“The first thoro study of the community.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 60w.
“Of peculiar present interest is this account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
“A sympathetic and well-proportioned account of the social and
spiritual growth of Amana.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
=Shamel, Charles H.= Mining, mineral and geological law. $5. Hill
pub. co.
7–42017.
A treatise on the law of the United States involving geology,
mineralogy and allied sciences as applied in mining, real estate,
public land, United States customs and other litigation; also the
acquisition and maintenance of mining rights in the public domain and
obtaining patents for mineral land under the United States mining
laws. (Explanatory title.) It is designed for the lawyer as well as
the practical man.
* * * * *
“A concise but thorough discussion of the scientific topics which are
important in connection with mining litigation is given in the
beginning of the work, and its value is supplemented by an excellent
bibliography on these subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 305. Mr. ’08. 320w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
=Sharp, Archibald.= Balancing of engines: steam, gas, and petrol: an
elementary text-book, using principally graphical methods; for the
use of students, draughtsmen, designers, and buyers of engines.
*$1.75. Longmans.
7–42489.
“This book discusses in detail the methods of obtaining good balances
of the inertia forces of engines, and also briefly considers the
question of uniform torque on the crank-shaft. The treatment is
largely graphical, and the author has included original methods which
he believes will greatly facilitate the computations of engine
designers. Exercises for the use of students are appended to nearly
all of the chapters.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“As a whole, the book before us is admirably clear and well written.
The most important contribution which Mr. Sharp makes is in his
discussion of the kinetic energy of pistons and connecting rods.” L.
S. Marks.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 80. Ja. 16, ’08. 960w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 583. D. ’07. 100w.
=Sharp, Dallas Lore.= Lay of the land. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–27140.
“Fifteen brief talks on the small neighbors that share our home
fields—the muskrat, the buzzard, the owl, the woodchuck, the hundred
other small and large, but always busy, souls that have bodies to feed
and must feed them chiefly when we are not looking—that is, not
looking closely.” (Ind.) “The author retains enough of the scientific
temper to keep him accurate and safe from undue romancing, but not
enough to kill sentiment.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It will interest young people as much as adults.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08. ✠.
“The volume might well have been named from its best chapter, ‘A cure
for winter.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 370w.
“He is a born naturalist, a true lover of nature, and has the art
which is not easily acquired—the art of Thoreau, of John Burroughs, of
Gilbert White, of Selborne—of making interest where we poor, sightless
creatures make a dead loss of our time.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Nicolete. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The author introduces her readers to a “feckless but charming” family,
inhabiting an old Tudor manor house. The father, an artist, belonging
to “the fascinating, irresponsible order of beings,” and his beautiful
wife bring up their seven children “on much love and a minimum of
common-sense.” The sixth child, Nicolete, is the heroine of the story.
She “combines the best qualities of both parents, but [is] destined by
her loyalty and unworldliness to be perpetually victimized by her
brothers and sisters.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Miss Sharp is one of the lucky people who write with charm, whatever
their subject may be. Her children are always delightful, spontaneous,
and really childlike, and, if many of her other characters are but
grown-up children, they are none the worse for that.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 849. Ag. 31, ’07. 230w.
“The narrative opens with some amusing sketches of child life, and is
throughout bright and wholesome.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“Various phases of London and suburban social life are described, all
with a sure touch that reveals a wide knowledge and experience on the
part of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 300w.
“The book is readable, and more, right through, but the humour and
freshness of the first part eclipse the somewhat long-drawn sequel,
excellent though that sequel is as a study of an artistic temperament,
hampered by environment and the possession of a conscience.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 207. Ag. 24, ’07. 1320w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39228.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 84. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by E. S. Bradford.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 460. S. ’08. 400w.
“His volume, although frankly remaining a series of talks rather than
a book, has more unity than most collections of this sort; and it is
hopeful and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Its well-reasoned optimism is founded on wide knowledge and sincere
human sympathy. Its analysis of present conditions, and its
interpretation of them, are well-nigh authoritative.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Shaw’s work is judicial and dignified, tuned for presentation to
academic audiences, but yet quite radical in tone and spacious in
outlook.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 180w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 50. Ja. ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 330w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 540. Mr. 7, ’08. 700w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 554. S. ’08. 200w.
“The five college addresses which make up this volume are all rich in
suggestions derived from many years’ observation and experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Shaw, Leslie Mortier.= Current issues. **$2. Appleton.
8–8152.
Current political questions are discussed including the railway
question, overcapitalization and watered stock, trusts, and the
currency question.
* * * * *
“The book is of temporary interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 208. Je. ’08.
“Mainly of value as representing the views of one active in political
life and at the head of the treasury during an interesting period in
its administration.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 634. N. ’08. 50w.
“For students of the political thought and movements of the last
decade the volume has no little significance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
“What the book reflects is experience rather than learning, and a good
native intellect rather than study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 900w.
“Possesses beyond almost any other of our public men the gift of lucid
exposition.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Shearer, John Bunyan.= Scriptures: fundamental facts and features.
60c. Presbyterian com.
Seventeen Bible studies among which are included the following: The
unities of the Scriptures; The object and scope of written revelation;
The universal book; The canon; The supernatural in the Scriptures;
Creation and the Creator; The relations of the Bible and science;
Evolution; Geology; The six days of creation; The deluge; The Bible in
liberal education and God in history. Nine chapters are devoted to the
influence of Judaism on ancient religions, ancient philosophy, and
ancient civilization.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Lisheen, or, The test of the
spirits. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–33595.
A young Irish landlord reads Tolstoi, applies the lesson, and
discovers the condition of the Irish tenant must be improved. He
deserts his station for a time and goes to work as a peasant on a
small farm in Kerry. The hard fought battles of his self imposed
apprenticeship to experience rather lose their force at the end in the
magic of the “‘deus ex machina’ of a full purse.”
* * * * *
“Canon Sheehan is scarcely equal to his subject, but he must be
accorded due praise for his descriptions of the monotonous existence
led by the lowest classes in Ireland.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 274. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“The descriptions of peasant-life are admirable; the working out of
the plot is not convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 54. F. ’08.
“He has been tempted to add a secondary story, with disastrous
results.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 580w.
“This is all very well for a plot, but its handling is tame and
ineffective.”
− =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 420w.
“The story itself is rather awkwardly contrived, and the interest of
its central theme is much weakened by the introduction of many
chapters concerned with aristocratic society.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“The pictures of peasant-life—by no means idealised—are admirable. The
author must have discovered for himself, even though unconscious of
his errors against reality and good taste, that in half his chapters
he is building entirely upon guess-work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 673. N. 30, ’07. 540w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Parerga: a companion volume to
Under the cedars and the stars. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–7172.
Meditations, some four hundred in number, arranged under the heading
of the seasons, whose themes border on literature, metaphysics and
practical life. “Though the subjects vary indefinitely, they are
reflected in the same idealizing mirror of the writer’s mind. And of
that mind the most insistent categories are a contempt for modern
materialistic standards; a Solomon-like preference ... for the house
of mourning over the house of laughter; a sense of the fact that the
key to the world-riddle is kept by the spectre that holds the key to
all the creeds; finally, that the flying years bring with them
disillusionment—and resignation.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“Imagination and feeling, literary criticism, moralizing on the
mystery of things, keen but kindly observation of human nature, flow
in an unstinted tide from this charming philosopher, as he flits from
topic to topic with a sweep that embraces heterogeneity itself.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 340w.
