girl cross swords. “The special triumph which Miss Robins has achieved
is to carry through a really serious love affair with a sustained
touch of lightness during a lengthy voyage; to make us thoroughly fond
of the man and of the girl; to make us hope, almost to the last, that
in some way their temperamental and their acquired differences may be
reconciled; and then, in the end, to leave us quite satisfied to find
that the inevitable has happened.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“It is seldom that one comes across a new type of hero in the lighter
sort of hammock fiction who is so sympathetic, so genuine, so
altogether attractive as the Baron de Bach. An exceedingly clever
story, written with a half-veiled touch of satire.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 104. Mr. 08. 300w.
“A slight romance. The story is somewhat overdressed with decorative
margins on every page and several colored plates and other pictures.”
− =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Call of the city. **$1.25. Elder.
8–23563.
Essays which express to the reader the myriad reflective thoughts that
surge thru his brain when he is under the spell of a great city’s
“abundant vitality, splendid power, and organization of forces.”
* * * * *
“Verses, selected with the same discrimination and originality that
mark the style of the essays, appear as headings for the prose.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“These essays are trifling; they are not overweighted with thought,
and they are frankly sentimental. It ought to be much sought by
purchasers of gift books in the coming holiday season.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 100w.
=Robinson, Harry Perry.= Twentieth century American: a comparative
study of the peoples of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations.
**$1.75. Putnam.
8–19181.
Observations, comparisons, and criticisms concerning political, social
and industrial life as it exists in England and America. “Many of our
people can draw information from his observations here. These take a
wide range—the attitude toward women, humor and art, education and
culture, politics and politicians, constitutional questions now in
controversy, Mr. Roosevelt and the corporations, commercial morality,
the growth of honesty, comparison of commercial methods here and in
England.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“There is nothing at all superficial or cursory about his work. A
classic accordingly the careful reader will be apt to acknowledge that
Mr. Robinson has produced. There are some few slips, such as will
occur when one trusts to his memory without verifying everything.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + − =Bookm.= 28: 44. S. ’08. 1800w.
“The American reader ... only in rare cases will feel inclined to
challenge the essential truth of his statements. He has been
conspicuously successful in making plain two or three causes of
misunderstanding between the two peoples that are usually ignored.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
“The volume must be read to be appreciated, and it ought to be widely
read and attentively pondered.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 292. S. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Conversational in tone and wholly without the dogmatic utterance from
which it seems to be almost equally difficult for the preacher, the
teacher, and the critical writer to get free.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
“Since the appearance of Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ some
twenty years since, no Englishman till now has published observations
on the American people of such value as these.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Is a book that may well turn out to have marked an epoch. Mr.
Robinson knows more about this country than do most of its natives.”
E. J. Putnam.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 5: 360. D. ’08. 2500w.
“An unusually well-informed and sympathetic piece of international
observation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 100w.
“This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good
things, and written in an excellent spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
=Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles Austin.= Development of
modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history.
2v. v. 1. *$1.50; v. 2, *$1.60. Ginn.
7–36724.
A work which uses past history only for the light that it throws upon
the political, economic and social present. It begins with the age of
Louis XIV. Volume one covers the eighteenth century including the
French revolution and the Napoleonic period: volume two treats of
Europe since the Congress of Vienna.
* * * * *
“Errors in the text are very few. It is as solid and informing as it
is interesting and clever.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 188. O. ’08. 1300w.
“An admirable collection of selections from the best original sources
filling a long known gap for teacher and student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“There is no better text-book for the nineteenth century than this.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
=Robinson, John Beverley.= Architectural composition. *$2.50. Van
Nostrand.
8–9099.
The author aims to raise “the power to design from its comparatively
obscure position as an art to the dignity of a science.” “Throughout
the volume architecture is treated merely as a plastic art, apart from
construction or the texture of materials—apart from the uses of the
building, or the locality in which it is erected, or the interest
attaching to it as the work of different peoples.” (Ath.) “Instead of
attempting to impose upon the reader the dogmatic decrees of his
personal taste, he endeavors to discover the fundamental reasons why
certain lines and proportions are harmonious and pleasing and others
the reverse.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“There is much in the volume worth careful consideration.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 443. O. 10. 400w.
“The book would be especially valuable to building committees of
laymen who are called upon to decide between plans submitted by
architects.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 180w.
=Robinson, Tracy.= Panama: a personal record of forty-six years,
1861–1907. $1.50. Tracy Robinson, P. O. box 58, Colon, Panama.
7–41775.
Mr. Robinson’s personal record of forty-six years includes nothing
that cannot be called Panama history during that period. The building
of the first railroad and its bearing upon the development of the
country, the establishment of the French Panama company, with De
Lesseps as its moving spirit, and all of the political, religious, and
domestic problems are treated in an informing manner.
* * * * *
“His book gives as good a general notion of the course of things at
Panama up to the beginning of the present canal enterprise as can be
found anywhere in like convenient shape.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 81. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
=Robson, Philip W.= Power gas producers: their design and
application. *$3. Longmans.
“Devoted almost entirely to the design, construction, and operation of
producers. It is divided into three sections, the first, which takes
up very nearly two-thirds of the whole volume, treating of suction gas
producers; the second, which is short, dealing with pressure plants
for non-bituminous fuel, and the third, occupying about one-quarter of
the volume, covering pressure producers for bituminous coal.”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“Those who wish to know why gas producer plants are built as they are,
and how they should be operated after they are built, will find this
book a valuable addition to their libraries.” A. E. Forstall.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 647. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“It sets the subject out in a clear and concise manner, and indicates
the theory of the various actions, as well as the means by which the
application is carried out. The description on p. 56 of the
arrangements in the Crossley plant for varying the entering mixture is
not very clear, and throughout the book but little is said of the
generators by this firm, and it is limitations of this kind which are
the chief fault that can be urged against an otherwise admirable
book.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 658. O. 29, ’08. 920w.
=Roeder, Rev. Adolph.= Practical citizenship. $1.50. Blanchard.
8–19014.
“A series of popular articles, published in the Newark Evening news,
on the nature of the body politic as an organism, the forces that give
it life, and the attainment of practical citizenship is here presented
in book form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) The volume is divided into three
parts: 1, The machine, a description of the elements of government; 2,
The force, an analysis of the forces behind results; 3, Practice, the
citizen’s part in the work of running the machine properly.
* * * * *
“The scientific shortcomings of the first two divisions may be
overlooked. The third is better. The series as a whole is inspiring in
the cause of a larger manhood and may be read with profit.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 70w.
“In the last chapter, ‘Ideals,’ Mr. Roeder strikes a lofty note, and
makes a fitting end to an inspiring book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Shell book. **$4. Doubleday.
8–12800.
A popular guide to the knowledge of the families of living mollusks,
and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign.
(Subtitle.) “Three aspects of conchology enforce attention: the
biological, the purely systematic, and the zo-geographic.... Of these
three Miss Rogers has wisely selected the second as her dominant
theme.” (Nation.) The illustrations are in colors and black-and-white
from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.
* * * * *
“The present volume is, then, more valuable to the student than
Baker’s book by reason of its arrangement and scope, and is at the
same time not beyond the range of the interested general reader, while
the latter offers some interesting general matter not to be found in
the former.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
“Supplies a real need. The style is graceful not without touches of
pleasant fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 900w.
“Might be called a popular work if that term was not so misleading. It
is a book scientifically arranged, carefully indexed, and beautifully
illustrated. The pictures are fascinating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 540w.
=Rose, George B.= Renaissance masters: the art of Raphael,
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Botticelli and
Rubens. *$1.25. Putnam.
8–2389.
“The design of this book is to give in a brief compass an insight into
the essential characteristics of each of the masters treated, so that
the traveler may be able to enjoy them for what they are, without
looking for merits in one which can be found only in another.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
=Rose, John Holland, and Broadley, A. M.= Dumouriez and the defence
of England against Napoleon. **$5. Lane.
A story based on “a French manuscript of 397 pages, in which
Dumouriez, with his own hand, set forth the scheme he had worked out
to insure the safety of his adopted country.” (N. Y. Times.) “In their
last chapter the authors sum up as far as possible in his favour, but
they are not able to deny that a Commander-in-Chief who deliberately
offers to hand over to the enemy the fortresses which constitute his
country’s main line of defence cannot properly be designated as
anything else than traitor.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The authors have rendered a real service to history in producing this
book and have displayed much industry in collecting material. They
have succeeded in giving us what was lacking before in English—a clear
and consecutive account of Dumouriez’ remarkable career.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. S. 26, ’08. 1400w.
=Rosenkrantz, Palle, baron von.= Magistrate’s own case. †$1.50.
McClure.
8–2946.
In addition to the all essential story interest, this book is one that
commands and holds the attention of the legal profession. It is an
argument against too great reliance upon circumstantial evidence. A
crime is committed, the wrong man accused, and although the accused
man knows who the real murderer is he withholds information for
personal reasons. For personal reasons too the prosecuting magistrate
resigns his work on the case. From beginning to end technical issues
are at variance with personal and emotional issues. The psychologist
as well as the lawyer will be interested in the story.
* * * * *
“A detective story of excellent plot, holding one’s attention closely,
and giving one a very good idea of German criminal procedure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study of persons and motives is much better done than in
the ordinary English story of murder; but his narrative has a
heaviness here and there, especially at the beginning, which may repel
the reader of what is, after all, an interesting book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 160w.
“Its plot leaves nothing to be desired; it is a ‘capital puzzle,’ but
its treatment by a trained mind lifts it above the average.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The effect of this [story] is to vindicate the contemporary writers
who imitate Poe and Wilkie Collins.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A really clever story.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“A detective story, very cleverly contrived, with something more, and
on a higher plane of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 20w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society; an analysis of latter-day
iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“For competent persons, who are seriously interested in discerning the
signs of the times, this book will perform the service of a high-power
magnifying glass. The weakest passage in the book is from the pen of
the President of the United States.” A. W. Small.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 566. Ja. ’08. 840w.
“Style is vigorous and fresh.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 48. F. ’08.
“One of those rare books that are really worth while. We could wish
that he had laid more emphasis on publicity of great business affairs
as a means of making public opinion effective; but one ought not to
find fault with so good a book. It well deserves the wide influence
invoked for it in the interesting prefatory letter of President
Roosevelt.” H. R. Mussey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 295. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“No one who seeks to guide public opinion, whether he be journalist,
statesman, clergyman or teacher, can afford to miss getting its point
of view—that of social solidarity as the basis of social morality.” C:
A. Ellwood.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 61. Ap. ’08. 540w.
Reviewed by A. O. Lovejoy.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 510. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The appeal to public opinion and the analysis of the defects in the
present public opinion are perhaps the most profitable parts of the
work.” L. W. Sprague.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 136. O. ’08. 400w.
