and perspective, and is rather long for the amount of really valuable
matter presented. But it is sincere and conscientious, and in the later
part, especially in the analysis of the substance and form of Mr.
Phillips’ oratory, rises to the dignity of the subject.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 538. S. 11, ’09. 900w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 100w.
=Seashore, Carl Emil.= Elementary experiments in psychology. *$1.
Holt.
8–15310.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The chapters are of somewhat unequal merit: those on visual contrast
and after-images and on geometrical illusions seem the most adequate,
and those on visual space and on association least so. On the whole, for
the purpose which it has in view, that of increasing the amount of
first-hand observation by beginners in psychology, the book seems likely
to do good service.” R. S. Woodworth.
+ − =Educ. R.= 37: 311. Mr. ’09. 480w.
“It is a valuable addition to the handbooks in psychology, and ought to
be warmly welcomed in every quarter.” V. A. C. Henmon.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 53. Ja. 21, ’09. 740w.
“His formal directions are clear, and his comments illuminating. A
surprising amount of general psychological information is sprinkled
about.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 100w.
“The statements and directions are notably clear, and concise, and the
accompanying discussion and illustrations apt and illuminating.” W. F.
Dearborn.
+ =School R.= 17: 210. Mr. ’09. 470w.
=Seaton, Albert Edward.=^{[10]} Screw propeller, and other competing
instruments for marine propulsion. *$4. Lippincott.
9–35798.
“This work is an expansion of the portion of the author’s ‘Manual of
marine engineering’ which dealt with the subject matter. While its main
subject is the screw propeller, there is space devoted to the resistance
of ships, to paddle-wheel propulsion and to hydraulic propulsion.”
(Engin. N.) Chapters are devoted to the following subjects: History of
propulsion; Resistance of ships; Slip, cavitation and racing; Paddle
wheels and their design; Internal and jet propellers; Screw propellers;
Thrust and efficiency; Number and position of screws; Number, shape and
proportion of propeller blades; Details and dimensions of screw
propellers; Geometry of the screw; Materials of construction; Trials;
Analysis of Sells’ experiments with propellers varying in pitch and
surface ratio.
* * * * *
“Valuable in large libraries and in small libraries in a ship or
boat-building district.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09.
=Engin. D.= 6: 247. S. ’09. 200w.
“There are a number of typographical and clerical errors, some of which
are important. While this book is avowedly deficient from the scientific
side, it contains a great deal of valuable practical information, and
its empirical and semi-empirical formulas, being based upon wide
experience, are of value, though not to be trusted implicitly. While the
meaning is obscure in a few places, the book as a whole is clear and
well written. It is interspersed here and there by pungent
characteristic comments.” I. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 62; sup. 2. Jl. 15, ’09. 1550w.
“The designer will find a considerable amount of interesting and
valuable material, but he will not find it presented in such a manner as
to be most fruitful with reference to the application of modern
experimental information to the solution of the actual problems of
design. The chapters on experimental data are disappointingly meager,
most of the information quoted relating to experiments distributed over
a period from about 1850 to 1890.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 617. N. 27, ’09. 320w.
“As a work of reference will be found of service to all interested in
the propulsion of ships.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 213. Ag. 19, ’09. 1000w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Imprisoned midshipman. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–21618.
A juvenile story which tells about two boys who sailed as midshipmen
under Commodore Bainbridge when President Jefferson sent him forth to
silence Tripoli in the early nineteenth century. The incidents attending
capture, imprisonment and final liberation are informing and thrilling.
* * * * *
“Though the style is rather lifeless and stilted, boys will find it
interesting to read in connection with the author’s ‘Decatur and
Somers.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 312. D. ’08.
“It is full of stirring patriotism, and will interest old and young
alike.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Seignobos, Charles.=^{[10]} History of contemporary civilization;
translation edited by James Alton James. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–2518.
