
8–20678.
As a result of the study of the characteristics of the air in the subway this work “summarizes 2,000 pages of the author’s data, and includes valuable studies of other subways in this country and in Europe, as well as excellent statements of the underlying principles upon which air of enclosed spaces should be investigated, particularly when occupied by lungbreathing animals, which, of course, includes the subway hog.” (Engin. N.)
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“Aside from its manifest value to sanitary engineers, the book will prove of service to all who are interested in knowing what good and bad air consists in, and how to deal with it in subways and other enclosed spaces.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 305. S. ’08. 330w.
“Some little errors may be pointed out.” C: F. McKenna.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 920w.
“While the technical parts of the book are of interest only to a limited number of readers, the portions in which the author gives his conclusions concerning subway air and ventilation are likely to prove instructive reading to subway travelers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 363. S. 25, ’09. 150w.
=Soper, George Albert.=^{[10]} Modern methods of street cleaning. *$3. Eng. news.
9–21872.
“Mr. Soper, a member of the American society of engineers, expounds the principles of street cleaning with scientific precision. From actual experience he is able to give an account of how streets are cleaned in London, Manchester, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Amsterdam, and New York. The book is profusely illustrated and the machinery of scavenging set forth as it is used in the cities among which Mr. Soper made a tour of three years.”—Lit. D.
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“The book is profusely illustrated with views taken by the author of street conditions in different cities, which depict various devices and systems in use for the cleaning of streets and the removal and disposal of refuse. This feature of the book cannot be too highly commended.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 245. S. ’09. 200w.
“Its chief interest will be found in the contrast between the efficiency and cost of the work abroad and here.” S. Whinery.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 43. N. 18, ’09. 1400w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 544. O. 2, ’09. 180w.
“It is probable that in every one of the cities Dr. Soper visited in his tour of study there is something in the way of plant or practice that may be studied profitably by the street cleaners of other cities, and that is what makes Dr. Soper’s book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 567. S. 25, ’09. 320w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 130w.
=South, Richard=. Moths of the British Isles. (Wayside and woodland ser.) 2 ser. ea. *$3. Warne.
9–19099.
=ser. 1.= “The first series, comprised in the present volume, deals with the families ‘sphingidæ’ to ‘noctuidæ,’ and the arrangement is almost the same as in Staudinger’s Catalogue of 1901. The book may be slipped into the pocket, and the information is fairly full without being unduly technical.”—Spec.
=ser. 2.= Comprises the families noctuidæ to hepialidæ. “Little attempt is made to describe the perfect insects; and indeed a good figure is in many cases sufficient for the identification of many insects; but the range of variation is usually indicated, and caterpillars, habits and localities are usually recorded in detail.” (Nature.) There are 873 colored figures of every species and many varieties, also drawings of eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids and food plants.
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“An admirable pocket guide to British moths.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 140w. (Review of first series.)
“The great care bestowed on the preparation of the book ... will ensure for it a warm welcome from naturalists, to whom also its convenient size will be an attraction.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 110w. (Review of first series.)
“Books on British butterflies and moths are now plentiful enough, but we have never seen any which have pleased us so well as the series of which this book is the second volume.” W. F. K.
+ =Nature.= 77: 483. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w. (Review of first series.)
“We have already spoken favourably of the earlier volumes, and it is now our pleasing duty to say that there is no falling-off in the execution of the text and plates of the volume before us. The letterpress is very good and up-to-date, but we do not notice on pp. 55 and 56 any reference to the two specimens of ‘Thalpochares parva’ taken by Dr. Battersby at Torquay in 1859.” W. F. K.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 427. F. 11, ’09. 250w. (Review of second series.)
“The work is admirably done, and as a pocket guide companion to the same author’s ‘Butterflies of the British Isles,’ this second series of British moths will be appreciated for the beauty and clarity of its treatment by all students of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 206. Ap. 10, ’09. 130w. (Review of second series.)
“The feature of the book is the coloured figure of each species.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 130w. (Review of first series.)
=South African native races committee=, ed. South African natives: their progress and present condition. *$2. Dutton.
9–8739.
Aims to furnish information in regard to the present conditions in South African colonies and to aid in the adoption by the different colonies of a uniform and progressive policy toward the natives. It deals with such subjects as occupations, land tenure, taxation, administration, legal status, education and churches.
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Reviewed by U. G. Weatherly.
=Econ. Bull.= 2: 166. Je. ’09. 550w. =Ind.= 66: 1346. Je. 17, ’09. 600w.
“The work has a value for all who have to deal with a similar condition of one race ruling another of a lower grade of civilization, but vastly superior in numbers.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 115. F. 27, ’09. 200w. =Outlook.= 92: 270. My. 29, ’09. 350w. =Sat. R.= 108: 114. Jl. 24, ’09. 200w.
“The Committee are perfectly fair and candid. They start with no prepossession except a desire to do honestly by the natives; they seek laboriously for facts; they respect expert opinion; and their conclusions are modest and convincing.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 267. F. 13, ’09. 620w.
=Spalding, Frederick Putnam.= Text-book on roads and pavements. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *$2. Wiley.
8–28614.
While primarily intended for classes in engineering this book serves as a handbook for the general reader. “The many changes in methods of construction and maintenance, due in part to new traffic conditions, has made it necessary for the author to practically rewrite several chapters for this the third edition. In this, as in former editions, the author discusses the principles involved in the construction and maintenance of the various kinds of streets and roads.” (Science.)
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“The best recent practice in highway work is represented.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 123. Ap. ’09. =Engin.= D. 5: 412. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“The treatment is systematic and logical; the style is terse and the statements of facts are generally accurate and free from ambiguity. The critical reader will, however, note a few exceptions to the last statement. On the whole, it may be said without reservation that the book is the best elementary text-book on roads and pavements yet produced.” S. Whinery.
+ − =Engin.= N. 60: sup. 694. D. 17, ’08. 440w.
“This is a practical book, and is advanced in character. On the whole, the author covers his subject well. However, the first chapter could have been more complete.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 27. Ja. 2, ’09. 500w.
“The information given is practical and useful.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 337. Ja. 21, ’09. 570w.
“The chapters on brick and bituminous pavements are probably the strongest features of the book.” A. S. Cushman.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 77. Ja. 8, ’09. 770w.
=Spargo, John.= Spiritual significance of modern socialism. *50c. Huebsch.
8–33324.
“The main thesis seems to be that while many socialists do interpret socialism in terms of economic gain, there grows constantly the tendency to see modern capitalism as a menace to free thought, true religion, social sympathy and many of the prized features of true culture. Socialism is to be conceived of as a protest against the eclipse of the essentials to a higher culture. In this sense appears a spiritual significance of modern socialism.”—Char.
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“An eloquent and attractive appeal to the church to become an organ of socialism.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 126. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“One of the best pro-socialist books, serving as a good introduction for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 110. Ap. ’09.
“Mr. Spargo writes with enthusiasm and spiritual earnestness, but his fundamental assumption is wrong.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 465. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“This little book should be read by every thoughtful man and woman in the republic. It is in our judgment one of the most vital and timely messages of recent years and cannot fail to do great good in clearing up popular mis-apprehensions in regard to socialism.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 41: 91. Ja. ’09. 4100w.
“It is refreshing to read even in a brief form an exposition of the spiritual side [of socialism] from the pen of a man so qualified to speak as Mr. Spargo.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Char.= 21: 678. Ja. 16, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 260w.
=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.=^{[10]} Dorothy Brooke’s school days. †$1.50. Crowell.
9–24328.
A story for girls whose scene is laid in a boarding school and whose heroine, a bright miss of fifteen, has all the faults and virtues of a spirited, ambitious, fun-loving girl.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9. ’09. 80w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.=^{[5]} English house: how to judge its periods and styles. *$2.50. Lane.
9–35801.
“Mr. Sparrow’s aim has been to supply a want—to write a book for the plain man as opposed to the student of architecture. He traces the history of the house and home from its earliest origin, through its various stages of development in England up to the present day, discussing it mainly, it is true, from the architectural standpoint, but with an endeavor to eliminate as far as possible the technicalities of the subject.”—Int. Studio.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 50. O. ’09.
“The present volume is the most ambitious, and we think the most interesting, that Mr. Shaw Sparrow has yet published, but it cannot be considered satisfactory. We have noted so many passages with which we disagree that it is impossible in the space at our disposal to refer to them.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 303. S. 11. 570w.
“The illustrations are admirably chosen for their bearing on the letterpress and are numerous and well reproduced, though one does not find much here that is new.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 220w.
“Mr. Sparrow’s analysis of the special characteristics belonging to the different periods is simple and straightforward and exceedingly helpful to the lay reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 426. Jl. 10, ’09. 550w.
“In spite of an occasional lack of sense of proportion, has produced an attractive and a stimulating book. Here and there he would have improved the book by removing a careless phrase or by changing an exaggeration into a judicial survey.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 616. Ap. 17, ’09. 1600w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.=^{[7]} Hints on house furnishing. *$2.50. Lane. W9–183.
A work on interior decoration that comprises suggestions for color schemes, systems and methods of securing harmony between floors and walls, ceilings and their treatment, with chapters on windows, blinds, curtains, artificial heat and light, crockery, glass, furniture, etc.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 50. O. ’09.
“There is no doubt as to the usefulness of such a book as Mr. Shaw Sparrow has aimed at compiling; and we add at once that his aim has been largely accomplished.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 49. Jl. 10. 450w.
“The volume is well illustrated with typical English interiors, the usefulness of which to American house-holders is limited. Still, the doctrine is the thing, and since the book makes for rational taste we wish it a wide reading.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 465. N. 11, ’09. 370w.
“Treats [the field of interior decoration] with thoroughness and comprehensiveness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 426. Jl. 10, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Sparrow deals with the useful as well as with the ornamental, and what he says on both topics is always to the point and vigorously expressed. He brings ethical as well as aesthetic considerations to bear on his subject, and though his remarks are now and then a little tinged with paradox, he generally has, it seems to us, common-sense on his side.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Spenser, Edmund.=^{[11]} Faery queen and her knights: stories retold by Rev. Alfred J: Church. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–27416.
In the prose rendering of the tales from the “Faery queen,” Mr. Church has preserved the wealth of romance and the spirit of the times, and has adapted his material to young readers of the present day. The full-page colored illustrations have “caught with singular success the romantic spirit of the original and of Mr. Church’s adaptation.”
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“Prof. Church has written long enough to understand the value of simplicity in a narrative, and his work is laudably free from affectation.”
+ =Ath.= 1909. 2: 524. O. 30. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 67: 1362. D. 16, ’09. 70w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 1017. D. 4, ’09. 80w. + =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The style, in its quaintness and simplicity, preserves something of the flavor of Spenser’s own lines; and the colored pictures—of a grave beauty—add further value to the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 70w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 768. D. ’09. 20w. + =Spec.= 103: 850. N. 20, ’09. 350w.
=Spillane, Rev. Edward Peter.= Life and letters of Henry Van Rensselaer, priest of the Society of Jesus. Fordham univ. press.
8–34132.
Covers the history of the Van Rensselaer family, gives the story of Father Van Rensselaer’s conversion as told in an autobiographical sketch found among his papers after his death, and includes letters written from Oxford. It is the life of a student of philosophy and theology, a college professor and a priest.
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“The most interesting portion of the book is that which relates his conversion and the events that preceded it. Many letters of Father Van Rensselaer to friends and to his mother from Oxford, before his conversion, are of special value, as they afford a glimpse of conditions that prevailed there after the exodus of Newman and his friends.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 826. Mr. ’09. 160w.
“Gives an interesting view of the career and character of a man whose many attractive qualities caused him to be much beloved as man and priest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 85. F. 13, ’09. 130w.
=Spingarn, Joel Elias=, ed.^{[12]} Critical essays of the seventeenth century. 3v. v. 3. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
=v. 3.= “This is the third and concluding volume of Professor Spingarn’s work. The essays are twelve in number, the most famous being Sir William Temple’s ‘Essay upon the ancient and modern learning,’ John Dennis’s ‘Impartial critic,’ W. Wotton’s ‘Reflections upon ancient and modern learning,’ and Jeremy Collier’s ‘Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage.’”—Spec.
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“His work fills in the gap between Professor Gregory Smith’s ‘Elizabethan critical essays’ and Professor Ker’s ‘Essays of John Dryden,’ and it is of worth, not only for the texts it reproduces from first editions, but also for the notes and its extensive introduction.” F. W. Chandler.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 421. N. ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The notes of the present volume show the same accuracy and care as do those to the two earlier volumes.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 464. N. 11, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 3.) + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 707. N. 13, ’09. 130w. (Review of v. 3.) =Spec.= 103: 796. N. 13, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= History of literary criticism in the renaissance. 2d ed., rev. and augmented. (Columbia univ. studies in comparative literature.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–14513.