“Professor Ross is master of the literary style which the importance
of his subject demands for due effect on thought and conscience.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
“His book would be more effective if it were written more simply, with
less obvious straining for novelty of expression.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 555. S. ’08. 250w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Social psychology: an outline and source
book. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21601.
Professor Ross has been the pioneer in this branch of social science
and offers the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal
systematically with the subject of social psychology. He considers the
nature and scope of social psychology, suggestibility, the mob mind,
conventionality and imitation, custom imitation, conditions affecting
the sway of custom, interference and conflict, union and accumulation,
compromise, public opinion, and disequilibration.
* * * * *
“Without great depth or undue consistency, it is peculiarly suggestive
and stimulating, and will interest a larger body of readers than the
conventional literature of psychology attracts.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“This is a work we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 467. N. ’08. 420w.
“Professor Ross’s manner is comparatively free from scientific
affectation. The tone of the book is temperate, but the spirit that of
a man very eager to read the signs of the times and full of the sense
or illusion of progress.” C. M. Francis.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 593. Ag. ’08. 2000w.
“In general the book seems admirably made for college uses. The
discussion is at almost all times clear, and it has the spicy interest
common to Professor Ross’s works. There are two general adverse
criticisms of the book which it seems fair to make. In the first
place, the title is misleading. The other general criticism relates to
the tone of the book.” J: L. March.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 517. D. ’08. 960w.
“Tho it is intended as a college textbook, the adventurous reader who
picks here and there some of this fruit from the tree of knowledge
will be rewarded with more sweet mouthfuls than the grower promises.
Rays of humor lighten the pages.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 680w.
“One must dissent from it occasionally, but it is a wholesome,
stimulating and serviceable work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 41. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Throughout his book the psychologist feels the lack of any true
psychological analysis. As the book does not attempt to take up the
principles involved in special uniformities like language or religion,
it becomes virtually a treatise on the various aspects of imitation.”
M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 400w.
“As it stands, it is still one of the best studies of custom and
convention in any language.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 381. D. 15, ’08. 1900w.
“Professor Ross is one of the few specialists in the subject who are
able to popularize their discoveries and to make the subject
interesting to the lay mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 130w.
“On the whole we have in this work an able marshaling of the knowledge
thus far brought to light on the subject of social psychology, and a
clear, untechnical, while at the same time often eloquent, discussion
of the laws, principles and leading truths of that rather subtle and
recondite branch of sociology.” L. F. Ward.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 54. Jl. 10, ’08. 1400w.
* =Rossetti, Christina Georgina.= Family letters of Christina Rossetti;
ed. by William M. Rossetti. *$3.50. Scribner.
Family letters which are offered for the value they possess in showing
forth the writer’s “genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and
feeling.”
* * * * *
“Seldom has been given a more beautiful glimpse of home life than Mr.
Rossetti has afforded us in this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 601. N. 14. 1450w.
“The letters are especially rewarding as documents of life.” E. L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 735. D. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Full and formal publication was not necessary, since neither in bulk
nor in quality are the letters telling.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 900w.
=Rossi, L. Melano.= Santuario of the Madonna di Vico: Pantheon of
Charles Emanuel I. of Savoy. il. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–13292.
“The author has written a history of architecture, of painting, and of
sculpture, and has frankly told us the names of the books from which
he has compiled it. He has shown that the dome of Vicoforte is
superior to the dome of St. Paul’s, London, which latter is no dome at
all, and he has furnished us with a scientific account of what a dome
ought to be.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“All who are interested in architecture and the decorative arts, or in
the political and religious history of Italy, owe to Signor Rossi a
deep debt of gratitude for the unwearying patience with which he has
collected information on his important subject, the number and beauty
of the illustrations supplementing his text, and the clearness with
which he has told the whole story of the evolution of the building.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 450w.
“It is pleasant and instructive reading, but has nothing directly to
do with the Madonna of Vicoforte.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The book shows wide, but undigested, reading of authorities, down to
the most recent; it is overlain with references and footnotes to the
point of suffocation; but the unwary reader had best shun the
‘historical’ chapters; they are full of pitfalls. It is a pity that so
much labour, research, and effective illustration should be marred by
writing so grotesque.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“Includes in its moderate compass a great array of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 900w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men: a study in character.
Anniversary ed. **$1.50. Houghton.
A study which follows Lincoln’s search after power over the rough way
of apprenticeship to hardship, toil and discipline. Here is portrayed
the indispensable man, the master man, shaped and molded by the
potentialities of invincible energy, courage, honesty and patriotism.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Australian cousin. (Little cousin
ser.) 60c. Page.
8–29330.
An informing child’s study of Australia touching upon the points of
history, geography, life in the bush, characteristics of natives and
present day civilization.
* =Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Our little Grecian cousin. (Little cousin
ser.) 60c. Page.
8–23099.
A story which introduces young readers to Greece old and new and to
the every-day life of the little Grecian cousin.
=Rowe, Leo S.= Problems of city government. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29625.
An analysis of the general principles involved in city growth, with an
inquiry into the nature of the changes in social structure which are
traceable to the rapidly increasing population in cities. In the
course of the study reasons are made clear for the present-day doubt
concerning most effective municipal legislation, and lines of
progressive evolution are suggested.
* * * * *
“The very full and scientific treatment of the problem of public
utilities should recommend the work to all thoughtful citizens.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Professor Rowe’s work possesses usefulness—particularly in his
account of the spread of the commission plan and in the comparative
view of American and European experience in the management of public
utilities.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 496. N. 19. ’08. 2000w.
“A very original and suggestive discussion of municipal questions by
an eminent authority.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 13w.
“His book is much more than a mere summary of foreign experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 200w.
=Rowland, Dunbar.= Encyclopedia of Mississippi history; comprising
sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons. 2d
ed. 2v. $12. Dunbar Rowland, Jackson, Miss.
“A large two-volume work of more than two thousand pages containing
historical sketches of the important events and episodes in the life
of the commonwealth, of all the counties, cities and towns of the
state including towns and villages now extinct, biographical sketches
of men ‘who have left their impress on the history of the state’ and
sketches of various institutions.... The design of the work ... is to
present in compact form, arranged in alphabetical order, a complete
history of Mississippi from 1540 to 1906, the plan being to combine
the best features of history for continuous reading with the
cyclopedic style for ready reference.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“The encyclopedia has the inherent faults of a work prepared according
to the topical plan. The work shows evidence of great industry and of
intimate knowledge of the state’s history. There are many very good
sketches and compilations which have more than a local interest.” J.
W. Garner.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 661. Ap. ’08. 520w.
“Dr. Rowland and his helpers seem to have carried out the plan fairly
well. The scale is too generous. There are some failures to meet
successfully a difficulty inseparable from the form. The work would
also be better for an index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 480w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Across Europe in a motor boat. **$2.
Appleton.
8–27781.
This is a record of the adventures of the motor boat Beaver on a
voyage over “a long wet trail” across Europe by way of the Seine, the
Rhine, the Danube and the Black sea. In spite of the fact that the
jaunt required a deal of preparation and experimenting, and that it
ended in a wreck does not lessen the satisfaction of the achievement.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rowland’s story, like his journey, is rather for the sterner sex,
but is graphically told and holds the reader’s interest to the end.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 150w.
“A most delightful story, in which Mr. Rowland brings into good play
his cleverness at description and his charm as a humorist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 700w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Philosophy of loyalty. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11729.
“A thoroughly sincere attempt to set clearly before the American
people the need for aiming at the highest ethical ideals in their
daily life, in their intercourse with one another, and in their
relations with the outside world. Believing that certain present-day
conditions and tendencies indicate a lowering of individual and
national standards. Professor Royce gives himself resolutely to the
task of remedial and constructive criticism.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 756. Je. 20. 1750w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“His treatment is extraordinarily interesting and is not lacking in
manifestations of Professor Royce’s own peculiar literary and
philosophical style.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 60w.
“From the philosopher’s point of view the book might have been better
if it had been shorter. The reader is apt to be carried over the
difficult places of the argument by the flow of the author’s eloquence
rather than by the force of his logical reasoning.” W. R. Sorley.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 207. O. ’08. 2000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 570w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 17. Jl. 2, ’08. 520w.
“The lesson of his new book is founded on his sure observation of the
present tendencies of thought, and in it he reveals himself as the
true patriot as well as the philosopher.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 900w.
“His work is immediately and concretely inspiring to the man not at
all concerned with the subtleties of metaphysical disquisition, but
very much concerned in the affairs of every-day existence.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“These criticisms do not affect the great practical value of the book;
it gives beautiful and forceful expression to ethical idealism, and
grandly fulfils its purpose ‘to simplify men’s moral issues, to clear
their vision for the sight of the eternal, to win hearts for loyalty.’
There is moral enthusiasm in it, there is patriotism in it, there is
love of humanity in it.” Frank Thilly.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 541. S. ’08. 4200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“It is a book of remarkable freshness and power; popular in the best
sense, since it never loses touch with common habits of thought; and
inspired at times by a poetry and eloquence which, in Plato’s phrase,
give to the quest of truth something of the warmth of desire. The book
being one of popular lectures, naturally there are gaps in the
argument and rhetoric at times in place of reasoning.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 446. S. 26, ’08. 1600w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Race questions, provincialism and other American
problems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–31148.
A supplement to the author’s “Philosophy of loyalty.” In the light of
that philosophy he discusses the following American problems: Race
questions and prejudices; Provincialism; On certain limitations of the
thoughtful public in America; The Pacific coast—a psychological study
of the relations of climate and civilization; and Some relations of
physical training to the present problems of moral education in
America.
* * * * *
“Apart from the strong common sense of his views and their bearing
upon the immediate problems of life, Professor Royce wields an
uncommonly lucid and forcible pen. This volume makes a plain and
important appeal to any intelligent man or woman, and should have a
wide reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 500w.
“The point of view from which Professor Royce paints his picture is
one that enables him to bring out certain values strongly. And it
scarcely needs to be said that the coloring, the light and shade, the
detail that helps the central motive, are all handled with masterly
skill.” J. H. T.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 394. D. 15, ’08. 930w.
=Royle, Harold M.= Chemistry of gas manufacture. il. *$4.50. Henley.
8–16415.