Covers “the social and economic development as well as the political
events of the period from the opening of the eighteenth century to the
year 1888.” (Ind.) “The later chapters have especial interest,
discussing European peoples outside of Europe; arts, letters and
sciences in the nineteenth century; industry, agriculture and commerce;
economic reforms; democracy and socialism. A bibliography and books for
supplementary reading cover seven pages.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
* * * * *
“An excellent text for secondary schools and useful for general
reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“Professor Seignobos combines the rare qualities of a profound scholar
and a skillful maker of school books. It is only to be regretted that
the editor did not make arrangements to bring the work up to date; in
fact, this failure seems to be a fatal error for the purposes of a
modern history.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 302. Ag. 5, ’09. 150w.
=Semenov, Vladimir Ivanovitch.=^{[7]} Rasplata (The reckoning). *10s.
6d. Murray, John, London.
9–23804.
A diary of the naval fighting in the Russo-Japanese war in which the
author’s records made on the spot are not changed tho conflicting with
later information. “He travelled overland to the seat of war, and the
introductory scenes during his journey will be recognized as genuine by
any one who has passed through the experience of being in a country
which is on the verge of war and yet doubts the possibility of such a
thing.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“We strongly recommend the account of the naval operations by Capt.
Semenoff, as we did that of the land warfare by General Kuropatkin. The
two books together present a complete picture of a memorable series of
campaigns.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 754. Je. 26. 150w.
“Apart from its value to the future historian, is uncommonly interesting
as a human document, a seemingly unpremeditated revelation of the Slav
temperament among officers and men.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 934. O. 21, ’09. 340w.
“An exceptionally readable account of Russia’s naval campaigns, written
from the anti-governmental standpoint, with much grasp and authority and
without excessive prejudice.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 360. O. 14, ’09. 470w.
“This account ... should be read, together with the book called ‘Human
bullets,’ written by a Japanese commanding in the land forces before
Port Arthur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 527. S. 4, ’09. 1700w.
“An absorbing account of the voyage of the Russian Baltic fleet.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 160w.
“Those who read the book [‘Battle of Tsu-Shima’] will not care to miss
‘Rasplata’ (‘The reckoning’), which has the same qualities and is
excellently translated.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 1031. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w.
=Sera, Leo G.=^{[11]} On the tracks of life: the immorality of
morality; tr. from the Italian by J. M. Kennedy; with an introd. by
Oscar Levy. *$2.50. Lane.
A work by a sophist of Nietzsche’s school who divides all mankind into
aristocrats, workers and the transitional types between the two. “The
leading topics of the book, giving its chapter-headings, are Love, the
Origin of society, Work and morals, North and South (the characteristics
of the peoples), Social rhythms, the Creation of genius, a Conception of
civilization, two disquisitions on Aristocracies, and a chapter each on
Stendhal and Nietzsche.”
* * * * *
“We would not say that he is unworthy of critical notice. Despite his
unfortunate immoralism, his dogmatism (as of a man who is unaccustomed
to address his equals, or has a feud with them all), and the prolixity
and confusion of his book, we neither dislike Signor Sera nor despair of
him. He has gifts as a writer, though he wastes them through unrestraint
from page to page. He also has a mind, if he could make it up; but the
form he at present affects seems to us to forbid cohesion.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 401. Ap. 3. 1450w.
“His theses are clearly and vigorously expressed, his book is very
diverting, or very shocking, according to the reader’s temperament, and,
after all, nothing sharpens the teeth of the mind like setting them
firmly into a fallacy of the tougher order.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 1500w.
“Dr. Sera is a thinker of more brilliancy than depth; his range of
knowledge is wide but his conclusions often rest on very insecure and
inadequate foundations. The chapter on ‘North and South,’ while
containing many acute anthropological observations, is scarcely the work
of a scientist. The book is, none the less, most stimulating and
suggestive; it piques the reader to thought, and while much of its
philosophy might prove subversive to immature minds, it is a distinctly
valuable comment on modernity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 612. O. 16, ’09. 550w.
“There is much in this book over which we might naïvely wax angry, but
at which a little common-sense and sense of humour will rather make us
smile.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 728. Je. 5, ’09. 310w.
