“Furnishes some interesting details as to this movement, throws a little
light on the separation of Church and State in France, and includes an
indiscriminate eulogy on the modernists in general and M. Loisy in
particular.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The four appendices, giving English translations of the two papal
encyclicals and of the syllabus as well as the petition of the French
Catholics regarding the Separation act make the book the most valuable
source-book in English for students of the movement.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 230w.
“No one can read the book without being impressed with its sincerity and
moderation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 723. My. ’09. 270w.
“Champions modernism with unmeasured zeal and, it may be added, with
unmeasured violence.”
− =Cath. World.= 89: 388. Je. ’09. 850w.
“This book is not a critical study of the modernist movement, but an
‘apologia,’ and an ‘apologia’ written by a Frenchman, and, if not a
Catholic, yet a writer imbued with the Catholic tradition and Catholic
feeling. But taking it frankly on that basis, let us say at once that it
is an admirable and eloquent plea, written by a scholar of lofty
intelligence on a theme which he has made his own by sympathy and by
knowledge. It may be commended to all readers who wish to gain a general
idea of the movement of which it treats without an extensive study of
the French, Italian, and German authorities.” T. W. Rolleston.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 690. Ap. ’09. 1800w.
“It has the persuasiveness and conciliatory spirit of all of M.
Sabatier’s writing. It seems to us, however, to come short of complete
candor in failing to admit the revolutionary implications of modernism.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 120w.
“It adds little to popular knowledge of this movement or to a correct
understanding of it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 243. Ja. 30, ’09. 280w.
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 70w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.=^{[10]} Bar B boys; or, The young cow-punchers.
†$1.50. Crowell.
9–25392.
To wander alone on the mountains all night, run into a gang of cattle
thieves, be rescued by a band of Indians, and finally adopted by the men
of the Bar B ranch—this suggests the series of adventures thru which
Phil Macowan passes after the train which was carrying him to California
has gone on over the great divide leaving him behind. With the Bar B
outfit he learns to ride a horse and throw a rope. He has further
adventures with the cattle thieves and helps rescue a girl whom they
have kidnapped. When he goes back East at the end of the summer he has
found not only the health and strength which he came west in search of,
but a new sense of manliness as well.
* * * * *
“A rattling good story of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 130w.
“At times the happenings are somewhat too sensational.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 40w.
=Sadler, Michael Ernest=, ed. Moral instruction and training in
schools; report of an international inquiry. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–35065.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09.
“The materials here presented are, of course, very variable as to value.
But there is enough of value in the contributions that do have
scientific interest to make the work, as a whole, a very valuable
contribution to that larger consciousness of the essentially world-wide
character of the problem of moral education.” J. K. Hart.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 333. F. ’09. 830w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 252. Jl. 29, ’09. 800w.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the fairness that marks the
presentation of all the conflicting evidence that has been poured into
the inquiry committee.” J: Adams.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 239. Ja. ’09. 1050w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 305. Mr. 25, ’09. 260w.
Reviewed by J. A. Green.
+ =Nature.= 79: 154. D. 10, ’08. 700w.
“It is deserving of study not only by all who are particularly
interested in educational affairs but by all to whom the progress of the
human race is a thing of moment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 99. F. 20, ’09. 1350w.
=Outlook.= 91: 150. Ja. 23, ’09. 580w.
“The chief value of the volumes lies in the material brought out by the
inquiry. These volumes should mark an important step forward in the
movement for moral education.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 17: 506. S. ’09. 930w.
=Sainsbury, Harrington.=^{[10]} Drugs and the drug habit. *$2.50.
Dutton.
9–35796.
Includes a short historical review of the deductive medicine of the
different “systems,” the definition of his subject, general aim of
druggiving, the mental effect of treatment and the psychology of the
placebo, and a discussion of the habitual use of narcotic and soporific
drugs.
* * * * *
“Like all of this excellent series, a popular work of the scholarly type
and restricted in usefulness to the educated reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 48. O. ’09.
“Of all this, the history of pharmacology, the uses of drugs, their
abuse, and the best methods of fighting the drug habit, Dr. Sainsbury
gives an interesting account. He illustrates it with many apt
quotations, which show him to be well read, a good scholar, and a judge
of literature. These qualities enable him to take the wide view of a
difficult subject which can alone lead to success, for in dealing with
the drug habit a man requires a good knowledge of the world as well as
technical skill.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 72. Jl. 17. 430w.
“To those who are not repelled by the exterior, however, we can promise
much enjoyment from the perusal of this volume, which is written with
the same distinction of literary style and with the same felicity of
illustration as marked the author’s ‘Principia therapeutica.’”
+ =Nature.= 81: 271. S. 2, ’09. 650w.
“Many faults of style are to be noted, such as prolixity, diffuseness,
triteness, and the somewhat pedantic interjection of Latin. There is
need for a book which can deal with the drug habit directly,
impartially, exhaustively, and entertainingly, and one can only feel
sorry that the present volume falls short of its great purpose.” I. W.
Voorhees.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 608. O. 16, 09. 1500w.
=St. Helier, Mary Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune, lady.=^{[12]} Memories of
fifty years. *$4.20. Longmans.
The memories of a distinguished London woman who was first married to
Lord Stanley of Alderly, and after his death, to Sir Francis Jeune,
Baron St. Helier. “She gained a knowledge of the world ranging from a
rough Nevada mining camp which she was the first woman to visit, to the
brilliant society that frequented her drawing-rooms in Harley Street.”
(Dial.) “The volume contains vivid, picturesque, and ... very faithful
descriptions of those who were present at the brilliant gatherings in
her London homes, and her recollections of that London life are preceded
by the memories of her life in the Highlands, for Lady St. Helier came
herself from an ancient and distinguished Scottish ancestry.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The pleasant and readable character of the volume is hardly impaired by
the errors to be detected in it by unfortunate possessors of accurate
minds. The book is marred by the inclusion of one of the worst ‘diaries’
of the least interesting events of the Commune of Paris which it has
been our misfortune to peruse.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 556. N. 6. 1800w.
“Delightfully readable book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 513. D. 16, ’09. 230w.
“At a time when there seems to have been something like a revival of the
scandalous form of memoir it is especially gratifying to find that so
thoroly encouraging a welcome has been given to those delightful
personal recollections by an authoress whose finest and keenest humor
never carries a heart-stain away on its blade.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1311. D. 9, ’09. 440w.
“Has the charms of veracity, of rich variety, of interest, of large
knowledge of men and events, and broad human sympathy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 688. N. 6, ’09. 950w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 536. O. 30, ’09. 1000w.
“It is the work of a gentlewoman, and we have an old-fashioned
partiality for the race. It is the record of a life of most exceptional
interest, written by a woman with a genius for appreciation.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 791. N. 13, ’09. 1500w.