“The book is far from being commonplace or dull.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 314. My. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Dr. Sheehan is not at his best in literary matters. In meditations on
nature and in certain aspects of human life he is more to be admired.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 835. My. 23, ’08. 470w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= Unbelief in the nineteenth century: a
critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
7–14561.
“A review of the various theories—philosophical, quasi-scientific,
theological, ethical, critical—which since the time of Kant have more
or less radically antagonized the beliefs of the church. These
theories are first stated and then criticised. Both the statement and
the criticism are presented in compact and lucid form, for a
vindication of Christian belief. The author’s standpoint is
conservative, but not extreme. He concludes that while the nineteenth
century has rigorously tested Christian beliefs, and modified them to
some extent, they have been fully vindicated in their fundamental
features.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sheldon writes in a clear style and shows wide reading in the
broad field he covers. His exposition is clear and historical and his
criticism such as is commonly urged by enlightened orthodox
apologists. Professor Sheldon does not seem to realize the profound
change that is demanded by our modern view of the world, and clings to
elements that belong to a deistic interpretation of the universe.” W.
C. Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 170. Ja. ’08. 690w.
“The entire discussion is fair-minded and instructive. The point of
criticism to which it is most liable is in the use of ‘miraculous’ and
‘supernatural’ as equivalent terms—a common mistake, than which none
is more fruitful of confused thought in current controversies.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 160w.
=Sheldon, Mary Boardman.= Coffee and a love affair: an American
girl’s romance on a coffee plantation. †$1. Stokes.
8–21616.
A story among the mountains of Central America whither “one makes his
way on the back of a good Sierra Nevada mule to a coffee plantation,
where gasoline prevails not and the mail arrives by a banana boat
every fourteen days.” (N. Y. Times.) “Here the reader cares more about
the coffee than he does about the love affair—the descriptive parts
and incidents of plantation life are really very good.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“The coffee predominates, and the numerous interesting facts
concerning it which are brought in under cover of a young American
girl’s passion for traveling in strange countries and away from beaten
tracks, commend the book as much to the masculine as to the feminine
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“An American woman ... tells her experiences with considerable
liveliness, a little after the manner of ‘The lady of the decoration,’
but without that little book’s personal charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.= Untrodden English ways. **$3. Little.
8–30034.
To the leisurely traveler or the stay-at-home tourist this volume is
made valuable by chapters about St. Ives, the haunt of artists and
authors: John Keble’s Hursley; By famous graves; Three memorable
pulpits, John Cotton’s, Thomas Arnold’s and Henry E. Manning’s;
Bunhill Fields, the “Campo santo of the dissenters”; and Westminster
abbey’s collection of wax effigies which in centuries past have
appeared in funeral processions.
* * * * *
“Mr. Shelley’s style is easy and readable, bespeaking intimate
acquaintance with the subject in hand.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“A great amount of enthusiasm, reverence and love is bottled up in the
book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19. ’08. 50w.
“We advise these who are planning a voyage to England to procure and
study this convenient handbook.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 908. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“This book will have special interest to those who love Devonshire.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 739. D. ’08. 40w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to
Elizabeth Hitchener; with introd. and notes by Bertram Dobell.
*$1.50. Dodd.
8–18715.
Some forty odd letters written by Shelley to the Sussex
schoolmistress, Elizabeth Hitchener, who in the private life of the
Shelleys was entitled “Portia.” or “Bessy,” but who in the end was
denominated “the Brown Demon ... our later tormentor and
schoolmistress.” The correspondence is published for the first time.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 302. S. 12. 640w.
“It is altogether a pathetic, interesting, absurd story; and though
the letters contain nothing material to it which was not known before,
it is satisfactory to have them complete.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 339. Mr. 14, ’08. 1550w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 280w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.= Stained glass tours in France.
**$1.50. Lane.
8–856.
“Describes the notable windows to be seen and gives practical and full
itineraries for reaching them. With a view to the convenience of the
tourist and student, he divides the history of stained glass into
three epochs: (1) The thirteenth century and earlier; (2) fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries; (3) sixteenth century. Visits to the glass of
these epochs are subdivided into a dozen tours. A table of itineraries
groups the distances from Paris in kilometers. The illustrations show
representative examples of the art.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“A useful, interesting book for the intelligent sight seer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 209. Je. ’08. ✠
“Had he taken only a little more trouble and been less diffident of
his abilities, he could have produced a volume both fascinating and
valuable, with little addition to its bulk.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 400w.
“Mr. Sherrill’s descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town
are simple, non-technical, and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“In system and accuracy of treatment the volume renders capital
service as an introduction to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 100w.
“He is a particularly pleasant guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 41. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
=Sherzer, William Hittell.= Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and
Selkirks. (Smithsonian expedition of 1904.) (Part of Smithsonian
contributions to knowledge v. 34, no. 1692.) $1.75. Smithsonian
inst.
8–4476.
“Gives the results of a systematic examination of the Victoria and
Wenkchemna glaciers in Alberta and of the Yoho, Asulkan, and
Illecillewaet glaciers in British Columbia. The study embraced the
surface features of these glaciers, the nature of the ice movement,
the temperature of the ice at various depths and its relations to the
air temperatures, the amount of surface melting, the possible
transference of material from the surface portion to lower portions,
the rates of movement, the advances and recessions of the glacial
extremities, and the structure of the ice. There is an accessory
discussion of the physiographic changes of the region in Pleistocene
and earlier times.”—J. Geol.
* * * * *
“An unsatisfactory flavor is given this by an effort, italicized as
though important, to make plasticity mean something which plasticity
does not usually mean, for no other apparent reason than to justify
the retention of an old term which is likely to be either misleading
or meaningless.” F. C. C.
+ − =J. Geol.= 16: 388. My. ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too diffuse in
describing the well-known, Dr. Sherzer has made a valuable and
remarkably well-illustrated contribution to the literature of
glaciers.” T. G. Bonney.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 463. Mr. 19, ’08. 1050w.
=Shield, Alice, and Lang, Andrew.= King over the water, il. *$4.20.
Longmans.
8–11474.
The biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, the “Old Chevalier” or
the “Old Pretender.” “The purpose has been,” so the preface states,
“as far as may be, to avoid incursions into general history, confining
the work to biography.”
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“We have noticed very few blunders. The reader who takes pleasure in
Mr. Lang’s sprightly style will find something not unlike it in these
pages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 1100w.
“By a careful study of all the documents available, what is really the
first complete modern biography of James has been produced.” Edward
Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 169. Ap. ’08. 1200w.
“Miss Shield is interested in the human side of her subject, and gives
us a delightful picture of every-day life at Saint Germains and
Urbino.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 42. Jl. 16, ’08. 720w.
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“The present attempt at rehabilitation is a bright and spirited piece
of writing, quite worthy in most parts of Mr. Lang, though he assigns
the larger share of the credit for it to his collaboratrix, Miss
Shield. It contains some good and curious reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
“Very interesting, though here and there, in spite of Mr. Lang’s
supervision, slightly effusive.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Shields, Rev. Thomas Edwards.= Education of our girls. *$1.
Benziger.
7–41558.
Higher education of women is advocated in this discussion but emphasis
is laid upon the fact that it must be education for women. The author
dwells at length upon the subject of coeducation, and concludes that
women can be most fully and most naturally educated only in schools
and colleges provided for them alone.
* * * * *
“Whosoever is interested in the subject will find a fund of suggestion
in a modest little volume by Dr. Shields. To a thorough knowledge of
theoretical pedagogics Dr. Shields unites a wide experience of the
practical conditions of Catholic education for girls, as they exist in
this country.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 550w.