A revision of the work as it appeared nine years ago, with additional matter covering the author’s recent researches. “Italian criticism from Dante to Tasso, French criticism from Du Bellay to Boileau, and English criticism from Ascham to Milton are the three practical working divisions into which Prof. Spingarn has divided this history.... How did the classic spirit arise? Whence did it come and how did it develop? What was the origin of the principles and precepts of neo-classicism? These are the questions which Prof. Spingarn suggests as the working basis of his essay.” (N. Y. Times.)
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Reviewed by Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 400: 121. Ag. ’08. 250w.
“Genuinely valuable contribution to the history of literary criticism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 240w.
“The field covered is a wide one, but the book is interesting and exceedingly informing, both to the student and to the general reader, and it is brief enough to be a boon to busy people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 270w.
=Spinoza, Benedictus de.=^{[9]} Spinoza’s Short treatise on God, man and human welfare; tr. from the Dutch by Lydia Gillingham Robinson. *$1.25. Open ct.
9–10501.
The first English version of this earliest of Spinoza’s works. It furnishes the key to his masterpiece “The Ethics,” and provides an introduction to the study of his philosophy.
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+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 654. O. ’09. 70w.
“It is with the liveliest interest and sincerest gratitude that we welcome Miss Lydia Robinson’s most lucid translation of Spinoza’s ‘Short treatise.’ The treatise is too important for the student of philosophy to ignore. It is valuable in itself, but historically it is of much significance, as in it we see the system of Spinoza in the making.” A. B. D. Alexander.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 495. S. 2, ’09. 3300w.
“The translator has done her work well. It is lucid, exact, readable, and complete.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 170w.
“The translation is helpful if taken in conjunction with the text. Certain inaccuracies, however, dispose us to caution.” B. H. Bode.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 661. N. ’09. 1350w.
=Springer, John McKendree.=^{[6]} Heart of Central Africa: mineral wealth and missionary opportunity; with an introd. by Bishop J. C. Hartzell. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
9–7412.
A discussion of the relation of the opening of the mineral wealth of Central Africa and of the general development of the continent to missionary activity. “When the railroads connect the Southern and Northern coasts, and the Eastern and Western lands are linked, the great mineral wealth will be opened to the world—a wealth that may prove equal to, if not eclipse, that of Johannesburg. Such an event will make a ‘strategic centre for evangelistic activities.’” (Dial.)
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“Includes valuable information as to railroad problems, mineral resources, and missionary accomplishment and opportunity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 51. O. ’09.
“An entertaining and instructive addition to our knowledge of the now no longer dark continent.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 365. Je. 1, ’09. 270w.
“An engaging description of a journey.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 40w.
=Spruce, Richard.= Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes; ed. and condensed by Alfred R. Wallace. *$6.50. Macmillan.
9–12871.
Records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uanpés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849–1864. (Explan. title.) “In Spruce’s journals, as in many other famous records of the same kind, one may read what an endless and heartbreaking struggle it is against fatigue and disease, the insolence of the official and the stupidity of the native, and most of all against that awful inertia which pursues the European working alone in the steaming tropical forest. It was in the Amazons that Dr. Russel Wallace won his spurs as a naturalist.” (Spec.)
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“Dr. Wallace’s volumes show how conscientious Spruce was in every detail. He had a strong love for everything in nature, indomitable perseverance, and a keen eye for the systematic investigation of minute plants. The public owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Wallace for presenting the story of the principal years in Spruce’s life in so charming a manner.”
+ =Ath.= 1909. 2: 335. S. 18. 800w. + =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 200w.
“To botanists the author’s notes about plants possess uncommon interest on account of their accuracy and suggestiveness, but the pages devoted to travel and adventure will attract every reader.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 202. F. 25, ’09. 1350w.
“Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace has rendered a great service to the scientific world, not only in having consented to rescue from oblivion the account of Spruce’s remarkable travels, but also by the admirable way in which he has edited the manuscripts placed in his charge.” A. W. H.
+ =Nature.= 80: 458. Je. 17, ’09. 1100w.
“Spruce’s accounts of his travels are perhaps too technical to be always interesting to the general reader, but they are clearly and at times vividly written, with many valuable discussions on native life in the hitherto unexplored regions to which he reached.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 82. Ja. 16, ’09. 410w.
=Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar.= Phrenology; or The doctrine of the mental phenomena; ed. with an introd. by Cyrus Elder. *$3. Lippincott.
The reprint of a book published seventy-five years ago. An introduction justifies the reappearance of this book on the ground of its important relation to the subject of mental science.
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=Lit. D.= 38: 393. Mr. 6, ’09. 80w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 85. F. 13, ’09. 100w.
“One is curious to know why such an obsolete work was deemed worthy of reprinting at this time and after the lapse of more than sixty years.” E. A. Spitzka.
− =Science=, n.s. 30: 310. S. 3, ’09. 700w.
=Stack, Frederic William.=^{[6]} Wild flowers every child should know, arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada. (Every child should know ser.) **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–14837.
Includes ready and reliable information about five hundred common species of plants, and gives their Latin and common names, brief descriptions, accounts of the connection of certain ones with history, medicine and legend, and bits of folklore and poetry. The book is generously illustrated and includes a glossary of botanical terms, of Latin names and an index to common names.
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“This guide covers a larger field than Mrs. Parsons’ ‘How to know the wild flowers,’ or Mrs. Doubleday’s ‘Nature garden,’ and is better adapted to children’s use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 192. Je. ’09. ✠
“There can be no doubt of the usefulness of the guide.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 105. Ag. 16, ’09. 70w.
“In this attractive little volume there is condensed a large amount of information concerning the more common plants about which children are likely to ask questions. It is hardly right to call attention to the few blemishes in so good and useful a book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 586. Je. 10, ’09. 580w.
“The sharp clear-cut illustrations are an inducement in themselves for the young amateur to learn more of these charming flowers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“A truly charming book accomplishing its lovable purpose.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 22: 622. Ag. 7, ’09. 130w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.=^{[9]} Famous women of Florence. *$3.50. Scribner.
W9–253.
Sketches seven typical Florentine women, some of whom of reputed beauty were immortalized by Botticelli and da Vinci.
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“Index and bibliography give evidence of care in the book’s making, although a list of fifty-five ‘errata’ is also proof of carelessness in some quarter.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 450. D. 1, ’09. 220w.
“At no point can one trust Mr. Staley. Since its handsome form and attractive illustrations might impose it upon the unwary we have given undeserved space to a grotesquely bad book.”
− =Nation.= 89: 631. D. 23, ’09. 180w.
“He is quite qualified by reading to produce such a book as this. Unfortunately he has chosen to adopt a style of writing which would be offensive to the least fastidious.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 114. Jl. 24, ’09. 220w.
“The book altogether is an attractive dream of the sunny side of the Renaissance.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 206. Ag. 7, ’09. 480w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Tragedies of the Medici. *$3.50. Scribner.
8–34797.
“A most useful compendium of universal villainy. This book was compiled, the author tells us, as companion to Dumas’ ‘The crimes of the Borgias.’ and its style is shaped accordingly. Each chapter begins with a bit of dramatic dialogue which is calculated to captivate and render rigid with anticipation the most wandering attention.”—N. Y. Times.
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“There is in these stories just enough historical allusion to frighten readers who are in search of thrills; while on the other hand, there is not a page which the searcher for historic facts would dare to accept as trustworthy.”
− =Nation.= 88: 195. F. 25, ’09. 270w.
Reviewed by W: A. Bradley.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 93. F. 20, ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Staley’s ‘decorative features’ simply spoil his book.”
− =Outlook.= 91: 816. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
“The beautiful illustrations, beautifully reproduced and exquisitely toned, are worthy of the noblest book on the Medici, but here are like so many jewels in a rubbish heap.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 372. Mr. 20, ’09. 1300w.
=Stalker, Rev. James.=^{[6]} Atonement. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
W9–144.
Three lectures delivered at Inverness, during October, 1908. They are: The New Testament situation, in which the lecturer finds out the position of the death of Christ in the New Testament presentation of Christianity as a whole; The Old Testament situation, a study of the institutions in which the death of Christ was foreshadowed; and The modern justification, in which the truth is harmonized with the ideas and sympathies of the present time.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 649. O. ’09. 160w.
“It is doubtful whether very many interpreters of either the Old or the New Testament will accept Dr. Stalker’s presentation of the biblical teaching as fully and faithfully reproducing the thought of the biblical writers, and it is certain that the distinctively ‘modern man’ would not find his difficulties solved in the last lecture. The point of view throughout is that of a theologian of the old school.”
− =Bib. World.= 33: 358. My. ’09. 140w.
=Stanley, Rev. Edward.= Before and after Waterloo: letters from Edward Stanley, sometime bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816); ed. by Jane H. Adeane and Maud Grenfell. *$3.75. Appleton.
8–34203.
“A brief introduction supplements the charming impression made by the letters. It shows us the keen little clergyman—no bigger, apparently, than his well-remembered son—keen, active, energetic, ubiquitous, and brave.... The letters record three journeys abroad, in days when such adventures were really to the adventurous. They show that he had an irrepressible love of seeing new places and people, and the genuine instinct for finding whatever was worth discovering. His first trip was just after the Peace of Amiens; his second, just after the abdication of Napoleon in 1814; his third, with the crowd of English people who pressed over to Paris after Waterloo.”—Lond. Times.
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“Where the writer undertakes to give historical accounts of things that are wrapped in some mystery (e. g., the events preceding the abdication at Fontainebleau), his narrative should be read with caution; but most of it is instructive, as it undoubtedly is full of charm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 817. D. 28. 1150w.
“On a hundred points, the letters of the keen-sighted young English clergyman are both well worth reading in themselves and are full of interest to students of Napoleonic history.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 365. N. 29, ’07. 1150w. + =Nation.= 88: 229. Mr. 4, ’09. 640w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 572. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
“This book gains vastly in interest by the admirably spirited drawings, some of them coloured, which Edward Stanley sent home with his correspondence.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 406. Mr. 28, ’08. 750w.
“This volume is partially, though not mainly, valuable as completing the biography of Bishop Stanley, and filling up interstices in the preceding volumes, Dean Stanley’s ‘Edward and Catherine Stanley’ and ‘Early married life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley.’ It is an interesting contribution to the history of racial understandings and misunderstandings. There is not a dull page or sentence in it.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 340. F. 29, ’08. 2000w.
=Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (John Rowlands).=^{[11]} Autobiography; ed. by his wife Dorothy Stanley. **$5. Houghton.
9–28751.
A life that is a record of heroic struggle, during the formative years, a chronicle of brave deeds in manhood and thruout a self-revelation of invincible manhood. The first nine chapters are the autobiography, covering the early years of Stanley’s life. In the remaining chapters it has been the aim to make him narrator and interpreter of his own actions, to accomplish which Lady Stanley has used material from his unpublished writings—his journals, note-books, lectures and his letters—and has connected them by a thread of editorial explanation.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 126. D. ’09.
“On the whole, the effect of the book is, perhaps, to raise our estimate of a man who certainly came out of the controversies of 1890 somewhat damaged in the eyes of earlier hero-worshippers.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 689. D. 4. 1000w.
“Despite the rather bitter philosophical reflections that sprinkle its pages ... the book is nothing short of absorbing in its interest. Stanley’s literary style, as is already known, has the charm of clearness, vigor, and grace, with occasional unexpected felicities in apt quotation or well-chosen epithet.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 328. N. 1, ’09. 2200w.
“If not ‘great,’ this autobiography is certainly a powerful human document.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1139. N. 18, ’09. 380w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 968. N. 27, ’09. 800w.
“Taking the autobiography as a whole, it is a work of remarkable interest and value, not so much on account of the information which it gives, as for the spirit with which Stanley approached the hard life-problems he had to solve. Should it reach a second edition, we would recommend that two episodes of his boyhood in this country be omitted, on account of their suggestiveness to the youthful reader.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 510. N. 25, ’09. 1450w.
“We feel after reading it that we know what Stanley was like and there is no doubt that many a poor lad will find comfort and encouragement in a study of his remarkable and inspiring life. It is the pathetic story of his early life that gives the work its value—that and the portrayal of character that runs along with it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 701. N. 13, ’09. 1300w.
“The illustrations of this volume are particularly interesting, and many of them new.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 753. D. ’09. 210w.
“While recommending this book as an extraordinarily interesting study of character, quite apart from the adventures in it, we must put in a word of strong protest against Lady Stanley’s attack on the Dean of Westminster for refusing to allow Stanley to be buried in the Abbey.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 743. N. 6, ’09. 1700w.