=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Earth’s bounty. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–9235.
Combined with unusual managerial fitness is the author’s love for the
open and all living things. Her book is a record of her experiments in
husbandry beginning with twelve acres and increasing the farm to nearly
two hundred acres. The chapters are as follows: Profit in winter lambs;
Winter violets; Tillage and rotation of crops as regenerators; Building
and operating a silo; The barn-yard wealth; The orchard; Dairy and young
cattle; Rearing family and work horses; Quail and wild duck; Goats; The
wood-lots; Thorough-bred poultry; Dogs; and Itinerary of the year’s
work.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09.
“Its scholarly origin in combination with the previous city experience
of the author gives the book at times a suburban tinge and fantastic
touch which, however, does not keep it from being of interest to that
large class in cities and elsewhere who would do well to follow the
author’s example.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 613. N. ’09. 190w.
“The whole story has a satisfying effect of verity, and nearly all the
advice to the reader is based on personal experience. An index would
have been useful.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 374. Je. 1, ’09. 220w.
“Every line of the present volume is instinct with the personality of a
practical and devoted farmer, while the book has the charm of a vigorous
imagination and forceful mind.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 80w.
“Some few of her recommendations may fail. But in general she is
up-to-date, and the spirit of her book is modern, in that she is
experimental. The farmer as well as the man or woman who hopes for
profit in pets, can gain much from this book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 609. Je. 17, ’09. 800w.
“It is a practical statement of practical things, written
entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 670w.
“An air of common sense and a sensible recognition that work is not
always play, however congenial it may be, pervades the book, and will
strengthen its appeal to the professional as well as to the amateur
worker in nature’s shop.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.
“The book is full of interest from beginning to end for those who have a
liking for such themes.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 210w.
=Sale, Edith Tunis.=^{[12]} Manors of Virginia in colonial times.
**$5. Lippincott.
9–25286.
Treats of twenty-four colonial mansions and estates. Important because
it “gathers together the rapidly-vanishing records of an age that is
gone.... These stately halls echoed the voices of men and women whose
names stood for all that was most worthy in the commonwealth. They were
gentlemen and gentlewomen in the truest sense of the term. Their
hospitality was as boundless as it was sincere; and it was exercised in
an environment that was peculiarly their own. These were homes indeed.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The author of this entertaining book writes with an enthusiasm which
betrays her into some faults of style. The reader is carried along on a
sea of superlatives that sometimes leaves him breathless. But in spite
of such defects the reader will find many things to repay him in the
perusal of Mrs. Sale’s book.” L. J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 509. D. 18, ’09. 650w.
“We look upon Edith Tunis Sale’s compilation as of a certain historical
importance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
“It were well that her book should be in every library of our broad
land; for none can read it without a new reverence for our forebears, a
new sense of the ‘noblesse oblige.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 761. D. 4, ’09. 500w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Health, strength and happiness; a book of
practical advice. *$1.50. Kennerley.
8–31695.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A good popular book on hygiene.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09.
“Dr. Saleeby’s book is full of good advice, and will not add to the
prevalent hypochondria. Neither will it inculcate indifference, or a
go-as-you-please attitude. Here and there it errs on the side of
indefiniteness, and elsewhere in strenuous enforcement of personally
favored doctrines.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 142. Mr. 1, ’09. 380w.
“As a whole, the book is suggestive and likely to help many to whom a
more exact treatise would be unwelcome.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.=^{[11]} Parenthood and race culture: an
outline of eugenics. **$2.50. Moffat.
9–13927.
An attempt to define as a whole the general principles of race culture,
or eugenics. The subject is treated in two parts: The theory of
eugenics; and The practice of eugenics. “The author assumes that there
is no wealth but life, that the culture of the racial life is the vital
industry of any people, that conditions of parenthood, and especially as
regards its quality rather than its quantity, are the dominant factors
that determine the destiny of nations.”
* * * * *
“The most valuable and scholarly work yet published on the theory and
practice of eugenics, covering the field adequately and exhaustively.
The first book to recommend to educated readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“May be well recommended to those interested in a vital subject.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1147. N. 18, ’09. 210w.
“To learn that there is nothing in real eugenics to inspire either
impatience or disgust one need only read ‘Parenthood and race culture,’
by Dr. C. W. Saleeby, that extremely able, lucid, and enthusiastic
purveyor of scientific information to the unscientific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 590. O. 9, ’09. 780w.
“Dr. Saleeby is an enthusiast, not a scientist.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 190w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.=^{[6]} Daughters of the rich. $1.25.
Kennerley.
9–13920.
Deals with the murder of a wife by her husband who deemed it his duty to
rid himself of the woman whose deceit had kept him from marrying the
woman he loved and had won him for herself.
* * * * *
“It is strange that a practised hand like that of Mr. Saltus should have
released to any mark but the waste-basket a thing that suggests, both in
tone and style, a muddy-minded schoolboy’s first attempts to imitate De
Maupassant.”
− =Nation.= 89: 16. Jl. 1, ’09. 180w.
“As for the book itself, after reading it one would welcome a case of
mal de mer as a relaxation and a means of returning to the normal and
wholesome by easy stages.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 360. Je. 5, ’09. 300w.
=Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin.=^{[7]} Recollections of seventy years.
2v. *$5. Badger, R. G.
9–14197.
Reminiscences of a New Hampshire man whose life has been closely related
to the literary and political interests of New England for the past
sixty years. The first volume is historical while the second is somewhat
autobiographical, and contains intimate sketches and incidents of the
members of the Concord school of philosophy and others closely connected
with literary Concord.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“There is nothing of second-hand or imitation in it; and this strong
character of the work, with its flavor of Concord idealism and
transcendentalism, constitutes its charm. It is a noteworthy piece of
autobiography and we hope it will be continued and completed.” P. F.
Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 46: 396. Je. 16, ’09. 2000w.
“These volumes are especially interesting and valuable for the personal
insight they give the reader into the character and acts of John Brown.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 211. Ag. 7, ’09. 300w.
“Despite its formlessness, and the rather too frequent resort to
scissors and paste, the book is very readable. We must call particular
attention to the illustrations, which include many rare portraits.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 76. Jl. 22, ’09. 1100w.
“A highly detailed picture of that remarkable and interesting group
[Concord school of philosophy], and of the times in which its greatest
influence was exerted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 355. Je. 5, ’09. 1150w.
=Sandeman, George.= Uncle Gregory. †$1.50. Putnam.
9–6275.
After the death of Uncle Gregory, a banker of fabulous wealth, a will is
read which imposes upon a nephew and a niece the execution of various
eccentric philanthropic, educational and scientific schemes and the
writing of a biography. When once the execution of the will’s provisions
is well under way, discoveries are made which transform Uncle Gregory
into a malefactor of deep dye. A fire which sweeps away the authorized
“kingdom” built up about the memory of Uncle Gregory relieving two
beneficiaries of a baneful task, reminds one of the symbolism of the
fire in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
* * * * *
“The character sketching is excellent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Sandeman skilfully sketches the effect which the study of the dead
man has upon the narrator and his sister and brother-in-law.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 371. Mr. 27. 150w.