=Serviss, Garrett Putnam.=^{[12]} Curiosities of the sky: a popular
presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy.
**$1.40. Harper.
9–29243.
A clear, authoritative description of heavenly bodies in which the
treatment is as scientific as plain language will permit. The chapters
give the latest information on such topics as the coming and going of
comets, the origin and career of meteors, the aurora borealis, the
corona and spots on the sun, the surface of the moon, the zodiacal
light, star clusters and the discovery of new stars, nebulae, and
constellations, and how the constellations change.
* * * * *
“Another contribution to popular science of interest and value.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1148. N. 18, ’09. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 831. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Biography of a silver-fox; or, Domino
Reynard of Goldur town. †$1.50. Century.
9–7445.
A biography whose purpose is “to show the man-world how the fox-world
lives—and above all to advertise and emphasize the beautiful monogamy of
the better-class fox.” The story is built up from incidents gathered
from different regions and woven into a unity whose bearing upon animal
psychology is important.
* * * * *
“As well suited to adults as to children, and less interesting to the
latter than Mr. Seton’s earlier stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 150. My. ’09.
“It is a stirring, sympathetic narrative, and has the merit of being
taken conscientiously from nature. Moreover, it is well written.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 649. My. 29. 130w.
“The story is well told, and is as interesting as any of those that have
come from this author’s pen—which is as high praise as a critic could
well give.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 46: 363. Je. 1, ’09. 350w.
“Tells a lively animal story in a way to interest old and young.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 867. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.
“In his hundred clever and suggestive illustrations Mr. Seton maintains
his reputation as not only an artist but a naturalist.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 854. My. 15, ’09. 260w.
“As a matter of fact, Mr. Roberts’s chief advantage over Mr. Seton,
aside from priority of publication, is that his is the better, more
vivid, and more dramatic story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 209. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
“Mr. Seton tells one of his stories of woodland life with all his
accustomed skill and sympathy.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 824. My. 22, ’09. 180w.
=Seward, Albert Charles=, ed.^{[8]} Darwin and modern science: essays
in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and
of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of
species. Ed. for the Cambridge philosophical society and the syndics
of the University press, by A. C. Seward. *$5. Putnam.
9–22596.
A symposium of twenty-eight essays contributed by eminent English and
foreign scientists in commemoration of the Darwin centenary and of the
jubilee of the publication of the “Origin of species.” “It is no
exaggeration to speak of this work as monumental; it is a monument of
greater durability than bronze or marble, because it stereotypes the
collective thought of our age. For the future historian of science it
must for all time serve as a landmark indicating the present stage of
development of scientific doctrine in every department of human thought
where science holds sway, and where the great principle of evolution
has, under Darwin’s influence, served as a guide in the interpretation
of both organic and inorganic nature.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 125. D. ’09.
“This volume is a worthy tribute to the labors of a great man. It is no
ordinary panegyric, but an examination of the principles of Darwinism in
the light of our present knowledge.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 704. Je. 12. 920w.
“All of these essays address themselves primarily to the intelligent
public rather than to investigators, and therefore they are in a sense
popular statements and not contributions to knowledge. In spite of this,
they are very interesting to investigators, for personal and recent
points of view are in evidence throughout, and the whole group of
related topics is brought together in clear and compact form.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 308. O. ’09. 380w.
“It is a book that should be on the shelves of every library, whether
public or private, which aims to reflect in its choice of books the
progress of contemporary thought.” Raymond Pearl.
+ =Dial.= 47: 92. Ag. 16, ’09. 1350w.
“As an expression of modern thought concerning evolution and its
tributary studies of heredity and variation no more admirable
compilation than these essays has appeared in recent times.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 441. N. 4, ’09. 1050w.
“It detracts in no way from the value of this volume that it is in the
best sense ‘popular’ as distinguished from technical. It is difficult,
if not impossible, to impose any restriction with respect to the class
of reader to which these essays will appeal.” R. Meldola.
