peninsula, while the third contains kulturgeschichtliche material of
some interest and value. This is brought forward in the form of a
series of essays on the arts, institutions, and influence of the
Muslims, as well as on the Jews and the Moriscoes in Spain.”—Am. Hist.
R.
“Mr. Scott’s three volumes are obviously the result of conscientious
and comprehensive reading in some half-dozen languages, but their
author lacks the historical temperament. His work, though not without
a certain old-fashioned dignity of style, is too monotonous to be
popular and too uncritical in its affirmations to content the trained
student of history.” F. W. Williams.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 372. Ja. ‘05. 850w.
“It cannot be said that on the whole the ‘History of the Moorish
empire in Europe’ is either a safe or a well-balanced book.” A. C.
Howland.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 354. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Waverley novels. 25v. $31.25. Crowell.
The world created by Scott in his Waverley novels and peopled with
vitally real characters will never grow old-fashioned nor
uninteresting. The Waverley novels hold the present day fiction reader
no less than the student of literature who appreciates the
significance of the Scott novel as the forerunner of historical
romance. The present edition is made from newly set type; each story
contains the author’s own introduction, besides notes, glossary and
index to characters and scenes. There are excellent illustrations,
many of them being reproductions of paintings by the Fine arts
association of Scotland. The books are strongly bound, boxed and sold
only in sets.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Ivanhoe. $1.25. Crowell.
The issue of Ivanhoe as one of those attractive little pocket volumes,
the “Thin paper classics” series will be welcomed by all lovers of
Scott.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Kenilworth. $1.25. Crowell.
That this thin pocket volume with the limp leather binding of the
“Thin paper classics” series can contain Kenilworth complete and in
readable type, will be to the reader both a surprise and a
satisfaction.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Kenilworth. $1.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Luxembourg” library, Kenilworth
appears attractively bound in cloth with gold decorations, a
photogravure frontispiece and seventeen full page illustrations.
=Scott, William Fry.= Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams
and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with
calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.
“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten
and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are
necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work
provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of
structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual
features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of
diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.
“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of
information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it
has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and
correct.” R. P. Miller.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 1250w.
=Scruggs, William Lindsay.= The Colombian and Venezuelan republics.
$1.75. Little.
The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former
editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest
canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal
projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal
company and the organization of a new company to take over the
franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the
new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with
Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the
Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y.
Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence
in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the
results of his own observation.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 593. My. ‘05. 100w.
“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He
writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Statement of scope).
“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in
its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should
be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors
of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1450w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“His book is probably the most reliable and authentic of any by an
American author. The chapter on Panama which Mr. Scruggs adds to his
book contains nothing that is new either in the way of history or of
conclusion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 254. F. 18. ‘05. 450w.
“A volume full of interesting and valuable information.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
=Seaman, Louis L.= From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese.
**$1.50. Appleton.
The immediate purpose of Dr Seaman’s journey to the front with the
Japanese army was that of inspecting the sanitary and medical work
among them. His experiences and adventures incident to that
undertaking are most interestingly narrated in the present volume. His
chronicles thrill with the spirit of Banzai Nippon, the shout of
patriotism in the “Land of the rising sun.” He shows the course of law
and order that transforms a Japanese citizen into a patriot and
warrior, and points to the masterly preparation for war, based on
scientific principles, which Japan has made a national business. The
book is valuable for its generous amount of general information.
“Breezy, readable in the first degree. It is spicy and, like red
pepper, is calculated less to irritate than to stimulate.” W. Elliot
Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 170w.
“If Mr. Palmer’s book is taken as proof of Japan’s capabilities in
destructive warfare, that of Dr. Seaman’s ‘From Tokio through
Manchuria with the Japanese,’ is equally important as showing their
constructive and conserving qualities.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 10. Ja. 1, ‘05. 830w.
* “It is one of the most interesting and intrinsically instructive of
the now numerous studies of the Russo-Japanese war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
“The text is colloquial in manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 216. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1320w.
=Outlook.= 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 125. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Seaman, Owen.= Harvest of chaff. **$1.25. Holt.
A group of clever parodies which array Browning, Wordsworth, Tennyson
and other poets of the Victorian era in an almost grotesquely modern
light. The volume is a companion to “Borrowed plumes.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
“In many ways a riper book than any of the others. The humor of it,
while quieter, is more subtle, and the phrase and versification of a
more finished poetic style.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 250w.
=Sebring, Arad Joy.= Girdle of gladness. $1. Badger, R. G.
Fourteen short poems upon such subjects as, The twenty-third psalm,
The power of the church, Supremacy of Christ, and Amen of Lord’s
prayer.
“Other collections of verse, pleasant but not dynamic, ... comprising
a dozen or more rather monotonous but sincere devotional poems.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Sedgefield, Walter John=, ed. See =Battle of Maldon.=
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Text-book of the history * of doctrines; rev. 1904,
by the author; trans. by C: E. Hay. 2v. $4. Lutheran pub. soc.
The first volume of Dr. Seeberg’s work treats “History of doctrines in
the ancient church”; the second, “History of doctrines in the middle
and modern ages.” The material from which the history is built has
been drawn entirely from original sources.
=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.
“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into
which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very
clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his
pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of
imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for
grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little
monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the
book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.
“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the
best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in
realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with
conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 152. Jl. 29. 2100w.
“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in
the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right
relation to his people and his time.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as,
if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied
themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will
form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its
kind.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 700w.
“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most
approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is
impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 160w.
Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them
touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several
a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love
stories containing no question of faith.
=Sergeant, Philip W.= Courtship of Catherine the Great. *$2.50.
Lippincott.
“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds
of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on
this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski
and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of
the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the
present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of
1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.
“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written
ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing
enough.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 207. Ag. 12, 170w.
“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 640w.
“The book however, granting its right to existence, is well put
together.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.
=Setchell, William Albert.= Limu. 25c. Univ. of Cal.
“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially
those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr.
Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several
years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the
different kinds of limu.”—Science.
Reviewed by Charles E. Bessey.
=Science,= n.s. 21: 756. My. 12. ‘05. 130w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a
dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.
The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or
less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal
hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat
whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux
is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart;
Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of
The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a
jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box
marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white
reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.
* “The author’s power has increased as his style has become more
simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 240w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice
animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or
less entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Woodmyth and fable. *$1.25. Century.
A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some
of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the
wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them
with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a
book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find
beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn
something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the
stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 70w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 130w.
“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these
matters—especially when self-illustrated.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 87. S. ‘05. 200w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 250w.
“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger
things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 38: 386 Je. 1, ‘05. 360w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know
him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 18, ‘05. 30w.
“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which
children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to
read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 346. My. 27, ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05, 50w.
“The stories are short and admirably adapted for children.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 100w.
* “Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull
for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can
arrest the attention.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 30w.
=Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh.= Laboratory and factory
tests in electrical engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a
manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a
brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance
tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation
(direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then
alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing
chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up,
such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test,
calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes
some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.
“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise
for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good
study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become
acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 570w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and
New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance
company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had
himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by
an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.
* “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly
badly written book.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w.
* “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary
complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the
highest class,—after Poe’s.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Shafer, Sarah Andrew.= Beyond chance of change. †$1.50. Macmillan.
An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the
doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the
first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and
her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this
drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which
invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession
and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking
the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of
Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan
of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find
the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”;
and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of
July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“Mrs. Shafer comprehends the divine ingenuity of the childish spirit.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful
transcription of life in a little community in the central West before
the fever and rush of recent years set in.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=Shahan, Very Rev.= Thomas Joseph. The middle ages. *$2. Benziger.
A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of
the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and
contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,”
“Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and
bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.
“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the
author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such
eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will
prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 914. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic
higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to
constant use in the class-room of history.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 674. F. ‘05. 350w.
“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the
Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and
obviously sincere.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 220w. (Gives contents).
=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke. **50c; limp lea. **75c. Crowell.
