American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist:
two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of
Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A piece of research in American history based on an examination of
original sources.... Hopkinson, who was born in 1731, was a man of
unusual talent; a writer, a politician, an inventor, and an
enthusiastic musician....* Hopkinson himself laid claim to the title
of first native composer in a letter dedicating his volume of ‘Seven
songs’ to Washington.... His rival for historical precedence, James
Lyon, is a substantial, if less interesting figure.... It is an
extremely interesting monograph for those who are concerned with the
neglected past of music in this country.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is an invaluable contribution to the history of American music,
and its production reveals the achievement of a formidable task.” W.
J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “Though the graces of English style are not Mr. Sonneck’s, he knows
how to make his history not only minutely correct, but interesting.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1060w.
=Sorley, W. R.= Recent tendencies in ethics. W: Blackwood & sons,
London.
“This little book consists of three lectures on ‘Some leading features
of the ethical thought of the present day,’ delivered at Cambridge
(England) to a summer meeting of clergy held there in July, 1903. The
chapters in the book are headed respectively: ‘Characteristics,’
‘Ethics and evolution,’ ‘Ethics and idealism.’ In the first chapter
Professor Sorley says that in ‘English ethical thought during the last
century ... the controversies of the time centered almost exclusively
round two questions: the question of the origin of moral ideas, and
the question of the criterion of moral value.’ ... A misapplication of
the biological doctrine of ‘natural selection’ is also responsible for
a large measure of the present confusion of ethical thought. This
brings the reader to Chapter II., in which this misapplication is
dealt with at length.... Chapter III. deals with the ethics of modern
idealism.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Is avowedly addressed to those whose interest in life is practical
rather than theoretical; its aim is obviously to be practically
helpful to such people. It must be owned that to the present critic it
seems chiefly to warn off from the realm of philosophy all students of
the quality described. It is perhaps not too much to say that both in
method and in implied point of view Mr. Sorley’s book is too slight
and too old-fashioned to do justice either to recent philosophy or to
Professor Sorley’s position in it.” May Gilliland Husband.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 232. Ja. ‘05. 2340w. (Abstract of book.)
“The qualities of careful and exact thought, of methodical
arrangement, and of clear expression are found to characterize the
volume.” James Seth.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 212. Mr. ‘05. 1560w.
=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de
Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
“A complete and authoritative ‘Narrative of the career of Hernando De
Soto,’ as found in the original documents, chiefly based on the diary
of Rodrigo Rangel, his private secretary, together with an account of
the great expedition to the Southwest of the United States, translated
from Oviedo’s ‘Historia general y natural de las Indias’ by Buckingham
Smith. There is an historical introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne,
professor of history in Yale university. The conquest of Florida is
told by a knight who was a member of the expedition. Several
portraits, hitherto unpublished, of De Soto himself appear in the
volume, to which is appended his life and some of his letters.”—R. of
Rs.
“Prof. Bourne’s editorship is of the best, and the translation
excellent reading.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Ind.= 58: 726. Mr. 30, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 960w.
“A boon alike to the student, to the ordinary reader, even to the
romance-loving boy.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 65. F. 4, ‘05. 2370w.
“The volumes will be regarded as a valuable and convenient addition to
both history and literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 130w.
“It would be difficult to find in any language a more direct and
forceful account of heroic adventures and careless lust for new sights
and strange experiences. Together with the narratives of Coronado’s
expedition in the Southwest, an earlier volume of the “Trail makers’
series,” it is the best possible account of the aboriginal condition
of the southern United States.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
=Sousa, John Philip.= Pipetown Sandy. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of Pipetown, its boys, its schools, and its grown people.
Sandy, the hero, already a leader on the playground, leaves the foot
of the class and wins the prize in arithmetic and geography thru the
influence of Colonel Franklin’s weak little son whom he makes his
friend. Sandy also helps the store keeper to win the widow Foley, and
takes an active part in the tragic scenes which follow her worthless
husband’s reappearance in Pipetown.
“Here we have the annals of a typical American village told with the
simplicity and the charm of a Goldsmith and the added interest of a
writer whose intensity of feeling and vivid imagination have enabled
him to invest simple life and homely circumstances with compelling
fascination.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 200w.
“Parts of the story are really human and attractive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“It is difficult to see how it can be of any real value. It cannot
contribute to the formation of an exalted taste in literature; and a
boy with a good taste already formed would not care much for it.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 90w.
=Spalding, Rev. Henry Stanislaus.= Race for Copper island. 85c.
Benziger.
This is a boy’s story and tells of the adventures of young Paul
Guibeau of Quebec and others who ventured into the Indians’ country in
search of the copper mines in the region of the Great lakes. They
encounter Iroquois, Hurons, and Miamis, unbroken forests and unknown
waters, but after the copper ridge is located, Paul, undaunted, writes
to his people, as the volume closes, that he is setting forth with
Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to discover “the great river called
the Mitchi-sipi.”
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Bishop Spalding year book: comp. by
Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
Quotations from the writings of Bishop Spalding for each day of the
year.
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Religion and art, and other essays,
**$1. McClurg.
Besides the title-essay the volume contains, The development of
educational ideas in the nineteenth century, The meaning and worth of
education, The physician’s calling and education, Social questions.
“The strongest and bravest voice that speaks for righteousness to the
people of this country is Bishop Spalding’s. Bishop Spalding’s
writings are brave and beautiful and inspiring.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 529. Jl. ‘05. 1050w.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* =Spalding, Phebe Estelle.= Womanhood in art. **$1.50. Elder.
There are in this group of interpretations six of the best known ideal
conceptions of womanhood in art; Venus de Milo, Eve, Mona Lisa,
Beatrice Cenci, Madonna of the chair and the Sistine Madonna.
* “Any good book that celebrates good art is worth while, so Miss
Spalding’s book is welcome.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 15w.
* “The text is intended neither for artists nor students of painting,
but for the ordinary observer who is interested merely in the moral
significance of the picture, caring nothing for its history or
technique. Such criticism leans inevitably towards the fanciful and
the sentimental, but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of
readers.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 40w.
* — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “The book is of the popular sort—full of elemental, moving
impressions but marred by insufficient historical and critical
reading.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Sparks, Edwin Erle.= Men who made the nation. $1. Macmillan.
The history of the United States from 1760 to 1865 is given
biographically in an account of the lives and labors of Benjamin
Franklin, Samuel and John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton,
George Washington, Jefferson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and finally
Abraham Lincoln.
“On the whole, thanks to the author’s lively style, we get, in a very
small compass, a better history than many a historian with a more
ambitious method might have produced.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The process of the evolution of the nation is thus given a
biographical character in a novel method of writing history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 630w.
=Sparks, Edwin Erle.= United States of America. **$1.35. Putnam.
This is essentially a history of our constitutional evolution, and
treats of the great movements in our federal life and “those
centralizing or decentralizing factors which have aided or hindered
the unification of the states,” of finances, internal improvements,
the tariff, slavery, and the constitutional aspects of the Civil war
and reconstruction, little space is given to war and war-time events.
“His judgments are acceptable; he shows discrimination in the
selection of materials, a fine art in presentation, a vivacious
style.” James A. Woodburn.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 883. Jl. ‘05. 810w.