=Shoemaker, John Vietch.= Health and beauty. *$3. Davis.
8–20542.
“Dr. Shoemaker, the well-known specialist and professor in the
Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, has in this volume
undertaken the serious and practical task of teaching people how to
take care of themselves, and especially of their skin. The skin is not
only the pane of glass through which we can see and read the condition
of the internal organs, but it is the drain-surface of the body. The
doctor shows us how it may be kept in a condition of efficiency, how
it may be brightened and beautified.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“We are acquainted with no popular work of the kind so thorough, so
learned, so voluminous, and so sane.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“His book is a capital one, and should be in the possession of every
one who is interested in the acquirement or maintenance of sound
health and the beauty derived therefrom.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 428. Ag. 1, ’08. 470w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Wanderings in Ireland. **$2.50. Putnam.
The spirit of Ireland gets into Mr. Shoemaker’s pages from the moment
he hears the Isle of Shamrock’s greeting to him. “Glory be to God, but
yer Honor’s welcome.” He travels “by donkey-cart, by jaunting-car, by
train and motor,” is a keen observer and sympathizer, and gives vivid
descriptions of the people and their land.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Can be read with entertainment even by those who have no interest in
motoring.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“A vivacious narrator.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The description is entertaining and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“There is plenty of information in this volume, information
historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment
as might have been expected.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Greater love. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–17252.
A story which portrays the suffering of a woman whose daughter was
born out of wedlock. The mother finds that no matter how extenuating
were the circumstances of her offense she must atone for a broken law,
which atonement involves the greatest conceivable sacrifice, viz.,
separation from her child.
* * * * *
“The style, if somewhat serious, is dignified, and the psychology of
the mother’s love is made clear and credible without exaggeration or
mawkish sentimentality.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
“As a statement of the omnipresent problem, the book has some novel
adjuncts and complications. As a contribution to a solution it is
worthless, since morally it is a long, indeterminate muddle.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 470w.
“Mrs. Sholl has written a book worth the writing, and written it with
dignity and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Deep currents of feeling and character are indicated in an almost
masterly fashion.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 531. Jl. 4. ’08. 170w.
=Short. Ernest H.= History of sculpture. *$3. Dutton.
8–19092.
“Mr. Short believes that true art is always the expression and
interpretation of national life.... As a background for an intelligent
understanding of the sculpture of any age one must have, then, an idea
of its temper and tendencies. Such conceptions Mr. Short endeavors to
supply in brief historical summaries and characterizations.... His
book covers the entire ground from the rise of the sculptor’s art in
Greece through the work of the French and British schools of the
nineteenth century. Few biographical data are given, and attention is
paid only to the most characteristic works of each artist.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Many of the author’s opinions are disputable, but the facts are
mostly taken from accepted textbooks, though their expression is
sometimes inaccurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 250w.
=Dial.= 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“While the author’s critical qualifications are not of the highest
order, and his style is often slipshod, he yet succeeds in taking
sculpture out of the region of the archeological catalog of technical
and dry discussion, and in describing many of its masterpieces as the
expression of national or local feeling, and even in some of his pages
in quickening the reader’s sense of plastic beauty.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“This book is readable and suggestive. It is not really a history of
sculpture. It is rather a collection of readable essays for leisure
hours.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“At both ends, it is manifestly incomplete. Its excellencies, however,
are as patent as are its defects.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 750w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Collected poems; with an introd. by George
Meredith. $1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Shorter with the true ballad and short-story gift scores many of
her greatest successes in the field of Irish legend. Her poetry has
been collected here with an introduction by George Meredith. “It is
hard to choose where all is good, but if choice must be made ours
shall be ‘The Dean of Santiago,’ ‘The beggar maid,’ ‘The white witch,’
‘The little black hound,’ ‘The man who trod on sleeping grass,’ ...
‘Cean Duv Deelish,’ the beautiful little poem on ‘Ireland,’ ‘The
suicide’s grave,’ and the final poem, ‘The enemies.’” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 1000w.
“The true thing to say about them is—what is in fact very high
praise—that they are nearly all very pleasant to read.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 340. N. 8, ’07. 1200w.
“Some extremely enjoyable verses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 850w.
“There is a readable flow and interest in many of Mrs. Shorter’s
ballad and narrative poems.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Limited both in range of thought and expression, her poetry wins the
reader by a certain sincerity, freshness, and simplicity.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Shufeldt, Robert Wilson.= Negro: a menace to American civilization.
$1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–36977.
“An impassioned plea against the process of hybridization or
‘mongrelization,’ which, in the author’s opinion threatens the white
race in this country so long as the negro remains with us. Admitting
that the tendency of modern civilization seems to be the amalgamation
of all races and their unification into one, he yet protests against
the amalgamation of negro with white American, (which is proceeding
steadily in his view).”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Careful students, administrators, educators already perplexed by the
problems of race contact, will find no help in the volume.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Shufeldt is more lurid than scientific in the form of his
statements at times, for he speaks rather as a justified alarmist than
as an investigator, but his book, also, is not without its value as
evidence in the case.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Extempore speaking for school and college.
*90c. Ginn.
8–20155.
Aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both
teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making
the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at
the end of each chapter and in the appendix, suggestions and topics
for class exercises.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Later years of Catherine de Medici. *$3.
Dutton.
8–36143.
“The first of Miss Sichel’s work, published some time ago, dealt with
Catherine and the French reformation—the woman struggling for power.
The second part, now before us, brings the story down to the year of
her death, 1589 and consists principally in a study of the art of
balancing parties and social forces by which the princess of diplomats
maintained her sway.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Our author has done well the work she has set out to do; she is
unusually free from heated partisanship.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 844. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“She has her material well in hand and makes it serve a natural gift
for the analysis of human motives.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“Is written with a clear and ardent appreciation of the great
personalities who made up the social and political life of the era,
and with a firm grasp of the close sequence of events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 536. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Miss Sichel is both a skilled and a powerful writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 90w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 240. Ag. 22, ’08. 1100w.
“This is certainly the most striking book Miss Sichel has yet written,
and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
=Sickert, Bernhard.= Whistler. (Library of art.) *75c. Dutton.
“Breadth of vision has enabled the author to see the painter’s art in
relation to contemporary feeling, in its relation to his opponent
Ruskin’s criticism, and to the artistic aspects of the modern world.
The real, and not the superficial, points about Whistler’s art are
understood, and the selection of etchings reproduced for illustration
is the best that could have been made.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“One might seek very far amongst the small books upon art which
nowadays are issued in such numbers to find again a book so pleasantly
written as this one. The writer shows insight into his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 319. O. 08. 120w.
“Mr. Sickert writes of the art of Whistler with great enthusiasm, but
also with much discrimination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 80. Jl. 23, ’08. 240w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Home life in Germany.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
8–20729.
From a thoroly German point of view. Mrs. Sidgwick discusses the
“German children, their schools, the education of the poor, that
peculiar type of girl known as the ‘Backfisch,’ the students, women,
marriage and housewives, householders and servants, food, shops,
markets and sports and games, inns, restaurants, lodgings, summer
resorts, peasant life, and the poor.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 241. O. ’08. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 754. Je. 20. 1400w.
“Has given her book an introduction which comes near being the best
thing in it. It does exactly what a preface ought to do, it makes the
reader eager to press on to the rest of the book whether he be
interested in the subject or not, because he feels that anything such
a sane, broad-minded, and amicably humorous woman has to say will be
worth reading.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 40: 63. Jl. ’08. 1300w.
