there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that
would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the
sea.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 860w.
“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue
of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr.
Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is
master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his
characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both
men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“These stories of his have the genuine salt savor and the salt sting.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 140w.
“A volume of thoroughly good and amusing stories of many seas.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Robertson, T. W.= Society and Caste, ed. by T. Edgar Pemberton. 60c.
Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are
printed from the English acting editions which follow the original
manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a
bibliography are included.
=Robertson, William Graham=, il. French songs of old Canada; with
translations into modern English verse. *$10. Dutton.
A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories
found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet
contains good English translations of the songs.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 368. F. ‘05, 400w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the
life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have
been included which add both to its historical and biographical value.
The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains
chronology, bibliography, and index.
=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a
prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of
the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine
Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however,
concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful
girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry
her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a
fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with
a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor,
described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely
remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of
commerce.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 250w.
“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking
quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 516. Jl. ‘05. 820w.
“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to
interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and
literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.
— — =Forum.= 37: 103. Jl. ‘05. 610w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 370w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for
competent craftsmanship.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 460w.
— =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 660w.
“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of
sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in
emotional force it is far out of the common.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 830w.
“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the
strength of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 50w.
“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able
characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she
does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 320w.
=Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim.= Ethics of the Christian life; or, The
science of right living. **$2. Am. Bapt.
“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life:
the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for
moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the
Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self,
duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the
method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one
tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 387. Ap. ‘05. 440w.
“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions.
His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 100w.
=Robinson, Albert Gardner.= Cuba and the intervention. **$1.80.
Longmans.
A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of
peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw
off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the
island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a
statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained
self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes,
Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view,
however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.
“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives
valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the
American authorities.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting
incidents in our national history.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w.
“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in
assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it
can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and
unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 319. S. 2, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba
with admirable impartiality.”
+ + =Spec.= 91: 644. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.
A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all
cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks,
and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous
half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for
city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.
“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject
both widely and concretely.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
Reviewed by Ralph Clarkson.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 15. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.
“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete
and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes
possible.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 268. Ap. 6, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.
“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has
been published of this valuable volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Robinson, E. Kay.= Country day by day. **$1.75. Holt.
In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird
life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the
drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the
things of feathers and of petals.
“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing
hours of the rolling year.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 367. Mr. 25. 570w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
* + =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book
may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident
ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.”
R. L.
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 418. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w.
“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of
nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It
is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for
the beautiful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 621. Ap. 29, ‘05. 710w.
* =Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night, **$1. Scribner.
“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them
‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the
reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood
is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive
sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his
verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a
wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.
* “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he
has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had
he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to
Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and
good faith.’”
+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less
indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more
securely himself.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 250w.
* “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo
poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor
poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in
this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which
qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this
kind.” T. Roosevelt.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 913. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1270w.
* =Robinson, Harry Perry.= Black bear. *$2. Macmillan.
“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his
troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes
the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But
‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She
tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of
loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the
winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated
by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting
disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not
otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to
feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the
end.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 500w.
* =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ‘05. 350w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 692. 4, ‘05. 190w.
=Robinson, Sir John Richard.= Fifty years of Fleet street: being the
life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy
Thomas. *$4. Macmillan.
Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr.
Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of
everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing
health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to
write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals,
jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed
his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the
world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty
years had been the personal friends and associates of the great
journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria,
Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant,
Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes,
Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan,
Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.
“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature
and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 56. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1190w.
“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no
two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the
task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for
during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend
of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those
of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of
memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected
and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to
feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and
edited.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 49. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2330w.
=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2.
Forest & stream.
A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer
tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of
the woods, but does not harm them.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 407. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.
=Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Houghton.
Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared
in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage”
is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family
save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her
lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A
letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love
motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck,
frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old
frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman
who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern
men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.
“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his
portrait.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are
revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long,
personal acquaintance among these people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 284. Ap. 29, ‘05. 340w.
“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s
stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and
country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and
neighborly qualities.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18. ‘05. 150w.
=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Sir Walter Raleigh. 75c. Macmillan.
“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis
of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands
for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the
English colonies in the new world owed their existence. The sketch of
Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of
dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.
“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them
with much skill.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 483. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.
“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of
many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir
Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual
conditions.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1570w. (Survey of contents.)
“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes
the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well
maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted
himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a
creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Rogers, A. W.= Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a
chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom.
*$3.50. Longmans.
A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as
recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which
connects the geological structure with the scenic features.
“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South
African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of
information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous
scientific journals and official reports.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 22. 570w.
“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive
handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 35. My. 11, ‘05. 830w.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= Thomas H. Benton. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed
account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political
events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which
his public work ended.
“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular
statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“The work is careless and superficial.”
— =Dial.= 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than
properly belongs to the biographer.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 420w.
“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true
Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is
marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between
Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement
to a degree constituting a serious defect.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas
H. Benton.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects;
his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too
large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 593. O. ‘05. 470w.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and
environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great
statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography,
which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He
is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the
“economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world
had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff
protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as
sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes
alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While
physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was
constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).
“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into
errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for
the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor.
Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This
biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the
national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader
a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 900. Jl. ‘05. 880w.
“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of
Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects
and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 160w.
“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a
painstaking care is evident.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the
weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or
sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble
grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults.
The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so
far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 280w.
“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality,
gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and
philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the
founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 241. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1090w.
“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that
has yet appeared.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
=Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles.= See =Green, Anna Katharine.=
=Rolfe, William James.= Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in
Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland,
Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. *$1.50.
Houghton.
In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised,
corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes
in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a
plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.
* =Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3.
Scribner.
“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting
trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and
bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions,
from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti,
white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are
also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the
outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island
home.” (Outlook.) The volume is illustrated from photographs by the
president himself or by members of his family.
* “All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous
President will be delighted with this book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.
* “This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for
the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness
and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the
President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 830w.
* “To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy
interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a
President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book
should prove a valued addition to its class.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 1670w.
* “Altogether it is an unusual book, and of interest to every one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous,
wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the
remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of
any subject in which he is interested.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 610w.
* “Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is
well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do
something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 230w.
* “President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of
preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention,
and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every
sportsman must agree.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ‘05. 430w.
=Root. A. I.= A B C of bee culture; rev. by E. R. Root. $1.20. Root.
“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It
is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and
the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be
practically a new book.”—Outlook.
“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on
this subject.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Rosadi, Giovanni.= Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich.
*$2.50. Dodd.
This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and
now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor
Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a
warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a
purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a
noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and
(we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the
word.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 660w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 120w.
“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in
the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the
use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 40w.
“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard
Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems
to serve no particularly good purpose.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 1080w.
“It is a thoroughly scholarly study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two
facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives
it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the
personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of
readers usually indifferent to religious books.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 170w.
“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We
cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book
with more misprints.”
+ — — =Sat. R.= 99: 638. My. 13, ‘05. 440w.
“Is throughout deeply interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 390w.
=Rose, Achilles.= Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.
The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and
used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern
science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness
of the properties to medical science.
=Rose, John Holland.= Napoleonic studies. *$2.50. Macmillan.
Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the
author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few
exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the
chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt
against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The
detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions
relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during
the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A
British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s
food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,”
“Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation
at Waterloo.”
“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the
subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient
unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the
subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of
antiquarian interest.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 658. Ap. ‘05. 1270w.
“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the
research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to
prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the
Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D.
Adams.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 41. Ja. 16, ‘05. 1520w.
“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and
carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not
dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and
inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a
generalization.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.
=Rose, Mrs. Mary.= Women of Shakespeare’s family. *50c. Lane.
“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be
expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about
Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to
say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts
that she has to deal with.”—Spec.