“The purpose is well carried out, and the work is therefore eminently
a timely one.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“One can hardly call the work a history in the truest sense; it is
rather a prose epic of American nationality.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 418. Je. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Hardly any former attempt to write our history has taken into account
so many of the different forces that have influenced its progress. In
fact, the book is a good summary of the best work done on American
history. The style is clear and pleasing, except for a tendency to
sententious truisms.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 785. Ap. 6, ‘05. 360w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“On the whole, Dr. Sparks’s interpretation of the subject commends
itself to us as sound.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 217. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w.
“Prof. Sparks’ work is a rather agreeable reaction from the
bellicosity which has been so much in vogue with writers of popular
histories. Yet we cannot help thinking that Prof. Sparks pays too
little attention to military affairs.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 740w.
“Rather a commentary on history. All readers will find the book
interesting, and to many it will give a wholly new point of view for
the consideration of American history. Dr. Sparks prefers to treat
American history as the story of our national expansion. A suitable
sub-title of his present work would be, ‘A study of national
development.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 180w.
=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Strategy of great railroads. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“A volume illustrating the field of railroad competition. The various
subjects treated are the Vanderbilt lines, the Pennsylvania system,
the Harriman lines, the Hill lines, the fight for Pittsburg, the Gould
lines, the Rock Island system, the Atchison, the big granger lines
(St. Paul and Northwestern), the rebuilding of an American railroad,
the first trans-continental railroad, the early day in
railroading.”—Bookm.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 629. My. 20. 1660w.
“He writes with a familiarity with his subject that enlightens, and
with a style that entertains and fascinates.” John J. Hasley.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 196. Mr. 16, ‘05. 820w.
“But, after proper allowance has been made for shortcomings
attributable to Mr. Spearman’s optimism, it must be said that his book
is on the whole, an admirable study of the American railroads of
today.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 620w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and accurately
follows the life of the first American admiral from his birth in a
frontier log cabin to his honored death and the erection of his statue
in Farragut square. It is the story of years of hard work and
ceaseless effort put forth in the service of his country. Maps and
charts illustrate the volume.
* “Some of Mr. Spears’ eulogies and comments seem a little
far-fetched.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 520w.
* “May be especially commended to parents in quest of a soundly
suggestive as well as really entertaining book for their boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
* “The well-known accuracy of Mr. Spears’ writing on historical
subjects insures in the present volume a painstaking regard to the
facts of history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 120w.
* =Speed, John Gilmer.= Horse in America: a practical treatise on the
various types common in the United States, with something of their
history and varying characteristics. **$2. McClure.
This interesting treatise “gives a great deal of information about the
various equine types common in the United States. Mr. Speed is
merciless in exposing false pedigrees. Some of his comments on origins
of famous breeds of American horses will probably be unpalatable to
partisans of this or that great name in the horse world. Yet on the
whole the book is reassuring to the breeder and admirer of horses.”—R.
of Rs.
* “Taken all in all the book should serve its purpose, to interest and
forward the breeding of good types.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* “It points out the characteristics of the true thoroughbred with the
unerring skill of the expert.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Sperry, Charlotte Grace.= Teddy Sunbeam. **$1. Elder.
Printed in large type upon Teddy Sunbeam’s own gold these “little
fables for little housekeepers” point many homely morals. Teddy
Sunbeam is wise, and he talks about Princess Lend-a-hand, gives
dissertations upon microbes, tells how to sweep, and how to perform a
number of other daily duties, but tells it all in such an attractive
manner that little folks will be glad to listen. The book is copiously
illustrated by Albertine Randall Wheelan.
“Is a nice little book for nice little girls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
* “A rather original series of little fables.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 130w.
* =Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway.
*$6.50. Putnam.
“In half a hundred colored plates and many black-and-white pictures we
find beauty and delicacy pre-eminent and child-loveliness rendered
with sincerity and sympathy. Such pictures measure a sweet, true soul,
and the story of Kate Greenaway’s life and the gentle revelations of
her letters and her friendships (the correspondence with John Ruskin
most notably) bear out the inference.” (Outlook.) “It is a visit to
Miss Greenaway at her home, a view of an active mind at work, a
conversation with authors and artists led and directed by one whom
they all acknowledged as leader.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “The authors have felt to the full the quaint charm of this art,
they do justice to the ‘sweet and fragrant perfume’ that floats about
the name of Kate Greenaway.”
+ =Acad.= 68: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 1420w.
* “The peculiar competence of the present writers lies in their eager
seizure upon all possible points of interest, and their strong sense
of proportion, which assigns to each item its proper space in a volume
that has not a dull page or a bit of superfluous ‘padding.’” Edith
Kellogg Dunton.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 437. D. 16, ‘05. 2320w.
* “With some of Messrs. Layard and Spielmann’s opinions we are not at
all in agreement.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 394. N. 17, ‘05. 1630w.
* “The book is thus more than an ordinary biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
* “Really charming book.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “One can read with real profit other parts of the book, notably the
introductory chapter, and, at the close, Mr. Spielmann’s judgment on
Kate Greenaway as artist, delicately worded, enthusiastic yet nicely
balanced.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 3. D. 9, ‘05. 1410w.
=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“This volume of essays, nine in all, and printed in full, is
illustrated by a photograph of a medallion portrait, a bas-relief, by
Lanteri, and by many architectural views and details, some of them
photographic, others made up by the author from different sources or
drawn from recognized authorities.”—Nation.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 439. Ap. 8. 640w.
=Nation.= 80: 421. My. 25, ‘05. 670w.
* “The writer of these essays has the power of making technical
matters plain to the reader who has no special knowledge of
architecture.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
=Springer, Frank.= Cleiocrinus. Museum of comparative zoology, Harvard
college, Cambridge, Mass.
“A complete paper on one of the oldest of known crinoid
genera—Cleiocrinus.... Various authors ... have had great difficulty
in placing it in the system of classification.... Mr. Springer does
not now establish the family Cleiocrinidæ, in so many words, but ...
it is finally concluded that the genus is intermediate between the
great groups of flexibilia and camerata; nearest, apparently, to the
reteocrinidæ. The memoir is illustrated by a beautiful plate of
drawings by K. M. Chapman and E. Ricker, showing not only aspects of
cleiocrinus, but also reteocrinus and glyptocrinus for
comparison.”—Science.
Reviewed by T. D. A. C.
+ + =Science,= n.s. 21: 388. Mr. 10, ‘05. 420w.
=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to
Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50. Scribner.
Under such chapter headings as—The gods of the Gaels, Finn and the
Fenians, The war with the giants, The gods of the Britons, The Gaelic
Argonauts, The gods as king Arthur’s knights, and The treasures of
Britain, are given the legends and traditions of the early inhabitants
of the British islands, the Gaelic and the British Celts.
“Altogether, then, Mr. Squire may be congratulated on a partial
success. His research does not penetrate into German authorities; he
is not fully alive to the anthropological side of the argument; his
archaeology is not complete. But he knows and loves his subject within
the boundaries presented by these limitations, and he has the peculiar
charm of carrying his readers along with him in an attitude of love
for the subject.” Laurence Gomme.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 58. Ja. 21. ‘05. 790w.
“A book which brings together so great a store of knowledge on an
obscure and fascinating subject in so readable a fashion is indeed a
treasure, and one cannot but praise the author for his work.” Louis H.
Gray.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 58. S. ‘05. 960w.
“His treatment of this subject is thorough and conscientious, and he
has realized his hope of presenting it in a lucid and agreeable form.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 146. Je. 15, ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Squire has handled his refractory subject very ably, and has made
the story of British mythology both lucid and interesting.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 1600w.