“She has written no more interesting story than this book on home life
in Germany.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of entertaining
information, seasoned by lively anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“An interesting book that shows an intimate knowledge of racial
peculiarities in living and in point of view.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 20w.
“A singularly acute and intimate appreciation of home life in
Germany.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 440w.
“A really unusually interesting book this, by a woman who knows both
English and German types and treats them with a kindly sympathy, a
keen discernment, and a good-natured humor which make highly
entertaining reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has written a book which was wanted, and written it
with exceptional verve.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 831. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Desire. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Desire, the heroine of this novel, is called upon to choose, at the
time of her father’s death, between a wealthy marriage and earning her
own living. She prefers the bread-winner’s course. “Peter Grimstone,
the hero, is the most attractive figure in the book, and his
struggles, aided by Desire as his secretary, with the affairs of
Grimstone and Son, and with the machinations of his wicked brother
Alexander, are not a little interesting.” (Spec.) “The real strength
of the book lies in the careful development of the two chief figures
and the reader’s interest and belief in their ultimate happiness.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The book, in short, is decidedly unequal but the author’s charm of
writing and sincerity of purpose will reward all readers who have
patience and perseverance enough to proceed with the unsatisfactory
early chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Silver, Arthur P.= Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada;
or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman; with an
introd. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona. **$2. Dutton.
W8–122.
“The book, which is better printed than bound, is made up of a rather
heterogeneous collection of papers on husbandry, angling, and hunting.
The many illustrations are of varying excellence, but they serve to
give the reader a good idea of the character of the maritime provinces
and Newfoundland.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The beautiful province of Nova Scotia has been well served here by
Mr. Silver.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 350w.
“A number of minor mistakes might be noted.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 150w.
“Eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is pleasantly and unpretentiously written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“This is a most readable book, and we have enjoyed the description of
life and sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
=Sinclair, Bertrand William.= Raw gold. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–21615.
The Canadian border furnishes the scene of this tale of Wild West
life—primitive, exhilarating, spiced with dangers. Particularly is it
a delineation of the character of the Northwest mounted police, sent
by the English government to keep order “in a territory that was a
city of refuge for tough people who had played their string out south
of the line.”
* * * * *
“There is sentiment of the kind that fits with the open sky and life
in the saddle, and the whole story moves with a swing and reality that
are refreshing in the extreme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 528. S. 26, ’08. 230w.
=Sinclair, May.= Immortal moment: the story of Kitty Tailleur. (Eng.
title Kitty Tailleur.) †$1.50. Doubleday.
“In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the
demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, induces him to
propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past.... The struggle
between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose
mistress Kitty Tailleur is—is described with extraordinary force. The
tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.” (Spec.)
“Her ‘immortal moment’ is ironically so called, for it is the moment
in which the higher nature asserts itself, and she makes the
confession which she knows must end her dream.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Miss Sinclair has up to a point made an excellent study of a type,
and then shut her eyes and jumped at the rest. Yet her failure is more
interesting than most successes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 220w.
“It is seldom that a story brings to the reviewer such a sense of
impotence to do it justice within the space of a single paragraph.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 264. N. ’08. 550w.
“As a faint reflex of the Camille story this one must be set down as
essentially immoral, simply because its intention is to throw a
sentimental glamor over the ugly outlines of depravity. But we cannot
dispute its literary art or its emotional subtlety.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Rehabilitates the Camille motif by the sterling art of its
treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“Sometimes the reticence lies a little obscuringly over the effect.
But the reticence is delightful; we forgive it our losses for the sake
of the gain, and we admire the author’s determination to offer no
concessions to stupidity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 21. Jl. 4. ’08. 630w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 237. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Sinclair, May.= Judgment of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
8–9176.
An analyst’s portrayal of the subjective phases of two egoists’
married life. The sea change that gave their life the shimmer of
something rich and strange as two souls struggled and fluttered after
the immaterial is followed by a transformation caused by the failure
to give fresh, wholesome, material expression to their ideals, leaving
a “decomposing discolored shell” wholly at the mercy of the peace of
dulness.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A sad story, interestingly told, but with a moral somewhat obscure.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The right people will probably never hear of ‘The judgment of Eve.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 180w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Metropolis. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–5582.
To expose the vice and extravagance of the New York rich has been Mr.
Sinclair’s purpose in writing this story. Two brothers, one the
antithesis of the other, are the mouthpieces which Mr. Sinclair uses
respectively to shout forth the demagogue’s selfish creed and to
denounce it.
* * * * *
“The strength of the novel is in its picturesqueness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 250w.
“We close the book with the feeling that our time has been wasted upon
a very dull tract.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A large part of it reads like the prospectus of a hotel or the
advertisement of a department store, with the prices in plain figures
on every article.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“It is a tract with enough of the air of fiction to draw the attention
of a generally intractable public. The story element is delightfully
ingenuous.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“A jumble of odds and ends. The yellow ‘sensations’ of two or three
years reappear in a barbarous melange. It has all been done, and much
better. The bad example, as Mr. Sinclair depicts it, only disgusts
educated people because of the falsity of the picture, and ought to
make the multitude laugh.”
− − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 1300w.
“Nothing is more patent than the author’s lack of personal knowledge
concerning the social life of New York. If it were not so absurd, it
would be a pitiful exhibition of misdirected energy.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“True stories must often be harrowing and heartbreaking; but there is
no excuse for writing brutal, hateful, sordid fairy stories.”
− − =Outlook.= 88: 909. Ap. 25, ’08. 1200w.
“Morally and intellectually as repellant as the descriptions of the
physical details of the Chicago stock-yards and slaughter-houses.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 400w.
“Books like ‘The metropolis’ act as a lure to the weak-minded instead
of serving as danger-signals to keep them from the path of evil.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 530w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Moneychangers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–24866.
A continuation of “The metropolis.” In this second of a trilogy aiming
at an exposé of contemporary business and social corruption of New
York, Mr. Sinclair reveals the rottenness of Wall Street’s high
finance.
* * * * *
“To say the truth, Mr. Sinclair is neither a Dickens nor a Zola,
but ... a successful sensation-monger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
“Is hardly to be classed as a novel, just as it savors of the absurd
to class his previous works as fiction. It is a tract, a preachment in
journalistic style, through the mouths of marionettes.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“If he is lying, this book ought to be burned; and if he is concocting
the stories he tells so circumstantially, there are at least fifty
well-founded prosecutions for criminal libel in the book.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 581. N. 7, ’08. 770w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Great rivers of the world, as seen and
described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34681.
“Victor Hugo’s glowing words repeat his impressions of the Rhine and
Loire; Dickens tells of a trip down the St. Lawrence (was he so fair
to it because it is more Canadian than American?); Pierre Loti
pictures the Ganges, Thoreau the Concord and the Merrimac, and Mrs.
Richings the Irrawaddy. All the rivers of the earth which are great
either in size or in association are described by competent
writers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The accounts are various in character, some statistical and some
impressionistic, and they show entertaining variety of style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Holland. (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
In which visits are made to the Hague gallery; the Rijks museum; the
Stedelijk museum; the Town hall, Haarlem; and the Boijmans museum,
Rotterdam. Brief biographies of painters, helpful comment and
criticism on the most famous pictures in each gallery, and
illustrations which aid the text are presented in condensed form for
the tourist.