+ =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Roseboro’, Viola.= Players and vagabonds. $1.50. Macmillan.
Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the
author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character,
are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the
scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the
pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for
chance to play the hero in a burning theatre. “The embroidered robe”
is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success”
makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly
actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the
missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten
year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua
maker,” “A marriage de covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,”
complete the volume.
“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and
softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful,
charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs,
darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful
helping of others.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 257. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing
charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays
of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for
them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the
cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic
crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of
that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of
the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard
experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally
his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he
writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like.
But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ
which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject
are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin
Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 500w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and
dignity.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 120w.
=Rosenthal, Herman,= tr. See =Ganz, Hugo.= Land of riddles.
Roses and how to grow them. See =Barron, Leonard=, ed.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially
sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work
this same following will find difficulty in singling out any
censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology,
the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the
social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in
sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the
American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of
investigation in sociology.”
“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the
content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs
out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather
than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some
time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in
sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 129. Jl. ‘05. 1400w.
* “No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the
understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl
Kelsey.
* + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 759. N. ‘05. 540w.
* “Brilliant but somewhat capricious.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to
most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ...
that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions
of a real practical problem.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81:42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“His style is rather exuberant, but it is picturesque and rapid.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 1410w.
“The book is of value to the lay reader in that it clarifies not a few
of the foggy statements and definitions that have been associated with
this newly developed science to its popular detraction. Professor Ross
is a clear and forcible writer.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Old Florence and modern
Tuscany. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author, who has lived among the Tuscan peasants for over thirty
years, has written a series of fifteen papers, eleven of which have
already appeared in various magazines. The book opens with the history
of the Misericordia, the brotherhood of pity in Florence, then follow
chapters upon “A domestic chaplain of the Medici,” “Two Florentine
hospitals,” “A September day in the valley of the Arno,” “Popular
songs of Tuscany,” “Vintaging in Tuscany,” “Oil-making in Tuscany.”
“Virgil and agriculture in Tuscany,” “A stroll in Boccaccio’s
country,” “The dove of the holy Saturday,” “San Gimignano della Belle
Torre,” “Volterra,” “Mezzeria or land tenure in Tuscany,” and “The
jubilee of the crucifix.”
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 760w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.
“Well deserve being collected into book form on account of their
historical research and of their keen observation of actual conditions
of peasant life in Tuscany. The most attractive article of all in this
volume is on the popular songs of Tuscany.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 218. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Written with a distinct and common inspiration and with undoubted joy
in transcription.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Hewlett have been enlightening us as to
Tuscany; now comes Mrs. Ross in a smaller volume but with almost equal
information, especially as to the Tuscan peasants. While we learn more
about modern Tuscany than about old Florence ... Mrs. Ross’s account
is noteworthy, although for a more exhaustive treatment one will turn
to the volumes by Mr. Gardner, M. Yriarte, and Mrs. Oliphant.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.
=Rosse, Florence James.= Philosophy and froth. 50c. Broadway pub.
Almost 200 little epigrammatic sayings, some of which are clever and
some of which are not.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w.
=Rouse, Adelaide Louise.= Letters of Theodora. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A girl, who has left a position in a New Jersey college and a faithful
lover to seek literary honors in unfeeling New York, writes of her
struggles to a girl friend. A life of grape-nuts in a hall bedroom
does not discourage her and she has many experiences and flirtations
which introduce various interesting characters; but in the end she
marries the original John.
“Though she really has nothing much to write about, her letters make
pleasant reading.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 270w.
“‘The letters of Theodora’ do not constitute a psychological
brain-twister, but a light and pleasing romance.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 60w.
“It must be confessed that Teddy has a vivacious way about her which
makes her letters very pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 630w.
“A clever entertaining book.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“May not appeal to a very large public. The public to which it does
appeal will be select and worth having.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=Rouse, G. H.= Old Testament criticism in New Testament light. *$1.
Union press.
An address given before the Bengali Christian conference of Calcutta
has been expanded into this volume which is addressed to the general
reader. It presents “modern views” upon subjects included under the
chapter headings, Our basis—Christ made no mistakes; Christ’s
treatment of the Old Testament; The relation of the Levitical law to
the prophetic history and teaching; The Pentateuch; The authorship of
Psalm cx.; The historicity, accuracy, and authoritativeness of the Old
Testament; The book of Daniel; Prophecy; and Critical methods.
“The higher critics will find in this work much to learn, and much to
moderate their views, while the uncritical Christian will find much to
deepen his faith and to strengthen his hold on the Old Testament as
well as the New Testament.” T. H. L. Leary.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1100. O. 21, ‘05. 710w.
=Spec.= 95: 56. Ag. 8, ‘05. 180w.
* =Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
A dramatic poem in which Quetzal is sent by “the all-father, the high
Tonaca,” to rule over Mexican Tollan and become a power for good. The
god of darkness, “lest man should be all blessed,” took the form of
Lord Tezca who basely seized the throne and “scoffing all but
careless, jovial wit and witty joy,” ruled until “hostile tribes flung
down the bronze-wrought gates.” Kingdom followed kingdom, while the
people dumbly waited for “Quetzal’s hoped return.”
=Rowland, Helen.= Digressions of Polly. †$1.50. Baker.
Polly and her fiancé furnish the airy dialogue of this book. There are
twenty-three chapters, each a complete little chat, with its own
setting and its own amusing climax; but thru them all Polly, the
light-hearted, with her curls, her dimples and her chiffon ruffles,
and Jack the resourceful, very human and very much in love, are true
to their frivolous parts.
“The result is not equal to the effort.”
— =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 30w.
“One of the brightest volumes of dialogue of the season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“If it is lacking in originality ... the conversations of the fair and
frivolous Polly and her fiancé, never dull, are often unusually
diverting.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 60w.
“Her froth and her frills make her very good company, indeed, for
others than the agreeable young man who takes her balls and
occasionally sends back a very respectable one of his own.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 250w.
“She is certainly entertaining, though, perhaps for too many pages.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
* =Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.
“There are contained in this volume eight stories of adventure, having
a slender thread of connection in that all are narratives by Doctor
Leyden of strange experiences in his career as a collector for
museums.” (Pub. Opin.) “They deal with strange and exotic regions such
as Papua, the Orinoco, Borneo, Curacao, Sulu, the South Sea islands,
Hayti, and the Malay peninsula.... Drinking, murder, abduction, fraud,
brutality, cowardice—such are the contents of the book.” (Nation.)
* “Some of the most unpleasant short stories it was ever the fate of
an author to invent. There is no denying that in spite of some
exaggeration and tall talk, the stories are exceedingly well told, but
why tell them?”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 200w.
* “The tales are vivid and strange.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
* “Joseph Conrad would have told the story differently, and doubtless
better, but it is doubtful if he could have created a more convincing
atmosphere of horror.”
— + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Wanderers. †$1.50. Barnes.
The story of a young Irishman who, fearing that his father’s will has
given his yacht to a brother, runs away with the coveted boat. He
takes an artist friend with him, and later picks up an American
professor’s daughter, with whom both young men fall in love, and her
chaperone. After many and varied adventures, which include dueling and
piracy, Brian legally acquires both the yacht and the girl.
“The style is simple but adequate, there is plenty of humor, and the
book admirably fulfils its purpose.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“An unpretending tale, entertaining for an hour or two, agreeable in
its main personages, pleasantly written, abundantly varied in its
kinds of interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Rollicking, jovial story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 520w.
“A light, breezy tale of the sea, with less of storm and stress than
is common to novels of a marine cast, but sufficiently spiced with
adventure to keep the interest alive. Leaving numerous improbabilities
out of mind, the book will serve well to while away a couple of
hours.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. (Outline of plot.)
“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without
mental effort.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 180w.
=Rowlands, Samuel.= Bride. **$3.50. Goodspeed.