=Stanton, Gerrit Smith.= “When the wildwood was in flower”: a narrative covering the fifteen years’ experiences of a stockman of the western plains, and his vacation days in the open. *$1. Ogilvie.
9–4949.
A book for out-of-door lovers which tells of the author’s fifteen years of experience on the plains as a stockman, before and after the days of railroads. The second part of the book deals with “Reminiscences of the author’s vacation days.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 121. F. 27, ’09. 160w.
=Stanton, Theodore, ed.=^{[6]} Manual of American literature; ed. by Theodore Stanton in collaboration with members of the faculty of Cornell university. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–7938.
A volume in the Tauchnitz series. “The first sections of the manual cover the colonial and revolutionary periods and are from the pen of the late Moses Coit Tyler. Next follows the literature of the nineteenth century under the headings:—The historians; The novelists; The poets; The essayists and the humorists; The orators and the divines; The scientists; The periodicals.... A particularly new feature is a study of American periodicals.” (Lit. D.)
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“The chapters are very compact, and contain stores of information, especially in the matters of titles and dates.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 334. My. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Altogether, this volume shows painstaking, conscientious effort and accurate literary judgment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 856. My. 15. ’09. 300w.
“Even for a book of its kind, it is exceptionally lavish in names, titles and dates, which seem to be given with commendable accuracy. Even within the sections themselves one’s sense for chronology is occasionally shocked.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 603. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“A very convenient volume to which one may refer easily, and within its scope it is comprehensive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 610. O. 16, ’09. 300w.
“The sense of proportion in some of the estimate is defective, but the story is told with care and ample knowledge, and in most instances the judgment is sound.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 422. Je. 19, ’09. 100w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 30w
=Starr, Laura B.= Doll book. *$3. Outing pub.
9–45.
Dedicated to all who are interested in dolls, “from the children who play with them to the students of their ethnological and educational aspects.” This is a history of the doll which, tho not finding answers to the questions of how the first doll was fashioned, and when and where it was evolved, does go back 4,000 years to the doll-babies of the Egyptians found in children’s graves. Besides the antiquity of the doll the author discusses the etymology of the doll, historic dolls, puppets and marionettes, fashion dolls, dolls of different countries, her own and other collections, the manufacture of dolls, and home-made dolls.
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“This entertaining account of dolls practically covers the world and has much historical and ethnological interest. A large portion of the book can be used with children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 85. Mr. ’09.
“Miss Starr has been skilful in arranging her material, so that in spite of its diversity of interests the book seems complete rather than heterogeneous.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 116. F. 16, ’09. 300w. + =Ind.= 67: 94. Jl. 8, ’09. 50w.
“The most serious chapter in the book, from one point of view, is that which treats of the doll as a means of education. The death-knell of the true doll seems to us to toll in every sentence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 71. F. 6, ’09. 750w.
=Statius, Publius Papinius.=^{[9]} Silvae of Statius; tr. with introd. and notes by D. A. Slater. (Oxford lib. of translations.) *$1. Oxford.
9–2007.
A scholarly translation prefaced by an informing introduction in which “the author does not attempt a penetrating study of the poems, but he does well in showing that some of the severest criticisms of them have come from those who have not read them or have read with extraordinary inattentiveness.” (Nation.)
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“If only from the point of view of his metrical technique, closely modelled on that of Virgil, Statius should be read by students. But Statius has other qualities to recommend him. He has a brilliant and finished style; he has an almost Christian piety and religious devotion, which at times shine through his pagan conventions; he has a devout enthusiasm for Virgil; he has imagination and nobility. The ‘Silvae’ are the characteristic work of Statius.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 644. My. 29. 560w.
“We have noted only a few minor infelicities in Mr. Slater’s translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 145. Ag. 12, ’09. 620w.
“Professor Slater’s rendering, to which he prefixes a bright and instructive introduction, is a very scholarly piece of work, and should be of great service to those who wish to know something of a writer who, in his constant effort to be epigrammatic, often becomes difficult and obscure, so that, in the absence of any easily accessible commentary, the cursory study which he alone deserves may, perhaps, be legitimately aided by the use of a translation.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 540. Ap. 3, ’09. 780w.
=Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph.=^{[7]} Motor tours in Wales and the border countries. $2.50. Page. W8–161.
Describes trips from Shrewsbury into Shropshire, thru Wales, and into the Valley of the Wye. Numerous illustrations make vivid the course.
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“An impersonal record in guide-book style, but on account of the dearth of material on Wales will be useful for reference and study clubs.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 51. O. ’09.
“Far more than a mere guide book.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1139. My. 27, ’09. 100w.
“Mrs. Stawell has been able to reveal to us some of the beauties of the less frequented bypaths of Wales as well as the better-known objects of interest available to every tourist.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1075. Je. 19, ’09. 250w.
“Mrs. Stawell is a pleasant and observant guide. The motor is not obtrusive and the historical and antiquarian information is clearly and often attractively presented. The general reader will miss a more interpretative estimate of landscape and associations, and will wish that a lurking wit and sentiment had been allowed to develop into distinction of style.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 120w.
=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the high seas. (Lib. of adventure.) *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–35070.
“These tales have all their origin in facts, and they are well varied. They deal with whaling hardships, hurricanes, crossing the line, wrecks, and naval episodes. Among the subjects treated are the mutiny of the Bounty, Lord Dundonald’s fire ships, the hurricane at Samoa in which the Calliope figured, and so recent an event as the Russian attack on the Doggerbank fishermen.”—Ath.
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“The episodes have been well chosen, and the narratives are plain and unvarnished.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 130w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Stead, William Thomas.=^{[5]} How I know that the dead return: an account of the remarkable personal experiences of the author which dispelled all doubt in his mind as to the reality of a future life. *75c. Ball pub.
9–12077.
Mr. Stead cites incidents that have occurred in his own personal experience to prove not only telepathic communication between the living but also between the living and those who have passed beyond. He shows that such communication is parallel in the transmission of wireless messages, that the instruments in the case of the latter messages are adjusted to symbolize the sympathy required in telepathic intercourse.
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“To those who are credulous as to mediumistic achievements, Mr. Stead’s book will undoubtedly appeal. He is thoroughly convinced of the validity of his experience, accepting without doubts his communications from the spirit world. These communications do not seem to differ greatly from the general run, and more scientific investigators have shown some reserve in accepting them and their kind at Mr. Stead’s valuation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 29, ’09. 320w. =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Stead, William Thomas=, ed.^{[5]} M. P. for Russia: reminiscences and correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoff. 2v. *$7.50. Putnam.
9–23495.
“A narrative of the Balkan problem as it was reflected in the lives of Madame Novikoff, Gladstone, Kinglake, Froude, Freeman, Tyndall, and Mr. Stead.” (Spec.) “The two large volumes are a most valuable contribution to the history of England’s foreign policy since 1876; allowing for [the author’s] pronounced pro-Russian sympathies, he has succeeded in presenting a lucid and interesting exposition of the vexed Eastern question.” (N. Y. Times.) Madame Novikoff’s name is associated with her untiring effort to force the Slavonic faith upon England and to remove highest opposition from the path of Slavonic progress.
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“The editing is at least in fault in that it leaves many things obscure that should have been cleared up.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Stead’s style is diffuse, he is given to needless repetition and he edits with more generosity than discretion. Apart from its interest as the biography of a brilliant woman, the book is valuable as an interpretation of that side of Russia of which we, no less than the English, are extremely ignorant.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 253. Ap. 24, ’09. 1300w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 739. Je. ’09. 1600w.
“There are letters here from politicians of every shade and of a dozen countries, but they cannot compare in sheer worldly wisdom and foresight with those of the historians, essayists and philosophers which stand beside them. Gladstone’s, the first in importance, are the first in disappointment.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 1050w.
“We only wish that her wonderful archives had fallen into the hands of a more discreet and becoming editor than Mr. Stead.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 460. Mr. 20, ’09. 2000w.
=Stearns, Wallace Nelson.=^{[10]} Fragments from Graeco-Jewish writers. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–957.
“In collecting these scattered fragments of half-forgotten historians and poets of Hebrew blood but Greek speech, Professor Stearns has rendered an important service. The fragments have been gathered from the writings of the early fathers and range from the third century before Christ to the third century after. The Greek texts are accompanied by brief introductions and notes. Demetrius, Eupolemus, Artapanus, Aristeas, Malchus, Thallus, Aristobulus, Philo, Theodotus, and Ezekiel are the writers represented.”—Bib. World.
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Reviewed by G: H. Gilbert.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 619. O. ’09. 80w. + − =Bib. World.= 33: 359. My. ’09. 80w.
“Professor Stearns has done a real service to students of Hellenistic Greek by collecting from early Christian writers these curious Greek fragments from the hands of Jewish authors otherwise little known. Professor Stearn’s notes and introductions add much to the interest of these texts, but an index at least of proper names would have greatly increased the usefulness of the collection.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 4: 456. O. ’09. 180w. =Ind.= 66: 490. Mr. 4, ’09. 130w.
=Steel, Flora Annie.= India thro’ the ages: a popular and picturesque history of Hindustan. 2d ed. *$1.25. Dutton.
9–5188.
“Not a chronicle but a procession of the stately dramas that have filled and passed across the Indian stage, each in the setting and colour of its time. The few leading characters fill the foreground for their hour and make way for others of a new type, while behind stand the silent masses, the real India, changing slowly if at all, and rarely finding voice except now and again an inarticulate murmur—a cry of rage or a wail of despair. The master motive of the book is not the presentation of events, of economic progress or ethnological conditions, but rather to display in the light of its history the picturesque and romantic side of India’s ever-changing rulers and its slow-changing people.”—Sat. R.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 110. Ap. ’09.
“A few of its verdicts and phrases would profit by reconsideration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 280w.
“It has this attraction that the author, long a resident in the land, is thoroughly imbued with its spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 222. Mr. 4, ’09. 330w.
“Her history does more than hold its own among others of its class, and its interest never fails, but—well, less toil would have produced another novel as good as ‘On the face of the waters,’ and the world, judiciously enough, would have been more grateful to her.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 640w.
“While the book has many attractions, it must be said frankly that these are inherent in the subject, and not dependent upon their presentation. The author assumes a would-be playful pose, introducing trivial asides and smart remarks quite unworthy of her subject.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 110. Ja. 16, ’09. 360w.
“Its purpose is fulfilled. And that purpose could only have been achieved by a writer with literary sense and creative power who had grasped the spirit and genius of India, and had gained the insight and sympathy that come only from long intimate personal association with the scenes and peoples she describes. Probably Mrs. Steel alone has all the necessary qualifications.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 270. Ag. 29, ’08. 1000w.
“We cannot accept all Mrs. Steel’s judgments on the many questions which present themselves for discussion, and the multitude of personalities who figure in the many scenes of the drama, but we recognise her mastery of the subject and her power.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 678. O. 31, ’08. 280w.
=Steel, Flora Annie.= Prince of dreamers. **$1.25. Doubleday.
9–4294.
A story of Akbar, Emperor of India in Elizabeth’s reign, whose scene is laid at Fatehpur Sikri, a city built to commemorate the birth of his son. The author claims for Akbar a place with the world’s great dreamers—Shakespeare, Raphael, Drake, Galileo, Michelangelo and Cervantes; he stands out against his Oriental surroundings with all the aloofness of the man “born with a spirit in advance of his times.” The story affords an illuminating picture of Indian civilization, with the part played by the great minister Abulfazl, the doer; Birbal, the doubter; William Leeds; and Gulbadan Begum.
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“Fascinating romance. The story, as a story, suffers from a certain diffuseness and excess of mysticism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 127. Ja. 30. 250w.
“Is too slight a plot to compare with the greatest novel of the mutiny. Mrs. Steel has a richness of diction, an affluence of colorful images, not often equaled.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1032. My. 13, ’09. 370w.
“The interests of the novelist spoil the ‘Prince of dreamers’ as history, and the interests of the historian spoil it as fiction.”
− =Nation.= 88: 418. Ap. 22, ’09. 400w.
“To those who desire colorful history with just a thread of fiction to hold the interest and impart human passion to a dead day, the book is to be commended.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 470w.
“The novel is not closely woven, nor does it grow before the reader’s eyes.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
“Much of her sixteenth-century India must have sat to her in the flesh for its portrait. But the presentation of the people and the time is not carried out whole-heartedly. As a romance the book is a fine one; the intrigues are closely knotted; there is abundance of vivid colour and picturesque background; and the narrative power grows effectively to the climax.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 548. O. 31, ’08. 350w.
“The whole book is full of the colour of the East, and if the thread of the story is at times a little confused and difficult to follow, this perhaps only adds to the effect which Mrs. Steel is endeavouring to produce on her western readers.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 950. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Steffens, Joseph Lincoln.=^{[12]} Upbuilders. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–26002.