* * * * *
“A careful resumé of the treasures of Holland, a compact book
convenient for reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, comp. Switzerland, described by great writers.
**$1.60. Dodd.
8–34593.
“The first division of the book deals with the country and the race,
the second with their history, the third with Alpine climbing, the
fourth is descriptive purely, the fifth sets forth social life among
the Alps, and the last is devoted to statistics. The names of Ruskin,
Tyndall, Goethe, and Victor Tissot are in the list of writers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Shows Miss Singleton’s careful editing. Mr. Edward Whymper’s exciting
account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn alone makes the book
notable.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
=Slaughter, Rev. Philip.= History of Truro parish in Virginia; ed.
with notes and addenda by Rev. E. L. Goodwin. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14829.
The parish whose history is sketched here included among its vestrymen
George Washington, George Mason, and other noted statesmen. The sketch
is important because it shows the character of the church school
which, hand in hand with religion, taught men of genius the rudiments
of popular government, the foundations of human rights, and the
reconciliation of diverse rights.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Slosson, Mrs. Annie.= Dissatisfied soul; and A prophetic romancer.
*75c. Bonnell.
8–19156.
Two stories of New England life. The first set in the White mountains
sketches a woman characterized by her sister-in-law as the “fittiest,
restlessest, changeablest” woman living, who was “never, never quite
satisfied.” Even death did not bring her rest, so she returns to earth
after three weeks. The second story whose scenes are laid in
Connecticut tells how the story which a young girl writes comes true
in dream fashion.
* * * * *
“She shows her usual skill in the handling of a grotesque theme.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“It is a clever and very entertaining short story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Slosson, Annie Trumbull.= Simples from the Master’s garden. *$1. S.
S. Times co.
7–42011.
A group of stories in each of which is a simple exemplar or expositor
who reveals the healing power of some phase of Christ truth.
* * * * *
“In homely phrases she sends out many a truth which might be ignored
in more costly dress.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Mrs. Slosson continues to write in her original vein of tender human
feeling and deep spirituality.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“All are of good quality.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Small, Sidney Alymer-.= Electrical railroading; or, Electricity as
applied to railroad transportation. $3.50. Drake, F. J.
8–10297.
“Evidently this volume was prepared mainly for men who had no
knowledge of electricity previous to securing the particular book....
The first third of the book deals with elementary electricity and
magnetism, covering, in an inferior way, about the same ground as
could be studied with any good text-book on elementary physics. The
other two-thirds of the book seem to be largely copied from
descriptive catalogs of prominent manufacturing companies, and from
employee’s instruction books, as issued by a few railroads.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is clearly-written, and for the man who has not had a
technical training it will prove a valuable aid in enabling him to
keep up with the advances in his profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 190w.
“There is enough in the book that is new and useful to make it a
matter for regret that so many criticisms need to be made. The book is
safe for the instruction of motormen, etc., only under the direction
of a well-educated engineer who will be able to recognize troubles
which exist for the confusion of most readers.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 546. My. 14, ’08. 960w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Daughter: a love story. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10433.
A daughter suffocating in her home and town surroundings breaks away
from her family, goes to London and throws herself into “socialism,
emancipation of women and various other popular movements of a radical
type.” A wealthy young Englishman falls in love with her, but
realizing the futility of wooing her, masquerades as a young mechanic,
wins her, and finally, after demonstrating his manhood and the sanity
of his ideas, secures her forgiveness for the deception. “The author
has turned out a good tale—a sane mixture of the socialistic,
purposeful, and often hectic novel, with the healthy story of an
admirable love match.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“She has not allowed her charming gift of imagination to be stifled in
a riot of either abuse or argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 150w.
“The chief fault with Constance Smedley’s vigorous and carefully
written book, ‘The daughter,’ is not the lack of a message, but rather
an obscurity in its scope and purport.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
=Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3. ’08. 40w.
“Has interest, the interest not of a great or a literary product, but
of a faithfully planned and well told story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“It is a tract, spirited, clever, often dramatic, but still
essentially a tract on the marriage question.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
“Quite entertaining are the adventures of Delia.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Alton Lincoln.= Frederic William Maitland: two lectures and
a bibliography. *85c. Oxford.
A presentation “of Professor Maitland’s historical method, of his
conception of history, and of the quality of his work.” “In the first
lecture the clue to Maitland’s greatness is found in his spiritual
conception of history ... and in his broad and profound human
sympathy, with which his imagination, insight and humor are closely
allied. In the second lecture, Maitland is considered as a ‘converted
lawyer,’ come back to the historical fold, whose legal training gave
him an interest in the history of ideas and a practical, as opposed to
a purely academic, point of view.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Thoughtful discussions.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 907. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The careful bibliography appended to these lectures might be more
conveniently arranged.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 620w.
“Contain a panegyric ... which is splendidly generous, yet after
making all deductions we cannot dispute its substantial justice.” C.
J.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 621. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“This is a tribute of praise worthy of the man to whose memory it is
paid,—more it would not be possible to say.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
=Smith, Arthur.= Game of go, the national game of Japan. **$2.50.
Moffat.
8–21547.
A guide to the Japanese national game which is played on a board like
chess or checkers and is a game of skill not of chance. There are 361
positions for the men instead of 64, and it requires about thirty
years at the rate of one game a day for the player to attain
professional rank of the lowest degree.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Smith’s exposition, with the abundant diagrams, details of rules
and methods, and illustrative games, is admirable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 390w.
=Outlook.= 90: 137. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
=Smith, Charles Sprague.= Poems. *$1. Wessels.
8–24852.
A little volume of verse which sounds the dream note of a busy man’s
life. Poems of his college-days, several written during years spent in
Europe, and poems of the people, with liberty and fraternity for
themes, are included in the group.
* * * * *
“The thoughts exprest are inspiring and the feeling sympathetic.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 130w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Santa Claus and all about him. †$2. Stokes.
“The pictures and texts give an account of the whole Christmas history
of Santa Claus from the time of his waking up one cold morning at the
north pole, his trip down into the world of boys and girls to see what
is needed, then back to the pole, work in the toy shops, and finally
the return with a load of presents. The book comes in a box showing
Santa and his reindeer on it.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 384. D. ’08. 110w.
“It is not the text that matters, but the interpretative drawings in
color; here the detail is joyously clever and will please older people
because of a subtle humor, even as it will hold the youngsters because
of the strong appeal to imagination.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 110w.
=Smith, Ernest Ashton.= Hildebrand: the builder. (Men of the
kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–22118.
A scholarly presentation of the times of Hildebrand, the manner in
which the papacy as an institution was evolved, the condition of the
clergy, the sway of German popes, the power behind the papal See, and
the progress and results of Hildebrand’s mission to raise the morality
of the church, and to strengthen its unity.
=Smith, F. Dumont.= Blue waters and green and the Far East to-day.
$1.50. Crane & co.
8–22265.
After many experiences with people the world over, Mr. Smith believes
that the ideal race would be the composite one, with the industry,
honesty and temperance of the Chinese, the courtesy of the Japanese,
the frugality, wit and the artistic sense of the French, the stability
and balance of the Germans, the tenacity of purpose of the English,
and the energy, initiative, the driving power, and saving sense of
humor of the Americans.
* * * * *
“Adds to a lively sense of fun the qualities of serious contemplative
judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 300w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver,
one who was not afraid and who spoke the truth. (True American
types ser., v. 5.) *60c. Am, Unitar.
8–28435.