“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of
Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative
material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface,
introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument,
sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions,
illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 60w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard
Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). *$4. Lippincott.
“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six
editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides
an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first
hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with
the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French
criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.
“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious
zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full
apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully
condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources,
and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more
important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a
preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and
forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history
of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 231. F. ‘05. 1250w.
“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As
usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for
there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his
material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 184. Mr. ‘35. 490w.
“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable
in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring
single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his
huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in
every page.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 1940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.
+ + + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 110. Ja. ‘05. 330w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Merchant of Venice. 35c. Holt.
Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for
student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and
introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and
history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six
drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary
prints.
=Shakespeare, William.= Sonnets; with introd. and notes by H. C.
Beeching. *60c. Ginn.
“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically
Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the
variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and
punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and
carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent
theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors
of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.
“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets
where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to
each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and
psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory
compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets,
or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 510w.
* “Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to
be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an
excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the
strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day
Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 475. Ap. 15. 360w.
=Ind.= 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate.
But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 290w.
“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every
explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 620w.
“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able
contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 177. F. 4, ‘05. 1500w.
* =Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter
and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The latest volume in the “First folio” Shakespeare.
* =Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Fox.
Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of
power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the
Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The
future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have
for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and
dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the
duty that comes therefrom.”
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Gun room, *$1; *$1.25. Lane.
This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a
gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries
as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his
gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a
mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.
“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his
tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little
book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of
practical hints as to the care of a gun.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.
* =Sharp, Mary.= Point and pillow lace: a short account of various
kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them. *$2. Dutton.
“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French,
Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The
closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about
laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other
foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book
showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the
Goldenberg publication of last year.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.
=Sharp, William.= Literary geography, *$3.50. Scribner.
“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the
country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The
numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the
reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of
George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray,
Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English
lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared
in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 100w.
“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is
one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well
written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly
novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the
illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and
uncommonly beautiful.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Sharp’s anecdotes are numerous and amusing.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 120. F. 9, ‘05. 570w.
“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to
geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of
criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most
book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1840w. (Survey of contents).
=Sharts, Joseph William.= Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.
The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The
action takes place in the author’s native state during the period
preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran
general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and
her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many
interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway
figure conspicuously.
“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures
irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 334. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and
patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a
piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions.
The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not
all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for
epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 255. Ja. ‘05. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
=Shattuck, George Burbank,= ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck
served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each
a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely
made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal
and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical
sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ...
is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.
“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“Each special student will find his own subject well handled.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 271. Ag. 25, ‘05. 710w.
“Is a monograph of high and varied interest and general readability.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 397. My. 18, ‘05. 240w.
“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than
usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 154. Je. 15, ‘05. 1470w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
Reviewed by W. M. D.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 953. Je. 23, ‘05. 1900w. (Abstract of
contents.)
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.
Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the
ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who
views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the
woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a
new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the
wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied happiness
with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband
operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too.
You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your
position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give
a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is
called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”
“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the
flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not
by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of
conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt
against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1094. O. 21, ‘05. 1170w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 420w.
“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was
no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of
Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original
morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the
book now as being out of date.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ‘05. 830w.
“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and
considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love
among the artists.’”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 350w.
“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much
brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute
observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 320w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him
through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will
sustain others through the labour of reading it.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. N. 18, ‘05. 780w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.”
75c. J. W. Luce.
Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted
for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all
the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism
and make a man content with something less than the best work of which
he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons
read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the
services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a
loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its
brimstone-flavored hot gospel.
=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck
and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75.
Longmans.
This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book
written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three
authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the
biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on
shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds
up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The
illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually
fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not
only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N.
Y. Times.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 373. N. 8, ‘05. 240w.
* “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that,
while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also
excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 430w.
* + — =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
=Shearer, J. B.= Modern mysticism. *75c. Presbyterian com.
A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the
scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Glenanaar. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Glenanaar” is an Irish story, partly historical, whose motif is the
stigma which to the mind of the Irishman must be visited upon the kith
and kin of an informer—any one who has given evidence in a state
trial. The central figure of the tale is Daniel O’Connell who in
British parliament as well as in Glenanaar fought for the freedom of
his native country. A sprightly modern romance claims a good share of
interest in which an Irish-American, an Irish widow, her two daughters
and a parish priest figure prominently.
“The book is of course, written from the point of view of partisan,
but we confidently believe that even readers as strongly prejudiced on
the other side will be unable to resist its fascination.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 711. Jl. 8, ‘05. 330w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 250w.
“Canon Sheehan has suffered from his wealth of imagination, and, by
condensing into one story materials that should have served to set
forth two, has injured the unity of his creation.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 832. S. ‘05. 1260w.
“It is deep-rooted in its racial element, interpreting Irish character
with an eye by no means blind to its faults, but always with
penetration and tender sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected in
sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and withal, not lacking in
touches of humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“Abounding Irish humor and delightful bits of character-sketching are
to be found in this novel.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 540w.
“A vigorous and skilful piece of work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“The well-told tale is so full of humor, pathos, and romance that it
cannot fail to win the interest of every reader.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 370w.
“Is a story of Irish life filled with a delicate humor and pathos.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 22, ‘05. 60w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.
“Irish peasants—real, not stage Irishmen—are excellent company, and
Canon Sheehan is a good guide.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 390w.
“The machinery of the story is, then rather cumbrous, but the
shortcomings of its structure and arrangement are not likely to affect
a reader who can appreciate eloquence, enthusiasm, and geniality.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 292. Ag. 26, ‘05. 880w.
=Sheldon, Anna R., and Newell, M. Moyca.= Medici balls. *$3.50.
Doubleday.
The title is derived from the balls on the Medici coat of arms, which
was everywhere encountered by the authors during their wanderings. The
journeys consist of trips from Florence to the Mugello, Prato,
Chianti, Lucca, Pistoja, Brancoli, and Barga. There are over a hundred
photogravures of people, landscapes, buildings and works of art, an
index and a full list of illustrations.
“A charming portfolio of studies to be enjoyed by all.” Anna Benneson
McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 300w.
“Is narrated in a chatty, discursive fashion, with a due amount of
historical reminiscence and a vivid description of present
conditions.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“The excursions of the authors are of particular interest to the
lovers of Tuscany, because we are taken into rather untrodden
districts. The out-of-doors life of these districts is described for
us in pleasant detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Sheldon, Charles Monroe.= Heart of the world: a story of Christian
socialism. †$1.25. Revell.
“The story of an Episcopal minister, who wrote and published,
anonymously, a book entitled ‘The Christian socialist’ and on the
occasion of his consecration as a bishop renounces his office and the
pulpit because of the consecrating bishop’s charge to him to oppose
socialism and this book in particular.”—Ind.
“It abounds in thrilling situations and sensational episodes which
have nothing essentially to do with the story.”
— =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“The principles and aims of Christian socialism are here presented
with dramatic effect in the form of a story.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Sheldon, Walter L.= Duties in the home and family. $1.25. Welch.
Lessons on household duties prepared for children ranging from ten to
thirteen years of age. The book has been added to the author’s “Ethics
for the young” series, and its “ethical keynote is the preservation
and strengthening of family ties not only in childhood and youth, but
thruout adult life.” (Educ. R.) “The motives and limits of conduct are
developed by questions and dialog and enforced by aphorisms, stories,
poems and illustrations.” (Ind.)
“This elasticity of treatment strikes us, by the way, as one of the
most useful characters of this eminently practical work. At the same
time, Mr. Sheldon’s ethics have a strong backbone.” Wilmon H. Sheldon.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 312. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
“The instruction is not sectarian or markedly religious, and could be
used in any school.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Complete poetical works, including material
never before printed in any edition of the poems; ed. with textual notes
and bibliographical list of editions by T: Hutchinson. *$2.50. Oxford.
“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse
that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large
amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is
the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early
editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr.
Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar
matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own
scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.
* “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and
ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 840w.
“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final
authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“An authentic, complete, and accurately printed text.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson
McMahon. **$1.40. McClurg.
The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley
which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The
selections are grouped under the various years included in the time
covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page
illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art
of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from
England during the last four years of his life.
* “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a
fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the
point.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 470w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* “The whole forms a delightful sort of poetic itinerary, whether for
persons who are actually in Italy, or for those who travel in
imagination only.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 270w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.
* “A very attractive and interesting book to all lovers of Shelley.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Red cravat. $1.50. Macmillan.
A novel of the Prussia of Frederick William, that fantastic monarch
whose giant grenadiers wore the badge of the red cravat. A tall young
Englishman is seized and thrust into the royal guards through the
influence of his rival for the hand of the beautiful English girl,
Lady Joan Chrystal. Later the unfortunate guardsman receives the
king’s orders to marry a certain peasant lass—but he doesn’t. The
characters are all very human but not at all modern.
“Compared to the general average of historical fiction, this novel
must be pronounced a decided success.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3. 230w.
“The novel owes much to its setting, and, while a story of adventure,
seems made upon almost new lines from its leisurely style.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 520w.
“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it
drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of
quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his
characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself.
But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling
along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not
spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is
some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The
style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind
of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance.
The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality,
which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Sheringham, Hugh T.= Angler’s hours. $1.50. Macmillan.
Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy
are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.
+ =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.
“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which
practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures
of the delightful surroundings of the art.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 620w.
“Mr. Sheringham wields the pen of a cultured gentleman.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 490w.
“There is a pleasant and old-world flavour in his style. There is
instruction in his essays too.” L. W. B.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 220. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 740w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
“Mr. Sheringham’s book is delightful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w.
=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Taper lights, $1.10. Gordon-Flagg.
Eleven cleverly written essays upon such subjects as, The salt lake of
literature, being the salt tears shed by sympathetic readers, thruout
the ages; Just a few of the reasons why love grows cold; Between the
lines, meaning facial lines; The devil’s fancy-work; and The lifting
of veils in literature.
“This is a readable though not a striking book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 1: 558. My. 6. 450w.
* =Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c.
Macmillan.
“A book ‘for students who have at least reached high school age.’ ...
The volume is divided into two parts, ‘Studies in American
citizenship’ and ‘Collegeville.’ In the first, Land and government,
Civil organizations, Banks, Civic and municipal institutions, Justice,
etc. are treated. In the second, ‘Collegeville’ represents a township
and the various problems of American citizenship are solved in an
ideal fashion. The Declaration of independence and the constitution
are appended.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* “The purpose is worthy indeed, and some of the methods of
presentation show that the author is concrete and understands how to
instruct. But he should not have undertaken to write this book before
thinking himself out clearly and fully. The sins against good English
are numerous, and seriously affect the educational purpose of the
book.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 752. N. ‘05. 140w.
* “Highly practical in its bearings.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 130w.
* “An excellent handbook for the training of young men for
citizenship.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
=Shields, Charles Woodruff.= Philosophia ultima, v. 3. Scientific
problems of religion and the Christian evidences of the physical and
psychical science. **$3. Scribner.
“The late Professor Shields, of Princeton, obtained deserved
reputation as a highly appreciated academic preacher, and as a man of
literary genius.... The best part of his life was given to working out
the scheme of philosophy whose prolegomena in pamphlet form appeared
in 1861, and whose concluding volume is now issued. The goal of the
final philosophy is justly conceived by Professor Shields as combining
‘the perfectability of science and the demonstrability of religion.’
In the present volume the scientific problems of religion and its
scientific evidences are successively discussed.”—Outlook.
“He was a man of learning, in a certain obsolescent way, and the work
may be used to advantage by others than psychologists, for whom it
should be a document.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 200w.
“As to the scientific evidence of religion, one must say that
Professor Shields’s argument so oscillates from strict to loose, and
from maximum to minimum claims, as to yield rather limited
satisfaction, except to a somewhat thin-spun conception of the term
‘scientific.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 290w.
* =Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khay-yámi. **$1.50. McClurg.
“This account of the life of Omar from the Persian standpoint,
together with an explanation of his philosophy as understood by
admirers in his native land, has been modestly and carefully written.
The volume is well illuminated with Persian designs.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Shirazi’s English style is clear and simple, and his
presentation of his points exceedingly interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.
* “The only real blemish on the book is the author’s anti-religious
bias, which he doubtless regards as ‘smart.’ His transliteration of
Persian names and book-titles shows little consistency. On the other
hand, he has evidently read deeply in Persian sources for the material
of his biography.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 470. D. 7, ‘05. 590w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Port of storms. † $1.50. Appleton.
A young New York physician is loved by a dancer whom he has cured of
pneumonia, by a lovely young girl, and by a rich and cruel
enchantress, whose aim in life is social recognition. The little
dancer hides her secret and sensibly marries someone else, the
enchantress drives the hero into brain fever by deciding to marry a
leader of the coveted exclusive set, and the sweet young girl is left
to claim her doubtful reward.
“A strenuous story with a problem ending.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 263. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“An interesting analytical novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22. ‘05. 20w.
=Shore, W. Teignmouth.= Dickens, $1. Macmillan.
An addition to Bell’s “Miniature series of great writers.”
“Mr. Teignmouth Shore knows his subject thoroughly; his admiration is
tempered by sound judgment, his praise is never exaggerated. The
book ... is marked by scholarship, critical ability and good taste.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11. ‘05 80w.
“The criticism is just on the whole.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
* =Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, **$1.
Scribner.
A brief enthusiastic biography which supplements Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life”
and includes many of Charlotte Brontë’s letters which had not appeared
when that life was written. The depressing story of the whole Brontë
family is given, and there is much minute detail about the strangely
intertwined lives of the three sisters and the circumstances under
which their works were produced.
* “He is able to correct Mrs. Gaskell on many points. His style, too,
is of the sloppiest.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1149. N. 4, ‘05. 850w.
* “Written without prejudice, and with sincere love and admiration of
the famous sisters, Mr. Shorter’s book is a welcome addition to Brontë
literature.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 110w.
* “But the little book cannot honestly be said to have much life or
interest about it. Its most original point is the view taken by Mr.
Shorter of the importance of M. Héger in the making of Charlotte
Brontë.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 940w.
* “The task, on the whole, he has performed with much skill, with an
entire power of making even less enthusiastic readers share with him
something of ‘the glamour of the Brontës.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 1340w.
* “Mr. Shorter, to put it briefly, tries to compress far too much into
one modest volume.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 714. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.
=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.= Life, letters, and literary remains of J. H:
Shorthouse; ed. by his wife. 2v. *$4.25. Macmillan.
The first of these volumes contains a critical introduction by the
Rev. J. Hunter Smith, a great variety of letters written by and to the
author of John Inglesant, and a detailed account of his quiet life
which was devoted to culture, literature, and the family chemical
works at Birmingham. The second volume contains his literary remains,
including three short stories and other hitherto unpublished writings.
+ =Acad.= 68: 437. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1760w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 683. Je. 3. 2840w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 170w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 169. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1760w.
“The book is a worthy and illuminating account of a man whose most
characteristic work is not destined soon to perish.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 1570w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“On the whole the first of these volumes gives a fair sketch of the
man, though the growth and origin of the books, which should be the
most interesting things in the life are scamped.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 22. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1440w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 713. My. 13, ‘05. 1870w.
=Shute, Henry Augustus.= Real boys. †$1.25. Dillingham.
The doings of Plupy, Beany, Pent, Puzzy, Whack, Bug, Skinny, Chick,
Pop, Pile, and some of the girls are here recounted. There are
snowball battles, fishing excursions, parties, races, fights and
adventures. The illustrations catch the spirit of the text.
“The matter is but a variation on the old topics, while the manner has
no startling touch of brilliancy; but the adventures of Plupy and his
friends cannot fail to make comfortable reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 340w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 120w.