“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’
register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to
bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German
bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now
reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The
poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens
concerning the respective advantages of the single and married
estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line,
stanza.”—Nation.
“Will add little to Rowlands’ fame.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1030w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 720w.
=Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of
our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 160w.
=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and
gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent
of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson;
Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon
Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and
citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John
Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the
appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of
prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting
statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.
“We can at all events congratulate Mr. Seebohm Rowntree upon having
produced an amusing contribution to the faddist class of literature of
the day.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 410w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 505. O. 14, 670w.
* “Mr. Rowntree treats of the evil of betting in the thoro and
dispassionate manner he has employed in his other studies.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“Such a book as this has long been needed. It is the work of
specialists for the abatement of a national evil.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.
“As a study the book is very good reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 260w.
“This volume will be found very valuable as a reference-book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 430w.
* =Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an
historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from
the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
This “true story of events in New York city during the Revolution,”
has seen over one hundred editions, and the present reprint corrects
many errors which have crept into the various texts and gives an
historical introduction showing that the people concerned in this
account of the beautiful and ill-fated Charlotte, who eloped at
fifteen with an English army officer and died broken-hearted and
deserted some two years later, concerns people well known in their
day. The language of the book is quaintly old-fashioned, and the
unpleasant truths are plainly treated. The story was originally
intended as a warning to young girls.
* “Mr. Halsey’s introduction is extremely interesting: a bit of
bibliographical work of high order, adding enormously to the literary
value of the volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 820w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Herbert Spencer; an estimate and review; together with
a chapter of personal reminiscences by James Collier. **$1.25. Fox.
“Exactly one-half this volume is occupied by Professor Royce’s
estimate of Spencer.... Having sketched the general history of
evolution in bold and strong lines, he reviews the origin and
significance of Spencer’s own view of evolution.... The third quarter
of the volume is given to a criticism by Professor Royce of Spencer’s
educational theories.... The volume is brought to a close by some
personal reminiscences of Spencer by Mr. James Collier, who was for
nine years his secretary, and for ten his amanuensis.”—Nation.
“[Belongs] to the supplementary order of biographical material.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 390w.
“This little volume is one of the best ... contributions to
Spenceriana which have been called forth by the publication of
Spencer’s Autobiography.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 254. My. ‘05. 570w.
“A most apt supplement to the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 71. Ja. 26, ‘05. 2180w.
“Professor Royce has given us a rather dreary picture of the
Englishman, Mr. Collier ... gives a more sympathetic account in his
personal reminiscences in the latter part of the book.” H. Heath
Bawden.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 361. My. ‘05. 730w.
“One need hardly ask better help toward a just estimate of the great
career so lately closed than is afforded by this little book in which
historical, biographical and critical insights are happily blended.”
Edward H. Griffin.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 205. Je. 15, ‘05. 700w.
* =Rudy, Charles.= Cathedrals of northern Spain; their history and their
architecture: together with much of interest concerning the bishops,
rulers and other personages identified with them. **$2. Page.
The author of this well illustrated volume in the ‘Cathedral series’
“has an unbounded love not only for Spain but for the Spanish people.
He sees the cathedrals of the Castillian country with enthusiastic
eyes, and he writes as he sees.” (Ind.)
* + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the superficial
reader.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
* =Ruskin, John.= Complete works. $37.50. Crowell.
Thirty volumes containing besides the usual texts of Ruskin’s works at
least two volumes of author’s notes, bibliography and indices not
usually found in current editions. The volumes are strongly bound for
library purposes, the type is large and clear, and the illustrations
for the set include thirty photogravures, 341 half-tones, and 10 color
plates, some of which are reproductions of Ruskin’s own sketches, as
well as Turner’s. The books are boxed and appear in three styles of
bindings.
=Ruskin, John.= Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by
C. E. Norton. **$4. Houghton.
These letters, covering a period from 1855 to 1887, are edited by
Professor Norton himself. They are the intimate letters of a man to
his best friend, some, indeed, have been omitted as too intimate for
publication, and, beginning where “Praeterita” ended, they form a
sequel to it and a valuable addition to Ruskin’s autobiography. The
letters describe the changes which took place in Ruskin’s views of
art, religion, and life during that period, they show him as a social
reformer, and political economist, and give his opinions on American
and European politics. His sketches of the people and places that he
loved, his inner purposes, his work, and the doubts and perplexities
that beset him, reveal the writer to us in a new and more lovable
light. There are a number of illustrations.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 123. F. 11, ‘05. 1240w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 425. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
“The graceful dignity and consummate skill of the comment which
accompanies them. Not only are they a continuous record of Ruskin’s
intellectual and emotional life from 1856 on, and thus almost
completely supplement the unfinished ‘Praeterita,’ but they have the
advantage over ‘Praeterita’ in being records contemporary to the fact,
and thus not subject to contamination through subsequent changes of
mood and of memory. In that of purest friendship, merely as the
spontaneous record of his inner as well as his outer life. With just
reticence and balance of judgment, Mr. Norton sums up the work of his
friend. Ruskin’s comments on his contemporaries are interesting.” G.
R. Carpenter.
+ + =Bookm.= 20: 455. Ja. ‘05. 1360w.
“He [Norton] has performed a delicate task with exquisite taste.”
Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 117. F. ‘05. 950w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 957. Ap. 27, ‘05. 560w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 36. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2430w.
“Read with an eye single to the revelation of personality, there is
hardly a letter here included that does not yield something of value,
and the effect of the whole is to give us the conviction that we may
now approach closer to the real Ruskin than has hitherto been possible
even with the assistance of his ablest interpreters.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 139. Ja. 14, ‘05. 2170w.
“The letters are indeed revelatory, but, for the most part, they are
revelatory of a woeful instability of purpose and of a pitiful misery
of mind. Except incidentally and occasionally, they cannot be said to
add dignity to the name of the man they characterize.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 497. Mr. ‘05. 710w.
“Professor Norton was one of Ruskin’s closest friends, and these
letters make an excellent biography of the great Englishman.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.
“Fascinating as these letters are to read, their one subject is
Himself, his own troubles, his own work, his own knowledge: from
beginning to end it is I.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 407. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1930w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Twin immortalities, and other poems. *$1.50;
special ed. *$2.50. Hammersmark.
The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of
music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the
classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely
allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost
democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the
“Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.
“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and
the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland
between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 182. F. ‘05. 140w.
“Rich and varied volume of verse.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1110w.
“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its
finger tips.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 850w.
=Russell, Constance, Lady.= Three generations of fascinating women, and
other sketches from family history. *$10.50. Longmans.
“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past,
and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of
former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with
Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell,
Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information
concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was
“incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most
likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter
Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered
among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the
third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris
was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.
=Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“You might call Lady Russell’s book a story of fleeting beauties. Are
not so much idealizations as realities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1260w. (Survey of
contents.)
* “This is an admirable literary work now revised and reproduced in a
most admirable manner.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
=Russell, George William Erskine.= Sydney Smith. **75c. Macmillan.
A volume in the “English men of letters series.” A full treatment of
the life and personality of a man celebrated for his wit, but whose
more solid qualities as a man of letters, a founder of the Edinburgh
Review, a lecturer on moral philosophy, a writer of pamphlets, a
politician, and a clergyman, deserve respect. His humor found him a
ready audience, and his keen shafts were used to point his morals more
effectively.
“Mr. George Russell’s biography is adequate and sympathetic. He has
selected his material with discretion, and has let Sydney Smith tell
his own story as far as possible. Now and again the biographer permits
his own prejudices to intervene, and so strikes a jarring note. The
book is a coherent, intelligible account of a great man.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 122. F. 11, ‘05. 1800w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 234. F. 25. 1500w.
“He seems, in short, pretty thoroughly to have summed up the Sydney
Smith question; no more elaborate study of him is likely to be
needed.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 276. Ag. ‘05. 690w.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Russell’s chief merit, then, consists ... in the shrewd and
kindly criticism which he bestows upon Sydney Smith’s energy,
goodness, wit and occasional foibles.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 420w.