A sketch of Captain Scott, the original of Caleb West in “Caleb West;
master-diver.” Thru his submarine work on the Race Rock lighthouse off
New London harbor, which Mr. Smith built in his profession of
engineer, Captain Scott became an honored friend of the author’s,
valued for his integrity, command of resources, indomitable courage,
fearlessness and control over his men.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It is a good little book for a pessimist to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Peter: a novel of which he is not the
hero. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23554.
Peter, gentle and manly, shrewd and ingenuous, young and sixty, gives
unstintingly of his time, his service and his love to young Jack, the
hero, an impulsive southern lad who cares more for honor,
independence, and friendship, than for the profit to be derived from
his uncle’s Wall street office. Peter, as Jack’s Prospero, provides
him with adventures and opportunities for heroism as the confidential
clerk to a contracting engineer; nor is the magic wand laid aside
until Jack has come into his fortune and has brought to a successful
issue a diffident courtship of his employer’s daughter.
* * * * *
“A very cheerful, wholesome book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a characteristic story, betraying all the recognisable
qualities of the author; it is well-bred, nicely written, with a
painter’s instinct for light and shade, constructed with an engineer’s
sense of form, and it glamours with the usual suspicion of personal
reminiscence and autobiographic impressions.” G: Middleton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 153. O. ’08. 460w.
“This new story of his has both charm and fragrance; if it does not
reach very far into the depths of life, it at least shows us the
surface in most alluring colors.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Its great charm lies in the author’s marvelous descriptions and his
genius for picking the good instead of the evil out of life ... a
high, fine, friendly goodness that belongs to earth and mortality here
and now.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 718. S. 24, ’08. 870w.
“It is a very cheerful and wholesome sort of book, with lots of
people wandering in and out of its pages, not much of a plot, and
such as there is rather loose-jointed, plenty of good talk—most of
it Peter’s—on a great variety of subjects and a general
aren’t-you-glad-you’re-alive sort of air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 380w.
“‘Peter’ is a bit of romanticism in a day of commercial engrossment,
and makes the charm of the old South, which was non-commercial,
credible.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 272. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
=Smith George Adam.= Jerusalem: the topography, economics and
history from the earliest times to A. D. 70. **$7.50. Armstrong.
8–20144.
A work that is complementary to the author’s “Historical geography of
the Holy Land.” The first volume treats of the geology, the water
supply and of topographical problems. The second volume gives a
connected history, religious and political, of the city and its people
from the days of Tell-el-Amarna to the conquest of Titus.
* * * * *
“We feel that even in a long review it is impossible to do full
justice to the many-sided interest of this important work, in which
true scholarship is never flaunted, but is felt in every line, and in
which moderation and sound sense dominate every conclusion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 631. My. 23. 2100w.
“As a whole this is the most elaborate and scholarly work on Jerusalem
that has appeared in any language.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 680w.
“The value of these volumes lies, not in the presentation of new
discoveries, but in the sane exposition and discussion of what we
already know with regard to the topography, the archaeology, and the
history, religious, social, and political, of Jerusalem.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 1700w.
“An interesting and instructive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Smith has the caution of a true scholar, he will not go beyond
the place where he has sure footing.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 670w.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 82. Jl. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“We are warmly grateful for an admirable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 95. Jl. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Smith, H. Clifford.= Jewellery. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50.
Putnam.
8–20539.
“With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewelry the
author has confined himself to Europe, dividing his work into four
main divisions. The first deals with the jewelry worn during classical
times and until the ninth century of our era; the second treats of the
jewels of the middle ages; the third is devoted to the jewels of the
renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times. In
compiling the work the best authorities have been consulted, and the
owners of famous collections have been generous in the matter of
photographs of their choicest treasures.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“That this attractive subject has fallen into eminently capable hands
is at once apparent, as is also the restraint the author has exercised
in order to bring the work within reasonable bounds.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 308. S. 12. 1300w.
“Scholarly volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 330w.
“That which is most admirable in the book is the author’s strong sense
of the artistic value and significance of jewelry.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 59. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11. ’08. 400w.
“The thoroughness of the author’s work and his excellent equipment for
his task are evident on every page. It is sure to occupy an honored
place in the libraries of collectors and to be regarded by museums and
specialists as a high authority on a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Smith, Harry James.= Amédée’s son. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23927.
Cape Breton folk, staunch in Catholicism and steeped in superstition,
form a background for this story of simple deeds. In the foreground
are an orphan lad, dreaming of the call of the sea and finding study
intolerable, a grandfather whose dearest wish is that the boy shall
resist religion as it is taught, and study to find God in the law and
order of the world of science, and an old servant who opens the eyes
of the grandson to the duty of love that he owes the aged man.
* * * * *
“A gentle and gracious idyll. The story is of the slightest, the
handling graceful but somewhat amateurish.”
+ − =Nation.= 37: 341. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“He is quite a real person all the way along, and he moves among real
persons, some of whom are well worth meeting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Smith, Rev. John Talbot.= Training of a priest: an essay on
clerical education, with a reply to the critics. **$1.50.
Longmans.
8–13666.
Deals with the “studies and mental culture of Catholic priests.... Dr.
Smith is himself a priest, and writes with a view to improving the
intellectual status of American seminaries.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“We have our doubts whether Dr. Smith’s recommendations will strike to
the root of the trouble.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The clear account of the training of a young man for the priesthood,
the charm and ease of style, and the eminent good sense and breadth of
the author make the book much more than a mere sectarian essay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4. ’08. 140w.
=Smith, Joseph Russell.= Story of iron and steel. (Appleton’s lib.
of useful stories.) **75c. Appleton.
8–5612.
“Gives what larger volumes have failed to do—namely, an intelligent,
readable presentation of the broad aspects of iron and steel making,
which are of interest to the average man. It discusses not only the
purely technical development from a historical standpoint, but also
the no less important economic and commercial results accompanying
this development.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“An excellent little book for the use of teachers, as well as for the
pleasure of the interested general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 108. Ap. ’08. ✠
“May truthfully be described as the first satisfactory popular history
of the world’s greatest industry.” W. S. Tower.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 462. S. ’08. 430w.
“His style is clear and simple; he has succeeded in his purpose to
‘make every paragraph intelligible to the lay reader,’ but it would
still be possible for an unregenerate man to take a nap while scanning
the pages.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Smith, Logan Pearsall.= Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2v.
*$7.75. Oxford.
8–9089.
Mr. Smith has collected Sir Henry Wotton’s letters, presented them
with necessary annotations in order of data and prefixed to the
collection a life of the writer.
* * * * *
“He has come only a little short of producing himself a literary
masterpiece. For this achievement both his method and his style prove
a shade too severe. This book is one which no student of European
history during the first quarter of the seventeenth century may safely
neglect.” Barrett Wendell.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 852. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is the master of a close scholarly style, relieved
now by a happy metaphor, now by a touch of dry humour. His work in
these volumes shows a rare combination of literary sense, painstaking
care in collecting, elucidating, and dating his material, balanced
judgment, and self-repression.” G. C. M. Smith.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 361. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith has the essential qualifications for dealing with
a man like Wotton—he can write lightly and readably. The biography,
which fills half of the first of his two fine volumes, in no sense
competes with Walton. It is full and complete, whereas Walton’s is
simply an inimitable portrait of his friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 345. N. 15, ’07. 3300w.
“His letters are edited with rare erudition and still rarer taste.” P.