* “This book supplies a great literary vacuum. From some of the
writer’s conclusions scholars may differ.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 4. D. 9, ‘05. 1340w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael
Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
Uniform with a series of monographs on the great masters, the “mode of
presenting Raphael’s life’s work is particularly interesting, while so
much is being written of his changing place in the rank of the great
artists, as ascribed to him by current criticism. One has an
opportunity of studying the various forms in which his genius
expressed itself: Single figures of saints and angels; biblical and
historical subjects; renderings of sacred and profane legends; and
portraits. Then, again, there are the various mediums in which the
artist worked, as on canvas, and in fresco, etc. In his mural
paintings, we see how excellently his composition was fitted to the
various exigencies of architectural decoration.” (Int. Studio.)
“An excellent volume of illustrations of Raphael’s work. In the clear,
short, and eminently satisfactory account of Raphael’s life the author
neither indulges in extravagant praise, nor accepts theories of scant
foundation.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 200w.
* =Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“The scenes and events through which Mr. Blaine moved in the most
stirring years of his life are now matters of history, and a clear-cut
biography, such as Mr. Stanwood has written makes a capital medium
through which the younger generation of American readers and students
may be made familiar with the post bellum period of our politics. Mr.
Stanwood gives especial attention to those episodes in Blaine’s career
which were most frequently represented by his enemies as more or less
discreditable ... and ... makes an able defense of Blaine against the
attacks of his political opponents.”—R. of Rs.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 370w.
* “Nevertheless, the biography is in some respects highly valuable,
and should be welcome if only for the new material assembled in a
scholarly and interesting way.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 270w.
* “Mr. Stanwood has done his subject full justice without overdoing
it.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 370w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 190w.
Statesman’s year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states
of the world for the year 1905; ed. by J. Scott Keltie and I. P. A.
Renwick. *$3. Macmillan.
The 1905 edition of this annual is its forty-second issue and shows
extensive enlargement and revision.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 527. Ap. 29. 360w.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 617. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 110w.
“Not a page of the book is unnecessary or can be spared.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w.
“One of the few reference-books which may accurately be described as
indispensable.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 40w.
“The editor has improved this annual from year to year, and the issue
for 1905 is the best yet.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 220w.
“‘The statesman’s year-book’ continues to grow in size, while its
arrangement is developed in the direction of completeness and
convenience.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.
=Staunton, Schuyler.= Fate of a crown. $1.50. Reilly & B.
A tale of the revolt which overthrew the monarchy of Dom Pedro in
Brazil. The central figure is young Harcliffe who is secretary to Dom
Miguel the leader of the revolutionists. His hair-breadth escapes on
his way to the home of Miguel in the interior, and the following
intrigue and adventure which culminate in the overthrow of the
government supply the historical setting of a romance in which the
hero supposes himself to be at the mercy of a rival—one who turns out
to be a spy, a woman masquerading in men’s attire.
“The character drawing of the book is splendid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 524. My. 20, ‘05. 550w.
* =Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50.
Lane.
“A compilation from Japanese sources of all manner of facts calculated
to throw light on the achievements, aspirations, and problems of
Japan.... Mr. Stead’s purpose, briefly, is to exhibit the efficiency
attained by the Japanese in the various departments of life, and to
show how this efficiency springs from the ‘earnest, thinking and
eminently practical patriotism of the people.’ With this as a text
Lord Rosebery contributes a foreword.”—Lit. D.
* “Mr. Stead’s book largely repeats his work ‘Japan by the Japanese’
published last year.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 680w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 430w.
* “To give a full summary of the volume, which displays many of the
characteristics of the encyclopedia and many of the handbook, is quite
beyond the limits of a review.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 321. O. 6, ‘05. 3430w.
* “Mr. Stead’s book is one of the most interesting recently produced
on the inexhaustible subject of Japan. It does for that country much
what Mr. Bryce did for the United States with his ‘American
commonwealth.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 1670w.
* “His work abounds with the exaggeration to be expected from a
professional panegyrist.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 990w.
* “A study, as we said, to begin with, the work has no claim to be,
and even as a compilation it might have been better done. A great deal
of verbiage might have been omitted, certain crudities of style might
have been corrected.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 714. N. 4, ‘05. 2160w.
=Stead, Alfred=, comp. and ed. Japan by the Japanese. **$5. Dodd.
A collection of papers written by many of the high officials of the
Japanese government, and native men of well-known literary ability,
including Sannomiya, Ito, Inouyé, Oyami, Ariga, Saito, Shibusawa,
Naruse, Nitobe, Hozumi, and many others. Among the subjects treated
are the army, navy, finance, schools, religion, commerce, politics,
art and literature of Japan. There is a preface by the editor and a
carefully prepared index.
“It is about as useful as an almanac and not half as good as a
dictionary. A desk-book of facts and figures concerning political and
economic Japan. Quite unique as a gazetteer.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
— + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 180w.
“His profound ignorance of the real significance of the work of such
men as Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William G. Aston, Prof. Basil Hall
Chamberlain, and Capt. Frank Brinkley is manifest. The bad
proofreading and continual misspelling of Japanese names and terms are
disgraceful. In its cast and scope, the book seems intended mainly for
the British reader. The facts and figures concerning the army, navy,
revenue, taxation, and things outward and material are invaluable in
their way. In treating of art and literature, the writers correct some
errors of foreign writers, but contribute little that is fresh or
revealing.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 118. F. 9, ‘05. 1530w.
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Cambridge sketches. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the
literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England....
Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are
but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also
includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the
Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of
forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial
celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.
=Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim
at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however
unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the
author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”
— + =Dial.= 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“The book is not without interest, but is decidedly untrustworthy.”
+ — — =Nation.= 80: 458. Je. 3, 05. 370w.
“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary
generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its
readableness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.
“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and
admiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 957. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.
“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to
enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of
religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show
how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are
related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate
attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The
third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies.
Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with
graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof.
Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has
treated it.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 220w.
* “The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of
Egypt.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 10w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 597. S. 9, ‘05. 250w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 350w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Freethinking and plain speaking. *$1.50. Putnam.
“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book
form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years
has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects
connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human
society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by
literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.
“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily
misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on
religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward
Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 244. S. ‘05. 770w.
“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented
author commemorated.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.
This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas
Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies.
It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to
the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal
characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent
the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material
system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs,
explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic,
voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a
sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited
authority.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by Frances Duncan.
=Critic.= 46: 280. Mr. ‘05. 1030w.
“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional
philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the
general reader could not be desired.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 208. Ja. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy;
sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the
substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who
is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the
gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own
manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull
ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 391. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the
fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment,
and that his judgment is likely to be final.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 35. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2380w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hours in a library. *$6. Putnam.
A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects
including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott,
Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays
on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s
writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.
+ =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 160w.
“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These
adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist.
They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often
baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind
spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H.
W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 33. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most satisfying and pleasing collections of literary
essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
=Stephens, Kate.= American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women.
**$1.50. Lippincott.
Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of
Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New
England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet
science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.
“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and
pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 85. S. ‘05. 340w.
“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and
vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich
scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as
she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in
polyglot.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 470w.
“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style
as to make the title quite appropriate.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 170w.
“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in
them that is worth recording.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a
cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and
who does think.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
“A clever book of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.).= Letters from an Oregon ranch.
**$1.25. McClurg.
One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of
the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts
are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its
text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to
those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the
volume.
* “A breezy, rather likable book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 400w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.