“If there is any fault to be found with Mr. Russell’s book, it is that
he does not dwell long enough on the purely social side of Sidney
Smith. Mr. Russell’s brief but interesting biography is well indexed,
and provides such copious extracts from Sydney Smith’s writings on all
possible subjects that it is not a bad substitute for his ‘Works,’
which are not easily accessible to the general reader.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 297. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1200w.
“If Mr. Morley made a mistake in selecting his subject he has shown
his editorial wisdom in his choice of author. No one is better suited
to treat of the great Whig wit than such a representative of the great
Whig family, the Russells. Having something of a conscience, Mr.
Russell does not say much about Smith’s literary qualities and
capacities.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 145. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w.
“A very readable life of the great English wit by an interesting
biographer. Suffers nothing by brevity; for Mr. Russell has succeeded
in conveying the personality of Sydney Smith and in making his pages
live in the light of that personality.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.
“A very readable monograph.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 40w.
“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for
themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged
to a nicety.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 668. My. 20, ‘05. 1900w.
“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever
seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of
quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the
matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of
what he considers a bad job.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 441. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w.
* =Ryan, Thomas Curran.= Finite and infinite. **$1.50. Lippincott.
The author says, “My purpose is to consider, first, such evidences of
God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of
nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and
philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such
attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from
personality.”
* “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result
that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
S
Sabbath-school teacher training course. 1st year: a series of
thirty-nine lessons designed for use in normal classes. **25c. Presb.
bd.
This volume “contains a course of study for three-quarters of a year,
and a forth-coming volume will complete the scheme. At the end of the
first course the Presbyterian board of publication, Philadelphia, will
arrange for an examination for such as desire it, and a teacher’s
diploma will be granted to such as satisfy the examiners.... Even if
the book is not used with a view to a diploma, many Sunday school
teachers will find it advantageous to make it the ground-plan of
private study.”—Ind.
“This first year’s course is admirable in every respect. The well
selected range of subjects is concise, but sufficiently
comprehensive.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4 ‘05. 110w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= Beaufort chums. †$1. Crowell.
The real adventures of real boys are interestingly told here for young
readers. The Mississippi river furnishes the scene for camping,
hunting, fishing, and kindred fun. There is the full quota of
happenings, and live boys keen on the scent for them.
* “Real boy books are scarce these days, and ‘Beaufort chums’ ought to
be hailed as an acquisition to the juvenile library.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 140w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.
Humorously sympathetic recollections of the days when “you” played
ball with the North star nine, preferred illness to the awful
alternative of going to school, fought “your” fights, made a chum of
“your” dog, went fishing, swimming, and skating, or, amid “your”
companions’ jeers, saw “your” first “girl” home from a party. Fifty
real boy illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele illustrate the volume.
* “Will probably outrival most of their predecessors in popular favor,
since they treat of life from a boy’s standpoint.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 39: 576. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18. ‘05. 100w.
* “His boys are quite as ‘real’ as Judge Shute’s and a trifle less
coarse. The reflections of a man of mature years run between the
lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 180w.
* “It is all very amusing and to many of us reminiscent.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during
the winter of 1904-1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.
An anthology of verses written about the horse, including selections
from Browning, Byron, Bayard Taylor, Scott, Kipling, Longfellow,
Kingsley, Quiller-Couch, and others. “No claim is made to have
exhausted the literature of the English language upon this subject,
but it is hoped that a sufficient variety, in respect to the types of
horses and the tasks accomplished by them, has been offered to enable
those who may read, each to find some horse to his liking or the story
of some gallant effort that must command his admiration.”
* =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “Within its limits the collection is a good one.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Wayward Winifred. $1.25. Benziger.
A story of Ireland in which an American finds Wayward Winifred, a
mysterious child who lives in an out of the way castle with a blind
old woman, and takes her to America to be educated in a Catholic
school. In New York the child by chance meets her father and what
seemed a great mystery turns out to be a very little mystery after all
and the child and the father both return to Ireland to do honor to
their old Irish name and restore their old Irish estate.
* =Sage, Elizabeth, and Cooley, Anna M.= Occupations for little fingers:
a manual for grade teachers, mothers and settlement workers. **$1.
Scribner.
“This little manual illustrates and describes simple forms of
handwork; including cord and raffia-work, coarse sewing, paper-cutting
and folding, clay modelling, furniture and upholstery for a doll’s
house, and crocheting and knitting. The writers are teachers who have
worked out with their classes the things of which they write. Their
models are simple and useful articles that will interest the child and
give his work practical connection with the world about him.... They
give with each lesson the necessary cost.”—Nation.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. ‘05. 140w.
* “This is eminently a practical book of instruction and suggestion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.
A delightful fairy tale of mystery and gallant chivalry. The hero, a
young prince, is rewarded for kindness to the King of the Gnomes by
the privilege of beholding in the pool the face of a fair princess. He
seeks this much beleaguered Astrella, and wins her after many a
conflict with a wicked fairy. The illustrations are the author’s own
and include full page colored plates besides a number of pen and ink
drawings.
* “Will be read by advanced as well as by juvenile readers.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as
good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=St. Luz, Berthe.= Black butterflies. $1.50. Fenno.
The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of
Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more
miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather
vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a
jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead,
and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming
love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he
nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.
“It is not exactly clear what the author is driving at.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the 17th century,
historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. **$2.50.
Putnam.
Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century
have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says
of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du
Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some
passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have
long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made
clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person
have appeared in the different series, they are here put together,
omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and
illustrated.
“Our enjoyment ... has been greatly marred by the lamentable
inefficiency of the translation. Miss Wormeley has fallen a victim to
the fetish of an exaggerated literalness with the most distressing
result. Her structure is frequently not English; at times it is even
ungrammatical.” Horace B. Samuel.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 790w.
“Although the finer shades of his style have not always been exactly
rendered by Miss Wormeley, yet the translation, on the whole, is
fairly good. The value of the work is impaired by the absence of a
good index.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 430w.
“Diverse as are the characters treated of, each one is examined with
the same charm, the same absence of exaggeration or trivial gossip.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w.
“It presents in sound, idiomatic English some of the best work of the
man who holds rank as one of the greatest critics in all literature.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 533. Jl. ‘05. 1510w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 75. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
“To those who have no French, Miss Wormeley’s volumes may be
commended. She has chosen wisely, and has translated accurately, if
without distinction.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 476. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1530w.
=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of criticism and literary
taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. V. 3.
*$3.50. Dodd.
The author, professor of rhetoric in the university of Edinburgh,
devoting this third volume to a survey of the nineteenth century,
includes a study of English criticism from 1860 to 1900, and gives
sixteen pages to American critics.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 106. Jl. ‘05. 470w.
“A trial balance of the qualities and defects of this great work might
run somewhat as follows: Professor Saintsbury is unreliable, but
frequently admirable, on the authors who touch his heart—the
romantics; he is almost invariably inadequate and unfair to the
critics he dislikes—the doctrinaires, among them the Germans
especially; and he is safe only on the critics who bore him—the small
fry generally. The volume, although its matter is on the whole the
most attractive of the three, is less readable than its predecessors.
It is chiefly valuable because the deposit of facts, which careful
straining will separate, is considerable. Bad guide as he is for the
highroad, the byways of criticism become accessible through Professor
Saintsbury’s labors.” F. J. Mather, jr.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 450. Ja. ‘05. 1820w.
“It is however, only fair to say that Professor Saintsbury never
allows his political or religious beliefs, strong as these are, to
interfere with his judgment. We are a little surprised, perhaps, to
find the section on Lamb one of the best of the book—a good piece of
writing without qualification. The poorest chapters of the book—and
they are poor beyond forgiveness—are those which deal with topics that
require ideas or the understanding of ideas. A book of irritating
qualities. He is interesting—despite the continual faults of taste and
despite the tedium of the subject, he never allows the reader’s
attention to flag, and that is high praise.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 501. Mr. 2, ‘05. 720w.