=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3.
Dutton.
In this faithful biography the queen regent of France is shown in her
true colors and appears as an ambitious woman in whom was both good
and evil, not as the monster of cruelty which history has made
familiar.
“Well written, authoritative, and sincere, it is a model of biography.
Above all, the author has made a patient attempt to brush aside
superstitions, and to arrive at the truth. Now and again we are not
able to agree with Miss Sichel.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 439. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1650w.
“A high standard of literary ability pervades the volume in spite of a
few lapses.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 521. Ap. 29. 1890w.
“Miss Sichel’s essays are interesting, and the book as a whole marks a
distinct advance on the author’s ‘Household of the Lafayettes.’”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 530w.
“An extremely interesting and comprehensive history of the first
two-thirds of the life of Catherine de’ Medici.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 1690w.
“Is a subtle analysis and vivid presentation of the personalities and
ideas of the reigns of Henri II. and Francois II.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.
“An industrious and careful volume.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 183. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1080w.
“A series of interesting and attractive historical studies.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 896. Je. 17, ‘05. 2090w.
=Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred.= Professor’s legacy. †$1.50. Holt.
A German professor bequeaths his work on corals and his only daughter
to his favorite pupil, a young Englishman. The completing and
publishing of the unfinished work prove a simple task in comparison
with the undertaking to win a girl’s heart. To be sure this scholarly
individual pursues one steady course instead of resorting to many
devices, and it is due to a fault of method rather than purpose that
the end desired is deferred so long.
“Is one of the most interesting and well-told novels of the season,
and it should be one of the most popular.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1130. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 460w.
* “The tale as a whole is quite as entertaining as any of the earlier
romances of the same type.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 320w.
* “Is a very readable little romance—a good companion for a railway
journey or a rainy afternoon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 450w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
* “The story is, all in all, well worth reading, although hardly
likely to become one of the great literary successes of the season.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“The many-sided activity of the late professor of moral philosophy at
Cambridge is strikingly represented in this collection of essays and
addresses. Sixteen in number, they take for theme subjects of an
ethical, sociological, economic, educational, and purely literary
interest.... An idea of the varied contents of this helpful volume may
be conveyed by a few chapter titles: ‘Ecce Homo’ (a criticism of J. R.
Seeley’s ’Study of the life of Jesus’), ‘The poems and prose remains
of Arthur Henry Clough,’ ‘The scope and method of economic science,’
‘The economic lessons of socialism,’ ‘The relation of ethics to
sociology,’ ‘The theory of classical education.’”—Outlook.
Reviewed by F. Kettle.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 45. Ja. 14, ‘05. 820w.
“As an expression of the personality of Henry Sidgwick the collection
has interest and value; as an embodiment of the Cambridge spirit it
has enduring significance for all who care about tracing intellectual
tendencies. The expression throughout is accurate; nothing is said
more or less than is intended. The style is lucid, subtle,
stimulating, never unpleasant, now and again humorous; never
brilliant, persuasive, or charming. Stronger in criticism than
construction. Entirely without magnetic quality.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 75. Ja. 21. 2390w.
“The form of an essay or address is especially suitable to topics of
this kind, which belong to the border land between the sciences rather
than to the content of any one of them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 250. O. ‘05. 1210w.
“What they give us is a series of side-lights on the development of a
mind of singular openness to contemporary influences.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 3: 604. Ap. ‘05. 3500w.
“It includes a wide range of subjects—economics, education, and
literature—and it treats them all with a solidity, a fullness of
knowledge, a many-sidedness, and an occasional sparkle of dry light
which keep them alive and informing even when their immediate interest
has begun to shift or wane.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 3870w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Survey of contents).
“... These characteristics are palpably apparent—the intellectual
sincerity, the openmindedness, the faculty of acute analysis, the
precision of statement, the discriminating taste that were so
emphatically his.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 500. O. 7, ‘05. 570w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures
and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The late Professor Sidgwick, a masterly critic, left unpublished
lectures and fragments which occupy the larger portion of this volume.
They discuss the philosophical teachings of thinkers so widely
contrasted as Kant, Thomas Hill Green, and Herbert Spencer. The
remainder of the volume consists of essays reprinted from ‘Mind’ and
the ‘Journal of philology.’ Of the lectures much the greater part is
devoted to a vigorous criticism of Kant, and these were finished to
their lamented author’s satisfaction while the others remain less
complete.”—Outlook.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1360w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
=Sidis, Boris, and Goodhart, Simon Phillip.= Multiple personality: an
experimental investigation into the nature of human individuality.
**$2.50. Appleton.
In the main this work is the analysis of a reactionary second
personality resulting from an accident befalling the Rev. T. C.
Hanna a few years since. When he returned to consciousness, he was
possessed of an entirely different self, “which may be understood
only by comparing it to the birth of a person possessed immediately
of matured mental and physical functions.” The phenomena of this
state, the return to his primary personality, and the struggle which
the physicians experienced in establishing him once more on the
mental basis of his former self—there being for some time a Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendency to alternate between the two human
individualities—make a study as strange as it is interesting and
important to the scientific world.
“The close and accurate study of Mr. Hanna’s case throws a flood of
light on personality and cognate themes, and is a most valuable
contribution to the literature of psychopathy.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 185. Ap. ‘05. 1480w.
“The most original as well as most interesting portion of the volume
is given over to a painstaking account of a remarkable loss of
personality, in many respects the most complete on record.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“Dr. Sidis finds corroboratory evidence in support of his view that
multiple consciousness is the law, not the exception.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1419. Je. 22, ‘05. 720w.
“Truly one of the most fascinating of the fairy-tales of science, for
the observing and recording of which Dr. Sidis and Dr. Goodhart
deserve all credit.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“The volume deserves, as it doubtless will find, a useful place in the
psychologist’s equipment for the comprehension of the varieties and
the variations of personality.” J. J.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 284. Ag. ‘05. 890w.
“Whatever its positive merits may be, the extraordinary jargon in
which it is written and the painful dogmatism of its authors go far to
obscure those merits.”
— — + =Spec.= 94: 613. Ap. 29, ‘05. 900w.
=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= Quo vadis, a tale of the time of Nero. $1.50.
Crowell.
This new volume in the “Luxembourg” series contains “Quo vadis” as
translated from the Polish by Dr. S. A. Binion and A. Malevsky, and
seventeen illustrations from drawings by Jan Styka.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Wedding of the Lady of Lovell: and other matches
of Tobiah’s making. $1.50. Doubleday.
Six short love stories in each of which unromantic Tobiah, the
dissenter, acts as matchmaker. They are wholesome tales of crude
times, and each has its own unique adventure in which there is the
superstition and witchcraft found among the marsh-men; but the will of
the Lord as manifested in the sturdy Tobiah, always triumphs, and the
little blind god triumphs also.
“Miss Silberrad has quality; she has the power to create atmosphere.
The stories in this book have all the hallmark of real ability, though
their artificial nature makes them difficult to handle.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
“As regards actual writing and imaginative quality, this sheaf of
short stories is above the usual, if not her usual, level.”
+ =Ath.= 1: 494. Ap. 15, ‘05. 160w.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“A thoroughly enjoyable book. Stories more interesting or more
wholesome it would be hard to find; still harder to find any of equal
originality and excellence of workmanship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
“Something of the dream-spirit of the Norse saga and folklore dwells
in the stories, so full are they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true
romance. Full of genuine humanity, too.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=Simpkinson, C. H.= Thomas Harrison, regicide and major-general. *$1.50.
Dutton.
“In this life of Thomas Harrison there is to be found the history of
the leader of the Fifth-Monarchy men and one of the ablest soldiers of
the seventeenth century.... Mr. Simpkinson’s book shows how noble a
character this regicide had. Harrison was as brave on the scaffold as
he was at Marston Moor or at Appleby Bridge, where his personal
bravery saved the army.”—Acad.