“This story possesses the peculiar interest and fascination that always
accrue to a book, as to a person, that can suggest depths of
significance below what meets the casual glance.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 220w.
“There is a lot of quaint humor in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 254. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.
“There is almost too much solid reading and too little humor and romance
in the story to redeem it from the charge of being a thinly disguised
tract.”
− =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 100w.
“As Mr. Sandeman proceeds it becomes apparent that we have in this book
the finest and most deadly criticism of the ideals and conduct of
nineteenth-century English liberalism that has ever found its way into a
novel. But no orthodox, old-fashioned Liberal will be able to perceive
this; such a man will find the book vaguely irritating and pretend that
it is dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 534. Ap. 24, ’09. 220w.
=Sando, Roscoe Briant.= American poultry culture: a complete hand book
of practical and profitable poultry keeping for the great army of
beginners and small breeders. *$1.50. McClurg.
9–8806.
A book for the small breeder as well as for the extensive poultry raiser
which furnishes valuable and practical information on the profitable
care and management of poultry.
* * * * *
“One of the best books on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09.
“The book is a brief, comprehensive and valuable introduction to
practical poultry raising.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
=Sands, Beatrice.= Weepers in playtime. †$1.50. Lane.
8–20349.
A novel which exposes the cruelties inflicted upon children in the
orphanages and children’s homes in New York.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 66: 149. Ja. 21, ’09. 150w.
“We fear Miss Sands has made a great mistake in putting her appeal to
the American public in story form. It is rather dull and preachy, so
that we doubt if it will effect its very creditable purpose. Moreover,
those who do read it will not be able to get from it a very clear
knowledge of the methods of the institutions which we are told need
reforming.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 450w.
=Sandys, John Edwin.= History of classical scholarship; with
chronological tables. 3v. ea. *$2.75. Putnam.
3–33012.
=v. 2.= “This second volume deals with the Revival of learning in Italy,
1321–1527, and the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
(excluding Germany).... It includes the years of most enthralling
interest, when the Latin classics were discovered anew, and Greek
literature introduced to Europe.”—Ath.
=v. 3.= Deals with the eighteenth century in Germany, and the nineteenth
century in Europe and the United States.
* * * * *
“These volumes are a marvel of compression and a marvel of accuracy;
more, they are not only readable, but they also hold the attention.”
+ + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 282. Mr. 6. 880w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The number of comparatively little men whom he sees fit to commemorate
get in the way of even a mature reader and give a blurred impression of
those great figures which ought to stand forth in their full
significance. The book has great merit as a work of reference and, at
the present time, is the only one of its kind in any language.”
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 291. N. ’09. 560w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Two fascinating volumes. What Dr. Sandys has done is to construct an
encyclopaedia of scholarship, which will be found absolutely
indispensable to all students not only of the classics but also of
history and literature. As a second edition of this work is sure to be
required before long, it may be worth while to point out a few
‘desiderata,’ in the hope that Dr. Sandys’ passion for accuracy and
completeness may lead him to consider them.” A. C. Clark.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 561. Jl. ’09. 3400w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Our main criticism of this work is that history is at times submerged
in biography.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 280. Mr. 18, ’09. 1650w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Viewed in the larger aspects of history, Dr. Sandys’s book is somewhat
disappointing. In its minor details, however, it is unusually scholarly
and accurate, and it will therefore make a most useful work of
reference, particularly as he is everywhere careful to note his sources.
He has given us not a history but the materials for a history of
scholarship.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 277. My. 1, ’09. 2000w. (Review of v. 2 and
3.)
“To venture, as he has done, on an almost untrodden field, to explore
the obscure annals ‘of twenty-five centuries,’ and not only to set forth
the facts with scrupulous accuracy and absolute clearness, but also to
estimate them with a critical and just judgment,—this is a task from
which most men would have shrunk, but which Dr. Sandys has achieved.”
+ + =Spec.= 102: 184. Ja. 30, ’09. 1750w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).=^{[10]} An autobiography,
from my youth up, personal reminiscences. **$1.50. Revell.
9–22854.
Frank revelations of the secret of a busy woman’s literary success,
leading up to which are glimpses of literary and other folk prominent in
war and reconstruction times.
* * * * *
“She has much to say that will interest the large following who have
read her books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the undeniable thinness of certain chapters here, and
the occasional ornateness of the writer’s style, there is a quality of
homely moral earnestness in this autobiography that will, with its
flavor of sentimentality, endear it to a host of readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 280w.
“It is more than a book of personal revelation. The book has a double
value in being a rare production of the absorbing history of the last
century and of the spirit, endurance, and suffering of the people on
both sides of the civil war.” H. P. Spofford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 676. O. 30, ’09. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 60w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Happy school days.
$1.25. Forbes.
9–8054.
A thoroly enjoyable and instructive series of talks to healthy, happy
girls upon the necessity of all-around school development as a
preparation for business, professional life, society and the home.
* * * * *
“Somewhat sentimental but contains much that is wise and sensible and
that will help girls to be more useful and agreeable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 30. S. ’09.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 60w.
=Santley, Sir Charles.=^{[11]} Reminiscences of my life. **$4.
Brentano’s.
“The author writes at the age of 74, and his reminiscences cover a
period of active life in his profession of over fifty-five years. The
book is replete with anecdotes of Mr. Santley’s contemporaries, such as
Fanny Kemble, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, etc. In the discussion of his art
the author confesses frankly that he belongs to the old school, and that
he finds little or no virtue in Wagner.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 419. Ap. 3. 200w.
=Nation.= 89: 361. O. 14, ’09. 30w.
“There are many new and interesting statements of fact and expressions
of opinions in the new book by the famous English baritone singer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 606. O. 16, ’09. 1750w.
=Savage, Charles Albert.= Athenian family: a sociological and legal
study based chiefly on the works of the Attic orators. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.
8–22086.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Professor Savage displays familiarity with a wide range of Greek
authors, and his citation of their opinions in connection with the
various phases of family relationships, as well as the constant use of
illustrative cases, adds greatly to the interest of the book. Not so
commendable, however, is the habit of giving expression to his own
opinion regarding customs and conduct by the free use of adjectives. The
most effective chapters in the book are those dealing with ‘Parents and
children’ and ‘Adoption.’ In other respects, the book seems calculated
to appeal rather to the general reader or to the student of sociology.
The work is well written and is practically free from typographical
errors.” R. J. Bonner.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 4: 331. Jl. ’09. 450w.