* “In spite of its author’s rather slap-dash fashion, is on the whole
a valuable, even an indispensable compendium for students of that very
special criticism which is concerned with books almost exclusively.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“One must always remember, in reading him, that he writes with the
strongest possible bias, and that, however useful and even
indispensable to the student of literature his history is, it is
rather a work of reference than as a storehouse of reliable literary
judgments. The style of the volume is deplorable. His offences against
taste are of various kinds; perhaps the most exasperating is his
reference to great men by their Christian names.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 155. F. 23, ‘05. 2570w.
“With all its wealth of material and faithful investigation of
original sources, it is the work of a cloudy and often incoherent
mind. ‘Exhaustive’ is the word which comes to the reviewer’s mind as
he surveys the range of this history. No work in this field covers the
ground so completely or with such wealth of knowledge.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 397. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.
=Saintsbury, George.= Minor Caroline poets. 2v. v. I. *$3.40. Oxford.
“This volume contains Chamberlayne’s ‘Pharonnida,’ a ‘heroick poem’ of
heroic length; Benlowes’ ‘Theophila,’ a ‘divine poem’ in many cantos;
the poems of Mrs. Katherine Philips, ‘the matchless Orinda;’ and the
poems of Patrick Hannay, a very obscure person of whom nothing is
known, and of whose book only six copies remain. Indeed all the
writers collected in this book are more or less obscure now, and you
must be interested in the history of English poetry before you can be
expected to read them.”—Lond. Times.
“It is well and judiciously edited as a whole, the notes being sparing
and adequate, while the prefaces—both the general preface and those to
single authors—if one can stomach the editor’s most unappetizing and
contorted style, are excellent in substance, alike critical and
informative.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 2: 168. Ag. 5. 1900w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 229. Jl. 21, ‘05. 2320w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 107. Ag. 3, ‘05. 400w.
“We can and do applaud the zeal for true literary criticism and for
scientific literary history, which prompted Professor Saintsbury to
reprint and edit the minor Caroline poets, but we cannot and do not
pretend to endorse all his conclusions as to the merits of the four
included in the volume before us.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 375. S. 16, ‘05. 960w.
=Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of.= Essays,
v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. *$2. Dutton.
“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who
had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The
interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man
otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert
Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble
parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That
they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are
divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of
‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N.
Y. Times.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 450w.
“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not
only for their intrinsic value, but for the light they throw upon the
mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 690w.
“The first volume is by far the more interesting.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 430w.
“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest
pretensions, admirable.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 194. Je. 16, ‘05. 740w.
* “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord
Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks,
however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in
foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 1250w.
“Very well worth reading on many accounts these essays are. But
perhaps most of all as showing how a highly cultivated modern man and
acute dialectician may still represent and embody an antiquated theory
of politics.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 305. My. 13, ‘05. 4430w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in
Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.
Although this volume “consists largely of catalogues of pictures,
frescoes, friezes, stained glass groups, and so forth, it is not
designed chiefly as a historical study of the works of art with which
it deals; its main interest is for the Franciscan student.... The
representations of Francis, his followers and indeed all things
Franciscan, and the influence of the Saint in early Italian art
generally, are followed up and chronicled with a pertinacity and
thoroughness which only the special student can appreciate.”—Acad.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 380w.
* “We have found it rather dry reading from any point of view, but
doubtless there are those who can profit by the information it
conveys.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* “Presents the first attempt ever made to bring together into English
and in small compass the stories around the pictures of Franciscan
saints.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
=Salter, William.= Iowa: The first free state in the Louisiana purchase.
**$1.20. McClurg.
This is not the story of Iowa as a state, but an account of the
incidents in American history which concern it, from 1673 to 1846,
from its discovery to its admission as a state into the Union. Its
varied history, under France, under Spain, in the Louisiana purchase,
and the territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
at last Iowa is followed. The book is illustrated with portraits and
plans.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“The work is painstaking and careful but its scope is limited.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 56: 594. S. ‘05. 140w.
“A vast amount of information is given in this condensed and readable
shape.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is told in a style that is clear, but without distinctive
merit of any kind. Neither new knowledge nor original treatment of old
information is in evidence.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 370w.
“His narrative lacks the flowing interest one would naturally expect,
being retarded both by a peculiar inclusiveness of treatment and a
somewhat halting style.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
* =Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.
†$1.25. Wessels.
“The perfume of Eros” was first published serially under the title,
“The yellow fay.” It deals with some unlovely members of New York’s
inner circle. Loftus, handsome and wealthy, picks up a tailor’s pretty
little daughter and after solemnly promising to marry her establishes
her in handsome apartments, takes her abroad and finally deserts her
for the wife of his closest friend. The murder of Loftus on the eve of
this elopement brings about a trial in which the characters who have
thus far been good altho weak, perjure themselves and thereby smooth
things over for the happiness of two of the weakest and wealthiest.
* “The story is interesting, especially if you regard it as a hooded
satire.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 420w.
=Sample, John Calvert.= Properties of steel sections: a reference book
for structural engineers and architects. *$3. McGraw pub.
A work related to the well-known “Osborn’s tables,” in ground covered.
An essential difference is that, in the tables of properties of
compound sections, Sample gives I and r, while Osborn gives I and r2.
“The book will be frequently found a convenient handbook where much
designing in steel is to be done.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 230w.
=Sanborn, Alvan Francis.= Paris and the social revolution: a study of
the revolutionary element in the various classes of Parisian life.
**$3.50. Small.
“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic
philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its
propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the
anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’
outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.
“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of
society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human
caricatures.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 595. S. ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it.
Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his
quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for
they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such
diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library
of revolutionary literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 690w.
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 890w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1510w. (Outline of
contents.)
“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian
life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical,
but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way
contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 260w.
“An unusually earnest presentation of what modern anarchy stands for.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 757. My. 13, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. (†)$1.50. Little.
The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington,
where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden,
the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan
congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are
slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is
restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct
and unassuming people.
* “Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort
of way which interferes in nowise with the gentle reader’s nap between
chapters.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 110w.
=Sandars, Mary F.= Life of Honore de Balzac. **$3 Dodd.
The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose
loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for
labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount
of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he
died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came
fame.
“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of
fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really
worthy of the occasion.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 760w.
“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French
romancer.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its
sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie
Russell Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 413. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w.
“Miss Sandars explicitly disclaims all critical intentions. But her
attitude toward her author implies a judgment. And that judgment, it
seems to us, errs, if anything, in taking Balzac rather too
seriously.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 520w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“In Miss Sandars’s work is presented, for the first time, an
exhaustive account of Balzac’s life. The story is told simply,
directly, with sympathy, and not infrequent humor.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 419. My. 25, ‘05. 970w.
“While sympathetic and unquestionably entertaining, adds little of
importance to our knowledge of the subject. It is essentially a volume
of literary ‘small talk’ ... all very diverting, to be sure, but
hardly constituting a biography.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“Miss Sandars has succeeded, where many have failed, in writing a
readable and intelligent Life of Honore De Balzac. She has made little
attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and
therein she is wise, for such few specimens of criticism as she does
present show neither sympathy nor understanding. Miss Sandars’s sketch
is not without either coherence or verisimilitude.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 86. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1510w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“This volume is a reprint of the article ‘Jesus Christ,’ contributed
to Dr. Hastings’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ ... A notable feature is
an improved map of the sacred sites, taken from various sources, and
brought up to the latest stage of knowledge on the subject.”—Spec.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 75. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“His article on Jesus has been recognized as a careful piece of work,
but it falls short where one most wants light, in the point of a
clear, satisfying statement of Jesus’s own thought and belief.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.