+ =Nature.= 80: 481. Je. 24, ’09. 4000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 237. Ap. 17, ’09. 4600w. (Detailed advance
notice.)
=R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 50w.
“These essays then are to be welcomed as giving a frequent glimpse of
that ‘onward rush of science’ which was Darwin’s fitting image and of
which his own mind has been so vivid and copious a source.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 109. Jl. 24, ’09. 1300w.
Reviewed by D: S. Jordan.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 527. O. 15, ’09. 1000w.
=Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry.=^{[12]} Heart of the Antarctic: being
the story of the British Antarctic expedition, 1907–1909; with an
introd. by Hugh Robert Mill; an account of the first journey to the
south magnetic pole by T. W. Edgeworth David. **$10. Lippincott.
9–29523.
The record of an expedition in search of the south pole. “The first
volume relates the story of the expedition; the second records the
various scientific data gathered by the explorers. These data, narrating
what was done in the domains of geology, biology, magnetism,
meteorology, and physics, will have but little interest for the reader
who is more concerned with the manner of getting the material than he is
with the matter itself. Of the manner—the heroic efforts and the almost
Promethean suffering of the men who made the remarkable journey—the
first volume is sufficient for the most greedy lover of a tale of
daring-do.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The first volume is a lucid and businesslike record of facts, all the
more effective for no conscious straining after literary effect. The
uniform excellence of the illustrations, which number over three
hundred, is notable. The high standard set in Capt. Scott’s volumes and
in the Royal society album of discovery photographs is fully maintained
in this work.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 626. N. 20. 1800w.
“No one reading it will question its author’s title to a place in the
ranks of the Great Explorers.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 448. D. 1, ’09. 1550w.
“We congratulate him on the reserve and the modesty which characterize
his narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“Valuable, however, as are the scientific results set forth in these
volumes, and interesting as are the numerous illustrations, it is to the
narrative of the explorations that the reader will turn with most
curiosity. He will not be disappointed.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 626. D. 23, ’09. 1800w.
“A more interesting book of polar exploration than ‘The heart of the
Antarctic’ has yet to be written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 765. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.
“Mr. Shackleton’s own narratives are well told and will no doubt be
popular with the general reader.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 634. N. 20, ’09. 1650w.
“It would be incomprehensible to us if boys should ever want to turn to
blood-and-thunder stories before they had finished the narrative in this
book. Sir Ernest Shackleton has just the right combination of scientific
interests and love of reckless adventure, and in this book we see the
two sides of him balancing one another to perfection. The book will take
its place among the great records of adventure in our language.”
+ + =Spec.= 103: 848. N. 20, ’09. 1800w.
=Shakespeare, William.=^{[6]} An evening with Shakespeare; arranged by
T. Maskell Hardy. *80c. Duffield.
9–8773.
This extra volume of the Lamb Shakespeare for the young “comprises
twelve tableaux, illustrated by half-tones from photographs, with
introductory readings, and a prologue comprising the verses contributed
by Ben Jonson to the First folio.” (N. Y. Times.) The favorite
Shakespeare songs are included.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 101. F. 20, ’09. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 768. Je. ’09. 40w.
“A program of an entertainment which might very well be utilised for the
amusement—we might add instruction—of a young, or indeed a grown-up
audience.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 646. Ap. 24, ’09. 30w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.=^{[7]} Autobiography of Nathaniel
Southgate Shaler; with a supplementary memoir by his wife. **$4.
Houghton.
9–16433.
A work of nearly five hundred pages which after counting out the
thirty-five pages given to the index and list of the author’s
publications is nearly equally divided between the autobiography and the
wife’s memoir. It places special emphasis upon the influences that
shaped the author’s scientific career, and reveals the character and
quality of his monumental service for science.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“The wife’s continuation of her husband’s unfinished life-story could
not fail to be an admiring tribute to his many virtues, while at the
same time it is, by help of numerous excerpts from letters and data from
other sources, a satisfying completion of the book.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 40. Jl. 16, ’09. 1200w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 479. Ag. 26, ’09. 800w.