A practical manual for the use of gas engineers, gas managers, and
students. “Starting with the method of preparation of the standard
solutions required in the chemical work which it seems to be customary
to carry on in an English gas plant, the body of the book goes on
through coal testing, flue-gas analysis, the distillation of coal and
coal tar, the analysis of crude coal gas ... fire clay and fire brick,
the testing for naphthalene in gas ... and the determination of the
candle power, the calorific value and specific gravity of illuminating
gas, and is concluded by a short chapter on the testing of the oil
used and the oil tar produced in the manufacture of carburetted water
gas.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This book should be of great use to those for whom it is intended.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 304. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The condensation of the matter taken from periodicals is not always
accurately done. Another fault of the book is found in typographical
errors, which are the more important because several of them occur in
the spelling of proper names. There are also faults of arrangement.
The faults mentioned do not, however, detract materially from the
value of the matter contained in the book, and, as previously stated,
it is worthy a place in the libraries of American gas engineers.” A. E
Forstall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 658. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
=Ruhl, Arthur Brown.= Other Americans: the cities, the countries,
and especially the people of South America. **$2. Scribner.
8–27368.
Mr. Ruhl, a journalist who has made extended tours thru South America
sets down his impressions for the general reader’s enlightenment. He
furnishes authentic facts concerning economic, social, and political
conditions which exist there. “There is an appendix consisting of
statistics and other data and a good index. We ought to know more
about these ‘Other Americans,’ Mr. Ruhl insists, since half the
western world is theirs.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠
“As a social observer Mr. Ruhl may be commended.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 573. N. 7. 520w.
“Serves well a useful purpose.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Ruhl discourses most entertainingly and informingly in this
volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 639. N. ’08. 220w.
=Ruhmer, Ernst.= Wireless telephony in theory and practice; tr. from
the German by James Erskine-Murray. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–18757.
A complete and connected account in untechnical language, so far as
possible, of the subject of wireless telephony, its progress, and
prospects for future perfection. It outlines the theories and
apparatus of Bell, Tainter, Simon, Hayes, Duddell, and others who have
worked for practical ends in wireless telephony.
* * * * *
“The work is undoubtedly the most complete presentation of the subject
that is in print.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The result has been that the greater part of the matter can be easily
grasped at a single reading and the rest can be understood by a little
study.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 730w.
“Those who wish to obtain a good knowledge of the subject will find
the information well presented.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’08. 240w.
“The matter is well presented, and it should prove interesting reading
to all who take an interest in the advances of electrical
engineering.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nature.= 77: sup. 10. Mr. 5, ’08. 250w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 30w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Lawless wealth: the origin of some great
American fortunes. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–16214.
Mr. Russell takes his reader over the course covered, often by hops
and bounds, by some of the financial magnates on the way to their
present millionaire goals. He shows that fortunes are not the
equivalent for public service rendered at the expense of ability,
energy and foresight, but that they are secured thru the appropriation
of public utilities to private greed. The author aims to arouse a
public that stands by and witlessly connives with the abnormal money
fiend by tolerating his practices.
* * * * *
“He is not as dispassionate as a judge nor as dry as an economist, for
on every page he shows the indignation of the prophet. Mr. Russell is
a muck-raker proud of his profession.”
− =Ind.= 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“Whoever aspires to act as a public teacher should show reserve,
moderation, appreciation of the exact quality of the acts condemned,
and dispassionate consideration of the remedy. Of these qualities Mr.
Russell shows no trace.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 364. Je. 27, ’08. 1200w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy: the
story of a strange life, 1752–1770. il. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–12132.
This biography is the result of fourteen years of sympathetic study
and research among all classes of material where could be found a
crumb of information concerning this “marvelous boy” and “literary
forger” who committed suicide in his teens.
* * * * *
“Though Mr. Russell needs constant checking, however, whether he be
dealing with his hero as man or as poet, he has amassed facts which
are not only interesting but illuminating, and his book is worth
reading.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 484. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“Masson’s short and pathetic account ... is more effective than this
later, more elaborate, and undoubtedly better-informed work.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Russell is as extravagant in his praise of Chatterton’s poems as
he is undiscriminating in his estimate of his influence upon the
romantic movement.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 205. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w.
“Fulsome praise such as this repels thinking and judicious minds.”
− =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“To any balanced judgment the extravagances and perversions and the
bad taste of the present biography will tend only to obscure for a
moment the profound pathos of Chatterton’s life and his due reward as
one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 378. Ap. 23, ’08. 1200w.
“A biography of such remarkable merit, historical and critical, that
it will instantly take a high place among the best productions of its
class. One must turn many a page in many a book to find a finer,
nobler, piece of writing than Mr. Russell’s preface, and the book
itself is in fitting sequence.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 225. Ap. 18, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Russell’s book is the most considerable and well worked out life
of Chatterton which has appeared.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Russell, William Thomas.= Maryland: the land of sanctuary. il.
$1.75. Furst.
8–316.
A history of religious toleration in Maryland from the first
settlement until the American revolution, authorities and sources
being given at every step.
* * * * *
“Very interesting historical study. Father Russell has treated his
subject with thoroughness and amplitude.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 256. My. ’08. 850w.
=Rutter, Frank.= Path to Paris: the record of a riverside journey
from Le Havre to Paris. *$5. Lane.
The impressions of two Englishmen journeying along the Seine from
Havre to Paris on bicycles visiting Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec,
Jumieges, Rouen, Les Andelys, Giverny, Vetheuel, Mantes, St. Germain,
and other riverside cities and villages. The author’s artist companion
furnishes the 68 sketches in black and white.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rutter has the gift of writing agreeably, but he does not always
take the trouble to use it, and too often has recourse to ‘padding.’
Uneven as the book is, it has given us several hours of real pleasure
among familiar scenes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 152. Ag. 8. 480w.
“Mr. Hanslip Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings to the
volume, which is in all respects admirably got up.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Rutter has written charmingly of the out-of-the-way matters that
came under his notice, and Mr. Fletcher, the artist, has made some
very good drawings to accompany the text. Somehow, though, we suspect,
Mr. Rutter of romancing a bit in a hit he makes at ‘two American
ladies.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 460w.
“He does his ‘ruining’ and his descriptions and moralisings and art
disquisitions with a light touch, and gives the tour an air of
personal originality. The effect of the whole, text and pictures, is
agreeable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The writer has, it seems, a special interest in art, and has much
that is interesting to say on this subject, and, indeed, on other
matters. It is a pity that he should find a pleasure not only in
depreciating his own countrymen, but in drawing his depreciation from
a necessarily tainted source.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 137. Jl. 25, ’08. 140w.
S
=Sabatier, Paul.= Open letter to his eminence Cardinal Gibbons apropos
of his interview on the separation of church and state in France; tr. by
J: R: Slattery. *60c. Sherman, French & co.
8–14319.
The widely circulated statements of Cardinal Gibbons upon the struggle
between church and state in France are “reprinted in this little
volume in connection with the open letter in which M. Sabatier, in
sympathy with progressive French Catholics, convicts him of gross
misrepresentation. M. Sabatier emphasizes the central fact in the
French question, that it is not Catholicism as a religion, but
clericalism as a political opponent, with which the French government
has a controversy.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is a volume that should be widely circulated.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 383. O. ’08. 1700w.
“How unfair and incompetent the Baltimore prelate’s protest is M.
Sabatier shows in this little book with acumen and convincing
argument.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
* =Sabin, Alvah Horton.= House painting, glazing, paper hanging, and
whitewashing: a book for householders. $1. Wiley.
8–21778.
Deals with “the subjects of exterior and interior painting,
varnishing, papering, kalsomining, white-washing and the painting of
structural metal. Technical terms and long-winded descriptions are
avoided, and the book should be read by every house user and owned by
every house owner.”—Science.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08. ✠
“Excellent little vademecum. Altogether there are few places at which
the reader will not find just what he needs to guide his amateurish
hands in the direction of efficiency.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“For anyone who contemplates either trying his own skill or
over-looking the proceedings of a workman, Mr. Sabin’s book appears,
as he claims in the preface, to ‘set forth fairly safe and sound
practice.’” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 79: 97. N. 26, ’08. 240w.
“A thoroughly reliable, readable book.” A. H. Gill.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 80w.
* =Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in
schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
A two-volume work containing a number of essays by educational men on
the problem of moral training in the school. The first volume treats
the roots of the problem and gives a series of accounts of what is
already done in schools to promote moral education. The second deals
with moral education in British colonies and in foreign countries as
well as at home.
* * * * *
“Valuable volumes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 393. O. 3. 1300w.
“Pedagogists, theoretical and practical, will find these two volumes
well deserving of serious study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 401. D. ’08. 1450w.
“There is necessarily a good deal of overlapping in the book, and
there is perhaps a trace of bias in favour of co-education; but it is
judicious, sensible, full of interesting information and suggestive
comment.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 423. O. 3, ’08. 2200w.
=Sager, Daniel Showers.= Art of living in good health: a practical
guide to well-being through proper eating, thinking, and living in
the light of modern science. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–32393.
A health hand-book which has for its watch words, breathe deep, chew
long, drink enough, eat little. It shows how self control, so
necessary to simple living, results in long life and good health.
* * * * *
“The book is both inspiring and convincing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 83. Mr. ’08.
“Contains a large amount of excellent information, and yet we think
that it is not likely to be productive of unmixed good. Dr. Sager’s
book has much of our present scientific dietetics, some of which is
universally accredited, but some of which has not as yet been
confirmed sufficiently to make it absolute.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 259. Ja. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If it is granted that Dr. Sager’s views are the right ones, there can
be no doubt that his book will exert enormous influence toward good;
while, also, even if many of his views are incorrect, they cannot harm
his readers, since his recommendations are in the main such as are
bound to conduce to good.” Michael Williams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 725. N. 16, ’07. 2400w.
“We do not deny that there is something of value in the volume.”
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 320w.
=Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce.= Calendar of the court minutes of the East
India company, 1635–1639; with an introd. and notes by W: Foster.
*$4.15. Oxford.
8–16489.
“The documents calendared follow those included in the last volume of
Miss Sainsbury’s ‘Calendar of state papers,’ East India series, and
consist of the court minute books, January 5, 1635-December 30, 1639.
But there is a gap caused by a lost volume of manuscript, July,
1637-July, 1639. These are re-enforced by abstracts of some of the
documents from the East India series at the Public record office and
of a few from the India office records and by entries on Indian
affairs for these years from the Domestic series, ‘Calendar of state
papers.’”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“This book is valuable for at least three reasons. It contains
material for the domestic history of the East India company,
1635–1639; ... secondly, there is laid open here the outworking of the
system of personal government under Charles I in years when that
system was at its strongest; and thirdly, we have the intimate records
of a corporation in days when shareholders stormed in vain at
directors.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 856. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It is unnecessary to add, when Mr. W. Foster is editor, that the
introduction and brief notes are in every way satisfactory.” H. E.
Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 576. Jl. ’08. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 471. My. 21, ’08. 720w.
* =Saintsbury, George E. B.= History of English prosody from the twelfth
century to the present day. v. 2. *$3.75. Macmillan.
=v. 2.= From Shakespeare to Crabbe.
This volume “begins with Shakespeare, and deals with the development
and decadence of blank verse; the Elizabethan lyric and sonnet; the
verse of Milton and the Caroline poets, of Dryden and of Pope and the
eighteenth century generally, ending with Crabbe.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The book is full of admirable work in almost every way, but
incorrigibly careless now and then, generally in unimportant things.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 673. N. 28. 2600w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a book of reference for the student who wishes statistics,
definitions, tabulations, and the like, the work is next to useless.
On the whole, the book is wisely planned and executed, and makes good
reading even of prosody.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 464. N. 12, ’08. 2000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He nowhere gives us a clear summary or explanation of the matter in
dispute. It is a strange thing that one like Professor Saintsbury, who
is filled to the brim with English literature, should indulge in such
queer stylistic freaks.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 670. N. 28, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Saintsbury, George Edward B.= Later nineteenth century. (Periods of
European literature, v. 12.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–36994.
The last volume of Mr. Saintsbury’s “Periods of European literature.”
It deals with the whole literature of Europe at the present day, from
the time of Browning and Hugo to that of Ibsen and Tolstoy including
poetry, novels, periodical literature, essays and drama. He closes
with a summary of the present volume and of the whole series.
* * * * *
“Professor Saintsbury is as off-hand, erratic, and suggestive as
usual, and seems even more readable than in his earlier works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08. ✠
“‘Flippant and unworthy’ are hardly more lenient than the epithets
which any sensitive critic would be forced to apply to these pages.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1450w.
“Modern literature, in fact, seems to be contemplated by Professor
Saintsbury as a comprehensive inferno in regard to which it is the
first duty of the critic to determine the places of the offenders in
their respective circles.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 321. O. 25, ’07. 1850w.
“He is lavish of vehement opinions, but gives no evidence whatever of
a common philosophy to which these opinions may be referred.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 671. N. 30, ’07. 930w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Conquest of cancer: a plan of campaign.
**$1.75. Stokes.
7–37249.
An account of the principles and practice of the treatment of
malignant growths by specific cancrotoxic ferments. In presenting the
pancreatin treatment the author shows how Dr. Beard has given “the key
to the enemy’s position, and that so soon as this advantage is pressed
home the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“We would well wish it otherwise, but see only the raising of false
hopes and bitter disappointment for those who take Dr. Saleeby’s book
seriously.”
− =Ind.= 64: 46. Ja. 2, ’08. 800w.
=Nature.= 78: 292. Jl. 30, ’08. 530w.
“His book, recording fresh data up to within a few weeks of
publication, merits attention in America as a contribution to the
practical study of the trypsin treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 1. Ja. 4, ’08. 1320w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“A large difficult book, teeming with guesswork and animosity. An
ill-tempered and unbalanced book. The author’s heart has run away with
his head, and he has allowed himself to be victimised by an
obsession.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 240. F. 22, ’08. 1800w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness: a book of
practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The guiding principle of Dr. Saleeby’s study is “The new asceticism,”
whose doctrine is that the body must be an expression of the harmonies
of mind, in place of the old asceticism which exploited the doctrine
of antagonism between the interests of the mind and the body. He works
out a scheme for bodily and mental health which accords with his basic
principle.
* * * * *
“A finer contribution to the literature of popular science has not
often been made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Salisbury, William.= Career of a journalist. il. *$1.50. Dodge, B.
W.
8–9151.
The real story of the author’s life. “It tells of nine years’
experiences in five American cities, on papers of every shade of
political opinion, on papers ‘yellow,’ and papers ‘conservative,’ and
concludes with observations in four foreign capitals. It shows what
journalism does for the people, and what it does not do for the
people, what journalism and journalists are and what journalism and
journalists are not, in the principal countries of the world.”
Preface.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Highly interesting and suggestive volume, which, because of its
frankness and candor, its portrayal of American journalism in the
nude, is more than an interesting record.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 40: 487. N. ’08. 5300w.
“His book may serve a useful purpose as a warning and example—while
not necessarily discouraging to those having the qualifications and
ambition for legitimate and honorable newspaper work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The title is misleading in that it omits the qualifying adjective
‘yellow,’ which is all-important in this case.”
− − =Ind.= 64: 1199. My. 28, ’08. 900w.
“A vulgarly written account of vulgar experiences.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The thing is frankly a book of yellow journalism and yellow
journalists by one of themselves.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 1050w.
=Sallows, James Francis.= Blacksmith’s guide. $1.50. Technical
press.
7–33978.
Valuable instructions on forging, welding, hardening, tempering, case
hardening, annealing, coloring, brazing, and general blacksmithing.
(Explanatory title.) “The treatment throughout is of a thoroughly
practical nature, and the author describes clearly the methods which
he has employed in obtaining eminently satisfactory results in the
tempering of tools and machine parts—all without the use of expensive
furnaces, pyrometers and other accessories.” (Tech. Lit.)
* * * * *
“The language of the book is good; the explanations are clear; the
arrangement is pleasing, and no extraneous matter has been admitted.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 370w.
“It is a little work that anyone having to do with the heat-working of
steel will find of exceeding value.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 140w.
=Sanders, E. K.= Forest playfellow: a story. †$1.25. Dutton.
The story of a little boy who “lived alone with his father in a great
house near a forest. He was very lonely, and his father, who had
travelled and fought, was too brave a man to understand his terrors.
But one day in the mysterious forest he met another small boy with
bright eyes and beautiful manners who showed him how to build bridges
and gently cured him of his terrors.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“We are not blind to the merits of the work ... we know that a good
deal of care has gone to the making of the story; it may appeal more
to others than it has to us, who have found it a little dull.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 110w.
“The charm to which we willingly surrender is neither in eeriness nor
spiritual revelation; it is in portraiture. Regarded as a human being,
the ghost is lovable; and Jock’s tutor, a minor character, is
capitally drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 160w.
“It is written entirely from the child’s point of view; but it is so
sympathetic that a child might conceivably imagine after reading it
that he was as good as his parents.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 373. D. 6, ’07. 400w.
“One may venture the hope that after sixty times six best sellers have
shouted themselves into second-hand bookshops, ‘The forest playfellow’
will still stand on many a beloved shelf, shabby with much cherishing
by old and young who have felt themselves lonely children.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 100w.
“The story is daintily told, and, while dealing with the forever
intangible influences that mold a child’s character, bringing him
nearer or luring him from us, the writer contrives to make the small
hero quite a flesh-and-blood little chap after all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Sanders, Lloyd Charles.= Holland house circle. **$3.50. Putnam.
Devoted to the period between 1799 and 1840 when “there was hardly in
England a distinguished man in politics, science and literature, who
had not been a guest in the Holland house.” A description of the house
itself is followed by a sketch of its early history, founders and
leading lights; then by “brief chapters on the circle of statesmen,
wits, men of letters and science, foreign diplomats and exiles who
gave to Holland house a unique place in English history.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is a rare pleasure in these days of slovenly book making to come
upon a volume so well informed and agreeably written as this. Before
the book passes into a second edition the author should revise his
proofs, especially as regards French words. There is a capital index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 429. O. 10. 1500w.
“He has taken Holland house only as the string on which he has
threaded his pearls, and his pearls are the gems which he has selected
from the large range of biographies, memoirs and collections of
letters.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 948. O. 22, ’08. 800w.
“The text has been carefully compiled.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 678. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Despite its lack of artistic unity, the book affords good reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Interesting book of gossip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 1000w.
“No one who is a student of Georgian England can afford to miss this
satisfactory and delightful record of personalities.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 886. D. 19, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“These chapters are easy reading, but the ordinary reader may fail to
recognize the amount of erudition which has gone to the making of
them. Our only criticism of the book is that the arrangement of the
chapters seems to us to be without system, and that there are far too
many misprints. Mr. Sanders has given us in a most readable form a
history of the best society during a time when entertaining was still
an art, and society was still largely a cousinhood.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 504. O. 3, ’08. 1800w.
=Sanderson, Rev. Edgar.= Heroes of pioneering. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–1437.
“True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of
pioneers with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature,
in all parts of the world.” “Champlain and other French heroes, as
well as the great Arab Abd el Kadr, are included in a list which
contains full reference to the doings of Raffles; Brooke, ... Bass,
Flinders, and Sturt in Australia; and recent pioneer work in Uganda,
Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Among many romantic careers, that of John Jacob
of Sind is perhaps the most striking.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 73: 245. D. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Of value mainly as true adventure tales.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 149. My. ’08. ✠
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
=Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 30w.
“There are stories which cannot be told too often, and Mr. Sanderson
tells them well.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’08. 180w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.= Art of singing and vocal declamation.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
8–18037.
“A teacher of singing, must be, or must have been, a good singer.” So
says Mr. Santley at the age of seventy-four, reflecting upon his years
of teaching experience. He is a follower of Garcia, and from Garcia
gained the inspiration to teach singing not surgery. His rational
methods, which avoided too much analysis are summed up in this
handbook for young singers.
* * * * *
“It will be appreciated by teachers as well as young students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08.
“The whole of the little volume will be eagerly read by teachers of
singing, and especially by those who are at the outset of their career
as students.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 771. Je. 20. 280w.
“It must be confessed that in his book on singing he displays a keener
knowledge of the business end of his subject than of the æsthetic
side.” L: M. Isaacs.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 601. Ag. ’08. 950w.
“Interesting, first of all, but also helpful.”
=Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Containing much valuable advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 700w.
“In general may be unhesitatingly commended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book abounds in good advice, but it is not so much from singer to
singer as from the old man to the young, and much of it is sententious
in form as well as trite in matter.” C. L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 405. S. 19, ’08. 2150w.
=Sargent, Arthur John.= Anglo-Chinese commerce and diplomacy (mainly
in the nineteenth century). *$4.15. Oxford.
8–9032.
Britain’s relations with China solely in their bearings on the
interests of commerce. Contents: The rule of the company [East India];
The course of trade to 1834; From the opening of the trade to the
treaty of Nanking: From the treaty of Nanking to the treaty of
Tientsin; Course of trade from 1834 to 1864; The interpretation of the
treaty of Tientsin and the convention of 1869; From the massacre of
Tientsin to the Chifu convention; Course of trade from 1865 to 1884.