“Strongly conservative in his tendencies, but open-minded, and
candidly conceding much to the fellow-critics whose conclusions he
rejects.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 110w.
“Few scholars can approach the central subject of their religion with
deeper learning, and with a happier combination of criticism and
reverence than Dr. Sanday.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 446. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
=Sanders, Henry Arthur,= ed. Roman historical sources and institutions.
(Humanistic series.) **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The University of Michigan devotes the initial volume of her
‘Studies’ to a collection of essays dealing with Roman historical
sources and institutions.... Apart from Professor Dennison’s
discussion of the singing of the ‘Sæcular’ hymn, all the papers are
historical in theme.... Miss Mary G. Williams” contributes a “study of
Julia Mamæa.... Dr. Duane R. Stuart investigates Dio Cassius’s use of
epigraphic material.... Professor Drake ... traces the rise and
decline of the principalitas in the pre-Diocletian army. Dr. G. H.
Allen ... presents a valuable study of centurions as substitute
commanders.... Professor Sanders ... collects all versions of the
Tarpeia myth, following Krahner, and adds some allied stories,” and
also gives a “discussion of the lost Epitome of Livy.”—Am. Hist. R.
“They display diligence and zeal. It is perhaps ungracious to object
to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays
shows a facile pen.” Charles Upson Clark.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 621. Ap. ‘05. 500w.
=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches **$1.75. Macmillan.
Mr. Sandys, author, artist, naturalist, and sportsman, has brought
together here “picturesque accounts of shooting and fishing, pleasant
descriptions of out-of-door experiences, practical information for the
camper, fisher, and hunter.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Sandys stands between the genuinely literary sportsman, such as
Henry Van Dyke, and the mere spinner of wildly improbable yarns. There
is a swagger in his style that seems unduly artificial now and then.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The only trouble with the stuff is its essential artificiality.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 240w.
“Rarely are sporting sketches found of interest to so wide an audience
as this book will attract.”
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=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning
under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The
theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice,
Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of
Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.
“A readable and scholarly work.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Dr. Sandys combines with a profound knowledge of books a light touch
and an appreciation of the spirit of the place.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5, 850w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 90w.
“When we consider the mass of names and facts handled, the dexterity
with which Dr. Sandys beguiles our attention is really extraordinary.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
=Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 60w.
“It is a sad pity that so much patient investigation should be so
little clarified by a sense of proportion and historic insight.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 1120w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 569. O. 14, ‘05. 1320w.
=Sanford, Frank G.= Art crafts for beginners. **$1.20. Century.
“To those who feel the need of some art expression, but who cannot
attend an art school; to those who wish to follow the art of the
craftsman; to those teachers upon whom demand is made for knowledge of
the crafts—this little volume is addressed.” Instruction is given in
design, thin wood carving, pyrography, sheet-metal work, leather work,
bookbinding, simple pottery, basketry, and beadwork. The book is aided
in its helpfulness to the beginner by the author’s working drawings,
and reproductions of photographs.
“The treatment is terse, careful and suggestive. As a useful little
manual for the teacher and as a practical guide for the amateur, this
book should prove of great value.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
* =Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood,
**$1. Bobbs.
This “book for the twentieth century mother,” gives good council for
the mothers of children at various stages of development. It discusses
baby days, religious training, school, outdoor life and pets, manners,
home reading and play-mates. There are chapters upon When children
marry: The grandmother: Motherhood in fiction: Motherhood in the
Bible: and Questions for the mother’s clubs. There is much that is
helpful in the volume and it is written in a spirit which approaches
motherhood reverently, and makes of it a thing both noble and ideal.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
A five volume series. Vol. I, “Introduction, and reason in common
sense,” and Vol. II, “Reason in society,” are already out. Vol. III,
“Reason in religion,” Vol. IV, “Reason in art,” and Vol. V, “Reason in
science,” are to follow. “Vol. I, ... ‘Reason in common sense,’ has
chapters on ‘The birth of reason,’ ‘First steps and first
fluctuations.’ ‘Discovery of natural objects.’ ‘On some critics of
this discovery,’ ‘Nature unified and mind discerned.’ ‘Discovery of
fellow-minds.’ ‘Concretions in discourse and in existence,’ ‘Relative
values of things and ideas,’ ‘How thought is practical,’ ‘The measure
of values in reflection,’ ‘Abstract conditions of the ideal.’ ‘Flux
and constancy in human nature.’ Vol. II, ‘Reason in society,’ deals
with love, the family, industry, government, and war; the
‘aristocratic ideal.’ democracy, ‘free’ society, patriotism, and
‘ideal’ society.” (N. Y. Times.)
“He can be brilliantly brief and weighty, and deliver long-drawn-out
expositions with harmonious grandeur. He too brings us inspiration in
a manner as delightful as it is distinguished.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 588. Je. 2, ‘05. 1100w.
“The style is unfamiliar and singularly disconcerting to anybody who
is anxious to get at the gist of Prof. Santayana’s message. Trope and
epigram, flaming phrase and pervasive metaphor, so blur the outline of
his meaning that impatience gives way at times to absolute
exasperation.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905. 2: 269. Ag. 26. 740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For one, therefore, who is willing also to think, the work is
essentially readable throughout. It is full of keen insight wedded to
apt expression.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 349. My. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is, in fact, an eclectic philosophy, and. like other works of that
sort, is likely to have more literary than scientific value. Professor
Santayana’s style is highly polished, in parts too much so.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 190w. (Statement of contents
of v. 1 and 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 189. Mr. 25, ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Ingenious, keen, and brilliant in a purely intellectual way, as all
must confess Professor Santayana’s pragmatic treatment of the life of
reason to be. those who are intent on a profounder moral pragmatism
will, we fear, lay the volume containing it down with disappointment
and regret.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Seldom has a materialistic philosophy been presented in finer
literary garb than in this series of volumes, or with stranger
contradiction of experimental facts.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“He is always sufficiently independent without being in the least
eccentric, and has much to say that is highly suggestive; but, in his
praiseworthy attempt to avoid both dogmatism and polemics, on the one
hand, and a too schematic and rationalistic method, on the other, he
seems to the present reviewer constantly to run the risk of treating
in a very general and somewhat superficial way some of the fundamental
problems of philosophy.” Ernest Albee.
+ + — =Philos. R.= 14: 602. S. ‘05. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The first volume seems to us to be disappointing. It seems to lack
definiteness of both purpose and expression. The second volume on the
other hand, seems to us to be somewhat original in substance and
manner of treatment, and is certainly fruitful in suggestion as well
as principle.” George S. Painter.
+ + — =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 334. O. 15, ‘05. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“He writes with a real command of language and power of imagery, and
to most readers his brilliant illustrations and epigrams will be the
chief attraction of his work. We should be the last to deny their
charms, but at the same time the thought is apt to be a little
confused by the splendour of its presentation.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Manual of the trees of North America. *$6.
Houghton.
Information concerning the trees of North America (exclusive of
Mexico) in a convenient form for the use of students and all those
interested in trees and tree culture. The book includes a “Synopsis of
families of plants,” an “Analytic key to families of plants,” a
“Glossary of technical terms,” tend a complete index. There are six
hundred and thirty trees described, each one accurately illustrated by
the drawings of Charles E. Faxon. Professor Sargent has had thirty
years’ experience in dealing with indigenous trees in the Arnold
arboretum at Harvard, and the results of the knowledge thus acquired
are here included, while Mr. Faxon has reproduced leaf-bud, leaf,
flower, and fruit so ingenuously that each tree may be readily
recognized at any season, and assigned to its proper group.
“A book which is indispensable to all students of American trees.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15, 470w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 320w.
“There is no reason why this manual should not become at once
extensively used by all those interested in trees.” J. M. C.
+ + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
“It is hard to see how a better or a different manual could be made.
No serious student of American trees can do without it.”