“This book is a most admirable example of what a true biography of a
savant ought to be if it would not only charm the scientist, but in the
words of Beaconsfield, ‘appeal to the domestic sentiments of mankind.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 543. O. 2, ’09. 600w.
“One of the notable autobiographies of the year.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1082. D. 11, ’09. 100w.
“One is moved to begin whatever one may say of the whole with a word of
hearty admiration for the way in which Mrs. Shaler has met the demands,
and resisted the temptations, of her task.” W. G. Brown.
+ =Nation.= 89: 230. S. 9, ’09. 3600w.
“The simplicity and directness of the style of composition admits the
reader of this ‘Life’ into a hospitable mental house of wide views.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“The most important book of the year in the field of biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 170w.
=Sharman, Henry Burton.= Teaching of Jesus about the future, according
to the synoptic gospels. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–9476.
The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke have been used as sources for this
study. The word “future” as used in the title covers the time subsequent
to the final severance of relations between Jesus and his disciples.
There is excluded the study of the reputed teaching of Jesus about his
rejection, sufferings, resurrection and appearances after resurrection.
There is included a study of such teaching about the future as is
reported to have been given in the post-resurrection period of Jesus’
life.
* * * * *
“A noteworthy contribution to the study of one of the most complex
problems presented by the Synoptic gospels. A large number of instances
might be adduced in which, in our judgment, Dr. Sharman has not done
justice to the data. A discussion which is of high value even for those
who are obliged to differ from the author in regard to many of his
detailed results.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 450. Jl. ’09. 1050w.
“Important work.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 431. Je. ’09. 130w.
“This book is a credit to American scholarship. The strength of the book
lies in its emphasis on the historical occasion and setting of Jesus’
words about the future, in the skilful and persuasive way in which in
detail the different records are compared and the original words
recovered, and in the general defense of an ethical, in contrast to an
apocalyptical, interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. I would urge
the interest and importance of the study and its value toward a right
understanding both of the nature of the gospel writings and of the mind
of the Master.” F. C. Porter.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 134. Ag. ’09. 1800w.
“It is a carefully paragraphed essay in documentary criticism. The
historical conclusions, though reached independently, are neither novel
nor startling.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 90w.
“The volume is worth thorough study by every student of the subject.” E.
S. D.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 70w.
“Professor Sharman’s arguments are clearly stated and his theory
logically applied.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 721. N. 6, ’09. 190w.
=Shaw, Adele Marie, and Beckwith, Carmelita.=^{[5]} Lady of the
dynamos. †$1.50. Holt.
9–8814.
This narrative “takes us from the selfish society life of New York
direct into the green glooms and lights of tropical life, where the hero
finds his ‘lady of the dynamo,’ and where by a strange twist of fate the
other woman follows him. There is acute human interest in every page of
the development, while the technical part relative to the plant, the dam
and the power transmission is cleverly and briskly worked out. Possibly
the authors have founded their story on fact; it is certainly true that
in the enterprises of this kind that are now taking electrical engineers
into so many remote parts of the world, an abundance of exciting
adventure presents itself.” (Elec. World.)
* * * * *
“A readable tale of love and adventure.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 403. Je. ’09. 300w.
“We can heartily commend this swiftly moving story with its fine local
color, as one of the books for the coming summer months.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 1113. My. 6, ’09. 220w.
“It takes high rank among stories of its genus; its species is made
quite its own by many traits of cleverness and wit, and of genuine
feeling for beauty of the worlds without and within.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 400w.
“A story quite capable of holding the attention of the reader whose
concern is pastime—not art or edification.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 214. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.
=Shaw, Charles Gray.= Christianity and modern culture: an essay in
philosophy of religion. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–6169.