Development of the policy of “Spheres of influence”; Course of trade
from 1885 to 1894. Renewal of the anti-foreign movement and recent
economic changes; Annotated bibliography of the more important
official papers and note on the character of statistical information
available for the Chinese trade.
* * * * *
“The exactness of statement and lucidity of style make the work
especially valuable for those who, studying the present, wish to get a
clear background for the picture of contemporary events. The book is
the best summary view of the development and importance of English
trade with China yet published.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 400w.
“Lucid and convincing work.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 720w.
“In spite of blemishes Mr. Sargent has performed a very useful
service, and has provided his students with an excellent text-book.”
P.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 620. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“A careful and scholarly study.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
“It is much to be able to say that he has succeeded in giving, within
moderate limits, an instructive epitome of our efforts to open up
intercourse with the great empire which has scarcely relaxed even yet
in its resistance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 17. Ja. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Trees and shrubs. 25 plates by C: E:
Faxon, v. 2, pt. 1, **$5. Houghton.
“Includes descriptions and drawings of twenty-five species of ligneous
plants, hitherto unknown or almost so. Six of the species are of
cratægus and eight of viburnum. The remainder represent eight other
genera.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 343. My. ’08. 130w.
=Dial.= 44: 139. Mr. 1, ’08. 50w.
“In all respects the continuation of his great work is on the high
level of what has gone before. Charles Faxon’s delineations are
perfect as to detail, and as to stereoscopic effect, and indicate the
power of a line drawn by one who knows exactly what he sees.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 199. F. 27, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5.
McClurg.
7–29604.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“He describes and discusses the grand strategy and tactics of the
campaign with great clearness, showing a strong grasp of his subject
in all its aspects, naval, military, historical, geographical,
statistical, etc. The works that have appeared heretofore, treating of
the Spanish-American war, have been seriously defective in their
numerical data. The work before us is about perfect in this respect.”
John Bigelow, jr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 373. Ja. ’08. 1500w.
“In this book we have a remarkably lucid history of a very remarkable
campaign. And there is probably no man on this continent better
fitted—on all the counts—to chronicle it with such accurate
completeness and balanced discrimination as the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 380w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“While the book must long remain a handy volume for reference, because
of the many facts and figures it gives, it leaves the field still open
to the historian who wishes to tell without fear or favor the true
story of our ever-regretable West Indian war.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 730w.
“A history and discussion of our part in the Cuban war that will be of
quite as much interest to the layman as to the military specialist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
“His account, in fact, is very painstaking, but without great
penetration, and it is marred by some inflated writing—continual talk
of a ‘hail of bullets,’ for example, which, after all, is only a
metaphor—such as is best left to non-military writers.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 63. Ja. 11, ’08. 810w.
=Sarolea, Charles.= Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious
life and thought. (World’s epoch-makers). *$1.25. Scribner.
8–26235.
A dispassionate and objective study of some of the problems suggested
by the writings of Cardinal Newman. Among the subjects treated are the
following: The Oxford movement, Newman’s personality, Why was Newman
converted to Roman Catholicism? The conflict between Newman and
Manning, Pascal and Newman, Was Newman a liberal Catholic? Cardinal
Newman and modernism.
* * * * *
“Dr. Sarolea’s work is non-partisan and shrewd. If his book fails—and
it does, we think, in the end just fail—to be a first-rate
contribution to religious history, it is owing to a weakness of
psychological insight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 1450w.
=Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 160w.
“Dr. Sarolea, who shows a remarkable knowledge of our language, treats
the subject with an admirable detachment. Nowhere could we find a more
impartial estimate, not of the man only, but of all the facts, mental
and emotional, which condition the study of theology. We do not always
accept Dr. Sarolea’s conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Saunders, Edward.= Wild bees, wasps and ants and other stinging
insects. $1.25. Dutton.
Agr 8–399.
“A popular and readable account of a group of British insects which
are known to entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata.” It is written for
amateurs. The author says: “The non-scientific public rarely
recognizes more than the hive bee, the bumble bee, the wasp, and the
hornet, whereas there are about four hundred different kinds.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Saunders’s facts are almost invariably trustworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 449. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“The information given, though, of course, much condensed, is well
arranged and thoroughly trustworthy, besides being expressed in an
attractive manner.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 220. Ja. 9, ’08. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly; he is, moreover, an
authority whose statements can be trusted.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall.= My pets: real happenings in my
aviary. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–30262.
Dedicated to boys and girls who are never satisfied with a story
unless it is entirely true. There are twenty-eight chapters dealing
with owls, robins, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, gallinules, pigeons,
canaries and other pets of the fur and feather classes.
* * * * *
“There is much sentimentalism mixed with some good hints as to food
and general care, but the book as a whole, is merely a readable
account of trivial happenings in aviary and cage.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 319. O. 1, ’08. 150w.
=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal
study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
A monograph presented to Johns Hopkins university for the degree of
Doctor of philosophy. The discussion is based chiefly on the works of
Attic orators, and especially on the orations of Isaeus, Demosthenes
and Lysias. Material has also been found in the works of Greek poets
and philosophers. The dissertation includes the religious side of
Athenian life, attitude of the state toward the family and the
religious cult, the position of women, marriage, relations of parents
and children, and the aspects of the Athenian inheritance system.
=Savallo, Teresa de.= House of the lost court. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8102.
A rambling old English country house, taken for a season by an
American woman and her daughter, is the scene of this story full of
surprises and mystery. The hero is a man supposed to be dead who
dwells in the secret lost court. The hiding place is discovered by the
imaginative heroine who takes him for a ghost. In a thoroly American
fashion, practical and self-reliant, she finds the key to a domestic
tragedy that had for nine years cast gloom and terror over the estate,
and clears the way for a happy dénouement.
* * * * *
“It opens well, and develops leisurely, but with plenty of
atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 120w.
“Accepting the premises, the story is entertaining and pleasantly
told.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
“Is agreeably written, some of its characters are satisfactorily
attractive, and one at least is satisfactorily odious.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 313. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Sawyer, George Henry Vaughan-.= Grant’s campaign in Virginia, 1864
(the Wilderness campaign). (Special campaign ser. no. 8.) *$1.60.
Macmillan.
8–18961.
A critical history of the Wilderness campaign giving details for the
student of history written from the point of view of an impartial
officer of the British India army.
* * * * *
“We have seldom seen a book disgraced by such glaring errors. Apart
from them, this account of the campaign is really a good one, clear in
arrangement, and impartial.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 560w.
“Gives the Wilderness campaign in accurate detail as regards
situations, movements, and strengths, and with the excellent maps and
plans with which it is provided will be a useful guide to an officer
desiring to ‘get up’ the campaign for examination purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Sawyer, Walter Leon. (Winn Standish, pseud).= Jack Lorimer’s
champions. $1.50. Page.
7–23939.
This second volume of the “Jack Lorimer” series pictures the doings of
the Millvale boys, in and out of the gymnasium, during the spring and
summer following the events narrated in “Captain Jack Lorimer.” As the
first book dealt with football, so the interest of this centers in
base-ball. Its spirit is that of clean, non-professional athletics.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog
encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d. ed. of the
Realencyklopädie. per. v. $3. Funk.
8–20152.
Embraces biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and
biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest
times to the present day. This work is based upon the German
“Realencyklopädie,” founded by Herzog, edited by Hank, and constitutes
a twelve volume edition.
* * * * *
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 327. S. 5, ’08. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In completeness and thoroughness this work far excels the earlier
editions of Schaff-Herzog; especially in historical and biographical
subjects the treatment is more adequate.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 364. O. 17, ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schauffler, Robert Haven=, comp. Through Italy with the poets.
**$2. Moffat.
8–3507.
An anthology of the “best poetry about Italy, from Virgil and Horace
to Arthur Symons and William Vaughan Moody.”
* * * * *
“Exhibits good judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection
which every lover of Italy must prize. It will be particularly valued
for bringing together many beautiful pieces of very recent
composition, and for the classified arrangement which makes it useful
for specific reference.”
− =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The book is somewhat bulky for what its editor calls a ‘pocket
friend’; and, as the arrangement of its contents is purely arbitrary,
its serviceableness would have been enhanced had the compiler utilized
for a good index the few pages occupied by his own and other mediocre
verses.”
− =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 98. F. 22, ’08. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 611. Mr. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Studies in Judaism. 2d ser. $2. Jewish pub.
8–13665.
A collection of essays and articles by the President of the Jewish
theological seminary of America, formerly professor of Hebrew,
University college, London. The first two essays are on the Genizah.
or hoard of Hebrew manuscripts at Cairo. Among other topics discussed
are the Study of the Bible; Social life of the Jews in the age of
Jesus, the son of Sirach; Study of the Talmud; Saints and saintliness;
and Safed, a Jewish settlement in upper Galilee whose religious
history in the sixteenth century is unique and interesting.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
− =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“While Rabbi Schechter is a thorough scholar, he is also capable of
writing in a popular and delightful style, not devoid of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 724. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“These essays ... deserve the attention of the intelligent
Christians.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 349. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Scheffauer, Herman George.= Looms of life; poems. $1.25. Neale.
8–20495.
Buoyancy, possibility, and faith in the living present characterize
these poems in which the author “tramples down the gods that held the
past.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
=Schelling, Felix Emanuel.= Elizabethan drama, 1558–1642: a history
of the drama in England from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to
the closing of the theatres, to which is prefixed a resume of the
earlier drama from its beginning. 2v. **$7.50 Houghton.
8–5140.
A fresh handling of the material of the Elizabethan drama emphasizing
the “extraordinary varieties of dramatic composition” rather than the
commonplaces of history and biography. It is a connected history of
the Tudor and earlier Stuart drama which takes into account the whole
body of plays written and acted during this period, their authorship,
relations, and the involved history of the state. Professor Schelling
has aimed to ascertain the character of each play and to refer it to
its type: to establish its relations to what had preceded and to what
was to follow; and to learn when a given dramatic species appeared,
how long it continued, and when it was superseded by other forms.
Contents: The old sacred drama; The morality and earlier secular
plays; The new romantic drama; The chronicle histories; and The
domestic drama.
* * * * *
“The best compendium of what is known on the subject. Every library
that can afford it should have it.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 206. Je. ’08.
“The most complete and serviceable work in its field.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 272. My. ’08. 1500w.
“The book is an important one,—a notable contribution to American
scholarship. But it is a book for the intelligent layman as well as
for the scholar, and its reader will be spurred on to wider reading on
one of the most fascinating fields of literature.” M. W. Sampson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 11. Jl. 1, ’08. 2200w.