“Presents five character studies of reforming politicians familiar to the readers of McClure’s magazine. The men whose characters, methods, and achievements he here sets forth are Mark Fagan of Jersey City, Everett Colby of Essex county, N. J., Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco, and W. S. U’Ren, the Oregon reformer. He has chosen these five men as representatives of different conditions, both personal and general, of different temperaments, different localities, and different methods.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is written in the popular colloquial style which the author affects and the many anecdotes make it interesting reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 126. D. ’09.
“The articles are well worth preservation in book form, not only because of their intimate revelations of character and of the relations between a local leader and his followers, but also because of their interest as social documents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Steiner, Edward Alfred.=^{[12]} Immigrant tide, its ebb and flow. **$1.50. Revell.
9–26638.
A recent book on the immigrant question by Dr. Steiner, once an immigrant himself. His serious study of the Italian, Jewish, and Slavic immigrants was reflected in his “On the trail of the immigrant,” and now again in this volume. “This book is in two sections. Under the heading ‘The outgoing tide’ he shows us the influence of the returning immigrant upon his peasant home, his social and native life.... In the second section, entitled ‘The incoming tide,’ he interprets the relation of the various races to our institutions, their attitude toward them and their ultimate influence upon them.” (R. of Rs.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 127. D. ’09.
“Besides being thoroughly imbued with his subject and enthusiastic about it. Dr. Edward A. Steiner is a capital story teller.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 150w.
=Steiner, Edward Alfred.=^{[9]} Tolstoy the man and his message; enl. ed. **$1.50. Revell.
8–34716.
“Tolstoy is described not as the old, decrepit man, but as the real Tolstoy, living in the thought of the world, and in the hearts of his friends and followers. The book is a very sympathetic interpretation, from an American viewpoint of the great Russian prophet of social progress.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book is well worked out, clearly written and gives one a distinct picture of Tolstoy, the thinker. While the criticisms of Tolstoy show a decided American bias, they are, on the whole, able and fair.” Scott Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 216. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Short as is the monograph, Dr. Steiner has succeeded in giving his readers a fairly adequate sketch of Tolstoy’s life and family, a vivid picture of his home and surroundings, and a brief ‘résumé’ of his principal writings, along with a running commentary elucidating his teachings.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 883. O. 14, ’09. 240w.
“A very charming and interesting book, full of vivid descriptions and characterized by literary skill and dramatic grouping of incidents.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 446. S. 18, ’09. 180w.
“The work of Prof. Steiner is distinctly a picture of Tolstoy the reformer, and as such will throw much light on Tolstoy the artist and man of letters. It is unfortunate that with all his intimate knowledge of the man’s life and works, Prof. Steiner should not have consistently co-ordinated the facts of Tolstoy’s biography with the scenes of the novels which are based upon them.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 582. O. 2, ’09. 1100w.
=Steinmetz, Charles Proteus.= General lectures on electrical engineering; ed. by Joseph Le Roy Hayden. *$2. Robson & Adee.
9–4495.
“This book contains a collection of lectures by Dr. Steinmetz on electrical engineering subjects arranged and edited by Mr. J. L. R. Hayden. Among the subjects treated are the distribution of energy for lamps and motors, the cost of energy as affected by the load factor, long-distance transmission of energy, high-frequency phenomena, generator and synchronous motor characteristics, lightning protection, direct-current and alternating-current railway motors, electrochemistry, incandescent and arc lighting, while light, illumination, lightning and lightning protection are discussed in appendices.”—Elec. World.
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“The presentation is made in the simple and instructive manner for which the author is so well known. The best portion of the book is that dealing with lightning and lightning protection, which, in fact, is the clearest explanation of this most difficult subject that has ever come to the attention of the reviewer.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 583. Mr. 4, ’09. 200w.
“The more mathematical parts will be puzzling, to say the least, to the ordinary student or reader, though their import will be recognized by those engineers or teachers who, being familiar with that work, do not need to profit thereby. The trouble seems to lie in insufficient explanation of the symbols used and in confusion in the use of lower case and capital letters as symbols.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 34. Mr. 18, ’09. 400w.
“As a means of acquiring rather complete general information as to the present status of electrical engineering, these lectures are probably unequaled in their field.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 559. N. 13, ’09. 140w.
=Steinmetz, Charles Proteus.=^{[12]} Radiation light and illumination; ed. by Joseph LeRoy Hayden. *$3. McGraw.
9–27362.
“An exposition of the subject of light adapted primarily to the needs of the engineer.” (Engin. Rec.) “The comprehensiveness of the subject matter, the interesting ways in which phenomena are described and the novel viewpoints are those of no merely transient book. In scope it surpasses even Palaz’s treatise, though it does not present details as does that older work, nor is there a single reference for extended study of those brief and general statements for which the author cannot be the original authority.” (Engin. N.)
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“A volume based on his talks, rather than upon his writings, therefore, one would naturally expect to be of very general interest and to secure general appreciation. ‘Radiation, light and illumination’ is such a book. If critics are not inclined to call this book a classic, it must be because of its unconventional literary form.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 45. N. 18, ’09. 1050w.
“It covers an enormous field in reasonable space and contains the sifting of a vast amount of study and reading, together with some interesting original investigations. The writing is in Dr. Steinmetz’s most meaty and suggestive style.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 616. N. 27, ’09. 280w.
=Steinmetz, Charles Proteus.=^{[7]} Theory and calculation of transient electric phenomena and oscillations. $5. McGraw.
9–5483.
A companion to “Alternating current phenomena.” “It is divided into four main sections as follows: (1) transient phenomena in time; (2) periodic transient phenomena; (3) transient phenomena in space; (4) transient phenomena in time and space. The many phases of the subject are covered in 36 chapters, each of which begins with a clear, non-mathematical statement of the physical principles underlying the phenomena under discussion.” (Engin. N.)
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“It is impossible to convey an impression of the wealth of information and suggestion contained in the new work. It is undoubtedly the great electrical book of the year and from its nature is bound to take its place among the standard books in its line.” H: H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 72. Je. 17, ’09. 1450w.
“The book as a whole is the first consistent study of transient electric phenomena dealing with modern conditions of practice. It makes the beginning of what will doubtless prove a rich field for research, by bringing together a vast amount of definite information as to the operation and behavior of electric circuits of various forms under special conditions.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 500. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.
=Stelzle, Charles.=^{[5]} Principles of successful church advertising. **$1.25. Revell.
8–34257.
Practical chapters on principles, methods, and the psychological and personal elements in church advertising, with points to be considered in conducting an advertising campaign and full instructions in details of preparation of copy and printing of same.
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“To conservative people many of the suggestions and methods will seem extreme.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 110. Ap. ’09.
“Sagacious and instructive book. Its practical suggestions so cover the whole subject of advertising as to be valuable to all business men, though especially addressed to churches that have neglected this branch of their own business.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 120w.
=Stenger, Gilbert.=^{[12]} Return of Louis the Eighteenth, 1814–1815; tr. from the French, by Mrs. Rudolph Stawell. *$3. Scribner.
“For the social side to the events that filled the months from the arrival of Napoleon in Paris in 1813 to the return of Louis XVIII from Ghent in 1815, this translation will be found of real value to those who want information without having to look for it in a French book.” (Sat. R.) “The author has a qualified admiration for Napoleon I and unqualified contempt for Louis XVIII. His opinion of the Bourbons of the restoration is expressed thus: ‘It is not because they were Bourbons that I have exposed their faults of character, their egoism, meanness, and vanity, but because exile, misfortune, and poverty had no effect upon them and made them no better than they had been when they left France.’” (Outlook.)
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“Ought to be both interesting and instructive reading to pessimistic republicans.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 879. D. 18, ’09. 180w.
“This translation of M. Stenger’s book is a very readable one. Partial history is generally good to read, and this piece of history forms no exception to the rule.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 702. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Stenton, Frank Merry.= William the conqueror and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–31143.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“This scholarly biography does not replace Freeman’s briefer work, but is a valuable supplement to it. It presents a more impartial view and makes use of the important researches that have taken place since Freeman’s book was written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 110. Ap. ’09.
“This is one of the more serious biographies in a series whose authors are not quite at one in their methods of treatment; which fact does not prevent its being extremely readable, as well as valuable in content.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 88. F. 1, ’09. 230w.
“For the student who desires a short cut to the latest developments of the thorny constitutional and ecclesiastical problems of the period, Mr. Stenton’s book will prove an invaluable guide.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 538. My. 27, ’09. 750w.
“An excellent work.” W: A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 380w.
“His book, for its general fairness and grasp, as well as for the admirable way in which it contrives to present some of the more technical results of the conquest without imperilling its popular character, deserves a high place in the series. Mr. Stenton occasionally lays himself open to adverse criticism. This is due to the complexity of many of the problems upon which he is compelled to touch.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 19. Ja. 2, ’09. 840w.
=Step, Edward.=^{[6]} Wayside and woodland ferns: a pocket guide to the British ferns, horsetails and club mosses. *$2.25. Warne.
“The text appeals to the uninitiated as well as those who have some experience. The introductory chapter explains the characteristics that distinguish ferns from flowering plants. There are sixty-seven half-tone reproductions of photographs taken by the author, and coloured figures of every species, from drawings by Miss Mabel E. Step. These coloured plates serve to show the structural characters, while the photographs illustrate the different species growing in natural surroundings.”—Ath.
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“We commend the work to all interested in the subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1909. 1: 532. My. 1. 240w.
“This volume will be interesting as well as helpful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 120w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 30w.
=Stephens, Kate=, ed.^{[10]} Stories from old chronicles; chosen and ed. with brief introductions to the stories and a general introd. by Kate Stephens. $1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–25807.
Twenty-nine transcriptions from old chronicles, many of which in their original form furnished Shakespeare with themes for dramas. They are told for readers young and old.
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“As an incentive to further reading of books which constitute the source for historical romance, this volume will serve as a commendable preparatory guide.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1361. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“Is just the work to place in a young pupil’s hands as he or she steps from the area of American history into the period of European medievalism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 788. N. 6, ’09. 100w.
“Bears evidences of careful planning and in scope is very suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 30w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 70w.
=Stephenson, Cora Bennett.=^{[5]} Hand of God. $1.50. Ball pub.
9–10788.
The story of Samson and Delilah forms the main thread of this narrative and is woven in and out of a background of sensual Philistine life with its festivals, processions, and dances of sex and sun-worship. The author claims to offer “first of all an interpretation, in individuals, of the process of the historical, human passion.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 409. Je. 26, ’09. 120w.
=Sterling, George.=^{[8]} Wine of wizardry, and other poems. *$1.25. Robertson.
9–120.
Contains besides the title poem some twenty and more pieces on miscellaneous subjects.
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“As yet, his work has embodied no very important ideas, and his style, therefore, as a powerful creature unyoked, shows a tendency to prance wantonly, rising at times into a plangent fanfare of declamation or lapsing into languorous dalliance of delicious words.” Brian Hooker.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 371. Je. ’09. 400w. + − =Nation.= 89: 54. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=Sterling, Mary Blackwell.= Story of Sir Galahad. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–32374.
“The beautiful ancient legend is retold by Mary Blackwell Sterling in simplified and consecutive form. Though Galahad lived in a higher world than his fellows, and the tale has been regarded as distinctly ecclesiastical or religious, the present narrator believes its great human interest and stirring action sufficient to attract many young readers for whom Malory’s version is too difficult.”—Outlook.
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“A very readable narrative, which preserves the charm of the original but is more intelligible to the child mind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09.
“Will be an inspiration to young knight-errants of the present day in quest of other Sangreals.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1568. D. 24, ’08. 30w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 40w.
“This wonderful story is never old, but makes for chivalry, courtesy, right thinking and clean living wherever it is known.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 100w.
=Sternberg, Charles Hazelius.= Life of a fossil hunter: with an introd. by Henry Fairfield Osborn. **$1.60. Holt.
9–5110.
Appeals to paleontologists, the general reader who seeks knowledge of the ancient life of North America, and to the lover of adventure. Details are given of the work of excavation in the Kansas Chalk, in the Bad lands of the Upper Cretaceous, in the Oregon desert, along the John Day river, in the Texas Permian and the Texas red beds.
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“Of first interest to scientific readers, but so popular in style and so full of adventure as to make it a good book for general circulation among educated readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
“Mr. Sternberg’s book is one to be thoroughly enjoyed by any reader fond of fossils, whilst it by no means lacks general interest as a story of camp life in the Wild West.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 732. Je. 19. 1150w.
“The book has a scientific, a paleontological, interest not possessed by the ordinary hunting narrative.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 191. Mr. 16, ’09. 320w. + =Ind.= 66: 704. Ap. 1, ’09. 160w.