=Scarfoglio, Antonio.=^{[10]} Round the world in a motor car. *$5.
Kennerley.
A sort of companion volume to that giving an account of Prince
Borghese’s trip from Peking to Paris in which Signor Scarfoglio
“describes in amusing detail the incidents, the adventures, the
thoughts, the emotions which accompanied his motor race from Paris round
the world.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The translation of the brightly written narrative is excellent. It is a
good book for holiday reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 328. S. 18. 780w.
=Dial.= 47: 515. D. 16, ’09. 200w.
“Well-told story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. Jl. 17, ’09. 730w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Schaff, Philip, and Herzog, Johann Jakob.= New Schaff-Herzog
encyclopedia of religious knowledge; based on the 3d ed. of the
Realencyklopädie. per v. $5. Funk.
8–20152.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“In general, the famous encyclopedia, while much improved, has been by
no means brought up to date.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 654. O. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is admirably edited, compact and yet full, and the list of articles
is as nearly complete as can well be made. We recommend it heartily.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1299. Je. 10, ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ind.= 67: 551. S. 2, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Two qualities stand out for special commendation—the comprehensiveness
of aim and the brevity of the articles.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The articles on modern and living theologians, both scholars and
preachers, will be found useful. Not so high praise can be accorded to
the treatment of biblical and doctrinal subjects.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 561. Je. 3, ’09. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The encyclopædia continues to evidence fair, non-partisan and thorough
scholarship, broadly evangelical in spirit, and scientific in temper.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 362. O. 14, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ − =Nation.= 89: 604. D. 16, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It compares favorably with the first volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 133. Mr. 6, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“All in all, the new volume compares favorably with the earlier
installments of the work in scholarship, authoritativeness,
comprehensiveness, and other qualities that make for excellence in a
cylopedic work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 396. Je. 19, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 643. O, 23, ’09. 260w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 804. D. 18, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A work which, for the next quarter-century at least, churchmen of all
creeds will recognize as a standard source of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 818. Ap. 10, ’09. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work occupies a place in Protestant literature corresponding very
closely with that filled by the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ in the
literature of the Roman church.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Schauffler, Adolphus Frederick.=^{[11]} Sparks from a
superintendent’s anvil. $1. Wilde.
9–25950.
A Sunday school handbook compiled out of the experience of a successful
practical Sunday school superintendent. It contains help on the conduct
of the school, on the relation of officer to teacher and teacher to
pupil, and upon the best methods of organization and successful
maintenance of the Sunday school.
=Schauffler, Robert Haven.=^{[12]} Romantic Germany. **$3.50. Century.
9–28287.
A charming book of travel in which is told with poetic interpretation
the story of Germany’s principal cities—their people, their customs,
manners and beliefs, their legends, traditions and history. The
illustrations are well-chosen and artistically reproduced.
* * * * *
“A brightly written book which will be a welcome addition to the scanty
travel literature on Germany.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 125. D. ’09.
“Well worth waiting for is this finely composed book with its numerous
sidelights and its valuable habit of summing up the places in comparison
from a common point of view.” Algernon Tassin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 346. D. ’09. 650w.
“Tested by novelty of view-point and charm of style, Mr. Schauffler’s
book has few rivals among recent volumes of travel-sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 460. D. 1, ’09. 230w.
“The romance, or, better, the attraction of Berlin Mr. Schauffler feels
but fails to convey, because it is hard to analyze and therefore to put
down.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1145. N. 18, ’09. 230w.
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 26. N. ’09. 30w.
“Mr. Schauffler, though undoubtedly a Stevensonian and nice in his
choice of words, leaves everywhere a blurred impression, as if he had
been unable to escape the proverbial heaviness of the land he studied.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 603. D. 16, ’09. 210w.
“One regrets the absence of architectural interiors, just the precise
aspect that photographs could not supply.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 840. D. ’09. 80w.
“Must be counted one of the most attractive books of the season because
of its subject-matter, its delightful illustrations, and the vivid
interest of the writer in the places with which he deals and the people
whom he describes. The illustrations are for the most part well executed
and belong to the text, which is more than can be said of many books of
similar intention.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 70w.
=Schechter, Solomon.= Some aspects of rabbinic theology. **$2.25.
Macmillan.
9–2258.
Not a philosophical exposition of the body of doctrine of the synagogue
but a presentation of rabbinic opinion on various theological topics.
The successive chapters treat, among other topics, God and the world;
God and Israel; The election of Israel; The kingdom of God, invisible,
universal, material; The law; The joy of the law; Holiness and goodness;
Sin as rebellion; Forgiveness and reconciliation with God; Repentance
and means of reconciliation.
* * * * *
“One of the weaknesses of Prof. Schechter’s method consists in its lack
of historical perspective. Prof. Schechter has not only failed to treat
the positive value of the documents on which he relies, but he may also
fairly be charged with over-stating the negative side of the evidence.
The volume is for the most part written in Prof. Schechter’s
characteristic style, which betokens quickness of perception, liveliness
of imagination, and a tendency to paradox.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 251. F. 27. 900w.
“Carries on every page evidence of its author’s erudition.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 360. My. ’09. 90w.
“A book like this of Dr. Schecter’s is most welcome because it comes
from one of the greatest living Jewish scholars, who, with a profound
faith in his religion and his people, nevertheless is a man of the world
in his scholastic culture and his human sympathies.” J. A. Montgomery.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 111. O. ’09. 1050w.
“The work has the double advantage of being at once useful to the
specialist, by the new light which it throws on the subject, and
accessible to the layman by its simplicity of style, and by the life and
enthusiasm which animate it throughout. While the attractiveness and
charming style of the book do not conceal from the careful reader the
scholarship of the author, the labor in gathering such a wealth of
material, and the scientific treatment of the subject.” Nima
Hirschensohn.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 463. Ag. 19, ’09. 1900w.
“What might become in the hands of one less admirably equipped a mere
bundle of fragments, an encyclopædic epitome of opinions, of value
purely for reference, receives here a fulness and completeness to render
it a permanent and authoritative contribution in its field. Both the
cultivated general reader and the theologian will find the work
enlightening in a surprising degree.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 600w.
“He writes with a hammer as much as a pen. A vein of humor, caustic at
times, adds lightness here and there. Altogether a book to be treasured.
A word of praise is due Miss Henrietta Szold for her very helpful
index.” A. S. Isaacs.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 75. F. 6, ’09. 1450w.
“Dr. Schechter restricts himself to important aspects of Judaism which
are often misunderstood and misrepresented. While this should especially
commend his work to Christian readers, its profoundly religious and
ethical spirit appeals to all that is best in modern Judaism.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 865. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w.
“Himself rabbinically trained, Dr. Schecter has added (one might almost
say) a new chapter to the Talmud, and a chapter unlike all the rest in
this, that it is immediately intelligible to any modern man who can read
English, and so far as his selected topics are concerned it explains the
rest.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 263. Ag. 28, ’09. 950w.