E. M.
+ =Nation.= 86: 278. Mr. 26, ’08. 3500w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word, and
his wide erudition, his scrupulous exactitude, his immense and
enthusiastic industry, have combined to produce a work which will
serve as a permanent object-lesson to the great host of slipshod
literary historians.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 821. N. 23, ’07. 1900w.
=Smith, Nora Archibald.= Adventures of a doll. †75c. McClure.
8–277.
“The scenes of this little story for children by the well-known sister
of the equally well-known Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, are laid in the
Scottish highlands. The three characters are Betty, a little
five-year-old girl, her dog Muff, and her rag doll.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A merry little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 24. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss Smith tells the stories in a breezy manner.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Robinson.= English quotations. *$2.50. Dutton.
W8–110.
A collection of the more memorable passages and poems of English
literature, arranged according to authors, chronologically, containing
a full index of words. It is neither an anthology nor a handbook; it
is rather a scrapbook of “elegant extracts” which Mr. Smith invites
the public to share with him.
* * * * *
“We cannot call the book either a good anthology or a good reference
manual of familiar quotations. The poetry selected is good, as far as
it goes, but the selection seems to be representative of one man’s
taste, instead of illustrating the consensus of received critical
opinions.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The selections are too short for reading and not numerous enough for
reference.”
− =Ind.= 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“The poetical value of a passage has more weight with the editor than
proverbial portability. As such the pages of the volume may be turned
over with unflagging interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 80w.
“A preposterous book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 430w.
=Smith, Rollin Edson.= Wheat fields and markets of the world. $2.15.
Modern miller co., 3d & Pine sts., St. Louis, Mo.
8–21514.
“It is often impossible to answer the questions concerning wheat
fields and wheat markets without a long search in newspapers,
pamphlets, and encyclopaedias. In the present volume we have replies
to very many questions which would ordinarily occur in connection with
wheat fields and markets—not so much, however, in connection with the
methods of grainhandling, milling, and manipulation of prices.”
(Outlook.) “Conditions in Western Canada are especially instructive
and the countries of Europe and Argentina contribute their quota of
important data.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Smith’s book fills a long-felt want.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“This is a decidedly useful book and one that makes us wonder why the
idea was not worked out long ago.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of
chapters on present day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“The attempted distinction between political and economic socialism is
not clear.” M. O. Lorenz.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 297. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Smith is apparently not so well acquainted with socialist writers
and advocates as with trade unionists.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 105. Ja. 9, ’08. 240w.
=Smith, Theodate Louise=, ed. Aspects of child life and education,
by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–21334.
A volume which makes accessible to parents and teachers, in condensed
form and at moderate price, the results of researches conducted by
President Hall’s pupils along the line of the psychology of childhood
and its applications to education. The chapters are as follows: The
contents of children’s minds, The psychology of daydreams, Curiosity
and interest, The story of a sandpile, A study of dolls, The
collecting instinct, The psychology of ownership, Fetichism in
children, Boy life in a Massachusetts country town forty years ago.
* * * * *
“The papers contain much curious and interesting matter.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 900w.
“Aside from the particular theory underlying most of the articles, the
reports themselves are of course of peculiar interest to all parents
and teachers, and they certainly tend to bring us into closer touch
with child life.” Irving King.
+ =School R.= 16: 204. Mr. ’08. 900w.
=Smith, Vincent Arthur.= Early history of India from 600 B. C. to
the Muhammadan conquest including the invasion of Alexander the
Great. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$4.75. Oxford.
“The enlargement consists chiefly in the expansion of the last three
chapters of the book dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the North,
the Kingdoms of the Deccan, and the Kingdoms of the South, which
contain forty-three of the seventy-two new pages. A new appendix, pp.
260–264, deals with the question of the hostages obtained by Kaniska
in consequence of his conquests in Chinese Turkestan.... The date of
Kaniska is the subject of a new and lengthy note.... The account of
the Caka immigration and of the Indo-Parthian princes has also been
enlarged.... Finally, recent translations of Canakya’s ‘Arthaçastra,’
have enabled Mr. Smith to give from contemporary Hindu sources
interesting information of the Greek accounts of Candragupta’s
empire.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The painstaking care for details and the additions that make the new
edition a distinct improvement upon the old, deserve the gratitude of
all students of the history of India.” G. M. Bolling.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 894. Jl. ’08. 450w.
“The revision has been a careful one.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Smyth, Newman.= Passing Protestantism and the coming Catholicism.
*$1. Scribner.
8–10863.
The author sees in the “modernist” movement in the Roman Catholic
church of which he gives a discerning and sympathetic account, and in
the failure of Protestantism to make religion a vital force in the
life of the present generation and to command the unreserved
enthusiasm and loyalty of earnest men, evidences that the superficial
divisions of western Christianity are passing away, giving us glimpses
of the underlying bed-rock of unity. The unity, he says, already
exists. It is the duty of Christian churches to manifest it. The
author speaks from the broad level ground of Christian charity.
* * * * *
“The style is pleasing and forceful and with the timeliness of the
theme will doubtless give the book a wide reading.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Lit. D.= 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
“One feels almost ashamed to remain an unbeliever, and yet, since the
truth must be told, there can be little question that the outlook is
not so bright in fact as it is on Dr. Smyth’s pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 670w.
“It is interesting reading, and will appeal to the reader as being the
careful conclusions of a fine and balanced mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 227. Ap. 18. ’08. 280w.
“This is written in a charming style. It is animated by an excellent
spirit, and its ideas and ideals are presented in attractive attire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“A very suggestive and thought-provoking book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 150w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= William Jordan, junior. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–6984.
The story of a frail, unworldly boy brought up as a recluse by an aged
father and fed on “the old authors, irrespective of day or night and
apparently of the ordinary needs of human beings.” Unfitted to buffet
hardships he is nevertheless plunged into the maelstrom of London
commercial life. Dreamy idealism is his substitute for practical
worldly wisdom, and he is scathed at every turn. The world knew him
not nor the soul flights that he expressed in his swan song and in his
epic poem on Reconciliation.
* * * * *
“The book is certainly far above the average as a piece of writing,
but it requires more careful reading, in order to comprehend the
meaning of the author or his view-point than readers of fiction
ordinarily wish to give.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 158. My. ’08.
“Easily the most important novel of the month, if not of many
months,—the novel which best deserves careful and sympathetic
consideration. An uncommon book, written in a most uncommon and often
very beautiful phraseology. There is no use in denying that the book
is marred, here and there, by its obscurity; it leaves one often
groping in the dark.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 181. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The book is one to love, and one that may act as a leaven upon the
spirits that are not wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort
or degree of fermentation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Its symbolism does not spoil the beauty of the simple narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 270w.
“Whatever it is, it is so bizarre, so grotesque, so mysterious, and so
uncomfortable as to afford little pleasure. One chapter, however, is
clear enough, and a very fine thing—that in which the boy sees the
ocean for the first time. But as a whole the book fails.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 349. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“Not that the book has not solid merits—purity of English, strength of
handling, beauty of thought, dignity of construction—but these things
seem but the foundation work for a psychological loveliness, half
mystic, half human, which eludes, even while it thrills us.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 400w.
“A most unusual piece of fiction. The object of the work, carefully
done as it is, is inexplicable. If it aims to portray exalted genius
in an unsympathetic and cruel world, it misses its aim by
extravagance.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration and educational work of
American juvenile reform schools. (Columbia univ. Teachers
college. Contributions to education, no. 12.) $2. Teachers
college, Columbia univ., N. Y.
7–39061.