“A few errors of a minor character which subtract little from the general readability of the book should be mentioned.” C. L. B.
+ − =J. Geol.= 17: 385. My. ’09. 380w.
“The notes are extremely fascinating and not too technical to prove enjoyable to the lay reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 562. Ap. 3, ’09. 220w.
“It may be said that, although the author does not pose as an original and scientific investigator, one cannot read his book without getting a good general view of current palaeontology, and of many of its chief promoters, both of the present and of the past.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 492. My. 13, ’09. 1000w.
“A simple and readable story of the experiences of a fossil hunter.” A. S. W.
+ =Nature.= 82: 36. N. 11, ’09. 430w.
“Mr. Sternberg has written a very entertaining story of his life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 200w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 638. My. ’09. 90w.
=Stevens, Ethel Stefana.=^{[10]} The veil. †$1.50. Stokes.
9–22178.
Deals with life in Tunis and the Algerian Sahara under the French occupation. The central figure is a dancing woman who with her “potent allurement and her perpetual concealment of her face behind the veil, is a well-chosen and well-sustained symbol of her race.... But the book is bigger than the mere chronicle of one human life. It is a broad, shifting kaleidescopic picture of a whole race, a whole scheme of ethical and religious culture. It shows us, as very few Eastern novels have shown, the sort of life that lies behind the veil which Mohammedanism has for centuries insisted on flinging over its womankind.” (Bookm.)
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“While not producing the tangible, sensuous impression of ‘The garden of Allah,’ this book is also remarkable for its powers of visualization, and is a shifting kaleidoscopic picture of the intrigue, barbarism, culture and mystery of the East.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 93. N. ’09.
“Strikes a similar note to that of Robert Hichens’s ‘Garden of Allah.’ Personally to the taste of the present reviewer, it is a pleasanter and more interesting book than ‘The garden of Allah.’ Unquestionably, this is one of the big books of the season.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 188. O. ’09. 420w.
“The story thread, while not very strong, is well handled, and gives a flesh-and-blood interest to the scenes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 150w.
“It is not a book for everybody, but, given the theme and the people, Miss Stephens cannot be accused of grossness in her realism, and the total effect of the book goes far to realise the Aristotelian definition of tragedy. ‘The veil’ is not only a considerable literary achievement and an elaborate study in exotic characterisation; indirectly it throws a good deal of light on some of the most perplexing domestic problems which confront the party of reform in Turkey.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 981. Je. 19, ’09. 1000w.
=Stevenson, Adlai Ewing.=^{[12]} Something of men I have known. **$2.75. McClurg.
9–28140.
A series of recollections of men whom Mr. Stevenson has met, first thruout his private legal career and, later, in the larger world of politics. From the Illinois bar he went to Washington as representative, later, became senator; served in Cleveland’s first Cabinet as attorney-general; and, finally, became vice-president in Cleveland’s second administration. He knew men from all parts of the country, and sets down in entertaining form his recollections of them.
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“Most readers of Vice-President Stevenson’s volume will wish, we imagine, that he had held himself more strictly to his main title and given more fully delineated pictures of the characters of local or national interest with whom his long legal and political career has brought him into contact.” W. H. Johnson.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 376. N. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“Perhaps the most interesting part of his book is that which deals with Congress and his memories of it in past days, its customs, and personalities.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 150w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 70w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert=, comp. Poems of American history. *$3. Houghton.
8–33773.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“An excellent collection for library uses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 51. F. ’09.
“The conception of this volume was so excellent, so much of the formidable task has been accomplished with patience and intelligence, and in spite of its faults the outcome is so useful, that the errors of omission and commission noted are viewed with regret.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 135. Mr. 1, ’09. 2100w.
“A book of more than usual value and attractiveness.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“This compilation meets a need of the school and home library.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 223. F. 6, ’09. 140w.
“It cannot be said that his work suffers from too narrow a standard, although any one will miss a favorite or two whose omission seems to him unaccountable. The collection errs on the side of the too much rather than of the too little, but it remains true that the level of vigor and spirit will be a surprise to most readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 139. F. 11, ’09. 380w.
“The volume is welcome for two reasons: first, because of the surprisingly large number of poems, and, second, because these poems truly reflect our history.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 337. F. 13, ’09. 230w.
=Stevenson, Edward Luther.=^{[5]} Marine world chart of Nicolo de Canerio Januensis, 1502 (circa): a critical study with facsimile. Hispanic soc. of America, 156th st., near Broadway, N. Y.
8–16709.
“This is the second publication in a series of maps illustrating early discovery and exploration in America, issued under the joint auspices of the above societies, of which Mr. Archer M. Huntington is the head and patron.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Professor Stevenson’s commentary takes the various portions of the map in turn, and discusses their special characteristics and any deductions to be drawn therefrom, besides treating briefly of the sources and influence of the chart. There are also useful lists of the legends, placed side by side with those of other important documents of the time. The views expressed are generally judicious and any theorising indulged in is kept within reasonable limits.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“Professor Stevenson is doing commendable work for historical cartography in America.” V. H. Paltsits.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 108. O. ’08. 900w.
“Professor Stevenson has done a service to all students of the history of geography by bringing out a full-size reproduction of one of the most important cartographical documents of the years immediately following the discovery of America.” E: Heawood.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 351. Ap. ’09. 880w.
=Stewart, Alfred Walter.= Recent advances in organic chemistry; with an introd. by J. Norman Collie. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–8093.
The principal researches in organic chemistry during the past ten years are arranged in this volume from a synthetic point of view rather than a strictly historical. “The first chapter deals with the main currents in which organic chemistry has been moving during the last half-century. Other chapters deal with the researches on such groups as the polymethylenes, the terpenes (moncyclic terpenes, dicyclic terpenes, and olefinic terpenes), the synthetic alkaloids, and the polypeptides.... There are a bibliography and a good index, as well as references to original papers.” (Ath.)
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“The book has been arranged with care and skill, and is likely to be extremely useful to workers in advanced organic chemistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 168. F. 6. 260w.
“The compilation has been carried out with great discrimination. But Dr. Stewart has an easy and pleasant style, and, if his criticisms are occasionally rather forcible, they only add piquancy to the subject under discussion.” J. B. C.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 243. D. 31, ’08. 900w.
=Stickley, Gustav.=^{[8]} Craftsman homes. $2. Gustav Stickley, the Craftsman, 41 W. 34th st., N. Y.
9–16574.
“The first portion of the volume contains illustrated descriptions of a large number of houses, ranging from mere camps for occasional use to city houses.... The second discusses the decoration of various rooms and describes the design of hardware, fittings and furniture conforming with the style of architecture under discussion, of which the book is an excellent exponent.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The volume abounds with suggestions both artistic and practical.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 16. Ag. 12, ’09. 140w.
“Deserving attention from those who contemplate the construction of houses of moderate cost.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 111. Jl. 24, ’09. 230w.
“Will immediately make itself welcome to all persons who are interested in this phase of house building and decoration.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 140w.
“To the man who intends to build a home no book could carry much more inspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24. ’09. 70w.
=Stoddard, Florence Jackson.=^{[10]} As old as the moon: Cuban legends: folklore of the Antillas. **$1. Doubleday.
9–24975.
A first collection of the myths, nature stories and semi-historical tales of primitive Cuba and the neighboring islands of the Antillas. The author has gathered fragmentary bits from all available sources and has pieced them together for young readers especially, altho she also commends them to students of folklore, historians and ethnologists.
=Stoddart, Jane T.= Girlhood of Mary, queen of Scots. *$3.50. Doran.
9–13599.
A sketch of the thirteen years covering Queen Mary’s life at the French court. “Though fresh personal anecdotes are lacking, the industry of Miss Stoddart discovers probably all that can be found out as to the position held by the child queen in relation to the French court.” (Ath.)
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“Miss Stoddart throughout her book is uncommonly fair, and her study of the Guises is impartial.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 567. N. 7. 800w.
“A work of minute and careful research.” W: A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 340w.
“Miss Stoddart’s book is one which will be welcomed by those whose interest in the house of Stuart has already called forth a quite exceptional body of literature, while the light that it casts indirectly upon general European history in the middle of the sixteenth century will commend it also to the less specialised student.”
+ =Spec.= 1?3: 821. My. 22, ’09. 420w.
=Stokes, Ralph S. G.= Mines and minerals of the British empire: being a description of the historical, physical and industrial features of the principal centers of mineral production in the British dominions beyond the seas. *$4.20. Longmans.
GS8–364.
A practical work which is “a comprehensive compendium of the official or semi-official information about the various mining fields, and appeals to the general reader only in view of the wonderful extent of mineral wealth which it reveals as scattered through our Empire. But it should be very serviceable to the would-be miner or mining engineer in search of a field for his enterprise.”—Spec.
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“The story that Mr. Stokes tells—and tells with no little skill—of the mineral wealth of the ‘British empire oversea,’ will interest many readers who are neither practical miners nor speculators in mines.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 135. Ja. 30. 850w.
“He presents the subject in a manner calculated to interest the non-technical seeker of general information, yet the data given have been selected with such discernment and are brought so closely to date that the book will commend itself to those connected with the professional as well as the commercial branches of the industry. Its literary style is attractive and illustrations in half-tone are copious, though a slight criticism may be offered of the absolute lack of illustrative sketches accompanying necessarily numerous geological descriptions.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 75. Jl. 16, ’08. 400w. + =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
=Stone, Alfred Holt.= Studies in the American race problem; with an introd. and three papers by Walter F. Willcox. **$2. Doubleday.
8–28321.
Sets forth some of the salient facts of the American race problem, and points out some of the fundamental principles underlying it. In his discussion the author deals with the economic future of the negro, the mulatto factor in the race problem, race friction, and Roosevelt and the negro. Professor Willcox in three paper sets forth negro criminality, census statistics of the negro and the probable increase of the negro in the United States. Mr. Stone says: “What the negro needs just now is a political ‘rest cure.’ His daily litany should include a prayer to be let alone.”
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“Professor Willcox’s papers are more naturally related to one another, and deal with more concise phases of the subject. It does not seem quite a fair argument to say that the negro problem is identical with the general question of the treatment of inferiors in India and the Philippines.” J: S. Bassett.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 837. Jl. ’09. 780w.
“With due respect to some other valuable publications on the same subject, the book it appears represents the most valuable contributions yet appearing on the race problem of the United States.” F. W. Blackmar.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 837. My. ’09. 1200w.
“A notable work, reflecting the most enlightened southern view.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 297. D. ’08.
“No honest man can fail to appreciate the importance of his arguments. In this collection of essays we have one of the best studies yet made of the problems growing out of the presence of blacks and whites in our country—and that a democracy.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 217. Ja. ’09. 960w.
“So far, no study of the negro problem has been produced which throws so much light on the whole question of the social, economic, and political life of the negro race in America.” J. W. Garner.
+ =Dial.= 46: 19. Ja. 1, ’09. 520w.
“It is scarcely too much to say that no other book on the negro problem has reached and held so high a level of scientific thoroughness and passionless judgment.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 60. Ap. ’09. 750w.
“Written in a fair, unprejudiced and objective manner.” E. L. Bogart.
+ =Forum.= 42: 90. Jl. ’09. 800w.
“A contribution to its discussion that is really worth while.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The tone and temper of Mr. Stone’s book cannot be too highly praised. It is the attitude which is disappointing.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 485. Mr. 4, ’09. 280w. + =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 307. My. ’09. 340w.
“In the field of agricultural labor, which he is apparently making his own, Mr. Stone can speak with authority; but in the broader field of social and political relations, he is less happy.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 92. Ja. 28, ’09. 480w.
“It is impossible here to do justice to the entire frankness, calmness, and honesty with which Mr. Stone has set forth his conclusions on a subject of such vital importance to the country at large, of such overwhelming interest to a part of it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 16. Ja. 9, ’09. 1350w. + =Outlook.= 92: 271. My. 29, ’09. 200w.
“He speaks with authority and deserves a wide reading.” M. W. Ovington.
+ =Survey.= 22: 350. Je. 5, ’09. 1200w.
“We are to be grateful to Mr. Stone for having presented a familiar attitude with ingenuity and fresh illustrations, in modest terms, with unqualified good will, and with only so much residual dogmatism as belongs to strong feeling in a naturally and historically passionate field.” H. P. Douglass.
+ =Yale R.= 18: 210. Ag. ’09. 1500w.
=Stone, Charles Henry H.=^{[8]} Practical testing of gas and gas meters. $3.50. Wiley.
9–12894.
A treatise dealing with the methods employed in the United States for photometric and calorimetric tests of illuminating gas, chemical analysis of gas, and meter testing.