+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“It will be especially valuable to students in the West and South,
where the trees are not so well covered by other manuals.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 300w.
“This task of providing a handy book of reference in fieldwork fell
naturally to the author and illustrator of the ‘Silva.’ Both have done
their work well.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4. ‘05. 930w.
“It cannot fail to be of the greatest value to students of botany and
forestry.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 197. Je. 29, ‘05. 400w.
“The arrangement is such that reference is easy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w.
“Is so written that with the least amount of trouble you may find to
what family of species any particular tree belongs.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 216. Ap. 8, ‘05. 670w.
“The book is one of permanent value not only to the student of
forestry but to all who wish to identify the species and genus of
trees in all parts of the country, so that the work really holds with
regard to trees such a place as is held in another field by Gray’s
‘Botany.’”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 170w.
“It is an excellent book to put in the hands of all who are interested
in village and park improvement, while owners of country places will
find it indeed a vade mecum.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“This is a book for the reference library in all our high schools.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is thoroughly satisfactory, and must at once become a
standard among systematic manuals.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 914. Je. 16, ‘05. 690w.
=Spec.= 94: 645. Ap. 29, ‘05. 50w.
* =Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A genuine picture of life in New Zealand.... A story—genial, kindly,
void of bitterness, and perfectly free from platitudinous unreality.
The author presents a charming heroine, two brothers (one colonial
born, and one a ‘new chum’ from England), a delightful old colonist of
the early days, and at least five other characters who are too well
and faithfully limned to be called simple sketches.”—Ath.
* “It has a rounded completeness, a full and broad humanity, which are
by no means characteristic of contemporary fiction. A story full of
real characterization, and at the same time alive with action,
movement, and even with adventure.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 574. O. 28. 320w.
* “There is about the whole book a freshness and flavor of the wilds
that give it a most welcome individuality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w.
* “There is an atmosphere of freshness and truth about the book that
is most satisfying, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 600w.
* “It has a thrilling story and not a few vividly written and exciting
incidents. It seems to us far the best of the recent tales which have
come to us dealing with Australasia.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is worth reading chiefly on account of its minor characters such
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depths of the bush. The hero and heroine and their love story, and
with unnecessary complications, are tedious and commonplace, and the
dialogue is for the most part stilted and rhetorical.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* “The book is to be heartily commended as an able and original piece
of work.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 821. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Saunders, (Margaret) Marshall.= Princess Sukey: the story of a pigeon
and her human friends. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
Altho Princess Sukey, the thorobred pigeon, flutters thru the story,
the plot is chiefly concerned with the little boy who saved her life
and with his grandfather, a retired judge, whose heart becomes
softened to all weak things thru her and who fills his silent house
with young life, letting the poor and the orphaned find a place in his
heart and his home.
“It might be a tract promulgated jointly by the societies for the
prevention of cruelty to animals and children.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 20: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 350w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35.
Putnam.
The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet
given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The
volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from
the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.
* + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 190w.
* “Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of
phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage
serious poetic criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 160w.
* “The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr.
Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal
without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety
in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of
appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world?
**$1.35. Putnam.
“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the
questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself
on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world,
believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are
suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and
all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.
“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have
thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as
a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 896. S. 2, ‘05. 1490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 820w.
“The discussion is luminous, rational, and effective.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Savoyard, pseud.= See =Newman, Eugene W.=
=Scaliger, Julius Caesar.= Select translations from Scaliger’s Poetics,
by Frederick Morgan Padelford. 75c. Holt.
This twenty-sixth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series
includes “such chapters or portions of chapters as bear most vitally
upon the fundamental problems of poetics.... The table of contents has
been translated in full in order that the reader may gain an
impression of the Poetics in its totality.”
=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“In this volume the stirring narrative of the pioneer settlements in
the territory now embraced in the states of Oregon, Washington, and
Idaho is told in detail, while the organization and political progress
of the three state governments are briefly sketched. The author has
wisely selected for amplification ... the processes by which the
wilderness was subdued, homes multiplied, commerce extended to all
parts of the world, and a great civilization developed in a portion of
our continent that we once called remote and inaccessible.”—R. of Rs.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 11: 229. O. ‘05. 50w.
“A reading of it leaves the impression that it is the work of one who
knows his field and whose conclusions may be relied upon.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“He shows a fine grasp of the relative importance of events. The early
period of its development is treated with great fullness and in style
that fascinates the reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 840w.
“The treatment is clear and logical, the tone impartial, and the style
direct and agreeable. The book, in fine, is a useful addition to the
literature of its subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
=Scherer, James A. B.= Young Japan; the story of the Japanese people,
and especially of their educational development. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Dr. Scherer tells in detail the development of Japan as a nation,
with much information concerning succeeding rulers and their reigns.
He discusses every influence that has gradually led the Mikado’s
empire to its present position among the nations of the world, and
what this position has meant or means to the native literature, arts,
or sciences. Anecdotes and legends are used to illustrate certain
points.... It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of
photographs taken by and for the author, and drawings by Japanese
artists.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a useful pendant to his former work, ‘Japan to-day,’ and is, in
effect, a sort of short philosophic history of Japan, which, however,
is not treated critically.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 490w.
“He does not, however, go very far behind the looking-glass.” Wm.
Elliott Griffis.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w.
“The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and marked by ease
and poise. It is the book for the hour; for the chief problems about
Japan just now concern her real purpose and moral force.” Wm. Elliot
Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 62. Ag. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“A large portion of the book would make an excellent school-text
book.” Adachi Kinnosuke.
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“When he discusses Japanese history, Dr. Scherer is at once accurate
and philosophical; and his descriptions of Japanese school, street,
and home life in town and country afford instruction and
entertainment.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 470w.
“It is perhaps the general view of the long education of the Japanese,
though but slightly touching upon the philosophy which has nourished
the leaders of modern thought and action.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.
“The story is concise and interestingly written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“His work is based upon a pretty solid foundation, and will be found
both entertaining and informing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
* =Schnabel, Carl.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
A second English edition of this treatise on metallurgy which is a
translation of the second German edition. As the preface states: “The
work is divided into two volumes. The first embraces the metallurgy of
copper, lead, silver, and gold.... The remaining metals are treated of
in volume 2, and the most important among them being zinc, nickel and
mercury.”
* “If the data were only up to date, the book would form an excellent
text book for students of metallurgy.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 643. D. 14, ‘05. 2070w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “The merits and defects of the book remain much the same as the
first edition. Prof. Louis is to be congratulated on the translation,
which makes a valuable work available to British students.”
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 124. D. 7, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).= Electrical instruments
and testing; how to use the voltmeter, ammeter, galvanometer,
potentiometer, ohmmeter, and the Wheatstone bridge. $1. Spon.
“This book is intended for practical use and also as an introduction
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the work of the engine room, power house, or technical school.” It
consists of practical explanations with numerous examples worked out
and fully illustrated with diagrams and drawings.
=Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).= Model library, v. 1.
$1. Spon.
This volume is divided into four books. The study of electricity and
its laws for beginners, comprising the elements of electricity and
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circuits and diagrams illustrated and explained, new and original
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etc. The whole is fully illustrated. There is also a complete general
index.
=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxon’s drama of Christianity in the North.
$1.50. Hammersmark.
“There are forty persons of the drama, besides fairies, gnomes, a
dwarf, and a witch, classified as the ‘Saxon unit,’ the ‘Roman unit,’
the ‘Greek unit,’ and the ‘Supernatural.’ The distinctions between the
classes are not sharply made, and unless the reader is thoroly
informed or highly alert his mind will become more or less befogged in
following the flight of the Saxons away from the Christians and the
complicated relations among Oswald, Father Benedict, Sigurd, Selena,
and Canzier.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a long, confused drama in blank verse, where the ambition of
the author is more praiseworthy than the result of it.”
— =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 20w.