=Scheffler, Johann (Angelus Silesius).=^{[12]} Angelus Silesius: a
selection from the rhymes of a German mystic; tr. in the original
meter by Paul Carus. *$1. Open ct.
9–17318.
Verses of a German mystic whose sentiments, deeply religious and
philosophical, anticipate Kantian idealism. The volume contains both the
German text and the English translation.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 522. D. 16, ’09. 90w.
=Nation.= 89: 412. O. 28, ’09. 60w.
“The introduction to his translation is a distinctly valuable
contribution to our knowledge of mystics and mysticism. The translations
are so literal that they faithfully reflect the crudeness of
phraseology, which is a not unattractive feature of the originals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 526. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
=Schenck, Ferdinand Schureman.=^{[12]} Sociology of the Bible. *$1.50.
Ref. (Dutch) ch.
9–10794.
An attempt “to gather the most important facts and principles of the
society of the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation; to classify them
in a sociological way; and to consider what light they throw upon some
of the social problems of to-day.” “The author aims his work against
socialism, inasmuch as socialism, or at least many of its leaders, hold
that the Bible, and especially the teachings of Christ, favor their
theory of society; the first principle of which is that private
ownership is unlawful, and that the present evils of our industrial,
social, and economic system can be cured only by substituting for
private ownership the principle of collective ownership.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“Though one occasionally finds some ‘obiter dictum,’ or some
interpretation of the text or fact, with which, as Catholics, we cannot
agree in ‘The sociology of the Bible,’ yet Catholic sociologists, and
others who give thought to the deep social movement of the age, will
gratefully assign to this able work a place in the library of Christian
sociology.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 100. O. ’09. 600w.
“He attempts to do a good thing. Unfortunately the result fails to
satisfy. His book is of little value to one who really wants to study
the social ideals and institutions of the people of Israel.” E. S.
Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 260w.
=Schevill, Ferdinand.=^{[5]} Siena, the story of a mediaeval commune.
**$2.50. Scribner.
9–10279.
Altho the author has dealt with the political evolution of the commune
his aim is not so much that of presenting the political history of Siena
as one of setting forth the problem of its civilization. His method is
topical rather than chronological and “by isolating for examination the
nobles, the clergy, the merchants, and the other classes of the
commonwealth; by following separately the developments of public and
private life, by reviewing the achievements of the various arts, he
offers the reader a complete “mosaic of Sienese culture.””
* * * * *
“The varied equipment of Professor Schevill has enabled him to present
us with the most satisfactory monograph on Siena that has yet appeared.”
V. D. Scudder.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 116. O. ’09. 1100w.
“Useful for the tourist and for reference and club work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09.
“There is room for such a book as this, which is neither a volume of
snap-shot impressions nor a dry compilation of archeological monographs,
but a well-digested, well-balanced and well-written story of the city
from its origin to its overthrow in the sixteenth century.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 984. My. 6, ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Schevill has brought to his task a rich fund of scholarly
information which he has put into attractive form.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 104. Jl. 17, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Schevill has compiled his text so skilfully, interweaving fine bits
from the chronicles, that his book should fully hold its own with its
many excellent predecessors. Its defect is merely in the minutæ of
style.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 103. Jl. 29, ’09. 470w.
“His subject, however, is scarcely worthy of the toil spent upon it. He
advances no new theories, demonstrates no new hypothesis. His book is
like a well-arranged museum. Its curios are carefully tabulated, but
their relation to modern life is not made discernible.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 334. My. 29, ’09. 700w.
“The fault is his who, purblind, tried to treat that living sorceress,
Siena as a cadaver and demonstrate on her beauty his own notions of
political economy and history and demography.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 562. O. ’09. 500w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 766. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Schloss, David Frederick.=^{[8]} Insurance against unemployment. 3s.
6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
9–22194.
“The main portion of the book is devoted to a detailed statement of the
laws enacted in various European cities and states regarding
unemployment, with some observations on the results of these plans
wherever the law has been in operation long enough for the results to be
at all valuable.” The conclusions are: “(1) the system should be
organized by trades; (2) it must be national; and (3) it must operate in
connection with labor registration agencies.”—Econ. Bull.
* * * * *
“While the arguments are not by any means conclusive, the book presents
an excellent, brief discussion of the subject of insurance against
unemployment.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 611. N. ’09. 130w.
“Unlike Mr. Lewis the author is not an advocate, but an investigator.
His conclusions consequently have more force.” M. H. Robinson.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 162. Je. ’09. 300w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 384. Je. ’09. 120w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 230w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.=^{[9]} Youth of the Great Elector; tr. by G: P.
Upton. **60c. McClurg.
9–23015.
This story of Frederick William, “The Great Elector,” begins with his
birth and closes with his accession to power. The period of the terrible
and devastating “Thirty years war” when the Catholics and Protestants
were struggling for supremacy is clearly portrayed.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 50w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.=^{[7]} Nervousness: a brief and popular
review of the moral treatment of disordered nerves. **50c. Moffat.
9–5897.
A book for laymen in which the author “devotes a goodly portion of his
book to analysis of the causes, mental, moral and physical, of
functional nervous troubles, and then goes on with fairly full
directions for the use of ‘mental therapeutics,’ which he calls ‘the
Cinderella of medical science.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Might be read by people who would not undertake the large works. Does
not duplicate Dr. Mitchell’s book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09. ✠
=Nation.= 88: 635. Je. 24, ’09. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 100w.
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.=^{[9]} With Christ in Palestine. $1.25.
Fenno.
Four addresses published in the hope that they may be a help in
realizing some scenes in the life of Christ, and in learning the lessons
connected with them. They are: Bethlehem, or the birth of Christ;
Nazareth, or the life of Christ; Capernaum, or the work of Christ;
Jerusalem, or the death of Christ. A dozen reproduced photographs
accompany the text.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 30w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Schouler, James.= Ideals of the republic. *$1.50. Little.
8–30609.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The author’s presentation of his subject is sane and just, and his
views will generally command acceptance. It must be admitted, however,
that the treatment is stronger upon the historic side than in its
application of these ideals to present-day conditions. Again, the
political ideas are more adequately presented than the social ones. This
volume will prove of value as a helpful historical resumé of the origin
and development of the political ideals which have prevailed in this
country. Unfortunately there is no index.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 189. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“Safe, sane, and scholarly are the proper adjectives to apply to the
book as a whole.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 88. F. 1, ’09. 400w.
“It is not too much to say that Dr. Schouler’s treatment of the
constitutional and philosophical principles underlying the American
government is masterly and that his pages are full of suggestions for
those who are concerned with the problems of the present. We deeply
regret that so important a book is without an index.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
+ =Forum.= 41: 388. Ap. ’09. 470w.