“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the
lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s
pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the
Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are
fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make
love.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Stephens, Thomas,= ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.
This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays
by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and
heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for
religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious
training of the child in the church of England; The religious training
of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New
church training; The religious training of children among the Jews;
and The child and the Bible.
“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these
essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and
helpful.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 440w.
* “The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and
heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and
interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so
highly.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 533. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 125. Jl. 22, ‘05. 290w.
=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.
A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled
largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old
prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an
account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque
presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main
highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book
closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those
boisterous days.
“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no
less than to the general reader.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 120w.
* “The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than
for the satchel.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 160w.
“The book is worthy to have a much fuller index.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1210w.
“Interesting and apparently correct in its statements.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w.
“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of
London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked
out, and in that the description is eminently readable and
entertaining.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 110w.
“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an
exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 80w.
“Good use is made of the descriptions left by contemporary writers.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 40w.
=Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii).= Russian
peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion. *$1.25.
Dutton.
“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a
Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first
hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking
place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without
revision.”—Outlook.
=Acad.= 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 659. Je. 24, ‘05. 620w.
=Nation.= 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 130w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
* =Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.
Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which
Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the
Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but
know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will
Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take
part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And
who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it
is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught
to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays
came to him from sources outside his own life experience.
* “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a
charming bit of imaginative writing.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=Sterne, Laurence.= Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald;
ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.
“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and
definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the
material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of
letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of
Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.
“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but
in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 638. Ag. ‘05. 2580w.
“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid
introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Reviews vol. I.)
“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross,
whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in
the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious
material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s
scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of
editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the
editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation
that we have hitherto seen of him.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25, ‘05. 1130w.
=Sterner, Ira Ibson.= Picture gallery of souls. $1. Badger, R: G.
Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and
arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and
society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems;
and Toil and genius.
=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics.
**$2. Macmillan.
“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first
chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the
second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste
Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of
the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school
against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr.
Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the
guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.
“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a
sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and
inconclusive.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 852. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1380w.
“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and
enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 453. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 680w.
=Stevens, Frank.= Adventures in Pondland. $1.25. McClurg.
This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a
natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by
Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they
go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make
friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they
learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they
find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master
Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end
of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s
sleep.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 60w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 30w.
* “The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders
of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.
* “This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all
children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at
command.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Works. per v. $1. Scribner.
A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume
form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The
literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written
by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the
circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light
on Stevenson’s life and work.
=Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general
form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading
purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the
prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes.
There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 436. Jl. 1, ‘05. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 500. Jl. 29. ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.
“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like
those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of
Thackeray.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w.
=Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 30w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50.
Scribner.
Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these
exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings
and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which
makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “The whole conception of the book is in perfect good taste.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* + =Lond.= Times. 4: 408. N. 24, ‘05. 150w.
* “Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of
instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 580w.
“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which
might be more complete and perfect.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 170w.
=Stewart, Charles David.= Fugitive blacksmith. $1.50. Century.
Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the
jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive
blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in
Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect,
and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith,
Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is
hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures,
and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the
devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health
and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.
“A peculiarly fascinating story.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 569. My. 27, ‘05. 390w.
“Stumpy’s story is well told and worth telling.” G. W. A.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 544. Jl. ‘05. 430w.
“A more diverting story has not appeared in many a long day.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 290w.
“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and
‘Huckleberry Finn.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the
achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this
story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and
unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation,
and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained
eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the
fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 940w.
“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish
dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous
interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect
itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully
managed. The story is jolly and original.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly
original.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be.
He is good enough as he is.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly
illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of
the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 621. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
=Stewart, Wentworth F.= Evangelistic awakening. *75c. Meth. bk.
“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present
evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to
this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need
emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the
conditions of the future.”
“As far as it goes it is an excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Stiles, Henry Reed.= History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut,
comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington
and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of
earliest settlement until the present time. 2v. *$25. Grafton press.
“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late
Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical,
but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical
monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as
Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s
share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Stimson, Henry Albert.= Right life and how to live it. **$1.20. Barnes.
“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book
has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York
city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to
help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his
preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching
which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory
interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in
its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to
provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and
criticism of after-life.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 779. O. ‘05. 230w.
Reviewed by John Angus MacVannel.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 423. N. ‘05. 970w.
“It is clear ... its tone is distinctly hopeful, wholesome and manly.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 616. Mr. 16. ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in
our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand
including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the
other dealing with the social problems of the day.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 210w.
=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and
the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It
includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,”
an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the
general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the
many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and
others.
“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any
language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been
faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book
has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 710w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 219. Jl. 6, ‘05. 770w.
=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50.
Lothrop.
A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing,
mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she
corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the
shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the
priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those
created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their
beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Pleasant story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.
“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it
teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly
love and the overcoming of false pride.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a
minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a
moral.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
=Story, Douglas.= Campaign with Kuropatkin. *$3. Lippincott.
An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the
East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph
he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the
Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by
the author.
“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions,
individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this
volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of
irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives;
there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w.
“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As
much as I was able to see of it.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w.
Story of the Welsh revival. pa. **15c. Revell.
A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales,
brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement
in this country.
=Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w.
=Stow, George W.= Native races of South Africa. A history of the
intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the
Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of
information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot
immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a
sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much
information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and
west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of
Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But
it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the
cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder,
almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.
“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and
praiseworthy investigations.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w.
“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition,
Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and
habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work,
we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is
entirely to be trusted.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably
correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the
ethnology of South Africa.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w.
“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It
is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On
this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w.
=Stowe, Harriet Beecher.= Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly.
$1.25. Crowell.
This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper
classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom
and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.
=Strang, Herbert.= Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war. †$1.50.
Putnam.
“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the
perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British
employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences
of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of
individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being
enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.
— + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 80w.
“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 200w.
“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.
Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and
show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.
=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men.
**$1. Fox.
Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative
men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII.,
Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie,
King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is
humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword
which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have
power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him
in his whim for substantial reward.
* + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 80w.
“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the
author has written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* =Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot;
with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“Many who have visited the interesting island of Mount Desert, have
wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first
colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at
Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A
century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came
from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of
the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well
illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent
map.”—Ind.
* “Is the only history of the island ever written.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy
life. $1.50. Houghton.
“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of
trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games.
Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to
town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and
conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.
“Entertaining story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w.
=Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w.
=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu.
†$1.50. McClure.
About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went
to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The
story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American,
British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.
“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel,
sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a
vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w.
* =Strong, Josiah.= Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.
A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that
the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to
Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher
plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured
and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The
subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world;
The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws
of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social
teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual
quickening.
=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress for 1905. **$1. Baker.
Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and
encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics
met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the
new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more
comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and
criticisms.
“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”
— + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 597. S. ‘05. 180w.
“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first
in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is
strictly up-to-date.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, 05. 60w.
“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number
of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty
handling of the statistical tables.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its
predecessor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 120w.
“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.
* =Strong, Josiah.= Times and young men. 75c. Baker.
A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s
personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life
in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men
who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and
immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The
table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the
physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which
never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice,
The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem,
and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century
outlook.
=Strunk, William=, ed. See Juliana.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= River’s children, $1. Century.
This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of
the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low
valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady
at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an
account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received
prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the
story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s”
little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath
the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a
happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.