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“The best guide to American practice.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 51. O. ’09.
“The only works heretofore available on these subjects have treated them from British and continental standpoints; and practise in this country differs materially in many cases. Expert chemists will also find in the work an up-to-date compilation of processes and forms of apparatus that will save considerable searching through technical journals and text books.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 55. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“Errors and omissions notwithstanding, the book will make a valuable addition to the libraries of those interested in the manufacture and sale of illuminating gas.” A. E. Forstall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 1050w.
“The book is likely to find favor among a much wider class than municipal and state inspectors.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 224. Ag. 21, ’09. 170w.
“A laboriously complete compilation.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 97. Jl. 22, ’09. 200w.
=Stone, Cliff Winfield.=^{[6]} Arithmetical abilities and some factors determining them. (Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college ser., no. 19.) $1. Teachers college.
8–20745.
A research thesis whose purpose is to make one more contribution to exact knowledge of the relation between distinctive educational procedures and the resulting products. The portions of the question on which this study bears are: (1) What is the nature of the products of the first six years of arithmetic work? (2) What is the relation between distinctive procedures in arithmetic work and the resulting abilities?
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“It is to be hoped that many such studies will soon appear, bearing the same stamp of scientific treatment for other fields, which Professor Stone has so carefully worked for arithmetic.” E. E. Jones.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 194. S. ’09. 950w.
“Every school superintendent or supervisor of arithmetic teaching should have a copy of this book, and it may be read with profit by teachers of arithmetic everywhere. This scientific study provides the educational world with a means of beginning to standardize its products.” J. F. M.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 525. Je. ’09. 480w.
=Stories= of chivalry, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–17967.
Stories selected out of the times of chivalry and the crusades whose aim is to teach the spirit that lay back of deeds of gallantry and to touch upon its universality and link it with the courtesy, loyalty, courage, and sacrifice of to-day.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
=Stories= of classic myths, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–18012.
Thirteen myths that all children should know, including the story of the golden fleece, the story of Narcissus, King Midas in the rhyme of Celia Thaxter, the story of Pegasus, the labors of Hercules, etc.
=Stories= of Greece and Rome, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–17966.
Stories portraying Greek and Roman heroes as they actually lived written to aid boys and girls of to-day to form sturdy notions of love, courage and endurance.
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“One of the best and richest of the series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 50w.
=Stories= of royal children, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–17551.
The halo with which young readers are apt to encircle the heads of royal children and the glamour with which their young imaginations surround life in a palace are dispelled by the very real troubles and tragedies set forth in these stories.
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“Is a collection of charming, quaint narratives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
=Stories= of the ancient world, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–17964.
Interesting stories of a number of things about the beginnings of history. What buried cities reveal, how clothes became, and how written language began, and like mysteries are set forth. The chapter headings “A living chain from Adam to Abraham Lincoln” and “The march of the centuries” suggest something of the range and movement of the collection.
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“Well told and finely illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 97. N. ’09. ✠
“Is perhaps the most ambitious and the most successful portion of the entire series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 50w.
=Stories= of the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas.^{[9]} (Historical stories of the ancient world and the middle ages, retold from St. Nicholas magazine.) *65c. Century.
9–17965.
Stories which characterize the period during which the world was getting ready for the dawn of liberty and freedom. They are: The king’s champion and his challenge: Félix; The story of the glove; Bertholde; The ballad of Charles Martel; Old time arms and armor; A little Florentine lady: “With hawk and hound”; The belltowers of Italy; Books of olden times; Caps and bells; St. Francis of Assisi; The Christmas song of Caedmon; The boyhood of Michael Angelo; The shepherd-boy of Vespignano.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 97. N. ’09. ✠
“The stories are, as a whole, both well chosen, and well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
=Stow, John.= Survey of London; reprinted from the text of 1603; with introd. and notes by C: Lethbridge Kingsford. 2v. *$9.25. Oxford.
W9–89.
An edition which, for the first time after three hundred years, makes Stow’s work generally accessible in the form in which he wrote it. Besides the text are an introduction including a brief life of Stow and comments upon his “Survey,” notes on the Stow family documents, select dedications and epistles from his works, a bibliography and an account of Stow’s collection of manuscripts. Following the text are notes, glossary and indexes.
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“It is a sort of ‘Baedeker’s London’ of the age of Elizabeth.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 606. Ap. ’09. 500w.
“Beyond one or two misprints ... there is little to criticize in this admirable commentary, which fully and successfully achieves the end that Mr. Kingsford had in view. Three adequate indexes conclude a book which we may anticipate will be for many years to come the definitive edition of the monumental work of the first and greatest of London topographers.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 465. O. 17. 1400w.
“Stow’s work, with its merits and its faults, has stood the test of three centuries and retains both importance and interest to-day. Mr. Kingsford deserves special gratitude for the very large number of references, which add greatly to the value of his notes.” R. S. Rait.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 568. Jl. ’09. 420w.
“Within the limits which he has set himself, Mr. Kingsford has produced an edition of the ‘Survey’ which will remain definitive for many years to come.”
+ + =Nation.= 88: 254. Mr. 11, ’09. 570w.
“Admirably edited by Mr. C. L. Kingsford, who combines polite literary skill with profound learning.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 544. O. 31, ’08. 1000w.
“This is a valuable edition of a book of the first importance in its own province, not made the less useful by the modesty of the aims which the editor has proposed to himself.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 637. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
=Strachey, Lionel=, ed.^{[6]} Love letters of famous poets and novelists; selected by Lionel Strachey and prefaced with descriptive sketches by Walter Littlefield. *$2. McBride, J:
9–13267.
Seventeen chapters containing selections from the authentic correspondence of as many world renowned literary celebrities with their sweethearts, wives, and wives of others. A chapter here and there has a chronology of the author’s career necessary to the understanding of his love affairs. There are included letters from Byron to four women who worshipped at his shrine, letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman, from Victor Hugo to Adèle Foucher and others; from Goethe to Augusta zu Stolberg, Frau von Stein and Bettina Brentano; from Scott to Charlotte Carpenter; from Heine to the “Fly”; from Balzac to Madame Hanska; Schiller to Charlotte von Lengefeld; Keats to Fanny Brawne and George Sand to Alfred de Musset.
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=Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 70w.
“Reviewing the work as a whole it seems a little unfortunate that we should have to know so many of the shortcomings and infelicities of these literary lovers.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 825. O. 7, ’09. 250w.
“This collection though it looks like a bible for Daphnis and Chloe, is really a museum of curiosities made up of just those things which the curious public rushes to see, and which the judicious critic declares should be burned.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 34. Jl. 8, ’09. 250w.
“The selection contains several unfamiliar letters, and none that is without a human or psychological interest.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 439. Jl. 17, ’09. 620w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 180w.
=Strack, Hermann L.=^{[11]} Jew and human sacrifice (human blood and Jewish ritual): an historical and sociological inquiry; tr. from the 8th ed. with corrections, new preface and additions by the author. *$3. Bloch.
“Professor Strack, of Berlin, who is one of the foremost authorities on Jewish history in Europe, has produced an exhaustive treatise on the use of human blood in primitive medicine, magic and superstition; and his researches show not only that its use would be absolutely repugnant to the whole spirit of Jewish religion and tradition, but that sometimes Jews themselves have been murdered by Christians for blood-ritual purposes.”—Sat. R.
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“It is a characteristically German product, full of learning ill-digested, but containing all the material that the serious student of the subject will require.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 675. O. 30, ’09. 1150w.
“It will take its place among learned contributions of the science of comparative religion.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 204. Ag. 24, ’09. 230w.
“It is much more than an examination of this particular fiction: it examines the whole subject of superstitions connected with the use of blood.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1007. Je. 26, ’09. 160w.
=Stratford, Esme C. W.= Call of dawn, and other poems. **$1.50. Lane.
A book of technically good verse which “is decidedly original, though tinged with the pessimism popular nowadays as to the national future both in art and the wider morality.” (Ath.) Some of the pieces are: England, The devil of Dartmoor, A toast, First light, On the sands of Winchelsea, Dunwich, and Oswald and Iseult.
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“The genuine, if ill-restrained power of the duologue ‘Oswald and Iseult,’ and the stimulating loftiness of thought and diction that distinguishes the stanzas ‘Towards the ideal,’ make it matter for regret that the book should have been cumbered with so much that is less worthy.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 815. D. 26. 380w.
“We have never read a volume that sustained a more perfect level of educated banality. Once or twice we hear a tiny voice of poetry in some single line, only to be smothered forthwith by pillows of platitude.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 79. Ja. 16, ’09. 300w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.=^{[12]} Handel. (New library of music.) **$2.50. Lane.
“Mr. Streatfeild’s story is that ‘the old Handel of our forefathers is dead’; he is really today unpopular in England with those who are the mouth-pieces of critical opinion. Only ‘The Messiah’ is widely known now, and this chiefly as a sort of religious exercise. He has undertaken the task of raising up a new Handel.... A third part of the book is devoted to an analysis of the operas, oratorios, and instrumental music, which is discriminating and illuminative.”—N. Y. Times.
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“If, however, there is nothing really new to say about Handel personally, this book is well worth reading: it is written, moreover, in a style which is both lucid and attractive.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 667. N. 27. 900w.
“Apart from one blemish, the analysis of Handel’s oratorios is most commendable. More interesting still is that of the obsolete operas.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 580. D. 9, ’09. 950w.
“An admirable piece of work in this book. He has not been content to copy either the narrative or the judgments of his predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 1250w.
“Much has been written about Handel and his opera-songs and oratorios, of which we must believe Mr. Streatfeild to be ignorant.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 697. D. 4, ’09. 1650w.
“The book, in short, is so good that it is a great pity that the writer should have impaired its value by the controversial attitude he assumes with regard to Handel’s sacred music.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 103: 885. N. 27, ’09. 1800w.
=Street, Julian Leonard.=^{[9]} Need of change. †50c. Lane.
9–21866.
A humorous skit in which an American and his wife, tourists in the Tyrolese mountains, make the acquaintance of an English couple of supposedly modest circumstances and are invited by the latter to visit them in England. Whirled away to a castle instead of being set down in a clergyman’s simple cottage, the husband is straightway involved in the trials and embarrassments of too much valeting. How the omnipresence of the valet drives him to desperation and flight is amusingly set forth.
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“A merry trifle, with many a laugh between its covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 540. S. 11, ’09. 200w.
=Strindberg, August.= Swanwhite: a fairy drama; tr. by Francis J. Ziegler. *$1. Brown bros.
9–6458.
“A play to see on the stage, rather than to read. It is ‘a fairy drama,’ containing bits from many tales, the Wicked Stepmother and Cinderella being most conspicuous. The Strindberg we meet here is he of the later period.”—Nation.
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“At his best, there is mysticism, but not mistiness and the play is altogether beautiful—in Swedish. The translation is not particularly happy.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 367. Ap. 8, ’09. 100w.
“This little play is far from presenting the writer at his best; it appears to be a mere tour de force, and is in strange contrast to his other dramas.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 166. Mr. 20, ’09. 400w.
=Stringer, Arthur J. A.=^{[5]} Gun-runner. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–9252.
The author continues his romance of electricity in this new story of the “wireless.” The plot centers about a South American revolution and the action takes place mainly on board the Laminian, a steamer on which Ganley, the “Gun runner” is smuggling arms into Lacombia. How Ganley is foiled by McKinnon, the wireless operator of the Laminian and Alicia Boynton—without whom there would have been no romance—is cleverly worked out with cunning climactic effect.
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“The story is exciting. It was built for excitement. The reviewer hardly thinks it was built for anything else.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
=Strong, Anna Louise.=^{[10]} Psychology of prayer. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
The chapter headings show the evolutionary process followed by the author: Introduction—The essentially social character of the self: Undiscriminating forms of prayer—The child and the primitive man; Indeterminate types—The growth of discrimination; The completely social type of prayer—Its general characteristics; The two tendencies in the completely social type—The contemplative or “aesthetic”; The two tendencies in the completely social type—The practical or “ethical”; The type of reality and the objective reference involved in prayer.
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“Students of religion and religious education will find this discussion of great value. It is written in simple, untechnical language and is thus well within the range of any well-educated reader.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 288. O. ’09. 40w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 260w.
“The reviewer has not done full justice to the author’s subtle analysis. He feels, however, that the machinery of explanation often obscures rather than clears up the phenomena in question.” Irving King.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 414. D. 15, ’09. 1200w.
=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= Systematic theology. 3v. ea. *$2.50. Am. bapt.
7–37983.
=v. 3.= Soteriology; or, The doctrine of salvation.
A practical discussion which in the treatment of the person of Christ, the nature of atonement, and the extent and influence of regeneration the author tells “how man can get from what he is to what he may be.”