“He has done his work very well indeed, and it is an honor to American
scholarship, worthy of comparison with the best that has been done in
Germany or in Great Britain. It is not only well planned but well
written, and its criticism is sober and sane; it is as free from the
dithyrambic rhapsodizing of Swinburne as it is from the mere
dry-as-dust enumeration of the ordinary Teutonic investigator. A word
of protest may be permitted here against Professor Schelling’s trick
of employing French words for which it would have been easy for him to
find fit English equivalents.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 521. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“In the matter of style the present work is decidedly stimulating; it
carries the reader along more vigorously than does Ward’s work. The
index is an admirable piece of work, as near perfection as anything of
the sort is likely to be. The finding list of plays is also excellent;
we note, however, the omission of the play of Thersites.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 517. Je. 4, ’08. 1900w.
“He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope
and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject
which have preceded it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 156. Mr. 21, ’08. 950w.
“If it were necessary to confine oneself to a single book for the
study of this period—for the history of its rise, fruition and
decay—that book would properly be Prof. Schelling’s ‘Elizabethan
drama’” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 759. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Schelling’s scholarship is accurate and wide, and his
critical judgments are always sound and sympathetic; his book is
valuable chiefly as a magazine of well-ordered information. The
enthusiastic reader will miss the glamour and the atmosphere which
lend so much charm to J. A. Symonds’s book on the same subject; for
Professor Schelling’s style is dry, and his whole treatment of his
material is far too careful and precise to allow of any sign of
excitement.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 975. Je. 20, ’08. 1400w.
=Schmucker, Samuel Christian.= Study of nature. (Lippincott’s
educational series.) $1.25. Lippincott.
8–20551.
An orderly, stimulating presentation of the subject of nature study.
Under the three general heads, The theory, The materials and The
course, the author presents the scope, aim, purpose, teacher’s
preparation and schoolroom equipment; the near at hand material
available at different seasons of the year, ranging from insects to
stars; and a course of study for the first four grades, concluding
with a chapter on Helpful books on nature study.
* * * * *
“Less comprehensive than Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ but very suggestive
and detailed in the field covered.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 265. N. ’08.
“A very comprehensive and practical volume for teachers, and
satisfactorily meets the criterion laid down by the author, that a
good nature study book sends us out into the open to see for ourselves
instead of making us content to study nature in the library.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Aug. 6, ’08. 120w.
“Its interest by no means is confined to teachers, but it will be
found a handy book in any one’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Functional nerve diseases. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–35862.
Includes hysteria and neurasthenia, migraine, chorea, tics, tetanus,
vertigo, and exophthalmic goitre. “The book throws an interesting
light upon the modern treatment of these diseases, which are the
direct products of civilization, whilst it explains much of the
success gained by the various systems, sciences, and cures which are
in vogue at the present time.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The author’s style is often slovenly, and he has not always verified
his references.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 270w.
“For the medical man the book is perhaps too unsystematic and rather
diffuse, although often undeniably stimulating.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is well written and full of useful
information, and it will be found to contain many suggestions which
will prove of value to the thoughtful student.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 5. N. 5, ’08. 500w.
“A somewhat technical but decidedly interesting and valuable
treatise.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 705. N. 28, ’08. 40w.
“The practical parts of it are good, for they are the fruits of
experience; but the whole is too diffuse to make a good text-book, and
the best chapters are too technical for popular reading. A book which
admittedly has one eye on a professional audience, and the other on
the public can hardly escape squinting, and this one is no exception
to the rule.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 633. My. 16, ’08. 2450w.
=Schon, Hans A. E. C. von.= Hydro-electric practice: a practical
manual of the development of water power, its conversion to
electric energy, and its distant transmission. *$6. Lippincott.
8–23073.
An analytical treatment of hydro-electric practice for the promoter,
investor and practitioner. The subject is treated in two parts: the
first, Analysis of a hydro-electric project, is matter for the layman,
and contains in untechnical form the commercial essence of the
subject; the second, Designing and equipping the plant, is written for
the student and practitioner.
* * * * *
“The text is direct and pertinent and all the diagrams and
illustrations have a direct value.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1136. N. 21, ’08. 400w.
“Without wishing to detract from the value of the book, so far as it
goes, it is correct to say that the title is misleading. The work is
really an elementary treatise, covering only a limited part of the
field of hydro-electric practice in the United States. With the
limitations here stated the book has its value to the practitioner,
but its principal use is to the beginner who desires to take up low
head hydroelectric work in the Middle West or East.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 538. N. 12, ’08. 2200w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. **$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
A volume whose purpose is to trace out the fundamental ideas, social
and political, to which America owes her progress and prosperity, and
to consider the application of those ideas to present conditions. The
chapters are: The rights of human nature; Types of equality; Civil
rights; Political rights; Government by consent; Written
constitutions; A union of states; The discipline of liberty; Three
departments of government; Parties and party spirit; Servants of the
public; The strife to surpass; and A new federal convention.
* * * * *
“Though he does not disguise the evils, the Doctor, trusting to the
vitality of the nation, is optimistic about the future, trusting that
Americans will again come to understand that there are better things
in life than the satisfaction of an unbounded thirst for
accumulation.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 405. D. ’08. 620w.
“Especially interesting is his discussion of parties and party spirit,
their function in a republic and their history in this country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Schultz, Alfred Paul.= Race or mongrel. $2.50. Page.
8–22785.
A brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of the
earth; a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with
alien stocks; a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to
racial purity; a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless
immigration is rigorously restricted.
* * * * *
“He is entirely ignorant of anthropological principles, has no idea of
recent advances made in ethnology, has no conception of the effect of
geographical circumstances ... upon man, and is totally unfit to write
upon his subject from a scientific standpoint.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Letters of Robert Schumann; selected
and ed. by Karl Storck. *$3. Dutton.
8–8848.
Thru these letters so important and voluminous one “gets a proper
insight into the character of the man; the development of his art, his
ideals, the most interesting part he played in the eloquent drama of
the romantic movement as well as the actual facts, the salient
influences, and crisis of his career.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is very good. Here and there, nevertheless, it is a
little too free.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 250w.
“A not too pronounced flavor of the ‘sinnreich,’ the ‘gefühlvoll,’ the
‘schwärmerisch’ even, pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and
gives them an undeniable charm.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Of all the great composers, Schumann and Wagner were the most
interesting letter writers. His letters are not nearly so numerous as
Wagner’s, and almost all of them are worth reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 65. Ja. 16, ’08. 920w.
“Dr. Storck’s selections are judiciously made. His notes and
introductions are valuable and illuminating, and the translation is,
on the whole, excellent. The book is one that admirers of Schumann and
students of the romantic movement will value highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856. D. 21, ’07. 800w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
=v. 3.= 1863–1869: with a sketch of his life and public services from
1869–1906, by Frederic Bancroft and William Dunning.
At the time of Mr. Schurz’s death he had completed the third volume of
his Reminiscences to the middle of Grant’s administration. His
manuscript is printed as he left it, and there has been added by Mr.
Bancroft with the cooperation of Mr. Dunning, a hundred and forty page
sketch embodying the salient features of his activity in public
affairs, showing his relation to the history of the time, the
intellectual characteristics and political aspirations that were
conspicuous and potent in his career.
=Schütze, Martin.= Hero and Leander: a tragedy. **$1.25. Holt.
8–29016.
A poetic drama which creates a new setting for the legendary lovers.
The author has furnished “a new story, new personages, and a new
catastrophe, making Hero stab herself over the body of her drowned
lover, instead of letting her leap into the sea.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is a work showing some power of dramatic invention, literary
facility, and occasional flights of poetic fancy, although the
language in which these are expressed is likely to degenerate into
unmistakable prose. If it is not a brilliant example of poetic
tragedy, it is a capable, dignified, and interesting composition which
would be a credit to any theatre producing it.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 300w.
=Schwartz, Henry B.= In Togo’s country: some studies in Satsuma and
other little known parts of Japan. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.
8–22266.
The author’s observations have been made during fourteen years “in
places which no tourist’s eye hath seen, and in paths where no globe
trotter’s foot hath passed.” It is a study of the conditions that
produced Togo, Oyama, and Kuroki; and since all three of these men
whom the war brought into prominence, are natives of Satsuma, the
author’s observations are largely confined to that province.
* * * * *
“He holds that nobody can understand modern Japan until he shall have
acquired a fair knowledge of the old life of the nation, and the
purpose of his book is to help the world to that acquisition. No doubt
it will be helpful in that way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 200w.
=Schwed, Hermine.= Ted in mythland. **$1. Moffat.
7–26321.
Ted runs away with the little bronze Mercury that had “led him on”
from the mantelpiece heights. His adventures are told in this
fairyland myth book.
* * * * *
“Even tho some might approve of the method, there is a lack of
artistic handling in this book which forces both prose and poetry to
become the vehicle, nor can we say much for the verses, which lack
spirit.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Scoble, Herbert T.= Land treatment of sewage: a digest of the
reports made to the Royal commission on sewage disposal by their
specially-appointed officers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W8–99.
“The results of a study of eight English farms in which the following
points were noted: (1) The composition of the sewage and the
preparation before passing on the land; (2) the nature of the soil and
the sub-soil; (3) figures relating to acreage, population, etc.; (4)
method of treatment of sewage and cropping the land; and (5) analysis
of the quality of the effluent as compared with sewage and with
stream.”
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“Promises to be of interest and value to those to whom the original
documents are not accessible, and, we may add, hardly worth the heavy
purchase price ($12) for any American not deeply interested in the
subject.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A valuable reference book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Voices and visions. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
8–13940.
“There are three series, the first devoted to poems of life and
nature, in which the author’s felicity of phrase, his literary grace,
and his command of tripping meters are perhaps at their best; the
second to love poems, in which if there are no depths of passion there
are refinement of feeling and beauty of imagery, and poems of the
East, rich with Oriental color.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Of ... pretty futilities ... is the book made up.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Scollard’s muse has always the true poetic lilt in her song, he
has a pretty thorough acquaintance with the technique in verse, he has
sentiment and fancy and a keen appreciation of the value of words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–17822.
A practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of
the social forces which are at work among the pupils. The actual
activities of living children are studied, and much of the treatment
deals with the question of self-organized group work with the aim of
teaching principles of social democracy.
* * * * *
“Full of original and stimulating ideas.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
“The book will meet a need in teachers’ and parents’ meetings, reading
circles, etc., and ought to have a wide circulation as a most
effective means of helping to bring those who are within and outside
the school to a better understanding of some of the possibilities of
democratic education.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School. R.= 16: 554. O. ’08. 1200w.