=Schryver, Samuel Barnett.=^{[8]} General characters of the proteins.
(Monographs on biochemistry, v. 3.) *80c. Longmans.
Agr9–1615.
A monograph whose first section “deals with the physical properties of
the proteins (solubilities, crystallisation, heat coagulation, rotatory
power, electrical conductivity, and so forth); the second with their
general chemical characters (tests, distribution of nitrogen, compounds
with acids, bases, halogens, etc.); and the third with the precipitin
reaction, which is commonly known as the biological test.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The whole is treated in a technical but clear manner; references are
given to the authorities quoted, and the booklet will prove a useful
addition to the library of the physiologist, and should be found in
every laboratory devoted to biochemical research.” W. D. H.
+ =Nature.= 80: 307. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
“A review of progress in any field of study can serve a diversity of
purposes. As a summary of discoveries made it brings an up-to-date
appreciation of current knowledge and makes it ready for convenient
reference; and if the résumé has been critically prepared, it may
fulfill the almost equally important function of pointing out the
limitations of our experience in any domain and the problems awaiting
solution. In the latter respect especially, Dr. Schryver’s monograph
deserves commendation.” L. B. Mendel.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 121. Jl. 23, ’09. 530w.
=Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. v. 3. **$3. McClure.
7–36232.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 49. F. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)
“No recent autobiography so fully deserves the attention of those
interested in the development of our national life. The lives of few men
furnish so adequate a picture of the times in which they lived.” C. L.
Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 213. Jl. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“These recollections ... are undeniably interesting, but they by no
means escape the fault of prolixity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 486. O. 23. 850w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Reviewed by W. H. Johnson.
+ =Dial.= 46: 82. F. 1, ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 3.)
“All of Schurz’s descriptions of battles are vivid. None is more so than
his story of Gettysburg.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 536. Mr. 11, ’09. 700w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A complete story of a notable life in the political annals of this
country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 907. D. 12, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work is well and sometimes brilliantly written by one whose sense
of point and proportion as a newspaper man or journalist, has done him
good service in producing a work which is as entertaining as it is
historically valuable.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 391. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is but one serious disappointment in this third and last volume
of Schurz’s ‘Reminiscences’: the reminiscences proper break off almost
at the beginning of Grant’s administration and of Schurz’s own service
in the senate. The proof-reading, as in the earlier volumes, has
evidently not been particularly good.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 66. Ja. 21, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Bancroft brought with his knowledge an intimate friendship with the
late writer, and has ably done his task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The most interesting portion of the reminiscences themselves to be
found in the volume is the chapter that tells of Mr. Schurz’s meetings
with Bismarck in the winter of 1868.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Shows no falling off in the interest and charm which distinguished the
first two.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 584. Jl. 10, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Schuyler, James Dix.= Reservoirs for irrigation, water-power, and
domestic water-supply; with an account of various types of dams and
the methods, plans and cost of their construction; 2d ed., rev. and
enl. $6. Wiley.
8–36167.
“The work consists of nine chapters, dealing with rock-fill dams,
hydraulic-fill dams, masonry dams, earthen dams, steel dams,
reinforced-concrete dams, natural reservoirs, and a final chapter in
which photographic illustrations and descriptions of work are given
which were received by the author too late for incorporation in the body
of the book.” (Engin. D.) The new material includes data concerning the
achievements of the past ten years, 234 new illustrations, comparative
sections of masonry and earth dams, and appendices containing a table
showing the acre-foot cost of 75 reservoirs, of which 45 are in the
United States and 30 in foreign countries.
* * * * *
“The thoroughness characterizing the work of revision is certain to be
cordially appreciated by the engineering profession.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 172. F. ’09. 480w.
“The book should still be judged chiefly as a collection of descriptions
of the large and otherwise important dams of the world. As such it is of
the highest value. No one really ought to find much fault with a book
which contains such a vast amount of useful information as does this
one, particularly when the information as a whole is in accordance with
the plan of the author, is quite convenient for reference purposes, and
much of it is nowhere else accessible.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 17. F. 18, ’09. 750w.
“The volume is the most complete compilation of data relating to dams
which exists in any language, and many of the structures are described
in no other books available to most engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 673. D. 11, ’09. 300w.
“The style and arrangement of subject matter of the book lack uniformity
and its substance is rather a collection of facts relating to dams and
reservoirs than a scientific treatise thereof. Sufficient new and
rewritten material has been incorporated into the text to make the book
essentially a new work.” F. W. Hanna.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 792. My. 14, ’09. 400w.
=Scott, A. Maccallum.= Through Finland to St. Petersburg. *$1.25.
Dutton.
9–35583.
A book for the tourist, lover of nature and general reader which “deals
especially with Finland in the summer, when, as the sun rises higher and
its light and heat hold the land from day to day, a great tidal wave of
green rolls over the country. The ‘white nights’ of summer, when the sky
is suffused with a tender brightness, when there are neither stars in
the sky nor shadows upon the earth, force the vegetation, because of the
constant supply of light, to a hot-house rapidity of growth, and the
whole country burgeons with a magic quickness into an almost tropical
jungle.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A well rounded, useful work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 181. Je. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Scott is a practical, experienced guide; he is also an intelligent
companion whose interests are wide and varied.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1139. My. 27, ’09. 80w.
“Is a somewhat dry, but instructive reference book and guide for
travellers. The illustrations are an important feature and give a good
idea of the country.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 424. Ap. 22, ’09. 100w.
“The men and women in whose hearts burns the wanderlust will be grateful
to Mr. Scott for his book in which he spreads forth the lures of a new
pleasure ground beyond the Baltic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 1150w.
“Certainly Mr. Scott’s enthusiasm does not make him a less useful
guide.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 27. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson.=^{[11]} Treasuretrove. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–10787.
A novel built up about the following situation: “A burglar, disturbed in
his attempt upon Mrs. Smart’s plate, bolts in a panic, leaving behind a
packet of valuable jewels just stolen from another house. To Mrs. Smart
‘finding is keeping,’ and the jewels are turned into the capital
necessary to launch her children in life. But everything goes wrong with
the illgotten wealth, and poor Mrs. Smart sees in the misfortunes of her
family the punishment for what, too late, she discerns to have been her
sin. The author proclaims stridently that this view is absurd, but—well,
things do happen very oddly in real life on these lines.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The work contains interesting and well-contrasted characters, and the
instances of heredity provided are ably selected and chronicled.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 581. My. 15. 130w.
“There is considerable that is clear and original in ‘Treasure trove,’
but as a whole it is a weak, scattering and unconvincing story.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 646. O. 23, ’09. 220w
“All the characters are well drawn, and the matron’s two interviews with
the burglar are delightful.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 112. Jl. 24, ’09. 190w.