“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so
familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 30w.
“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote
of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s
children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one
that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther
back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered
around the great river.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 377. F. ‘05. 400w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories,
†$1.25. Harper.
Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second
wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April
foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 182. O. ‘05. 230w.
“All the sketches are written in her touching, witty style.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 320w.
“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor
and pathos of plantation life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘06. 530w.
“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she
shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the
naturalness and interest of her style.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 290w.
+ + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 50w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Letters of William Stubbs,
bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. *$4. Dutton.
A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian
to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.
“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his
task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to
the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal
biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 236. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in
these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian
pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend,
combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 130w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 3550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 524. Ag. 5, ‘05. 900w.
* =Sturge, Ernest Adolphus.= Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For
sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.
A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends,
historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.
Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy,
sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle
and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work.
His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls
him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the
first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with
tragic results.
“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of
the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of
construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and
perception.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 1970w.
“Admirably well-written book.” Witter Bynner.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 473. My. ‘05. 650w.
“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“There is nothing hopeful or right in the book.”
— — =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and
then a suggestion of Thackeray.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable
analytical study.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘03. 100w.
“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the
wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous
subject.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of
aristocratic English life.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 280w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great
arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted
to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field
the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of
picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of
appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated
historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s
“Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats
pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations
reproduced from rare paintings.
* “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much
unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear
reasoning.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long
and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of
knowledge.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 200w.
* “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already
possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be
more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some
notion of what art is.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21. ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Sturgis has filled the requirements of the situation fully.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of sculpture. **$1.50. Baker.
To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the
prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the
same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now
offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the
light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon
the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the
criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of
analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other
sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the
general reader.
Reviewed by Wm. Walton.
+ + =Architectural Record.= 17: 189. Mr. ‘05. 2610w. (Abstract of
book.)
“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical
explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us,
the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as
to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s
previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a
companion.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 95. Ja. 12, ‘05. 560w.
“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both
profit and pleasure.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The
art institute of Chicago, 1904. *$1.75. McClurg.
Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by
ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation
and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects
are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial
arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture,
and Painting as used in architecture.
“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not
altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more
readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any
idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 110w.
* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 140w.
“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than
like a formal treatise.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 1160w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 100w.
* =Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various
handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are
formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description
of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to
the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the
‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination,
costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one
hundred and nineteen illustrations.
* “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched
succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional
expression of personal judgments and speculation.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “A comprehensive work.” C. de K.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.
Sturmsee: man and man; by the author of Calmire. † $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a
share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His
story deals with many characters in many classes of society but
chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to
America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western
commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions,
and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.
“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book,
because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But
then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 822. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.
* “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the
general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in
lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 82: 417. D. ‘05. 170w.
“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially
a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form
of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 980w.
“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is
studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”
+ — =Ind.= 59:451. Ag. 24, ‘05. 170w.
“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably
human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down
from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish
economic fallacies.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w.
“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect
sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of
either.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 140w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.= St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W.
Wilson co.
One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in
America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s
translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation
of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German
peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St.
John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates
back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes
the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian
centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the
unregenerate man.
=Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 20w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 40w.
“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter
of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither
slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.
+ + + =St. Paul Dispatch.= 8. Ap. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. *$8.35. (*25s.) Oxford.
Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps
and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I.
deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods,
cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.;
Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the
‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the
Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the
Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South
America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the
continents.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The English version faithfully follows the original, and supplies
adequate renderings of the German technical terms.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 82. Jl. 15. 400w.
“No work on geology since the day of Lyell’s ‘Principles’ has exerted
so profound an influence upon geological thought as has Suess’s
‘Antlitz der erde,’ and no one has mastered the broad geographical
facts that are associated with the science of the earth, the
world-concept, in a manner at all comparable with his presentation.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 134. F. 16. ‘05. 430w.
“Excellent translation of the first volume of the work.” J. W. G.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 193. Je. 29, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 90w.
Super flumina: angling observation of a coarse fisherman, **$1.25. Lane.
“A volume on the art of Isaak Walton.... Among the topics discussed by
the ‘fisherman’ are ‘Dashing dace,’ ‘Perches and plants,’ ‘A charge of
pike,’ and ‘The club of melancholy.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The book might be summarized briefly as a modern and more erudite
revival of Izaak Walton, so gentle and so humane is its attitude
towards the finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its learning.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“Is a book to irritate the curious rather than to please the
well-informed or to instruct the ignorant. There is a great deal in
this book that the learned angler (the appeal is to no other) may
enjoy in spite of its overload of learning.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 860w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w.
=Sutro, Emil.= Duality of thought and language: an outline of original
research. $1.50. Physio-psychic society.
“The author professes to have made the discovery that there are two
voices in man, the one of the larynx and the other of the œsophagus;
and that these two possess unique relation to the ‘soul’ element of
speech. Tortuous and commonplace repetitions and variations of this
theme make up the volume.”—Dial
“Has no claim to consideration except as an example of the confusion
which may be the fruit of interest and enthusiasm unfortified by
appreciation of what scientific investigation is or what it has
accomplished.”
— =Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=Nature.= 71: 317. F. 2. ‘05. 95w.
=Sutro, Theodore.= Thirteen chapters of American history, represented by
the Edward Moran series of thirteen historical marine paintings.
**$1.50. Baker.
Full-page reproductions of Edward Moran’s thirteen famous paintings
with a descriptive essay upon each picture, an introduction and a
brief biography. Portraits of the artist and his wife, as painted by
their nephew, Thomas Sidney Moran, are also given.
“Thirteen excellent half-tone reproductions of scenes connected with
the history of the United States by the late well-known marine
painter, Edward Moran, coupled with an interesting descriptive essay
and prefaced by a careful biography of the artist.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the
series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in
American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty,
aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking
phases of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The text ... is rather injudicious in tone.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 220w.
“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to
young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book
and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.
* =Suyematsu, K., baron.= Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.
In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu
gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and
authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land
of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)
* “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps
natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 210w.
* “Altogether Baron Suyematsu’s book is a valuable contribution to
history.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 450w.
* “The book is a superb piece of polemic, with a refreshingly cool and
judicial temper like Franklin’s and with eloquence that reminds us of
Beecher.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 200w.
* =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* “The book is somewhat disjointed, patently showing that it is not a
unified production. But its text is alike interesting and valuable.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.
* “The Japanese sun is certainly risen, but when in future,
distinguished authorities, such as Baron Suyematsu, relate the story
of her progress they will better attain historical truth, if they give
some credit where credit is so justly due.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 550w.
=Swan, Helena.= Girls’ Christian names their history, meaning, and
association. $1.50. Dutton.
The author “has undertaken to give the origin of the baptismal names
of women common in English-speaking countries, and to each name to add
references as to its associations and history.” Her “method of
treating a name is to give what she declares are its derivatives, then
its derivation in the form of a statement; then to tell of the
distinguished women who have borne it, and to give the titles of books
wherein the name appears.”—N. Y. Times.
=Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 310w.
“A book of considerable interest, though of no importance. She has
evidently brought more enthusiasm than judgment to her task.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 610w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 15w.
=Swedenborg, Emanuel.= Four doctrines with the nine questions; tr. by
John Faulkner Potts. Am. Swedenborg.