“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between
education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison
discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added
possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care,
vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased
use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally,
the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both
historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently
worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and
teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very
profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J.
Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H.= School reports and
school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10624.
A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be
presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will
improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their
support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is
undertaken to the end of showing the best methods of making reports,
answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.
* * * * *
“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics
more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them
better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.
“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.
“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the
scope, outlay and results of American education.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to
teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.
“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man
and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome
this book.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School R.= 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.
=Snow, Louis Franklin.= College curriculum in the United States.
$1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.
E 8–10.
Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an
accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of
the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the
present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of
books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many
curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher
education in this country.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Snow, William Gage.= Principles of heating: a practical and
comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2.
Williams.
7–36224.
Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the
results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating
apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and
charts useful in the solution of heating problems.
* * * * *
“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the
theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means
confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary
character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade
press.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily
accessible.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.
=Snyder, Carl.= American railways as investments; with an
introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values.
*$3.20. Moody corporation.
7–25023.
A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from
the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with
reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the
properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.”
(Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to
the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage
to themselves and the public.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.
“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such
treatise has done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology
to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an
historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G.
de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of
autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin
and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the
results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study
of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion,
which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital
instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and
consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping
of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a
higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published
by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high
purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O.
Newland.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s
contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an
insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its
predecessors.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and
suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a
disappointment.” A. G. K.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Somerville, Charles.= Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French
Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by
the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing
country.
=Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.
8–23093.
A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the
hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is
worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing
misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral,
but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and
unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 305. D. ’08.
“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to
Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a
true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 522. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and
never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is
perfect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in
reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of
the Irish peasant.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.
=Sons= of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public
welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism
which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George
F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips
Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William
E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
=Sorel, Ernest.= Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr.
from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.
7–36878.
The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information
to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol
and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in
engines.
* * * * *
“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the
subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be
neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum
efficiency.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Spargo, John.= Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–12780.
A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public
milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies
who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills
of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.
* * * * *
“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this
book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of
special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written
that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠
“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.
“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should
be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than
it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.
“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up
the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly
put together. It would have been of service if more definite
references to state and national government bulletins had been made
and attention called to the fact that many of these which are
excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free
of cost.” G. N. Lauman.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.
“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The
common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to
persuade, to convince, to inspire.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of
publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be
hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social
service.” J. E. Pope.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.
“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the
works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without
consultation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Sparrow, Walter Shaw.= Old England: with 80 illustrations in color
and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.
“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of
picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen
and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest
sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of
the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.)
“The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of
Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the
pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be
wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more
capable hands.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.
“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is
connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.
“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their
being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture
and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter
fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual
class of work of this kind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr.
Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= History of the United States navy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
8–5238.
A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy”
and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the
navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts
and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or
against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are
treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the
character-development of the heroes.
* * * * *
“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 150. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.
“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and
graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the
naval forces in critical moments.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found
with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor
defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been
written.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.
“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a
good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the
illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“An uncommonly good book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American
naval history that has yet been written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
8–28292.
In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American
navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest
beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the
period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the
nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important
that every library should have this book.
* * * * *
“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful
deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
=Speer, Robert Elliott.= Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.
8–20734.
“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women
of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are
mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to
his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the
every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a
simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character
of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help
to see the right way than of set addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the
lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine
ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
=Spender, John Alfred=, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12973.
Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity
was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and
he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion,
bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the
poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,”
shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty,
war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic,
gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.
* * * * *
“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have
run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so
eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try
to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some
subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of
view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find
something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and
judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
=Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight,
enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s
style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in
this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some
of delightful excellence.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.
“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and
socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet
urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism
or cheap epigram.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1053. D. 21, ’07. 1200w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge.
(Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.
8–11738.
A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all
of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in
chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.
* * * * *
“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various
introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed
and useful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 1: 241. O. ’08.
“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit
this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are
once more exemplified in this noble tome.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly
cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the
notes, they are well-informed and useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.
=Spingarn, Joel Elias.= Critical essays of the seventeenth century.
3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will
contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays,
letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover
practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary
discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor
Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward
reading.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading.
There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have
been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It
is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single
page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of
criticism’ displays in a chapter.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work,
laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and
following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of
erudition which never grows pedantic.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Spivey, Thomas Sawyer.= Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.
8–5225.
The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a
village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a
widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a
young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her
subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this
slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy
termination of the love episode.
=Spooner, Henry John.= Machine design, construction and drawing: a
text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–34187.
“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the
various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.)
“The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings
and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80
numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever
excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the
work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of
machine details.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed
gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject.
It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as
it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of
details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing
than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.”
Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
=Sprague, Rufus Farrington.= True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
8–829.
Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are
struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values
and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The
author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in
proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free
competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which
demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service,
but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.
* * * * *
“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions
which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to
taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it
is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much
regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in
thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J.
Davenport.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 117. F. ’08. 1120w.
=Stacpoole, H. De Vere.= Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island
grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of
love and life.
* * * * *
“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr.
Stacpoole’s story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.
“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but
that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a
rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses
imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many
modern stories is really justified.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.
=Standage, H. C.=, ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a
book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all
workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.
8–8483.
“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster,
plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow
directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of
metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion
in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use
of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and
japanning.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“A valuable reference volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Contains information which should give it a wide field of
usefulness.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.
“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods
seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being
scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley.
Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Standard= handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.
8–347.
(2d. ed. 8–17558.)
“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length,
which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant
with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical
experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by
these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely
covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not
excepting those published in England, Germany, France and Italy. It is
a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”
+ + =Elec. World.= 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.
“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it
especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to
require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.
“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer
should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in
this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more
complete and satisfactory form.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.
“A most valuable reference manual.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.
=Stansfield, Alfred.= Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and
practice. *$2. Hill pub.
8–35541.
Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the
construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an
account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various
types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel
heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical
furnace.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and
thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the
electric furnace.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.
“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of
a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.”
F. A. J. FitzGerald.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
=Stanton, Stephen Berrien.= Essential life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14659.
Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time;
Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment;
Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities;
Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration
of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral
hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.
* * * * *
“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of
Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm
of his own.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.
=Starr, Frederick.= In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and
labor. *$5. Forbes.
8–11833.
A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of
ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and
Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to
measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian
locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures,
portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types,
dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five
individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and
government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but
no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book
contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this
character.” A. B. Lewis.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form
much information about the land and the people otherwise
inaccessible.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.
“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre
accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s
curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned
for by the general interest of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.
“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too
hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the
book is not great.”
− =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.
“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of
the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing
the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various
Indian towns.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Stebbing, William.= Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson,
1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.
8–26221.
“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer
to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if
Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his
second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred
years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in
1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about
seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement
of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is
unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.
“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent
lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any
marked critical value.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a
better guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
* =Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
8–34145.
The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical
works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen
later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In
war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion;
Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea;
Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and
index of first lines.
=Steele, Zadock.= Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity
and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is
prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian
captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.
8–30488.
A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning
of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s
captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and
his escape back to Vermont.
* * * * *
“His narrative is direct and simple. It was worth while to reprint it
in the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that
so little pains was taken with the editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Life and correspondence of James
McHenry. *$6. Burrows.
7–24607.
The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards
Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon
revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.
* * * * *
“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality
that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical
biographer.”
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