=Scott, Colin Alexander.= Social education. *$1.25. Ginn. 8–17822
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Its parts are of varying degrees of merit. In those chapters in which
the author deals with the experiences of himself and his coworkers,
there is much that is suggestive, and it would have been well worth the
while to have developed the subjects presented.” K. E. Dopp.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 534. Ja. ’09. 1050w.
“Somewhat radical, but offers valuable material for discussion to
advanced thinkers on educational lines.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 109. Ap. ’09.
“In the chapter on manual arts many valuable suggestions are given and
the social mission of the common school is set forth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 189. Jl. ’09. 280w.
“It is a long look forward and a wide one that Dr. Colin A. Scott takes
in ‘Social education’ and one that social workers other than the
teachers for whom the book was primarily written, will find themselves
enriched by sharing. To one judging socially and not pedagogically the
closing chapter on the Education of the conscience is disappointing.” H.
F. Greene.
+ − =Char.= 21: 782. F. 6, ’09. 1000w.
“Illuminating as it does the problem of socializing pupil activities in
school life, ‘Social education’ deserves a wide reading by
superintendents, principals, and teachers.” W. F. Gordy.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 196. S. ’09. 670w.
“No one who thinks about education at all, even if he has never heard of
the social movement can afford to miss the book.” H: W. Holmes.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 580. O. 14, ’09. 2150w.
“The strictures above noted do not blind us to the special value of the
work, which taken as a whole, makes a contribution to the school theory
and practice of to-day. The author writes with an attractive and
compelling style and sustains the interest to the end.” E. F. Buchner.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 111. Mr. 15, ’09. 750w.
=Scott, James Brown.=^{[12]} Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907:
a series of lectures delivered before the Johns Hopkins university
in the year 1908. 2v. $5. Johns Hopkins.
9–14717.
“The first volume is ‘based upon a series of lectures delivered before
the Johns Hopkins university in the year 1908....’ The first three
chapters give a general survey of the Genesis of the International
conference and the results of the two Hague conferences. Then follow two
interesting chapters on the composition of the conferences and the
nature, origin, and practice of international arbitration. In the
remaining eleven chapters, the various conventions, declarations,
resolutions, and wishes (voeux) are carefully analyzed. The second
volume contains the instructions and official reports of the American
delegation, diplomatic correspondence of our government, and the texts
of the various conventions, etc., of the two conferences (French and
English on parallel pages).”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“There has been great need of a volume in English which should analyze
the work of the Second Hague conference in a manner at once interesting
to the general reader and satisfactory to students and teachers of
international law. For the successful accomplishment of this task
Professor Scott deserves our heartiest thanks.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 151. O. ’09. 930w.
“Should be part of the equipment of college, reference and large public
libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“His work shows not only the precision and balance of the scholar, the
force of the statesman, but even the vision of the prophet. The work is
monumental. It places the author in the very front rank of living
publicists. In no matter of essential importance do we think him in
error. Still we venture to point out a few trifling sins of commission
and omission.” H. H.
+ + − =Ind.= 67: 598. S. 9, ’09. 2000w.
=Scott, James Brown.= Texts of the peace conferences at The Hague,
1899 and 1907; with English translation and appendix of related
documents; ed. with an introd.; prefatory note by Elihu Root. *$2.
Pub. for the International school of peace by Ginn.
8–31994.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“There are a few errors and some awkward constructions which more care
could have eliminated; but these are comparatively slight defects in a
very creditable piece of work. Most of the documents have been published
elsewhere and some of them many times, but it is well worth while to
have them brought together in this convenient form.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 615. Ap. ’09. 550w.
“This is an excellent collection of documents.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 464. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“A valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 26. Ja. 1, ’09. 70w.
“An excellent volume of reference indispensable to the student of public
affairs.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 317. Mr. ’09. 60w.
“Little of significance has escaped our author.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 600w.
“An authoritative account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 417. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
“The extent to which these finely formulated instruments have become by
ratification binding upon the several states is not indicated.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 168. Mr. ’09. 280w.
=Scott, John Reed.=^{[5]} Woman in question. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–13917.
A story whose main action takes place on a Virginia estate whither the
owner conducts a few friends for a house party. Two young widows divide
the honors of the heroine, both of whom interest the eligible master of
Egerton. The situation becomes complicated by the presence of the
husband of one of the “widows,” a man who is a blackmailer and
scoundrel—hence the separation ten years before. The release from
oppression involves a crime which the author has dealt with summarily
but which furnishes a mystery equal to many that require four or five
hundred pages for solution.
* * * * *
“Showing no special gift or skill.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 680. N. ’09. 470w.
“An ingenious and interesting narrative, light-hearted (except for the
underlying tragedy), and gracefully related.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 180. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Scott’s fiction is light, but it is excellent of its class. The
story has dash and verve.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 402. Je. 26, ’09. 250w.
=Scott, Robert.=^{[8]} Pauline epistles: a critical study. (Literature
of the New Testament ser.) *$2. Scribner.
A study in which the author “rejects the Pauline authorship of eight out
of the thirteen Pauline epistles, and regards the remaining five as in
part composite. His argument is based entirely upon internal data—‘a
theory of authorship based on characteristics of thought and style.’ The
clue he uses is, certainly, only a hypothesis, and may, on this ground,
be called unscientific; but do not all inquiries need some theory to
give them coherence, and to supply a centre around which facts may
crystallise?”—Hibbert J.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately Dr. Scott’s arguments are not always so important as his
conclusions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 530w.
=Bib. World.= 33: 432. Je. ’09. 120w.
“This neglect of historical situations is perhaps the greatest weakness
of the presentation. This book is not entirely valueless. It has pointed
out with fresh emphasis variations of thought and expression in the
Pauline writings, but the theory offered for the solution of the problem
is of doubtful worth.” S. J. Case.
− + =Bib. World.= 34: 355. N. ’09. 1200w.
“The attitude of Dr. Scott is frank and fearless, but, unlike critics
such as Dr. Van Manen, he is no iconoclast. His work is a sane and
moderate attempt to solve the problem of these epistles by the
application of critical methods.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 942. Jl. ’09. 1650w.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 881. O. 14, ’09. 620w.
“He writes with insight and ability, and he desires to be taken
seriously. But in order that his results may be taken seriously, it
would seem imperative that he should state with distinctness the canons
of criticism in accordance with which he accepts as Pauline so much as
he does.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 150w.
“The author has worked out his theory with care and ingenuity; but it is
too complicated and elaborate, and only proves to us how subjective the
‘internal-evidence’ argument can become, and consequently how weak. Dr.
Scott himself is far more convincing when he is pointing out
resemblances than when he is detecting discrepancies. This book is more
conservative than the author imagines.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 203. Ag. 14, ’09. 650w.
=Scott, Temple.=^{[11]} Pleasure of reading the Bible. *50c.