The first volume in a new translation of Swedenborg’s theological
writings. “The four doctrines,” first published at Amsterdam in 1763,
include the following: I., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem
concerning the Lord, followed by the nine questions, relating to the
Lord, the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit; II., The doctrine of the New
Jerusalem concerning the Holy Scripture; III., The doctrine of life
for the New Jerusalem from the ten commandments; IV., The doctrine of
the New Jerusalem concerning faith. The volume is supplied with full
tables of contents, and an index to Biblical texts.
=Ind.= 58: 845. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. (Review of vol. I.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“A new translation by a competent scholar. In paper, typography, and
binding the volume is all that a library edition should be.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 002. F. 25, ‘05. 100w. (Review of vol. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Review of vol. 1.)
=Sweet, Frank Herbert.= Hobby camp. $1. Pilgrim press.
Kitty, a stenographer with an artistic temperament, is given a
vacation by her employers and spends it in Hobby camp with Mrs.
Rounds, whose hobby is doughnuts; Zeke, her son, the hobby boy; two
college fellows who collect bugs and things; and Mr. Bailey who is
writing a woodsy book. They all have adventures, especially Zeke, but
the most wonderful things happen to Kitty, for she finds recognition
for her drawings and wins the love of a great bear and—someone who is
not a bear.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=Swift, John N., and Birge, William S.= No surrender. $1.50. Broadway
pub.
The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates
the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her
piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every
experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former
officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies
with the Chilean naval department.
=Swift, Jonathan.= Journal to Stella, together with other writings
relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott.
*$1.25. Scribner.
Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.”
“The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear
type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of
modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)
+ =Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the
“Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of
four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women
and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and
behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and
grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and
ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet
with something noble behind it; and the background is one of dreary
country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)
“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay
reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic
episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between
one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”
— + — =Acad.= 68: 726. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1490w.
“The prose is among the best that the poet has achieved. It would be
hard to exaggerate the concision, the polish, and the perfect
prose-rhythm of these letters. The letters as a whole are pungent
satire on British morality, its sensual sentiment, and its capacity
for whitewashing the moral sepulchre.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 165. Ag. 5. 2420w.
“It is pure comedy, both high-spirited and restrained, both caustic
and tender.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 230w.
“We are not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great novelist on the
strength of this performance, but may fairly call it a clever, almost
brilliant piece of work in a difficult form.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“They will add nothing to Mr. Swinburne’s fame.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“For our part, better than the story, better even than the incisive
prologue, we love the dedication with its rioting periods and its
kingly courtesies.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 950w.
“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not
peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more
telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 510w.
“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s
cross-currents.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1050w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 60w.
“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure
for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page
which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 184. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1090w.
“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many
characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief
introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 157. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1130w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Selected poems, ed. by William Morton
Payne. Heath.
A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty
poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings:
odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before
sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments,
imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of
writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.
“In form and method Mr. Payne’s introduction must be pronounced a
model. The selection of poems could hardly be improved upon.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“It is as good an anthology of Swinburne as we can expect during the
poet’s lifetime. The notes are exactly what the reader desires and
needs.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 525. Ag. 12, ‘05. 3980w.
* =Swing, David.= Truths leaf by leaf, with a characterization by Newell
Dwight Hillis, and introd. by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus; also a poem by
Dr. Gunsaulus; ed. by Sophie Burt Kimball. $1.50. S. B. Kimball,
Chicago.
“When proceedings against David Swing for heresy resulted in his
quitting the Presbyterian church, thirty years ago, and forming the
Central Congregational church in Chicago, it was a clear gain both for
preacher and people. His sermons, attractive in their breadth of view
and depth of feeling, and distinguished by their literary quality,
drew congregations with an unusually large proportion of men, and were
regularly printed in his weekly paper, the ‘Alliance.’ The present
volume draws its contents from ‘his most mature and last unpublished
writings.’ Characterizations of the beloved preacher by his
like-minded successors, Drs. Hillis and Gunsaulus, supply the personal
element required for an adequate memorial.”—Outlook.
* “Beauty, spirituality, the value of high ideals in life and thought,
fill these inspiring pages.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
* =Swingle, Calvin F.= Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and
answers. $3. Drake, F: J.
A plain practical treatise on the construction, care and management of
modern locomotives. “The book is presented in an attractive form in
flexible covers. The print is large; the illustrations, of which there
are many, are clear, simple, and yet comprehensive.” (Engin. N.)
* “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only
much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has
also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and
interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ‘05. 1430w.
=Sylvestre, Joshua, ed.= See =Christmas= carols, ancient and modern.
=Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.).= * B. R. Haydon and his
friends. **$3. Dutton.
“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in
our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his
egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and
things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with
knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed
volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and
limitations.”—Outlook.
* “Miss Symonds is rather too cold a biographer.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1099. O. 21, ‘05. 1550w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 347. O. 20, ‘05. 1590w.
* =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time
in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest
to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s
volume is pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 850. D. 2, ‘05. 1470w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
* “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book,
and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive
with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 715. N. 4, ‘05. 1290w.
T
=Taber, Harry Persons.= Rubaiyat of the commuter: being quatrains
concerning the affairs of every day. 25c. John Bridges, Briarcliff
Manor, N. Y.
“The woes of the commuter, with the 30-second breakfast, the 8:16
train which occasionally goes at 8:32, the futile struggle with two
bushels of Peter Henderson’s seeds and the neighbors’ chickens are too
feelingly set forth to have been only imagined. The author explains
his use of the particular form of verse that he has selected on the
ground of its being an obsessive measure.”—Baltimore Sun.
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 240w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Nut brown Joan. †$1.50. Holt.
A story for girls. The heroine, a brown, lanky child of fourteen,
dissatisfied with her world, develops into a most attractive young
woman, the joy of her father, the relief of her invalid mother, and
the confidante and help of her numerous brothers and sisters. There is
much wholesome fun, there is trouble, incident, and, above all, real
human nature.
“‘Nut-brown Joan’ is to be commended both for its literary merit ...
and also for its thoroughly wholesome atmosphere. The volume holds a
very practical lesson for young girls, and the lesson is excellently
presented.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 411. Je. ‘05. 170w.
“Points a moral at the same time that it tells a very entertaining
story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 130w.
“A wholesome and pretty story.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 40w.
=Tannenforst, Ursula, pseud.= See =Tilghman, Emily.=
=Tanner, Amy Eliza.= Child: his thinking, feeling and doing. $1.25.
Rand.
“A résumé of the child-study literature.... Such topics as these are
treated: the problems of physical growth and abnormality; the feelings
and ideas of sex; the mental processes; religious and moral ideas;
emotions; interests; movements; imitation; language; rhythm; music;
drawing and play. At the beginning of each chapter are definite
suggestions for collecting data along the line of the chapter. The
bibliographies at the close of each chapter are most ample.”—Psychol.
Bull.
“For normal or college students who should have some groundwork in
general psychology before studying child psychology, Miss Tanner’s
book is inferior to that of Dr. Kirkpatrick; for general readers it
will prove most serviceable.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“It is profuse in facts, though sparing in generalizations and
conclusions, and can hardly fail to promote a more judicious study of
the individual children with whom its readers may have to do.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 142. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.
“Without doubt, it is the most complete, systematic and painstaking
work of its kind extant. It is certainly unique in its sphere,
presenting in convenient and readable form a vast amount of
information regarding child life. It should meet with great favor at
the hands of those for whom it was written.” Irving King.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 32. Ja. 15, ‘05. 600w.