“Had the story been written with a clearer style and with fewer
digressions it would have been more valuable.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 273. Mr. 18, ‘05. 540w.
“A good half of this book consists of quotations, and long quotations.
His quotations are inexact; he is not discriminating in his use of
authorities; his evidence occasionally fails to bear out the
assertions based upon it; and his judgment is not sound.”
— — — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 153. O. ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Simpkinson’s ‘Life of Harrison’ is scholarly and sympathetic
without being marred by the parade of extenuation.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 820w. (Abstract of
contents.)
“[The story] is entertainingly, if somewhat unskillfully, told.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w.
=Simpson, George.= Naval constructor: a vade mecum of ship design for
students, naval architects, ship-builders and owners, marine
superintendents, engineers and draughtsmen. $5. Van Nostrand.
“This handbook is a compilation of rules, formulas and tables
pertaining to shipbuilding, with just sufficient descriptive matter to
make the application of the rules clear.”—Engin. N.
“The author has endeavored to arrange the book in a logical manner,
but he has not succeeded in attaining his object as completely as
might be desired. He also repeats somewhat. The index is not as
complete as it should be, and the table of contents is simply a list
of headings for which no pages are given. The book is certainly
up-to-date and should receive a warm welcome from all who are
interested in ship design.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“There is compactly stowed nearly, if not quite, all the material data
needed by those engaged in the design, construction, equipment, and
maintenance of ships.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Simpson, W. J.= Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.
The obvious need of scientific study along the lines of the history
and therapeutic aspect of plague in India is partially met by Prof. W.
J. Simpson’s work of four hundred and fifty pages “elaborately
illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams, in which are presented
the results of the latest studies of the disease made by competent
specialists throughout the world. Dr. Simpson speaks appreciatively of
the Clayton gas process of disinfection in India.” (R. of Rs.)
* “It abounds in points of practical importance, and should,
therefore, prove a most serviceable text-book to all whose duty brings
them into contact with plague either directly or indirectly.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 450w.
“It marks a distinct and important addition to what has hitherto been
written about the subject. We have no doubt that it is destined to
become a valuable and important aid to the student, the medical
officer of health, to the epidemiologist, the sanitarian, and last,
but not least, to the administrator.” E. Klein.
+ =Nature.= 72: 529. S. 28, ‘05. 2940w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.
Savage Keith Rickman, son of a cockney book dealer, has in him the
divine fire of genius which burns within him until, with the passing
years, all the grosser parts of his personality are consumed. When the
book opens he has written a tragedy, a classical thing, which makes
friends for him among the critics even though they do not ask him home
to dine because he is “not quite a gentleman.” In fact “his notion of
pleasure was getting drunk and making love to Miss Poppy Grare,” of
the Variety theatre. His meeting with Lucia Harden, typical of
refinement and tradition, on whom he inflicts almost physical
suffering when he “drops his aitches,” gives him an ideal to work
toward, and he is never really untrue to it, even when he is engaged
to marry Flossy, the little clerk. With a sense of honor almost too
keen for the world in which he lives, he struggles on as journalist
and poet until he reaches success, fame and his ideals. The book is
unusual in its strength of plot and character, and it is most real
when it forsakes the ideal and tells us that even the divine fire
cannot shut out the coarser cravings of a man’s nature when he is
young, a genius half-awake.
“Has an acceptable style, in all ways suited to the matter it
embodies, a style with flexibility and humor employing a large
vocabulary, cultivated and agreeable. As yet, she lacks that final
touch of mastery by which a line condenses the whole result of
ingenious mental processes.”
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 699. My. ‘05. 630w.
“Author has accomplished the difficult feat of taking a genius for its
hero and making him seem plausible. A sound plot. Its faults are
mainly those of excess. But no page bears evidence of careless work.
It shows throughout unusual knowledge and an unusual degree of skill
in applying it, and it ranks unmistakably among the best of recent
novels.” F. M. Colby.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 66. Mr. ‘05. 1070w.
“One does not hesitate to pronounce this book literature. A keen
understanding, an ethical interpretation, and a lyric style have
combined to produce one of the noblest, most inspiring, and absorbing
books we have read in years.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 129. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It is scarcely a spontaneous work of genius; but it is at least a
brilliant piece of workmanship, of unusual range and power. The
comfortably ample canvas abounds in masculine characters, and it is
not too much to say that there is not a failure, not even a
commonplace achievement, among them. In dealing with her small group
of women the author’s penetration becomes blunter, her power weakens.
Supremely interesting. Admirably constructed. A positive hardness,
almost a lack of fineness, somewhat disqualify her as a ‘mouthpiece of
humanity.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 183. F. ‘05. 630w.
“Drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one’s admiration. It
rises, moreover, to real distinction of style, besides being of
absorbing interest from cover to cover. It is the sort of book that
one begins by skimming, and ends by giving the closest attention to
paragraph and phrase.” W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 437. F. 23, ‘05. 1160w.
* “Aside from the literary shop talk in this novel the author has
touched the heights and depths of inspiration. This is why parts of
the book seem to sag so woefully.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The aim is high, the treatment is eminently appropriate, the interest
absorbing.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 1010w.
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1150w.
“Pervaded by ... seriousness of invention and stamped with the
distinction of high-class workmanship. This story has great nobility
of spirit; although somewhat too elaborate, it is a novel to be
reckoned as one of the real things of the time.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“It is to be regretted that the story, as a whole, does not reach the
height achieved by the characterization. The impression one receives
from the whole production is that of a tremendous and generous power;
a power that includes humor, wit, analytical and philosophical power,
scholarship, vivid and trenchant strength in characterization.
Something that critics call ‘fusion’ ... is absent from the book, or
is not there in full.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1760w.
* “Though a mediocre piece of construction, marred by diffuseness and
irrelevancies, this novel should be read for its splendidly successful
character studies.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 170w.
“She writes remarkably well, though with a tendency to exaggeration
and exuberance, and she has the usual feminine weakness for
adjectives.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 420w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Manassas. $1.50. Macmillan.
This novel without a heroine is really a romantic history of the years
preceding the Civil war. The story ends with the first battle of
Manassas. The southern hero attends college in Boston, and there
becomes an abolitionist; on returning home his eyes are more fully
opened to the horrors of slavery and he eventually joins the Union
army. “Manassas” is the first of an epic trilogy, the volumes to come
being “Gettysburg,” and “Appomattox.”
“It is one of the most thrillingly interesting books of its kind that
we have ever read. The real drama of the book is the historical clash
of the two civilizations, and individuals seem to be made use of only
by way of incidental illustration. It is history written with warmth
and an eye for dramatic effect, ... but it is nevertheless essentially
history. It is a work deserving of very high praise.” W. M. Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 630w.
“His power is well sustained through the long narrative.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition
and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth
Higginson. **$1.50. Small.
“This book gives the educated negro’s own view regarding the fitness
of his race for full citizenship. It contains a complete record of the
civil history of the American negro, showing what the race has done
for the country in peace and in war, and what the negro has
accomplished for his own uplifting.”—R. of Rs.
* “The style is clean and forceful. Of its kind it is the best any
negro has written. It is the thesis of a special pleader making strong
his case by ignoring the other side.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 752. N. ‘05. 240w.
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 190w.
“He is an able advocate if not altogether a wise one, and his book is
very readable. He bases his case upon evidence which the other side
refuses to admit and makes assumptions which they deny.”
+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 1350w.
“He is not intelligent in interpreting Southern conditions or southern
sentiment.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 160w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05 430w.
“His partiality is not envenomed, his plea is glowing, and his
historical facts have more than common value.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 594. O. ‘05. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 100w.
=Singer, Hans.= Albrecht Dürer. *$2.50. imp. Scribner.
A critical essay upon Dürer’s work forms a preface to 48 exquisite
plates printed in tints and mounted on paper to harmonize.
=Critic.= 46: 475. My. 05. 70w.
“In spite of the closeness with which Professor Hans Singer has
studied the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, it can scarcely be claimed
that he has succeeded in fully grasping the characteristics that
render them unique. Moreover, in his efforts to be strictly faithful
to his own convictions he commits himself to several assertions that
will hardly pass unchallenged.”