=Scott, Ernest Findlay.= Apologetic of the New Testament. (Crown
theological lib., v. 22.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–23276.
An examination of the form and substance of the New Testament writings
as directly determined by the practical needs of the early church.
“The early church had to defend itself against many foes. It had to
prove the real Messiahood of its Master, whose conception of that
office was different from the one current in Israel, and to make it
clear that a crucified Messiah best fulfilled the predictions of
prophecy. It also had to defend itself against Judaism, Paganism, and
Gnosticism; and how this was accomplished is traced in Gospels, Acts,
and Epistles. Then the claim of Christianity to be the final and
absolute religion had to be made rational, which is done in the
Epistle to the Hebrews and in the Fourth gospel.” (Hibbert J.)
* * * * *
“In this volume Mr. Scott has done excellent work. If we are to use
the New Testament as an apologetic with the help of Mr. Scott, he
ought to show what Christianity is apart from the doctrines by which
it is presented to thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 190. F. 15. 300w.
“Mr. Scott writes convincingly on his subject.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 939. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Scott has a subject of great interest and importance, and his
volume is a worthy companion of his work on the Fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 73. Je. 23, ’08. 300w.
* =Scott, James Brown.= Texts of the peace conferences at the Hague,
1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related
documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2. Pub.
for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Aims to present to the English-speaking public the official French
texts of the two conferences, accompanied by an official English
translation and the diplomatic correspondence necessary to their
understanding, together with an appendix of documents relating to, and
explanatory of the various conventions of the two conferences. A
preftory note by Elihu Root states the importance of the conferences,
and an introduction by the editor supplies the necessary historical
setting.
* * * * *
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 230w.
“Professor Scott’s volume makes a very useful companion volume to
Prof. William J. Hull’s book on the two peace conferences.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Scott, Sir James George.= Burma: a handbook of practical
information; with special articles by recognised authorities on
Burma. il. *$2.50. Jacobs.
W 7–177.
“The practical information contained in this valuable handbook covers
the customary topics: the country with its geography and climate,
government, education and history, industries and culture, including
religion, art, literature, and the Burmese music. A series of
appendices give statistics of the different divisions and districts of
the province, with lists of species of flora and fauna, metals,
minerals, etc. Some three score illustrations, for the most part well
chosen, add materially to the book.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book is full of interesting matter but so compact that it would
hardly be chosen for merely entertaining reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08.
“It is by far the most convenient and satisfactory manual of
information about Burma.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 720. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is to be recommended not so much for its literary merit as for the
accuracy, completeness, and careful arrangement of its information,
although there are flashes here and there of the power of graphic
description that made the author’s earlier works, under the pseudonym
of ‘Shway Yoe,’ conspicuous. The one serious fault that might be found
with Sir George Scott is his indulgence in the practice of disparaging
all the statements made in Chinese histories on the subject of Burma.
Some misprints are due, perhaps, to the author’s absence when the book
was passing through the press.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1200w.
“We think that the handbook, besides being indispensable to the
tourist, is also well worth perusal by members of the non-travelling
public who are anxious to know all that can be told about one of the
most recent, and at the same time most interesting, possessions of the
British Crown.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 440. Mr. 7, ’07. 1500w.
“It looks as if it did what it professes to do. The arrangement is all
that it should be.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Princess Dehra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–16520.
A mythical kingdom, a valiant American hero, a king’s daughter, the
king himself, a villainous plotter and his accomplice constitute, in
the main, the caste for this drama. When the king dies the American
and the villain are left to settle the question of succession by dint
of wit and sword. And this is the portion of the tale that provides
thrills.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
=Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 130w.
=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Effective but more or less conventional romance of love and
adventure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 350w.
=Scott, Ralph.= Automatic block signals and signal circuits. *$2.50.
McGraw.
8–7884.
American practice in the installation and maintenance of signals
electrically controlled, and operated by electric or other power with
descriptions of the accessories, now regarded as standard.
(Explanatory title.) The book is intended for the signal and railway
engineer, the electrician and the layman. The author’s method of
presentation is descriptive. Fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The book furnishes much accurate information concerning modern
block-signal systems, logically arranged and expressed in simple
language.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 937. My. 2, ’08. 110w.
“The book is the only up-to-date work on the subject. It is an
authoritative as well as comprehensive treatise on the subject.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 357. Mr. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition
of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful
advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
The author states that it is the human mind with which advertising
deals; and so its only scientific basis is psychology which is simply
a systematic study of those same minds which the advertiser is seeking
to influence. He sets forth the principles at the root of advertising,
and with a carefully planned series of concrete illustrations shows
their relation to successful business.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
=Ind.= 65: 1003. O. 29, ’08. 260w.
“A bright and suggestive work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
“Some very interesting observations on a matter of grave importance to
business men are contained in ‘The psychology of advertising.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
“The book throughout is extremely suggestive.” W. K. Wright.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 396. D. 15, ’08. 880w.
=Scott, William. Riviera.= *$6. Macmillan.
8–3125.
“Mr. Scott takes an eager interest in the people and their past, as
well as in landscape, and he has ransacked local histories. He
describes not only the natives but the swarm of foreigners who flock
to the Riviera during the winter. Starting at Hyeres on the west, he
follows the magic sickle of sea and shore round to Sarzana, pausing at
many out-of-the-way places, making excursions up the valleys, or
sitting down beside some ruin to recount its story or merely to
chat.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“But with the praise of the pictures our praise of this book must end.
We have, indeed, seldom seen anything so incongruous as the pages and
pages, and chapters and chapters, of vapid criticism concerning hotel
visitors, hotel dinners, and custom-house officers, and the excellent
print in which it is enshrined.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 330w.
“Its illustrations depict both the gaiety and the quaintness of the
region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation, its crags and castles,
and its changeful blue sea. Altogether they give a complete and
artistic picture of the region which some one has called the loveliest
garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with information, and it
is hard to think of a phase of the subject that it does not touch
upon.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“There is a certain insular point of view, a typical British
condescension in some of his remarks. Mr. Scott is an agreeable guide,
not wholly deficient in humor; and his sketches are often very fine.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 250w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1.
Holt.
8–15310.
A pre-laboratory study designed to meet the requirements for a series
of individual experiments in the first course of psychology. It is
intended to supplement any good text book.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“The purpose for which the book will be found especially adapted is
that of providing a thoroughly good short laboratory course in
institutions which cannot afford laboratory equipment. As a means to
this end, it deserves the most cordial praise. Here and there points
for criticism appear. It is easier, however, to mention these very
trifling defects than to refer individually to the excellent and
ingenious features of the book.” M. F. Washburn.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 666. N. ’08. 550w.
“The experiments are judiciously selected. And, what is better, they
are described in terms which can scarcely fail to be thoroughly
understood by the average undergraduate. Moreover the significance of
the various forms of mental function is discussed in a manner which is
calculated to stimulate the interest of the student. The reviewer can
readily understand how it will prove to be a boon to many American
psychologists.” J. W. B.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 308. S. 15, ’08. 600w.
“It should be said with the brevity as well as with the emphasis
characteristic of the book itself that it accomplishes its purpose
with exceptional skill.” J. J.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 985. Je. 26, ’08. 280w.
=Seaver, Edwin Pliny=, comp. Mathematical handbook. *$2.50. McGraw.
7–40023.
A reference book containing the chief formulas of algebra,
trigonometry, circular and hyperbolic functions, differential and
integral calculus and analytical geometry, together with mathematical
tables.
* * * * *
“Contains a large amount of information in compact form for ready
reference by the mathematician and engineer.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 180w.
“Will find a wide use among engineers and mathematicians.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 73. Ja. ’08. 230w.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 657. D. 12, ’07. 390w.
“The book is a substitute for many textbooks in the engineer’s working
library, and is far more complete than the mathematical chapters of
the popular handbooks.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“A well selected and carefully arranged collection of formulas and
tables.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 544. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Last duchess of Belgarde. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–17998.
The sad story of the last duchess of Belgarde who worshipping her
unworthy duke from a quiet corner fosters her determination to be
faithful to him, who when the French revolution breaks in all its fury
joins him in prison, and after a brief long-delayed honeymoon spent
within prison walls goes to the guillotine with him.
* * * * *
“The tale is done in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“The characters, we may add, are mere paper dolls, the incidents few
and not vivid. Yet despite the superficiality of plot and character,
the tale has the merit of simplicity and lack of pretense.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“A little classic so sweet and true in its sentiment, so firm and
clear in its characterization, and so wholesome in its morality that
it will do as much good as it will give pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 500w.
“A slight, but perfectly wrought tale of the French revolution.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Amabel Channice. †$1.50. Century.
8–27496.
Married early in life to a man whom she does not love, Amabel Channice
yields to an infatuation for an artist, flees with him, breaks the
moral law, and, returning, cloisters herself in her husband’s lonely
Charlock house. Her husband’s comprehension that responded to her
great need, his protection of her and her illegitimate child arouse
her love for him which gives place to contempt when she learns of his
long life of continued dissoluteness. The woman’s conscience demands
that she risk her last chance at happiness thru her son’s love by
revealing to him her sin and the resulting smirch upon his life. The
son’s nobility and magnanimity are the saving elements in a strong
climax.
* * * * *
“An admirably written book in which there is nothing superfluous.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 100w.
“She knows how to give spiritual definitions to all that is stupid and
commonplace with an efficacy that is entirely too celestial to be
veracious.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1062. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
− + =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 300w.
“The book rises to a climax tender and inevitable, wholly
satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The complications of the plot are perfectly fitted into each other,
and the result, apart from the great interest excited by the human
situation, is a distinct intellectual pleasure. Impresses the reader
with a profound sadness, only lightened by the wonderful skill of the
author’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“There is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the
reader’s mind.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= New American type, and other essays.
**$1.50. Houghton.
8–12605.
Reflectively informing and written from a modern viewpoint, these
essays are twelve as follows: The new American type, The mob spirit in
literature, Mrs. Wharton, Certain aspects of America, Exile, Charles
Russell Lowell, American colleges, A gap in education, Miss Anne
Douglas Sedgwick, Nations and the decalogue, Mark Twain, and The coup
d’état of 1861.
* * * * *
“Essays of popular character and more than ordinary charm, half
serious, half humorous.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“Taking the volume as a whole, it is typical of the better class of
American essay writers.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 404. Je. ’08. 1200w.
“The writer’s ideals are high, and his style that of a critic ‘of
natural gifts and educated taste, experienced in the humanities.’”
+ =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 492. Ag. 27, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 150w.