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“We could wish that the author’s great philosophic powers and his vigorous personality would guide us in interpreting the faith of our fathers into the language that men are using to-day. Many of us believe that the older thought-terms and the traditional method are obsolescent if not quite obsolete.” H. A. Youtz.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 468. Jl. ’09. 440w.
=Strouse, Martyn W.=^{[9]} Judge Fritznoodle. $1.25. Roxburgh pub. co.
9–22745.
A lively story of the doings of a group of German immigrants who founded Prariestadt, Cabbage township, Richsoil county, “Out-West” during the Free soil period.
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“His style is one of extreme facetiousness, and, either from ignorance or intention, his use of English is frequently surprising.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 511. Ag. 28, ’09. 130w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.=^{[11]} Aunt Amity’s silver wedding, and other stories. †$1. Century.
9–27034.
Four negro dialect stories in Mrs. Stuart’s best vein. The situation in each is particularly clever. For instance, the title piece tells of the silver wedding of a negro woman who, since her marriage twenty-five years before, had dismissed her fickle first husband and had been married for five years to another man. She solves her difficulty by declaring that it shall be her silver wedding and her present husband’s wooden anniversary. When the evening’s festivities are in full swing, husband number one appears on the scene to claim half the money gifts as “pardner in the silver weddin’ business.” Aunt Amity manages the interruption with regal self possession, gets rid of the intruder, and goes on with the dance.
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“Engaging short stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 135. D. ’09. ✠
“Interest never sleeps in Mrs. Stuart’s stories.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 600. D. 16, ’09. 210w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.=^{[12]} Carlotta’s intended. †$1.25. Harper.
The romance of a radiant Italian girl and a middle aged Irish cobbler. Pat stands as faithful guardian over Carlotta from babyhood to blooming maidenhood, protects her against a loathsome marriage and, finally, himself becomes her suitor. During the time that he is her “intended” a younger wooer claims the girl’s hand, and Pat, learning of the situation by accident, must have welcomed the death that came to him while rescuing a kitten from drowning. The hand of Mafia rests upon the closing pages of the work.
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“A story that makes a strong appeal to any one with the least sentiment in his makeup.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1354. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William.= Germany in the later middle ages, 1200–1500; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$2.25. Longmans.
9–14135.
Appeals to advanced students of European history. “The struggles of Popes and Emperors, the intrigues of those who elected them, the working of spiritual and secular interests, the spiritual sometimes so strangely secular, the secular sometimes touched with the spiritual, are complicated in the extreme. But Bishop Stubbs makes us see that the maze is not without a plan. The chief theme is the relations between the Papacy and the Empire.” (Spec.)
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“The book makes no real contribution to the history of the period, but it is a welcome account of it.” O. J. Thatcher.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 847. Jl. ’09. 430w.
“We cannot help feeling that with a little trouble the book (if it was to be published) might have been made much more full, and much more representative of the author’s own judgment and knowledge.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 157. F. 6. 1650w.
“Their publication at the present time does injustice to an honoured memory; for though they display the masculine grasp of principles and the vivid delineation of character which we should expect from the author, it is clear that he did not throw his full strength into these lectures. Moreover there are few pages which do not stand in need of a revision such as the editor, Mr. A. Hassall, seems not to have considered himself at liberty to carry out.” D.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 188. Ja. ’09. 120w. =Ind.= 66: 1035. My. 13, ’09. 100w.
“Altogether, if we were compelled to choose, we should certainly prefer any one of several historical manuals to this ‘brilliant’ presentation.”
− =Nation.= 88: 303. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.
“Its value as a text-book of reference work would be enhanced, we believe, had it been modified by a revision founded on the results of historical research in the last twenty-five years.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 195. Ap. 3, ’09. 730w.
“Nevertheless, due weight being given these drawbacks, there is still something to be got out of the book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 530. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w.
“This is a worthy sequel to Bishop Stubbs’s other valuable contribution to historical study.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1108. D. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Sturgis, Edith Barnes.= My busy days. **$2. Appleton.
9–17998.
A book of child’s verse especially for little girls.
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“The book is a very attractive one.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 498. Ja. ’09. 80w.
“Margaretta Hinchman’s colored pictures are striking.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1471. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.= John the Baptist: a play; tr. by Beatrice Marshall. **$1.50. Lane.
8–37742.
A timely English version of Sudermann’s drama. “All the scenes, indeed, in which Herodias or Salome or Herod encounters John are full of vivacity and the clash of temperament. It is the passages in which the Baptist comes into contact with his own disciples, and shows himself helpless to deal with their problems and desires, that might hang fire in the playhouse. Yet Herr Sudermann’s portrait of John—a Forerunner who knows not the nature of the kingdom which his Prince will found, a hermit preaching repentance and the wrath to come who learns with bewilderment that the Prophet whose way he has prepared, talks of love, and moves freely and humbly amongst men—to a reader at all events, is the most impressive and pathetic feature of the play.” (Ath.)
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“There should be no necessity to add, in the case of so admirable an artist as Herr Sudermann, that his handling of his theme is always reverent, or that his use of the sacred text is never other than dignified. Miss Beatrice Marshall may be congratulated on a graceful translation.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 52. Ja. 9. 550w. =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“Whatever may be the case with the original, the English text possesses no special quality to compensate for the inherent nastiness of the Salome legend or for the misrepresentation of an heroic Biblical figure.”
− =Nation.= 87: 636. D. 24, ’08. 70w.
“A poignant book like this, however grim, sinister and austere, is yet a poignant good.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 920. Je. ’09. 280w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.=^{[11]} Roses: four one-act plays; tr. from the German by Grace Frank. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–28261.
“Presents four one-act plays, one of which is a pleasant comedy of a young student and a princess incognita—a little play which has humor in it and leaves a pleasant taste in the mouth. The other three plays are studies of feminine pathology of the most pronounced type, chiefly interesting, so far as subject is concerned, because they bring out anew the tendency of the recent German drama and fiction, than which there has been nothing more definitely unwholesome in literature.”—Outlook.
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“‘The far-away princess’ is a ‘pleasant’ play, and the other three distinctly ‘unpleasant,’ of the kind that we used to call Frenchy, but nowadays must be called Germanish.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 932. O. 21, ’09. 60w.
“Even the four plays in the present volume, highly characteristic of Sudermann’s later manner, deserved a more fortunate rendering into English than they have here received. Mrs. Frank, it is to be regretted, mistranslates plain words, fails to render the sense of obvious sentences, and blandly leaves out pregnant and characteristic expressions.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 364. O. 14, ’09. 560w.
“The first of the plays is a frankly repulsive study and the second is distressingly pathetic. ‘The last visit’ is more human and also more dramatic. The last play is wholly charming.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 672. O. 30, ’09. 300w.
“These plays are brief, and deal with the psychological moment. They are distinctly effective, and are not lacking in dramatic or literary quality; but a more dreary view of life than they present, or a more melancholy glimpse into German society, if they are to be taken as authentic, would be difficult to imagine.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 558. N. 6, ’09. 150w.
=Suess, Eduard.=^{[6]} Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas. 3v. v. 3. *$5.75. Oxford.
=v. 3.= “The present instalment of this great work is concerned chiefly with the study of those mighty folds of the earth’s crust which form the mountain-chains of Eurasia. The rock-fold may be regarded as the morphological unit in terrestrial architecture, and the geologists who would gain a broad view of the physiognomy of the earth seeks to determine the relation of fold to fold.”—Ath.
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“A translation exceptional in accuracy and elegance. The mastery of the literature is, however, secondary to the power of generalization which enables the author to marshal his facts and bring them into harmony as parts of a grand tectonic scheme.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 106. Ja. 23. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He sums up into one connected whole the many little-known ranges of Asia and the better-described and studied chains of Europe, so that a large number of scientific observations and much recorded knowledge are now easily available, which before were scattered and almost inaccessible.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 565. Je. 3, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
“British geologists will be so grateful for this scholarly translation that they will be little disposed to criticise the rendering of Suess’ geological terms; but it would be convenient if the original term were sometimes, as in the French translation, given in a footnote.” J. W. G.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 91. Mr. 25, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de.=^{[12]} Great design of Henry IV, from the Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, and The united states of Europe, by E: Everett Hale; with introd. by Edwin D. Mead. *50c. Pub. for the International school of peace, by Ginn.
9–27055.
Here are given Sully’s account in full of the “Great design” of Henry IV of France to bring about the federation of Europe; and the noteworthy papers by Edward Everett Hale. Mr. Mead’s introduction sketches briefly the history of the scheme.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 784. D. 11, ’09. 550w.
=Sumner, Helen Laura.=^{[12]} Equal suffrage. **$2. Harper.
9–29195.
The results of an investigation in Colorado made for the Collegiate equal suffrage league of New York state. It is an impartial report, marked by the absence of argument, in which the author has collected facts, compared evidence and stated results. If is the outgrowth of a two years’ investigation conducted according to best scientific methods: question blanks were circulated; newspaper files were studied to determine what women have done in politics; registration books were examined; state, county, and city reports were explored to find out the number of women office-holders, their records, salaries, etc.
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“Conscientious, competent book, whose reading should be encouraging to champions of the cause and its followers, and give food for serious and unsettling thought to its opponents.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1147. N. 18, ’09. 120w.
=Sutcliffe, Alice Crary.=^{[9]} Robert Fulton and the “Clermont.” **$1.20. Century.
9–25210.
“The authoritative story of Robert Fulton’s early experiments, persistent efforts, and historic achievements, containing many of Fulton’s hitherto unpublished letters, drawings and pictures.” (Explan. title.) It is a timely contribution to history and to the record of steam navigation, prepared by the inventor’s greatgranddaughter.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09. ✠
“Timely, and fills a gap in American biography. A part of the material of Miss Sutcliffe’s volume has appeared in ‘The century magazine,’ but it is well worth its production in this expanded and more permanent form.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 300w.
“While adding little to our knowledge of Fulton’s life and achievements, brings together a valuable collection of portraits, letters, plans and sketches, many of which have never before been published.” F. H. D.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 362. D. ’09. 220w. =Engin. D.= 6: 337. O. ’09. 100w.
“There is here collected possibly more of Fulton’s own comments on his ideas and ambitions than has ever before been seen in print. There are also a few points on which a student of early engineering progress in this country will look in vain for new light. The volume shows some signs of hasty preparation.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 22. S. 10, ’09. 650w.
“She has done more to establish Fulton’s claims to great ability as an inventor than all previous writers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 364. S. 25, ’09. 300w.
“The interest of the book lies in its new material, which includes Fulton’s preliminary plans for his steamboat.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 758. S. 30, ’09. 150w.
“The present work is sympathetically written and must be looked upon as the most complete and satisfactory of all the briefer lives of the inventor which have been published.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 545. O. 2, ’09. 170w. + =Nation.= 89: 308. S. 30, ’09. 300w.
“There have been several lives of Fulton in the past but in none of them, even that by his intimate friend, Cadwallader D. Colden, have the genius and individuality of Fulton been so clearly defined as in this latest one by the greatgranddaughter of the inventor. It has been a labor of love, but without partiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 546. S. 18, ’09. 1150w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 60w.
=Sutcliffe, Halliwell.=^{[10]} Priscilla of the Good Intent. †$1.50. Little.
9–26319.
The fragrance and freshness of the fields seem to pervade this story of simple life in the north country of England. Aside from the atmosphere, the charm of the book lies in the contrast of character. Priscilla, the slim little mistress of Good Intent farm, is a very lovable heroine, but there are moments when “Peggy o’ Mathewson’s” the gipsy-like girl of the moorlands, slips to the front of the stage. David the smith, sturdy, simple and strong, is a foil for the weak, inconstant character of Reuben Gaunt, who proves his manhood only after a long fight.
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“Reminiscent of Phillpotts’ Dartmoor stories, but without their gloomy atmosphere.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 94. N. ’09.
“This ‘romance of the grey fells’ attracts us by its strong human interest and pleasant rural atmosphere. The weakness of the story lies in the unconvincing transformation of the second suitor ... into a model of courageous manliness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 612. My. 22. 180w.
“One who reads may feel at moments an inclination to run swiftly up and down the landscape, yet the pastoral setting has charm and significance, the story holds interest in suspense to the last, and the tone never swerves from its high pitch.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 600. D. 16, ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Sutcliffe gives lovers of romance a wholesome and pleasing treat. The pictures of humble English country life indoors and out, and the lore of the birds and beasts and plants and all the life of the field and the fen, make the novel ‘different’ from the run of tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 666. O. 23, ’09. 250w.
“One of the many well-constructed, solid bits of fiction turned out by English writers every year.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
“This is well written, with some fine study of character, but the story drags a little.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 865. My. 29, ’09. 20w.