+ — =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“Compact for the use of students, and almost a necessity for any art
library.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 240w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Great portraits as seen and described by great
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
This volume “contains fifty-two ‘process’ reproductions of famous
portraits ... with words written about them (or inspired by them) by
writers who are not all great.... The selections are well chosen and
will be useful to the discriminating student. These is also a list of
the abiding places of these pictures. Knackfuss, Moreau, Vauthier,
Julia Cartwright, J. A. Crowe, J. B. Cavalcaselle, Humphry Ward, ...
Larroumet and Lefroy are among the most authoritative critics of the
fine arts quoted.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “Is likely to prove of great value to persons not very well-grounded
in the knowledge of art, and of use, in its way, to many others, who
are.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* “On the whole, the compilation has little to recommend it, and some
of its faults are inexcusable.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Singleton, Esther=, ed. and tr. Venice as seen and described by famous
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
Fifteen chapters which include extracts from Gautier on “The gondola”
and “The grand canal”; from Yriarte on “The Rialto”; from J. R. Green
on “Venice and Rome”; from Ruskin on “St. Marks”; from Taine on “The
tombs of the Doges”; and from Symonds on “A night in Venice.” The
volume is profusely illustrated with half-tone plates.
“A skillful collecting of the best things that have been written by
the best authorities.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 60w.
“A book that is charming to read anywhere, and will be useful for
travellers in Venice to consult.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“The book will be especially useful to those who have never seen and
do not expect to see Venice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 175. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“If an anthology of Venice was wanted, Esther Singleton has supplied
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w.
“Its editing has been done with judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 140w.
=Skene, Norman Locke.= Elements of yacht design. $2. Rudder pub.
The author aims to give “‘a concise and practical presentation of the
processes involved in designing a modern yacht’ ... so that the
operations may be readily grasped by men without technical
education.... There are chapters on displacement, the lateral plane,
design, stability, ballast, the sail plan, and construction. A
thirty-foot cruiser is made the basis of the calculations, and a
number of tables is appended to abridge the figuring of important
details. The book is illustrated with numerous outline drawings and
plates.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book will undoubtedly be serviceable to every one interested in
the subject and possessed of enough technical knowledge to understand
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 181. Mr. 25, ‘05. 290w.
=Skinner, Harriet Pearl.= Boys who became famous men. †$1.25. Little.
These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are
founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl
readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s
keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron;
Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six
hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and
Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.
* “The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are
pleasing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five
years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in
England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of
book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is
crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.
“The text is generally accurate.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 468. O. 7, 990w.
“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great
assistance.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 80w.
* “No one but a real collector could have set forth what Mr. Slater
has put into his volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1374. D. 14, ‘05. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 1020w.
“With these slight exceptions, which will prove almost immaterial to
the beginner in book collecting, the manual may be taken as a most
reliable, though somewhat dull, guide in this fascinating pursuit.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 160w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.
=Sloan, Anna L.= Carolinians, an old-fashioned love story of stirring
times in the early colony of Carolina. $1.50. Neale.
Mistress Damaris Johnson, the governor’s daughter, whose heart is as
true to her lover as her father’s is to his king, in coquetry with her
true feelings offends the man she cares for. He starts for England, is
captured by pirates, a message from her miscarries, they become
estranged on his return, and she is piqued into promising her hand to
an unloved suitor, who in the end nobly releases her.
“It is a picturesque tale, prettily told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 470w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago
press.
An exposition of the main development in sociological theory from
Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The purpose of the work is to furnish a
working syllabus for a year’s course of lectures and a three years’
program of seminar work given in Chicago university. “The main objects
of this syllabus are, first, to make visible different elements that
must necessarily find their place in ultimate sociological theory; and
second, to serve as an index to relations between the parts and the
whole of sociological science.”
=Smart, George Thomas.= Studies in conduct. *75c. Pilgrim press.
“In this survey of wisely conducted life the subjective interest of
disciplined and rationalized feeling comes to its full rights, and
carries the authority of experience.”—Outlook.
“A book that cannot be exhausted in one reading, or in two.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether these studies in conduct offer a rational and agreeable
program for making the most of ourselves and our brief span of life.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 507. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
=Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant.= Story of Edinburgh. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume, which belongs to the ‘Mediæval towns series,’ is to a
considerable extent a reproduction of a book which the author
published last year. Additions, however, have been made, and ‘it has
been almost entirely re-written.’” (Spec.) “The scheme of the volume
is sensible. The first portion, dealing with the history of Edinburgh,
traces the general fortunes of the city without special regard to
topography; it is briskly enough written, and suitably seasoned with
classical anecdotes. The second, and in this instance more important,
division presents a detailed description of the city itself, and
discusses the places and objects of historic interest.” (Ath.) There
are many illustrations.
“The instructions are clear and practical, the comments are generally
to the point, and the illustrations are decidedly good.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 468. O. 7. 200w.
* “The book is compact, comprehensive, and portable, and conveniently
arranged in walks to points of historic, literary and ecclesiastical
interest in the city and its environs.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 180w.
“Has put together a charming volume, full of matter but with little in
it either of the guidebook or the town history.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 640. S. 30. ‘05. 120w.
“This volume packs an amazing amount of information in small compass,
and serves it up, moreover, with commendable freedom from dryness and
encyclopaedic method.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 170w.
“A book about Edinburgh can scarcely fail to be interesting, and as
written by Mr. Smeaton, who knows his subject thoroughly and writes
about it con amore, this may be ranked with any volume in the series.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
=Smedley, A. C., and Talbot, L. A.= Wizards of Ryetown. †$1.50. Holt.
A clever fairy tale interspersed with nonsense rhymes in which a fairy
princess goes out into the world with her hero prince to help him
conquer his kingdom. After wars waged against castles, witches and
wizards they share their realm in proverbial fairy-tale peace and
prosperity.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean
de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot
Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
An account of the life and work of the missionary priest in the
unopened West, recorded chiefly in his own simple words, as found in
manuscript journals, and his printed works. There are copious notes
and a life of De Smet by the editor.
“We strongly recommend this valuable work to all who are interested in
the history of the North American West and in its aborigines. Also,
and particularly, to those interested in missions.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 274. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2060w.
“The most valuable part of this book is that which deals entirely with
Indian life, and the editors are to be congratulated upon their
success in keeping this essential and vital part continually the most
prominent. As no other man has so fully and so deeply understood the
Indian, so no other has contributed so much information about his life
and customs or served the cause of justice so well in uprooting the
prejudice against the aborigines of this country. [The Indian] has
received his meed of praise, and the final judgment upon his
character.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 66. F. 4, ‘05. 2310w.
=Smith, Adam.= Wealth of nations; ed. by Professor Edwin Cannan. *$6.
Putnam.
This new edition of the famous work of the father of political economy
follows the text of the fifth edition in all details. The editor has
added elaborate notes and a comprehensive introduction.
“Will henceforth be the standard. It is hard to see how the editor’s
work could be improved save by the discovery of new sources of
knowledge.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 135. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“What promises to be its definitive form for many years to come. Along
with his demonstrated insight into the heart of this classic, Mr.
Cannan brought other gifts of a rare order to his task,—tireless
scholarship in ferreting out the ipsissima verba of the text, and
withal an invigorating freshness of vision into the realities of
industrial life, a doughty logic, and a dash of cynical humor.”
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 562. Ap. ‘05. 510w.
“Marks of extreme care as well as of full and critical knowledge are
visible on every page. The editor’s notes are of great value even to
students who are not greatly interested in the niceties of textual
criticism. In a great measure they serve as cross-references, and
serve also to keep in mind and define Adam Smith’s characteristic
inconsistencies and limitations.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 310w.
* =Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido H.= Machine design. $3. Wiley.