“His essays are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness
of phrases, elevation of thought, insight—all the qualities that ought
to distinguish essays, that, in fact, almost always do distinguish
essays that reach the reviewers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
“His mind has an edge, and his style bites at times like the point of
the etcher’s needle. He pays the reader the respect of stating his own
thought with the most uncompromising directness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. ’08. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 109. O. ’08. 780w.
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Fundamental truths of the Christian religion.
(Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of a series of lectures given to German university
students urging the modern critical method of studying the Bible and
Christian doctrine.
* * * * *
“His sincerity is unquestioned, his learning extensive, his
philosophic penetration of high order. His lectures, in their English
version, scarcely do their author justice. It is doubtful if they will
convey much meaning to one who is unfamiliar with current German
theological discussion. Their treatment of large topics in metaphysics
and theology is much too brief to be clear.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
=Seguin, Edward.= Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological
method. $2. Teachers’ college, Columbia univ.
E8–718.
Containing a discussion of our present knowledge of idiocy, The method
of treating idiots, The practice of the same, and An outline of the
direction to be given to the scientific efforts of the friends of
idiots and the apostles of universal education.
* * * * *
“It was a happy thought that led to the reprinting of this valuable
thesis for many years out of print. All teachers of backward children
should take advantage of this opportunity to secure the book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 90w.
=Seignobos, Charles.= History of medieval and of modern civilization
to the end of the seventeenth century, tr. and ed. by James Alton
James. *$1.25. Scribner.
7–29565.
Contains “selected topics of a nature to make the customs of each
society clear, and explanations intended to make it understood how
these customs were formed, modified and scattered.” “Many events are
indeed briefly recalled, but only because of their special connection
with the movement of civilization. The larger lines of political
development are indicated, and a resumé is given of the essentials of
medieval and early modern history with reference to institutions,
customs, ideas, art and letters.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It adds relatively little to what is to be found in our better
manuals. Yet its matter is presented sometimes more truly than in our
manuals and often much more effectively; and the translators have
rendered, though not always with unswerving accuracy, on the whole
with commendable success, both the sense and the style of the
original.” E. W. Dow.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 391. Ja. ’08. 440w.
“There is little that is novel in his treatment and the point of view
taken is somewhat too French for Anglo-Saxon readers. Some of the
failings of the book are probably due to the translator or adapter,
whose English is rather stiff and wooden, and who owns to having made
excerpts from M. Seignobos’s work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= African nature notes and
reminiscences; with a “Foreword” by President Roosevelt. *$3.
Macmillan.
8–21506.
An interesting side light on some phases of natural history.
Observations made from experiences during thirty years of adventure in
Africa have resulted in the theory that carnivorous beasts hunt their
prey by scent rather than by sight. “President Roosevelt furnishes a
foreword in which he heartily supports, from his own observations in
the Rocky mountains, the views of the author as to the fallacy of much
of the theory as to protective coloration of animals.” (Nation.) There
are chapters on the hyena, the wild dog, the cheetah, the rhinoceros
and the giraffe.
* * * * *
“Though authorities on natural history may arrive at different
deductions, no one acquainted with the author will question the
correctness of his facts.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is an attractively written narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 165. Ag. 20, ’08. 530w.
“His remarkable sporting adventures are the more thrilling because of
their obvious truth, and the quiet style of narration.” H. H.
Johnston.
+ =Nature.= 78: 217. Jl. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“While the entire volume, through which rings the love of the free,
clean life of the wide open plains, may be described as a lifetime’s
close and intelligent study of the habits and ways of wild creation,
there runs through it a strain of adventurous excitement.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 700. My. 30, ’08. 500w.
=Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English
verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the
corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index, by
Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–40850.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The translation is accurate and close and succeeds in preserving the
spirit at the same time.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 207. Je. ’08.
“The translation is not conspicuous for literary qualities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 551. My. 2. 600w.
“On the whole this work, without being slavishly literal, is
remarkably true to the content and spirit of the original, and is
easily the most satisfying English version of the tragedies.” H. M.
Kingery.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 276. My. ’08. 1450w.
“His tabulated comparison of the tragedies with their Greek originals
and his mythological index will be useful to students, and there is an
excellent introductory essay by Professor Manly on Seneca’s influence
on early English tragedy, of which the only complaint to be made is
that it is too short.” J: W. Cunliffe.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 336. Je. ’08. 500w.
“Professor Miller ... has succeeded in accomplishing the task of
giving new life and interest to these products of the rhetoric of the
early Roman empire.” David Magie, jr.
+ =Class. Philol.= 3: 363. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Of course one who searches will find errors.” H. M. Kingery.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 419. N. ’08. 860w.
“Professor Miller’s translation is not merely scholarly: it is fluent
and vigorous.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1568. D. 26, ’07. 560w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Professor Miller deserves high credit for making the best of these
opportunities, and producing a book that is at once good reading in
English and a faithful reproduction of the spirit of the original. His
choruses are sometimes a trifle flat, missing the gravity of the
original, but, in the longer narrative and ornamental passages of the
dialogue he has been singularly successful.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 610w.
“It is a model of what translation should be, faithful both in spirit
and detail to its original, yet rendered into excellent English, and
into verse that gives us the illusion of reading Seneca himself.”
Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Miller’s version, though fluent and easy, is wanting in force,
and often fails to catch the nervous energy of those terse, telling
phrases in which Seneca delights.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 131. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Astronomy with the naked eye: a new
geography of the heavens; with descriptions and charts of
constellations, stars, and planets. **$1.40. Harper.
8–14345.
This book by means of star-charts is intended to acquaint the casual
observer with the appearance of the constellations, as viewed with the
naked eye, with their histories and mythologies, and with the stories
of their chief stars and star groups. The constellations are studied
according to the months during which they approach the meridian, the
north and south line of the sky. A separate chapter is given to the
study of the planets.
* * * * *
“Compared with Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ the present volume offers
more information but lacks the charm of that book for reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“It is an excellent guide to the study of the heavens, as a
preliminary to that of scientific astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1403. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
“The work is well and systematically done.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 767. My. 23, ’08. 70w.
“Mr. Serviss is a clever writer, and the text is trustworthy ... but
the material is assembled in heterogeneous fashion, and the index is
very imperfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 170w.
“It is the charm of Serviss’s attractive book that it blends all that
is known of the stars and planets with all that has been imagined.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 750w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.= Moon: a popular treatise. il. **$1.50.
Appleton.
7–34594.
“The author presents in dialogue or conversational method a familiar
and easily understood description of the important physical features
of the moon. Technicalities are avoided, and there is nothing that
would puzzle the reader of ordinary intelligence. The illustration is
quite remarkable in its own way, for it consists of a series of lunar
photographs showing the moon as it appears on successive evenings
throughout an entire month, while the text describes the mountains,
plains, and craters, as they are seen in the successive
photographs.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“While feminine characteristics are very obtrusive in the
conversations, the reader may judiciously skip these, and find a
wealth of accurate descriptive matter concerning the prominent
features of the lunar landscape.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The exquisite photographs—well reproduced—and the easily readable
text of this volume should ensure it a welcome from all classes of
readers, whether they be astronomers or not.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 78: 101. Je. 4, ’08. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 180w.
“This form is in fact a very convenient and sensible one for the
purpose in view, and Mr. Serviss has made use of it to advantage.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Serviss would have done better to stick to the ordinary method.
Some readers, however, may prefer his device, and as far as we have
tested the book it is quite trustworthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Natural history of the ten commandments.
**50c. Scribner.
7–36867.
Mr. Seton develops the theory that the decalogue is not arbitrary and
for man’s use alone, but that it exists in the greater order of things
and all highly developed animals obey its laws.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 673. O. ’08. 40w.
“Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is likely in the end to
consider the idea a possible argument for moral evolution.” M. E.
Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Some scientists will criticise it as imaginative; that, in our view,
is its virtue.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 60w.
=Sewell, Elizabeth Missing.= Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell;
ed. by her niece Eleanor L. Sewell. *$1.50. Longmans.
The record of a busy useful life that extended over ninety-one years.
She identified herself thru life with literary interests, publishing
volumes of travel, history and fiction, the best known of the last
class being “Amy Herbert.” She became a pioneer worker in the movement
of more thoro education for girls, founding St. Boniface school in the
Isle of Wight.
* * * * *
“Her diary records much European travel. Her remarks on those she
encountered are acute.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 576. N. 9. 1700w.
“The story of her youth gives some interesting glimpses of social and
educational conditions in England during the early years of the last
century.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 260w.
“Told in a somewhat fragmentary manner. On the whole, however, the
picture is sufficiently complete.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 617. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
=Shaad, George C.= Power stations and power transmission. $1. Am.
school of correspondence.
7–37601.
A manual of approved American practice in the construction, equipment
and management of electrical generation stations, substations and
transmission lines, for power, lighting, traction, electrochemical and
domestic uses. The volume is divided into two parts, one on the power
station itself, and one on transmission.
* * * * *
“This book is free from those weaknesses of correspondence-school
books which have been criticised in these volumes. It should be a very
acceptable aid to those engineers who are called upon for such a great
variety of work that they cannot become specialists in this particular
branch.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Shallow, Edward B., and Cullen, Winifred T.= Nature study made
easy. *40c. Macmillan.
8–29747.
A series of lessons for the fourth grade of the New York city schools.
While essentially a reading book the subject matter is suitable for
nature study.
* * * * *
“There is a great deal of good and usable material in the book, but it
is so badly confused with make-believe conversation, impersonation,
emotionalism, and faulty science, that _instead of making nature-study
easy_, it would seem to the reviewer that the book must join that mass
of pseudo-nature literature which is really making it very hard for a
real nature-study to take a place in the school curriculum.” O. W.
Caldwell.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 616. Je. ’08. 460w.
“The form of the book will lead many teachers to encourage reading
more than observing. While it may for a time be useful for unprepared
teachers, it is certainly not going to help much in solving the most
pressing problems of nature study for city schools.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Shambaugh, Bertha Maud.= Amana, the community of true inspiration.
$3. State hist. soc. of Iowa, Iowa City, la.
8–19211.
The first detailed study of the Amana community of Iowa. Believing
that “divine inspiration and revelation are just as real and potent
to-day as in the time of Moses” these communists in both their church
and their society are bringing into realization the oracular power of
the Biblical prophets. “The people are graded into three spiritual
orders. Celibacy is praised, marriage is permitted; but marriage
reduces the pair temporarily to the lowest spiritual rank, and so does
the birth of each child. There are no amusements, no school vacations,
no politics. Daily prayer-meetings center all interest in the
salvation of the soul.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“An extraordinarily interesting account of the life of this unique
group.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 185. O. ’08. 350w.
“The author’s style is good; her account readable.” Carl Kelsey.