Kennerley.
9–28013.
An essay, quite free from sectarian doctrinal bias, in which the Bible
is viewed only in the light of literature. The author emphasizes the
purity of the pleasure of reading the Bible leading to the cultivation
of one’s sense of beauty in language and thought.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 693. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
=Scott, Walter Dill.= Psychology of advertising: a simple exposition
of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful
advertising. *$2. Small.
8–26213.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 20. Ja. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 612. N. ’09. 170w.
“The book is practical, and fills an important position in advertising
literature.” F. H. Elwell.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 64. Ap. ’09. 250w.
“The volume will be found of value both by the psychologist and the
advertiser, and of unique interest to the general public that reads
advertisements. It is, however, curious that a psychologist should have
failed to include an index.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 93. Jl. ’09. 310w.
“The book is decidedly worth reading, especially by the increasing
number of hard-headed folk who believe that a science, like a soul, is
known unto all men by its fruits. Books like this deserve to be welcomed
on all hands.” T: P. Bailey.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 190. Ap. 1, ’09. 1200w.
“The illustrations might have been better chosen in many cases, inasmuch
as readers of the book often get from them an impression quite different
from that which they are alleged to produce. To the scientific reader,
also, the analysis will seem too slight and popular to be of great
interest. But there is doubtless instruction in the book for the
professional advertiser or the man of business who wishes to know
whether or not his advertising is intelligently done.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 105. F. ’09. 120w.
=Scott, W. Major.=^{[8]} Aspects of Christian mysticism. $1. Dutton.
“Includes brief studies of twelve of the great Christian mystics,
beginning with St. John and St. Paul, and ending with Peter Sterry, of
Cambridge, who preached before Oliver Cromwell and who died in 1672.
Each of the twelve is studied only from the point of view of his
mystical teaching and as illustrating Mr. Scott’s definition of a
mystic. The mystic, according to this definition, is the man who lives
not in time, but in eternity. He does not regard life from the viewpoint
of temporal things, but he establishes eternal correspondences with
things unseen.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The sketches which Mr. Scott gives are brief and slight. They are not
intended to be complete or exhaustive even of the mystical side of his
subject. In fact, they may be regarded rather as hints as how to discern
the mystical element in the lives of the saints. In many cases even the
hints are imperfect, and there is a distinct feeling of disappointment
over Mr. Scott’s failure to reach to the real heart of the subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 251. Jl. 29, ’09. 250w.
“In his treatment of mysticism the author is quite uncritical. He fails
to recognize, for example, the abnormal element which almost invariably
attends the more pronounced types of mystic experience, the nervous
instability and the depression, often intense and protracted, by which
the devotee purchases the moments of emotional exaltation.”
− =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“The book is not so much for the technical scholar as for the general
reader who wants a sympathetic insight into the spiritual message of
Christian mysticism.” E: S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 455. Jl. 24, ’09. 100w.
=Seabury, William Jones.=^{[5]} Memoir of Bishop Seabury. *$2. Gorham.
9–6964.
“The career of Bishop Samuel Seabury, prominent in American affairs,
civic as well as religious, before, during, and after the revolution,
which is of especial interest because of the important part he took in
the breaking away of the American Episcopal church from the church of
England.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“He was a virile, energetic man of wide interests and of deep religious
zeal, and his biography is full of the spirit of his times.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 16. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.
“The volume may be read with advantage, but we are not greatly impressed
either with the narrative itself or with the way in which it is told.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Seager, Henry Rogers.= Economics: briefer course. *$1.75. Holt.
9–2542.
A text prepared with special reference to the needs of technical and
professional schools. “The qualities chiefly aimed at in the first, or
theoretical, half of the book have been clearness and brevity, and those
sought in the second, or practical, half, adequacy and up-to-dateness.
The treatise is thus intended primarily for teachers who wish to give
only that amount of attention to economic theory that is essential to
the intelligent discussion of practical economic problems.”
* * * * *
“Its admirable arrangement as an elementary book for students of
technical schools is its greatest merit.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 190. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“Clearness of statement, logical cogency, and the quality of
up-to-dateness are the distinguishing marks of this admirable treatise,
which we take pleasure in commending.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 80w.
“An interesting chapter, not found in many new text-books, is the final
one on economic progress. This serves to bring the whole discussion to a
head and will help to make the student feel that he has got somewhere.
The book seems well adapted to its purpose.” T. N. C.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 122. Je. ’09. 120w.
“The ‘Briefer course’ contains some material not found in the larger
work, and the bibliographical material is full and useful.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 60w.
=Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 168. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“The ‘Briefer course,’ as one scans its pages, seems to have kept the
best of the larger book, and to have shaken off a considerable part of
the weight under which it labored.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 106. My. ’09. 200w.
=Seaman, Owen.= Salvage. *$1.25. Holt.
Selections, chiefly, from the author’s contributions to “Punch.”
* * * * *
“The book, despite its occasional unevenness, is worthy of its author’s
reputation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 815. D. 26. 320w.
“It is satirical and society-verse after the manner of Calverley—and
rather a long way after. A gentle but constant smile is its highest
tribute.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 368. Je. ’09. 90w.
“Those who have enjoyed his parodies will not be disappointed by these
skits, in independent vein.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 762. S. 30, ’09. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 133. Mr. 6, ’09. 380w.
“In Mr. Owen Seaman’s work there are no flaws that intelligence can
avoid, but a hundred such as it can easily permit. Let us admit at once
that he who reads one page will probably read every one. We chiefly
admire the slenderness of the means by which Mr. Seaman tickles us.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 280w.
“Well sustains the reputation for fine craftsmanship and sober wit which
has long been his. The satire, keen as it is, seems now and then a
trifle hampered by the extreme artificiality of its medium.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 305. F. 20, ’09. 330w.
=Sears, Lorenzo.=^{[11]} Wendell Phillips, orator and agitator.
**$1.50. Doubleday.
9–23991.
A summary of the life of Wendell Phillips in which are set forth the
qualities that made him one of the greatest of the abolitionists.
“Gradually he undertook a life-long fight against slavery, and that
fight he waged with courage, physical and moral; with absolutely
unselfish fidelity, with intellectual force and brilliancy, and with the
use of such resplendent oratorical powers as, it is safe to say, no
other American has shown in like quality and measure.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The earlier biographies are fuller and take up his private life. Sears
is more conservative and probably more trustworthy because the lapse of
years has defined more clearly the value and significance of Phillips’
public services.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 84. N. ’09.
“Dr. Sears’s style suffers from an intrusive jauntiness, but it is at
least clear and readable. For the thoroughness with which he has studied
his sources, as well as for the skill with which he has avoided writing
a history of the period instead of a life of Phillips, he is entitled to
praise.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 544. D. 2, ’09. 680w.