“There are special chapters that deserve special mention, some because
of their merit, such as those treating of ‘Memory,’ ‘Imagination,’
‘Conception,’ and ‘Reasoning,’ and the chapter on the various forms of
‘Movements’; and others, especially those chapters that deal with the
so-called physical nature of the child, that might, with advantage, be
replaced in the text or even rewritten.” D. P. MacMillan.
+ — =School R.= 13: 578. S. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =School R.= 13: 648. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Tapp, Sidney C.= Story of Anglo-Saxon institutions; or, The development
of constitutional government. **$1.50. Putnam.
“While Mr. Tapp’s book runs along special lines, it is intended for
the general reader as well as for the specialist. The writer’s purpose
has been to demonstrate from historical facts that the Anglo-Saxon
race is the only race that has ever had a true conception of
republican institutions, or solved correctly the problem of
self-government. It is only fair to say that Mr. Tapp has accomplished
his purpose in this book.”—Critic.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 136. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
* =Tappan, Eva March=, tr. Golden goose, and other fairy tales; tr. from
the Swedish. †$1. Houghton.
Six fairy tales from Scandinavian sources told in simple language.
“‘The golden goose,’ which gives the name to the book, is little Rose,
the beautiful daughter of a king, whose stepmother, after much cruel
treatment, has turned her into a goose.... There is the story of a
giant, the roof of whose house was made of sausages; of the good
little girl, and the bad in ‘The red and the black box.’ ... There is
the simple-minded giant who killed himself, not to be outdone by a
small boy, and other stories, all with excellent pictures in black and
white, full pages and text, with interesting head pieces.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “Told in an interesting manner.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* “Is a good addition to the useful work she has done for children in
other fields.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.
“An elementary text-book for high schools, by the head of the English
department in the English high school at Worcester, covering English
literature from its beginnings in the earliest periods down to the
novel of the nineteenth century, with numerous illustrations in the
form of portraits, facsimiles of manuscripts, pictures of objects of
interest, and with an excellent map in colors.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= History of the Standard oil company. **$5.
McClure.
An account of the origin, growth, and influence of this first and
greatest of American trusts. The methods by which the corporation
gained control of the petroleum output are disclosed, railroad and
other interests bearing upon the trust’s development are carefully
investigated. The oil regions themselves and the chief characters in
this industrial drama are put vividly before us.
“‘The history of the Standard oil company’ is one of the most
important contributions that has been made to the vital historical and
conscience literature of our opening century. The absorbing interest
of the work, the masterly marshaling of facts and the careful handling
of details are only surpassed by the judicial spirit that is
preëminent throughout the work.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 436. O. ‘05. 6230w.
“It is calm and dispassionate, and calculated to do quite as much if
not more good than if it were pitched in a high and noisy key. Is to
the present time the most remarkable book of its kind ever written in
this country.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“The book is a genuine contribution to that knowledge of the real
inwardness of things industrial which Americans as a people so lack.”
Frank L. McVey.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 313. My. 1, ‘05. 2190w.
“Miss Tarbell’s success, for she has achieved a very distinct success,
is in having made her story in its logical simplicity and directness
as fascinatingly interesting as it is disagreeable. She has preserved
her position as historian and has not abandoned it even temporarily
for that of the prosecuting advocate.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“This book seems to have been written for the purpose of intensifying
the popular hatred. The writer has either a vague conception of the
nature of proof, or she is willing to blacken the character of Mr.
John D. Rockefeller by insinuation and detraction.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 15. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1970w.
“The value ... lies largely in the fact that the author has no thesis
to sustain and is willing to let her readers draw their own
conclusions. It is a model of condensed, graphic statement. The
dramatic aspects of the story are not lost in the telling, while the
arrangement of the materials is convenient for the purposes of the
student and the legislator as well as for general reading.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 394. F. 11, ‘05. 2190w.
“The author never gets excited, however exciting her story may become;
she sets forth the facts, and to a considerable extent leaves
inference and conclusions to her readers. It is, in effect, a liberal
education in the fundamentals of the trust problem; it is the
Blackstone of the literature that is growing up around this problem,
in its entirety the most important of all in commercialized America.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 25. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1140w.
“Is an exhaustive and yet succinct presentation of the rise and
development of a great American industry. Her book is in every sense a
history—not an economic dissertation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 210w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.
This is the story of a young Italian of high family and low purse, who
was forced into shaving his head and using the bald poll as an
advertisement for a Parisian ballet. It is also the story of “the
beautiful lady” who saw him sitting ignominiously in a café and was
sorry for him. Later the young Italian, by reason of his shaved head,
secures a position as tutor to a young millionaire, and is able to
save the girl who was sorry from an unfortunate marriage and at the
same time to make his dashing benefactor happy.
“A mere trifle, but a delightful trifle, which, lacking the dramatic
action of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire,’ equals it in the originality of its
conception, in its pathos, and surpasses it in its whimsical humour.”
Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 615. Ag. ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made us see what might have been done; but he has
failed to do it.”
— =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 440w.
“The sentiment in it is very pretty, and Mr. Booth Tarkington never
writes other than gracefully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
* “He tells it, too, with the fine artistic flavor distinguishing his
‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 760, D. ‘05. 70w.
* =Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.
Canaan is a small Indiana town, a hot bed of personal grudge and
prejudice and this story tells of how Joe Louden, returning to Canaan
to practice law after years of hard study in New York, finds that his
reckless youth and his departure from his home town under a cloud have
neither been forgotten nor forgiven. But championed by Ariel Taylor,
the one true friend of his boyhood, who has just returned from the
study of art in Paris, he succeeds after a hard and upright struggle
in conquering circumstances and the prejudices of his townspeople. The
love story of these two strongly individual characters is unusual and
well handled.
* “It contains some admirable chapters of life in a small, gossipy,
spiteful town, and the characters, all of them, including the dog, are
alive and interesting, but it is clumsily put together and weakly
conventional in the concluding portion.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
* “For pure humor in an author, we commend the conversations of the
old window owls in the National house.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1480. D. 21, ‘05. 900w.
* “There is no doubt that the book is the best that Mr. Tarkington has
yet written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “‘The conquest of Canaan’ has not lost the note of refinement, but
it has gained in solidity and distinctness of outline, it is an
original story in point of plot; it is witty, spirited, romantic, and
beautifully human in its spirit.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= In the arena. $1.50. McClure.
Six short stories of western politics, which deal with reformers and
machine politicians, lobbyists, law-makers, office seekers, bosses and
voters. The characters are real and vigorous types created by an
author who has had practical experience in the game of politics.
“They have no special excellence of any kind, but they are very
interesting and clever, and are written with a sound knowledge of the
subject with which they deal.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 460w.
“The material is ugly in every case except one; but the telling in
each case is good. Mr. Tarkington writes with force and feeling, and
has respect for the literary virtue of restraint.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 210w.
“There is some very good workmanship in ‘In the arena.’ One lays the
book aside with the conviction that the author’s estimate of the
situation is a pretty true one, and that he made singularly good use
of his experience in Indiana politics.” Perry Enders.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 188. Ap. ‘05. 720w.
“Doubtless, unpretentious as they are, they are among Mr. Tarkington’s
best work.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 80w.
“There is the ring of truth and reality in these stories. The
characters are human and interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 790w.
“Decidedly clever and human tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 40w.
“There is no doubt that it will afford much entertainment to those who
do not resent a touch of pessimism in comedy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 230w.