“‘The Saxons’ has the advantage of an unhackneyed theme ... but the
story is not very clearly told.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w.
=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in
lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
After an introductory chapter treating of the problem of apologetics
and its history, Dr. Schultz free from dogma and creeds discusses the
nature of religion, postulates, and the reasonableness of the
religious view of the world, philosophy of religion, religion in its
historical phenomena, the nature of Christianity, the Kingdom of God,
Christ, Jesus in history, &c. The volume is well annotated.
“Thoroughly scientific, and therefore failing to meet the requirements
of orthodoxy, Professor Schultz’s apologetic is certainly evangelical
in the best sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 885. Ag. 5, ‘05. 400w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Fifty piano compositions. $2.50. Ditson.
Mr. Xaver Scharwenka has selected and edited the fifty compositions
which are included in this addition to “The musician’s library,” and
has also contributed an introductory study of Schumann. There is a
bibliography in English, German and French.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “While every amateur may miss this or that pet piece, the editor has
succeeded remarkably in his choice of the half-hundred most precious
nuggets.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.
“As an interpretation this introduction is not equal to the
introductions of some of the other volumes in this series.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 90w.
=Schuster, Arthur.= Introduction to the theory of optics. *$4. Longmans.
A text-book for teachers and students who are already acquainted with
the phenomena of light as described in college books of general
physics. “The first two-thirds of the volume are elementary; that is,
they explain only polarization, interference, diffraction, the theory
of optical instruments, and the peculiarities of the different
crystalline media—phenomena that result simply from light’s consisting
of transverse vibrations. The remaining third of the book contains the
deeper theory of light, and is written on a novel plan, the idea being
to direct students to the original memoirs without repeating their
contents.” (Nation.)
“The reviewer feels that Professor Schuster, by clearness of
exposition and the painstaking work spent in the preparation of such a
timely and useful book, has put students and teachers of physics under
no inconsiderable obligation.” E. F. N.
+ + =Astrophys.= J. 21: 382. My. ‘05. 780w.
“Prof. Schuster has been completely successful within the limits which
he has laid down for himself. We recommend the work heartily to all
advanced students of physics, with only a hint of warning that the
information should be supplemented from other sources.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 53. Ja. 14, 910w.
“A notable addition to the literature of optical theory, and one which
will prove of value to every student.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 198. Mr. 9, ‘05. 480w.
“Fills a very obvious gap. The treatment is marked throughout by the
author’s well-known and admirable lucidity of style.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 457. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1030w.
=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Wilderness babies. †$1.50. Little.
Sixteen delightful stories which tell of sixteen equally delightful
animal families. Young folks, when they have read them, will feel a
truly friendly interest in: The one with a pocket: the opossum; The
one that eats grass in the sea: the manatee; The biggest one: the
whale; The one that lives in a crowd: the buffalo; and all the rest,
elk, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, bear, fox, wolf, panther, seal, shrew,
mole, and bat.
* “To make the stories quite perfect, it would be well that a
naturalist should give them careful revision, so they may teach as
well as charm the children, for whom they are written.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 390w.
* “The stories should not only prove attractive to children, but they
should give them much interesting information about the children of
the woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton,
N. Y.
The dream note in poetry, the traditional, and the patriotic are all
sounded again and again thru Mr. Scollard’s new group of verse. His
seven pieces are The dreamers, Lawton, On a copy of Keats’s Endymion,
Elegy in autumn, The march of the ideal, The stars of morning, and The
Oriskany.
“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most
characteristic trait of his muse.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination
and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt
him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of
difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of
poetic diction.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June,
1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years
of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms,
when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they
were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of
divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of
morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against
all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all
in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of
their king.”
“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need
to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 750w.
“Miss Scott has given us a second book worthy of the reputation she
gained by her first and we must not leave it without a special word of
praise for her description of, and constant reference to, her
authorities, and for the admirable index.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 300. O. 12, ‘05. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 323. My. 20, ‘05. 1270w.
“An adequate and rather minute account of eight years of
vicissitudes.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w.
“She has not the tact to present the facts which she has mastered in
an intelligible or artistic shape.”
— + =Spec.= 94: 513. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1560w.
=Scott, Leroy.= Walking delegate. †$1.50. Doubleday.
This novel, by an author who has been active in social settlement work
on the East side, concerns New York labor unions and tells the story
of the struggle between “Buck Foley” and the walking delegate who
defeated him.
“There is genuine power in the book, and it holds the interest of the
reader until the very last.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 832. Ag. 12, ‘05. 270w.
“The characterization of the story is gripping, and the dialogue is
better than the curate’s famous egg. The style is picturesque without
being purple.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 74. Jl. 15. 210w.
“Impresses one from the start as a work of uncommon power and
realism.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 86. S. ‘05. 420w.
“Tragedy, sentiment, and lively narrative give the book a real
interest.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 400. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“A book written without any pretence of style, yet crudely impressive
by virtue of its picturesque speech and its close acquaintance with
the conditions depicted.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 230w.
“The tale is an interesting, and even powerful narrative. The
workingmen of the story are generally true types. But the author has
somewhat overdone the matter of endowing them with faulty syntax and
cheap slang.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 140w.
“Characters, incidents, conversations, setting are of the latest and
seem impressively real. It is a strong story notable even among good
novels.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“Mr. Leroy Scott has planted a literary standard in the field of
American labor. Strictly speaking ‘The walking delegate’ is not a
literary work, and, to judge by this example of his diction, Mr. Scott
is not a stylist.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 341. My. 27, ‘05. 1550w.
“There is little doubt that ‘The walking delegate’ is one of the
strongest books that the season has produced.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“There is more genuine, living, human sociology in it than is to be
found in half of the avowed studies of the relations of men in human
society.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“Both as a human document and as a work of art, ‘The walking delegate’
is a book of extraordinary worth.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 140w.
* =Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.
An exhaustive account of a three year Antarctic expedition which
sailed in 1901 and spent two years below the Antarctic circle, making
a new farthest south record. The geographical and scientific
discoveries made are given in detail, the adventures met with and the
new lands, mountains, and glaciers seen, are elaborately described.
For the benefit of future voyagers there is a minute account of
management and equipment of the “Discovery.” The books are written by
the commander of the expedition and are illustrated from photographs
and sketches, many of which are in color.
* “Looking on the book as a whole we cannot but think that it would
have gained by compression, and by a somewhat more definite marking of
the main lines.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1096. O. 21, ‘05. 1410w.
* “We cordially congratulate the author and the publishers on having
combined to produce a book which is in every way worthy of so
remarkable an expedition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 581. O. 28. 2510w.
* “The freshness and novelty of the subject matter command an
immediate hearing, and the charm of the narrative, the well balanced
perspective, and above all the manly record of heroic endeavor here
revealed bid fair to make Captain Scott’s modest account one of the
classics of polar exploration.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 432. D. 16, ‘05. 2880w.
* “Lieutenant Mulock’s maps deserve special praise for their beauty,
their accuracy, and their fulness of detail, while it would be
impossible to speak too highly of the 260 illustrations that are not
only an adornment to the book, but enable us almost as much as does
the text to realize the conditions amidst which this expedition spent
over two years.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 334. O. 13, ‘05. 1460w.
* “Capt. Scott has written a book that will have a conspicuous place
among the annals of polar effort, and it is worthy of it.” Cyrus C.
Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 793. N. 25, ‘05. 2340w.
* “Captain Scott has a singularly happy style, free from the stiffness
of Cook and the formality of Ross, yet terse, vigorous and direct.
This book comes as near perfection as we ever expect a book of travel
to be.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 685. N. 25, ‘05. 2060w.
* “Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part
of it is the production of the ablest and most interesting record of
travel to which the present century has yet given birth.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 566. O. 14, ‘05. 1490w.
=Scott, Samuel Parsons.= History of the Moorish empire in Europe. 3v.
**$10. Lippincott.