=Sutherland, Howard V.= Idylls of Greece. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–31832.
Four idylls built up about “olden tales of love” in classic Greece. They are: Prokris and Kephalos; Melas and Anaxe; Acis and Galataea; Œme and Œonus.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 50w.
=Swan, Mark E.= Top o’ the world. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–24873.
“A fantastic narrative tells of all the queer things that happened to a little girl who wanted to be grown up. The narrative is written by Mark E. Swan, the lyrics by James O’Dea, and the music by Anna Caldwell and Manuel Klein. The charmingly whimsical illustrations, a number in color, are by Hy. Mayer.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Now that it has been turned into a book it has lost some of its picturesqueness, though the story is just the same.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“A quaint story that will interest all the little ones.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 80w.
“There is not enough to build up a page story in a juvenile paper, let alone a bulky volume. The illustrations lack the refinement and artistic taste that such pictures should have.”
− =R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 120w.
=Swift, Edgar James.= Mind in the making: a study in mental development. **$1.50. Scribner. 8–12179.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Swift’s book is stimulating, clearly written, interesting, and within the comprehension of the average reader. On the whole it is a commendable attempt to state education in socio-psychological terms.” C: H. Johnston.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 155. Mr. 18, ’09. 2300w.
“While Professor Swift’s ‘Mind in the making’ like most other genetic treatises tends at times to underestimate the value and the potency of non-subjective factors in the educational process, it on the whole constitutes one of the most stimulating books on education recently published.” A. D. Yocum.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 104. Mr. 15, ’09. 430w.
“On the whole it is very well written and extremely suggestive, even though the psychologist may feel that some of the statements should be accepted with reservations.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 17: 275. Ap. ’09. 800w.
=Swift, Polemus Hamilton.=^{[11]} Gospel cheer messages. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
8–37346.
In Part 1 the author has set down some of the convictions and observations concerning revivals gained during twelve years’ ministry in Chicago. Part 2 contains a series of revival sermons preached in the Austin Methodist Episcopal church during February, 1908. They were planned to meet the special need of this Chicago church and community.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.=^{[9]} Dramas; selected and edited by Arthur Beatty. **$1.50. Crowell.
9–24012.
Includes “Atlanta in Calydon,” “Erechtheus” and “Mary Stuart.” An introduction sums up the poet’s career and place in literature, while full notes, a chronological list of Swinburne’s writings and a bibliography of the lives of Swinburne follow the text.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 149. D. ’09. =Dial.= 47: 391. N. 16, ’09. 40w.
“It is a well-edited and a well-printed volume, serviceable, alike for the student and the ‘general reader.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 884. O. 14, ’09. 80w.
“The editor has supplied judicious notes explaining classical obscurities, and an introduction apparently not dictated by intemperate enthusiasm.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 517. N. 25, ’09. 440w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.=^{[11]} Shakespeare. 2s. Frowde, London.
A eulogy in which the author “passes in review all the plays, and affirms, in twinned epithets charging pair after pair like sea-horses up the foamy crest of his billowing sentences, that each drama of Shakespeare’s, with one or two exceptions, is the most divinely and incomparably excellent thing of its kind in the world. He makes, to be sure, some distinctions among the children of the master’s mind, but reverently, as a mortal distinguishes the differing glories of the seraphim.”—Nation.
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“The little book before us is full of insight, of impatience, and of cumbrous eloquence. It is sometimes hard to discover where the critic ends and the fine frenzy of the poet begins.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 289. S. 11. 1100w. + − =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 360w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Three plays of Shakespeare. (Harper’s lib. of living thought.) **75c. Harper.
9–9460.
A series which aims to provide students with some single, central, living thoughts which authors present for magazine printing before taking the time to develop them into books. The three plays here treated are “King Lear,” “Othello” and “King Richard II.” The living thought in the first is that King Lear is an expression of the most advanced doctrine as to the absolute equality of man confronted by nature and of the futility of the monarchical idea; in the second, that Shakespeare missed the most pathetic feature of the “tragic mischief” when he forebore to make use of Iago’s stealing the handkerchief as it is recorded in Curthio’s version; in the third, the struggle in Shakespeare’s mind between the influence of Marlowe and that of Robert Greene.
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“The poet’s vice as a critic is, of course, his intemperate exaggeration and his super-abundant use of the superlative. Yet there is a sound and noble enthusiasm in his appreciation of the great Elizabethans.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 636. Ag. ’09. 60w. + − =Ind.= 67: 90. Jl. 8, ’09. 120w.
“His criticisms of the plays of Shakespeare are original and of marked analytic power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 768. Je. ’09. 40w.
=Swingle, Calvin Franklin.=^{[8]} Electric railway power stations. $2. Drake, F: J.
9–11047.
“A book written for operating engineers, and consisting largely of descriptions of modern boilers, mechanical stokers, economizers, pumps, steam engines, turbines, gas engines, generators, switchboards, etc. The design and construction of boilers and chimneys is taken up, and considerable space is devoted to the use of the indicator, the study of cards, and valve adjustments.”—Engin. D.
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“It is a work that young men in subordinate positions in power-houses could use with profit in preparing themselves for more responsible duties.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 665. Je. ’09. 80w.
“It should prove interesting and helpful for those in whose hands the actual operation of machinery is placed, and it should help them to a more comprehensive view of the system of which they are a part.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 8. Jl. 15, ’09. 250w.
=Syers, Edgar, and Syers, Madge.= Book of winter sports; with an introd. by the Earl of Lytton, and contributions from experts in various branches of sport. *$4.20. Longmans.
9–9031.
“The winter sports here described and illustrated—the illustrations have been carefully collected from various sources, old and new—might be particularised as ice and snow sports. This limitation is quite correct; football, hockey, &c., are practised outside the borders of the winter season. The ‘winter sports’ are bandy, which is a kind of hockey on the ice; curling, with details of its practice in various countries; skating and the cognate sport of ski-ing, followed on snow; and tobogganing. In the appendices we have records, laws of the various games, and notes on winter-sport resorts.”—Spec.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 180w.
“The names of the joint editors are a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of their work.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 745. N. 7, ’08. 130w.
=Symonds, Margaret (Mrs. W. W. Vaughan).= Days spent on a doge’s farm. *$2.50. Century.
9–14222.
A reissue after fifteen years of a book “which makes of every reader a friend.” With the original text there has been included a new preface which is an appreciation and description of the remarkable woman who ruled the “Doge’s farm,” Evelina, Countess Pisani.
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=Dial.= 46: 90. F. 1, ’09. 70w. + =Lit. D.= 38: 393. Mr. 6, ’09. 300w.
“It is an interesting account of Italian country life and gives a picture of an unusual woman.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 130w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 300w.
“It is a phase of Italian life seldom seen by Americans.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 6: 238. My. ’09. 120w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 100w. + =Spec.= 101: 1108. D. 26, ’08. 240w.
=Symons, Arthur.=^{[8]} Plays, acting and music: a book of theory. **$2. Dutton.
9–13610.
A new edition revised to keep pace with the author’s more recent application of critical methods.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 62. O. ’09.
“He has omitted, added, and changed, until one who possesses the first edition will feel it necessary, in order to keep up with Mr. Symons, to own this later volume.” R: Burton,
+ =Dial.= 47: 70. Ag. 1, ’09. 350w.
“In the re-issue of ‘Plays, acting and music,’ Arthur Symons is himself only in flashes. As a literary taster, Mr. Symons is pleasant to read.”
+ − =Ind=. 67: 370. Ag. 12, ’09. 250w.
“Here is something more than the indifferentism of the hardened journalist. Symons retained his zest. Every contact with art was a great adventure. And he was at once so faithful to the thing in hand, and so mindful of that whole which we call art, that he is justified in calling a volume apparently composed of rather insubstantial scraps ‘a book of theory.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 300w.
“Almost a new work rather than merely a ‘revised’ edition of it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“The book as it now stands is additionally valuable as a record of the evolution of this thorough and inspired critic. Some of the essays, it is true, appear to have little permanent value, being concerned with the production of plays possessing at the best, a merely transient interest; but even the obiter dicta of Mr. Symons are well worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 180w.
=Symons, Arthur.=^{[11]} Romantic movement in English poetry. *$2.50. Dutton.
9–24011.
“In scheme and structure this book is notably simple: little more, in fact, than a descriptive catalogue, an assemblage of independent studies or appreciations of the poets, authentic or reputed, of a certain period in our literature. We might call it a literary ‘Peerage.’ or a critical ‘Who’s who,’ but that the order adopted is chronological, not alphabetical.”—Ath.
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“Lacking a unifying point of view, the value of the book lies in the felicity of some of its characterizations and its poetical and trenchant phrasing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 127. D. ’09.
“In a word, this volume owes nothing of its singular interest and value to its form—everything to its substance, which is of rare excellence.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 518. O. 30. 1400w.
“For most readers its introduction will prove the most interesting part, because it is the only part which provides any critical perspective, or from which a continuous history of the Romantic movement can be gleaned.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 251. N. ’09. 380w.
“The truth is that Mr. Symons has felt profoundly and correctly but has not reasoned enough. Hence he overstates his case. The danger of conventional scholarship is not that it concerns itself with history, but that it is not always properly aware of the humbleness of its task and that it too often mistakes the backwaters of bibliography for the springs of Helicon. It is, then, as a volume of essays upon the greater poets of the early nineteenth century that ‘The romantic movement in English poetry’ has positive value. And Mr. Symons is well equipped to interpret the works of these men at once subtly and vigorously. His personal preoccupations as a poet, too, enable him to set certain matters in a new and more excellent light.” Ludwig Lewisohn.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 487. N. ’09. 2000w.
“Notwithstanding these many good points, the book, as a whole, leaves much to be desired.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 354. O. 14, ’09. 870w.
“A book of criticism of real value and of great entertainment. If it were not for this taint of the superior person, marring all he writes, Mr. Symons might have been a great critic.” R: LeGallienne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 717. N. 20, ’09. 2800w.
“I should be inclined to call this book the most brilliant that Mr. Symons has ever written. A hundred things might be quoted as illustrations of Mr. Symons’ really marvellous way of combining criticism and literature. Apparently he contradicts himself at times, but the contradiction is never more than apparent; a few lines of explanation would make it all clear.” J: F. Runciman.
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 379. S. 25, ’09. 1600w.
“The whole book is full of sane, illuminating criticism, and Mr. Symons’s range of appreciation is notably wider than the principles which he lays down in his introduction.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 925. D. 4, ’09. 290w.
=Syrett, Netta.=^{[12]} Anne Page. †$1.50. Lane.
“Its central figure is a woman, beneficent and gracious, yet having behind her an unsuspected past—a past unregretted and deliberately chosen, since the man who shared it would on the whole have preferred to be her husband. Supreme unselfishness and reluctance to hinder the development of a genius were the motives, we are told, of this sacrifice.... We cannot overcome a Philistine aversion to the conception of an ideal life with such a secret at its core.... But the plot, the background, and the accessories of the story are all artistically planned, and have much charm.”—Ath.
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“In construction and finish this novel seems to us the best piece of work which Miss Syrett has yet done; but it impresses us rather as a skillfully elaborated illustration of a purely academic thesis than a study from life.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.
“Perhaps Netta Syrett would be surprised to learn that anybody could think her ‘Anne Page’ a demoralizing tale. Yet what else can be said of a story in which the heroine defies the conventions and comes to no bad end. Women may read it for warning as well as entertainment, and they will find both.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 400w.
=Syrett, Netta.=^{[8]} Castle of dreams. $1.25. McClurg.
The story of the development of a neglected girl shut away in an Irish castle, neglected by her father, an impecunious Irish peer, and taken in hand by an interesting scholar who comes to the neighborhood. “The pictures of ‘Bridgit’s’ life in Ireland, of her extreme cleverness when receiving her father’s rowdily smart English friends, and of the trick she plays them are all well drawn.” (Spec.)
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“Miss Syrett shows herself, as usual, clever at handling an imaginative theme, but we are not sure that she has been wise in choosing Ireland as a background for her castle of dreams. Her Celtic peasants are painfully conventional, and speak a dialect which would hardly satisfy an expert critic in such matters. The humour, though sometimes telling, is scarcely spontaneous, and the British Philistines introduced are caricatures, not of the highest order.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 433. Ap. 10. 120w. =Nation.= 89: 512. N. 25, ’09. 390w.
“Her heroine is thoroughly delightful in her defense against the mercenary father and the intolerable suitor. Its portrayal is an extremely artistic piece of literary work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 585. O. 2, ’09. 250w.
“The book is slight, but it is written with considerable grace, and the snatches of fairy-lore with which it is interspersed are full of a plaintive and elusive charm.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 543. Ap. 3, ’09. 120w.