=Taylor, Alfred Edward.= Elements of metaphysics. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“In the volume under review, Mr. Taylor has given us an exposition of
the principles of metaphysics from a point of view which is in the
main that of Mr. Bradley.... Mr. Taylor divides his work into four
books, the first of which is devoted to a preliminary discussion of
the problem, method and subdivision of metaphysics. This is followed
by a discussion in Book II. of the general structure of reality....
The remaining books deal with the more special questions involved in
the interpretation of nature and the interpretation of life.”—Int. J.
Ethics.
“... A full recognition of the many merits of Mr. Taylor’s work, and
of the value and suggestiveness of his treatment of various
metaphysical topics. His book is certainly one which all who are
interested in the present position of metaphysics ought to read.”
James Gibson.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 251. Ja. ‘05. 1950w. (Statement of
fundamental position of book.)
“Compact and well written book. It is the only English book in recent
times treating metaphysical problems with some completeness that is
arranged in such a concise and orderly fashion as to permit its being
used as a text-book on this subject. It gives evidence not only of the
author’s industry and earnestness, but of unusual vigor and acuteness
of thought, as well as of a pleasing clearness and definiteness in
mode of expression.” J. E. Creighton.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 14: 57. Ja. ‘05. 3090w.
“The strength of Professor Taylor’s book lies not in his constructive
ontology but in his clear and masterly analysis of general
metaphysical concepts ... and in the fact that the whole treatment is
both modern and systematic.” G. T. W. Patrick.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 11. Ja. 15, ‘05. 1840w.
=Taylor, Charles M., jr.= Only a grain of sand; il. by Clare Victor
Dwiggins. **$1. Winston.
Into the simple story of the life of one of the sands of the sea is
deftly woven both satire and philosophy. It is an autobiography of a
little grain that was carried from sea-depths to sea-shore and from
there was taken to a dingy building where it passed through a fiery
furnace and became a part of a graceful iridescent vase.
* =Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This is a discussion of economics as applied exclusively to
agriculture.... It belongs to the series entitled ‘The citizen’s
library of economics, politics, and sociology.’”—Outlook.
* “It discusses principles in a judicial spirit, and presents in
concise form, facts that are of significance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* “One of the excellent and useful volumes lately contributed to the
‘Citizen’s library.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 130w.
=Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).= On two continents. **$2.75.
Doubleday.
Mrs. Taylor was the daughter of the noted German mathematician and
astronomer Hansen, and in this book of memoirs she speaks of her
girlhood in Gotha, her meeting with her husband, their marriage, their
travels, and of her husband’s literary and diplomatic career. Her book
is chatty and entertaining in style, and her anecdotes of the
Brownings, the Stoddards, Horace Greeley, the Cary sisters, Thackeray,
and other famous men and women of letters with whom she and her
husband came in contact are of particular interest.
* “Though she is rather apt to devote four or five pages to an
incident for which half a page would be ample, she always rambles
pleasantly.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 330w.
“Mrs. Taylor writes pleasantly and she has many interesting things to
say.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 344. O. ‘05. 1860w.
“Altogether, a more agreeable book of its kind could not well be
imagined.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 200. O. 1, ‘05. 2150w.
“In this book and in no other is to be found the most attractive and
sympathetic record of one of the most interesting of all Americans.”
L. L.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1680w.
* “By temperament and association Mrs. Taylor is peculiarly qualified
to depict the inner and outer forces that co-operated in the
development of her gifted husband’s genius, and his reaction upon his
environment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is of value, not, as one would at first suppose, primarily for
its biographical material, but because of the exquisite simplicity of
its diction and the charm of the author’s personality.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 828. D. 23, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= My lady Clancarty. †$1.50. Little.
A child-wife’s loyalty to her Jacobite husband during his years of
absence, and in spite of strong family opposition, furnishes the theme
for a spirited romance. Then when he does return incognito he devotes
himself to the re-wooing of Lady Betty, fights duels for her, is at
the mercy of her whims and fancies, and a father’s Whig prejudices,
but finally thru her courage in daring to beg clemency of the king is
released from the tower.
“A trifle, but a rather pleasant one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 300w.
“A pretty romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
“The characterization is consistent and the relations of character are
drawn ‘on scale,’ so that the effect of human display is harmonious.
Considered critically, the story is not reasonable or natural any more
than other romances of the exaggerated class to which it belongs.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 460w.
=Taylor, Rev. S. M.= Ministers of the Word and sacraments; lectures on
pastoral theology, delivered in King’s college, London, Lent term, 1904.
*$1.50. Longmans.
“Archdeacon Taylor prints here some lectures delivered to a class of
students preparing for ordination.... His tone is that of a High
churchman, but he condemns some of the most objectionable of extremist
practices.”—Spec.
“They are full of good sense throughout.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 410. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.
=Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-.= Twenty-four negro melodies, transcribed for
the piano. $2.50. Ditson.
“There are twenty-four transcriptions of folk-melodies, both African
and American, used as themes for compositions in the style of
fantasias.”—R. of Rs.
“This is an extremely interesting work.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“He is well grounded in technique, and he expresses himself with
freedom. Although in inventiveness his range seems so far rather
limited, he is spontaneous and genuine in what he writes.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has preserved the distinctive traits of these
melodies, but has given them form and structure.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w.
* =Tchaikovsky, Modeste.= Life of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. and
abridged from the Russian and German eds. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.
This “volume contains many portraits and excellent views of scenes
connected with Tchaikovsky’s life, with a striking portrait, and
facsimiles of letters written by the musician. The editor has tried to
preserve, in spite of the cutting of three volumes to one, the
autobiographical character of the work, and has included the series of
intimate letters which relates the romantic episode of Tchaikovsky’s
life—his friendship of thirteen years for a woman with whom he never
exchanged a personal greeting. An account of the composer’s visit to
America ... is also included in the form of a diary, kept for the
benefit of his relations.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Yet in its kind it possesses great value, not only as a
contribution to the psychology of art, but as a most illuminating
commentary on Tchaikovsky’s music. We may add that the translation is
easy and fluent, and that the volume is well arranged and well
illustrated.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 397. N. 17, ‘05. 590w.
* “The book is one of great interest to musical people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “But the present life, containing, as it does, an enormous amount of
interesting material, still fails to hold one’s attention for the
simple reason that it is too long and is padded out with stuff that
ought not to be in any biography. On the whole, the book was more
stimulating in its original condition; but in its present form it will
serve a future biographer.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* “Must content ourselves with congratulating Mrs. Newmarch on the
zeal and intelligence with which she has accomplished her task. Of the
delicacy, the candour, and the affection shown by M. Modeste
Tchaikovsky it is impossible to speak too highly.” C. L. G.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 864. N. 25, ‘05. 1400w.
=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his
son. **$4. Macmillan.
A new edition which includes in a single volume “all the material in
the original issue. There are extracts from a number of unpublished
letters and poems; some FitzGerald letters, others to Aubrey de Vere,
Rawnsley, and other persons.... The book contains for the most part
the account of Lord Tennyson’s life, gleaned either from his letters
and poems or from the writings of his friends.... The impressions and
general recollections of T. Watts-Dunton, F. W. H. Myers, F. T.
Palgrave, the Duke of Argyll, and others, have been put in an
appendix, which also contains some notes ... and a very full index
besides these, the volume also has a chronology of the books and poems
by the poet-laureate.” (N. Y. Times.)
=Dial.= 39: 246. O. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The entire get-up is free from any suggestion of cheapening.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.