A volume which “treats in logical sequence the elements of mechanism
and machine design, followed by construction in detail of machinery,
and an excellent chapter on ‘Riveted joints.’ It is well written and
illustrated, and the effort to lead elementary conception into actual
construction is consistently followed out, giving the reader, or the
student, the satisfaction of learning the means and the reason for the
result obtained.”—Engin. N.
* “Briefly characterized this is a college treatise, broad and
elementary in its introduction, thorough in detail, elaborate in
formulas, limited in references to modern devices and inaccurate in
some of its practical data.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 890w.
=Smith, Bertha H.= Yosemite legends. **$2. Elder.
Six short legends each representing some folk song of the tribe of
Ah-wah-nee-chee or Yosemite dwellers. The charm of the text is
enhanced by the artistic work of Florence Lundborg, who has conceived
a barbaric pattern, an Indian design for the margin, and has
contributed thirteen wash drawings reproduced in half-tone. The whole
make-up of the book suggests the “eerie and the unseen in air, crag,
and water.”
“The stories are told with an attractive simplicity that retains a
flavor of the primitive Indian poetry.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.
A new life of Christ, simple in style. “It throws some light on
incidents in the life of Christ from portrayal of Jewish habits of
life and thought. It accompanies the words of Jesus with some
interpretation, but not with exhortation. It is free from
scholasticism on the one hand and from ecclesiastical pietism on the
other.”—Outlook.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 336. O. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
* “Theoretically, the spirit of the writer might be defined as that of
a broad-minded and free-minded evangelical.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Noah’s ark; told and pictured by E. Boyd
Smith. **$2. Houghton.
“The building of the ark, the assembling of the animals, and the
adventures of the voyage, are all made to yield their full measure of
entertainment. The dinosaurs that had to be left behind because they
were too big for the door, the host of other strange beasts ... that
refused to go in and were therefore ‘doomed to be lost and become
fossils,’ the other host that went in and, being tossed by the waves,
regretted it ... all these episodes are pictured with remarkable
expressiveness and a clever but never too extravagant caricature....
The plates are artistically reproduced in color.”—Dial.
* “An amusing book with illustrations gay enough and text simple
enough to attract any well-regulated child.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 15w.
* “The pictures are the feature of the book, but they would not be
half so amusing without the sly and subtle humor of the brief
descriptions which accompany them.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1392. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* “Mr. Smith is too good a draughtsman to be side-splittingly comical,
but he has a humorous imagination. His text is far less droll, and he
should procure a literary running-mate for his next venture.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* “A capital piece of story-telling by colored pictures—humorous but
perfectly respectful to Noah and all his family.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 40w.
=Smith, F. Berkeley.= Parisians out of doors. *$1.50. Funk.
Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their pet cafés,
pelting each other in the fete des fleurs, or enjoying the more
serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or
jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or
Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their
own distinctive atmosphere.
“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy
as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects
of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and
Monte Carlo, and so forth.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that
make his volume most entertaining reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an
enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the
perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 490w.
“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The
real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1350w.
“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay
and the picturesque.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 80w.
“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French
festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that
festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting
description, and what more interesting people can you find than the
modern Parisian?”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations
are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= At close range. †$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the
volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things
in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at
the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does
not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders,
as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N.
Y. Times.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be
taken to his literary style.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 44. Jl. 8. 220w.
“The chief characteristic of these nine short stories, tales of ‘the
road,’ is a realism described with a poetic touch.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 240w.
“He has set down with humor, compassion and wit the real life that we
live every day on the outside of story-books and made it refreshing
with faith and virtue.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 957. Ap. 27. ‘05. 410w.
“He has the snag-less style of long literary training, yet he shuns
prolixity.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“The stories deserve reading, and the circulation of such a volume
will not bring benefit to the author alone.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 235. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“This latest collection of short stories renews the impression which
the earlier volumes from the same hand made of great clearness of
sight, fresh and vital interest in all forms of life which express
either beauty or character, a keen sense of humor, and admirable power
of characterization.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Always Mr. Smith is the artist—not a photographer.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 320w.
“The author, who writes tersely and well, shows that he has keen
powers of observation, he is also endowed with a sense of humour and a
capacity for sympathy, and he can in a measure touch, as it has been
said, both the springs of laughter and the source of tears.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 250w.
“The problems contained in the book are not very subtle, but almost
all the stories are pleasant reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 228. Ag. 12, ‘05. 140w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
F. Hopkinson Smith invites his readers to join a circle in Bohemia
about a log fire “that can sparkle with merriment, or glow with humor,
or roar with laughter, dependent on your mood.” The “High priest of
the Temple of jollity” is Sandy MacWhirter whose “wide personal
experience, his many adventures by land and sea make him the most
delightful of conversationalists ... talking as a painter talks, one
who sees, and therefore can make you see.” He and his group of friends
draw up around the fire and swap stories, impressions and terse
convictions. “Mac” on studio teas is especially convincing; “Art is a
religion not a Punch and Judy show. Whole thing is vulgar. Imagine
Rembrandt showing his ‘Night watch’ for the first time to the rag-tag
and bob-tail of Amsterdam.... Sacrilege, I tell you, this mixing up of
ice-cream and paint; makes a farce of a high calling and a mountebank
of the artist.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “MacWhirter and his friends are thoroughly individual. They all know
stories well worth the telling, and they tell them extremely well.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* “Has the charm with which Mr. Smith invests all that he writes, a
charm which is one of projected personality, and must therefore miss
some uncongenial readers, though these will usually be few.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Smith never fails to infuse a certain invigorating good
fellowship into his stories. The book as a whole does not reach the
high level of Mr. Smith’s more serious fiction.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
* =Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as
interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“We welcome this attempt to estimate the present state of the science
[of war] in the light of the new precedents created.... [The authors]
have reviewed the whole history of the operations, and dealt with
every point raised, from the volunteer cruisers to the use of wireless
telegraphy, in a lucid and scholarly manner.... A large number of
useful documents are reprinted in the appendices, and the authors have
written a short but admirably clear introduction on the meaning of
international law.”—Spec.
* “By far the most interesting part of the volume consists of the
chapters, full of detail, and well considered, relating to neutrality;
chapters so full and complete that they might with small change form
parts of a treatise on international law. It is a piece of well-knit,
solid work. It embodies research and care. A spirit of moderation, a
sense of responsibility, is present.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 299. S. 22, ‘05. 1480w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 650w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 690. N. 25, ‘05. 470w.
* “The work may be warmly recommended to all lawyers and students of
public policy.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ‘05. 370w.
=Smith, Rev. George Adam.= Forgiveness of sins, and other sermons,
**$1.25. Armstrong.
“Sermons preached by Dr. George Adam Smith, in the pulpit of Queen’s
Cross Free church, Aberdeen.... They are spiritual expositions of
theology.... Biblical in substance but not textual.”—Outlook.
“His new volume of sermons offers an example of the art of expository
preaching, the more persuasive in that it is not professedly
expository.” A. K. P.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 155. Ag. ‘05. 750w.
“His discourses are direct, practical and earnest, excellent examples
of the expository preaching for which Scotch ministers are famous.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.
“They constitute good models for the minister and good reading for the
thoughtful and the devout layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w.
“The volume of his sermons just published may do something to dispel
false notions of Professor Smith’s theological system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 490w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= My memory of Gladstone. *75c. Wessels.
This volume is written by one who knew Gladstone, both socially and in
a business way and who knew even better the men who were his
associates in public life. He says that it is thru their eyes that he
saw Gladstone and he gives his memory of the man and his colossal work
in a concise and sympathetic manner. The little book will give a
glimpse of Gladstone and his career to those who have not the leisure
to read Morley’s Life, to which Prof. Smith pays handsome tribute.
* + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Smith, J. Russell.= Organization of ocean commerce. $1.75. Ginn.
This is one of the Univ. of Penn. publications and belongs to the
series in political economy and public law. “The author confines
himself exclusively to the presentation of facts and the description
of processes.... The result is a careful, accurate and minute analysis
of over sea commerce, which cannot fail to be of the greatest
interest, not merely to the student of commerce, but to those who are
actually engaged in the business of ocean transportation. The book is
divided into three parts, viz.; Traffic, Routes and shipping and
Harbors and port facilities.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Dr Smith has produced one of the most satisfactory pieces of economic
investigation which has appeared in recent years.” E. S. Meade.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 610. My. ‘05. 970w.
=Smith, Rev. John.= Magnetism of Christ: a study of our Lord’s
missionary methods. $1.75. Armstrong.
“This book is composed of the Duff lectures on evangelistic theology,
which were delivered in 1903-4 by the author, who is a minister of the
United Free Church of Scotland.... He discourses on such subjects as
‘The distinctive method of Jesus,’ ‘Christ dealing with individual
inquirers,’ and ‘Prayer as bringing in the kingdom of God.’”—Spec.
“Although Dr. Smith wrote his lectures for students, his style is
almost as simple as that of a Welsh evangelist.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.
=Smith, Mary Prudence Wells.= Boy captive in Canada. †$1.25. Little.
This is the second story in the “Old Deerfield series,” and the sequel
to, “The boy captive of old Deerfield.” It tells of the experiences of
little Stephen Williams, son of the minister of Deerfield, as he lived
a captive and a burden bearer among the Indians. It describes his
wanderings with them in northern Vermont, the cold hard winter they
spent in Canada, and it finally chronicles his liberation and return
to Deerfield. At the end the varied and thrilling experiences of other
Deerfield captives is given as revealed by the researches of Miss C.
Alice Baker.
=Smith, Nicholas.= Masters of old age. *$1.25. Young ch.
The value of longevity is here illustrated by practical examples. The
lives of Mommsen, Holmes, Geo. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, S. Weir
Mitchell, Whittier, and numerous other masters of old age serve to
show how much of the world’s work is done by its old people. There are
some good ideas upon the value of keeping in the harness, and on the
care of both mind and body.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
“As a record of the victories over old age and bodily infirmity won by
men and women of many sorts this book has a tonic quality both of
physical and moral efficacy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Smith, Orlando Jay.= Balance the fundamental verity, **$1.25. Houghton.
“‘A key to the fundamental scientific interpretations of the system of
nature, a definition of natural religion, and a consequent agreement
between science and religion.’ What Mr. Smith has really tried to do
is to show that religion and science stand on the same rock, and that
the law of compensation will explain away many philosophical
difficulties. There is an appendix containing critical reviews by a
number of eminent scientific and religious writers, most of which
commend Mr. Smith’s thesis and the way he has worked it out.”—R. of
Rs.
“Mr Smith in his book endeavors to deduce human immortality, and other
things, from Newton’s postulate that ‘to every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction.’ The result is unsatisfactory to the
materialists, who do not accept his demonstration as valid, and
equally so to those who like the other side of the wall, because it is
the other side.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 88. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Smith, Reginald Bosworth.= Bird life and bird lore. *$3. Dutton.
A lover of books and of birds writes of his friends the owl, the
raven, the wild duck, the magpie, the rook and others, giving his own
observations of them and showing the place they hold in history,
literature, poetry, and folklore.
“A well-written and attractive book, of which the only material
demerit is the rather patchy and uneven effect almost inseparable from
volumes made up of papers originally published at divers times and in
divers manners.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 360. Ap. 1. ‘05. 850w.
“It is pleasantly and allusively classical, for Mr. Bosworth Smith is
a ripe scholar, and it is written in a style which is always accurate
and often picturesque.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 495. Ap. 15. 710w.
“A series of capital essays on British birds.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is one to be on permanently good terms with, for its genuine
love of all feathered folk, its hatred of cruelty ... its delicate
humor, and its poetical perspective.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w.
=Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“The particular claim of the book is that it has a local nexus and
that the tale of the birds is not separated from the life of the
place.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 161. My. 19, ‘05. 1140w.
“Has the happy faculty of combining his personal observations with
those of his predecessors and confreres into a series of pleasing and
instructive sketches.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 250w.
“Besides giving excellent information tells some interesting
anecdotes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 230w.
“Perhaps the best parts of his book are those in which he has brought
together the references to his favorite birds from ancient and modern
literature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“These essays have a certain charm of style which should appeal to
nature-lovers the world over.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
“He is a real observer of the birds he delights in and he has written
a very delightful account of the old Rectory and the old Manor house.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 240w.
“Very pleasant book. The charm of the book ... lies chiefly in the
writer’s great love of his subject.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 751. My. 20, ‘05. 1050w.
=Smith, Sara Trainer=, trans. See =Denk, Victor Martin Otto.=
=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke
of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester,
seneschal of England. *$6. imp. Scribner.
“So far as we are aware, this is the first detailed study of the
personality and career of ‘Old John of Gaunt, time-honored
Lancaster.’ ... Mr. Armitage-Smith has faithfully explored all manner
of sources of information bearing on the exploits and character of
this favorite son of Edward III. and favorite brother of the Black
Prince, this titular king of Castile and Leon and uncrowned king of
England. The search yields to us a fascinating story of chivalry,
pageantry, and war, a story of many personages and many
scenes.”—Outlook.
“A scholarly but also a highly interesting work.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 86. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1240w.
“He must be congratulated on a width of research and a clearness of
judgment which more practised hands might envy. He has done much to
reconcile apparent inconsistencies in the career of the father of the
first Lancastrian king and to unravel the tangled skein of English
politics in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.” James Tait.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 563. Jl. ‘05. 900w.
“Is an ample and scholarly work.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 520w.
“He has turned out a book that is at once scholarly and eminently
readable. Moreover, his work scarcely runs the risk of being
superseded.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 1180w.
“Told with feeling and intelligence by one who breathes the spirit of
the times.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.
=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
From 600 B. C. to the Mohammadan conquest, including the invasion of
Alexander the Great. A great deal of space is devoted to the invasion
of Alexander, while the chapters dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms
of the north, the Deccan and matters of purely local interest are
brief. The closing chapter outlines the history of the South.
“Will be welcomed for its very able research into Alexander’s India
campaign. McCrindle, whom we had thought to have said the last word on
the subject, is corrected in so important a matter as the place where
Alexander’s army crossed the Hydaspes.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Smith is unusually well qualified for the work he has undertaken.
This knowledge, combined with a high ideal of the office of the
historian, ability in the sifting and criticism of evidence, and
finally the power of presenting in remarkably clear and attractive
form the fruits of his investigations has led to the production of a
work of exceptional merit.” George Melville Bolling.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 121. O. ‘05. 1010w.
“Nearly a third of the volume is occupied with Hellenic activity and
influence in India, and there is nowhere so complete and vivid an
account of the great campaign as is to be found in these pages. Even
those not interested in India for itself cannot fail to be attracted
by this chapter in the life of Alexander, which in some regards at
least may be accepted by historians as a definite statement.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.
=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.
The author is a southerner and a professor in Tulane university, but
he tries to give an unbiased scientific treatment of the race problem,
taking up the question of miscegenation, the danger of the
“mongrelization” of the white race in the South, and social and
political future of the negro.
“The argument is largely rhetorical and contributes nothing to our
knowledge of what is going on. The book abounds in extreme statements.
As a plea of an intelligent partisan the book has value, but otherwise
is not to be compared with the recent volume of Mr. T. N. Page, who
holds very similar views.”
— — + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 594. My. ‘05. 230w.
“There is much that is new in the conception and in the detail of the
present study. Whether the reader agree or disagree with Professor
Smith’s conclusions, we can promise him that this is by far the most
elaborate and important study of the American negro that has yet
appeared, that it deals with fundamentals and not with the superficial
manifestations of the conflict between black and white, and that its
tone is such as to command respectful attention from the reader,
whatever his prejudices. A style full of terse, vigorous phrases, at
times enlivened by humor, and again and again shot through with
illuminating allusions revealing the breadth of culture, the fund of
reading upon which the scholar can draw at will.” Pierce Butler.
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1140w.
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