“Professor Shaw is of the opinion that we have reached a crisis in the
history of Christianity, and that the question is pertinent whether, in
view of modern culture, we are still Christians. He undertakes to answer
this question and his answer is affirmative.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“His survey and insight are of commendable order, much as his conception
of the bearing of historical criticism and consequent historical doubt
does not seem to me to be quite adequate.” G: B. Foster.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 147. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“The book, taken as a whole, makes upon the reviewer the impression of
opening up and slightly touching upon a great many fundamental problems
without working out any of them.” J. A. Leighton.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 560. S. ’08. 480w.
=Shaw, Charles Gray.= The precinct of religion in the culture of
humanity. *$2. Macmillan.
9–9816.
Contains in substance the lectures delivered in the New York university
on the philosophy of religion. The subjects treated are: The essence of
religion; The character of religion; The reality of religion; and The
religious world-order.
* * * * *
“With a strong bias for the subject—the Philosophy of religion—the
writer of this slight notice is constrained to utter a protest against
the many polysyllabled words, the long disquisitions which seem to lead
nowhere, the arguments which fall short of the mark and prove nothing.
This is the more to be regretted, as in many parts of the book, notably
the latter part, the reasoning is forcible and well sustained, the
thought well brought out, the statements clearly put, and instead of a
woeful waste of words, the phrases are clean-cut, almost epigrammatic in
their terseness.” Mary Lloyd.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 215. Jl. ’09. 170w.
“The importance of the subject deserves a clearer vision and a firmer
grasp.”
− =Bib. World.= 33: 144. F. ’09. 50w.
“The reviewer cannot share the satisfaction which the author no doubt
feels at having succeeded in excluding psychology almost completely from
his treatment of religion. And he regrets having to record another
achievement of the author as unfortunate as the first: the rich stores
recently added to their respective sciences by the students of
anthropology and of primitive religions have remained unused. The result
of this voluntary exclusion, or ignorance, is the production of a volume
as formal, remote from religious life, and therefore unprofitable, as
any we have seen for a long time.” J. H. Leuba.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 250. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“It is in such statements as those just quoted that the logical defect
of the work lies. While its spirit is admirable, its learning competent,
and its philosophical, social, and historical criticism suggestive, it
does not clearly distinguish between creation and adoption—it represents
religion as originating what it only accepts and defines.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 516. My. 20, ’09. 500w.
“The book is not easy reading, and will appeal principally to the
philosophical student.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 127. Mr. 6, ’09. 60w.
“What is intended to be illuminating is, through a certain lack of
incisiveness, too apt to be, instead, cryptic and a little
disheartening, and the real merits of the book are therefore likely to
be overlooked by the less persevering. Whatever the judgment upon its
results, the book shows an originality and independence which clearly
indicate that it is drawing upon a fund of genuine and first-hand
experience.” A. K. Rogers.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 347. My. ’09. 1000w.
=Shaw, Joseph Thompson.=^{[7]} Spain of to-day: a narrative guide to
the country of the Dons, with suggestions for travellers. **$1.25.
Grafton press.
9–16942.
A little volume compiled from the author’s memoranda jotted down during
a season of exploration and sight-seeing in Spain. Impressions gained on
the spot have made possible a “picture of scenes and conditions drawn
without glamor,” showing sections a little out of ordinary line of
travel.
* * * * *
“It will make prime reading on the trip, after the trip, or even if one
remains at home.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 30w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.=^{[12]} Blindness of Dr. Gray; or,
The final law: a novel of clerical life. †$1.50. Longmans.
9–28394.
“Depicts the struggle between conservatism and modernism, the author
showing a thorough comprehension of both sides as well as a large
tolerance joined to an unswerving Catholic piety. The blindness of Dr.
Gray is twofold, not only physical, but spiritual, in that he is under
bondage to rigid theological law, and so misses a clear Christian vision
and the ‘sweetness and light’ of love. Through a bitter experience ‘he
saw at last the “new commandment” was the “final law” of the universe,
although everything in nature and in man seems to disprove it.’”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“On its theological side the book is of even greater interest than on
its national. The book holds its romance, and many episodes of interest;
but it is too long, and over-much incumbered with side issues. Some of
the characters and scenes are exaggerated, nor can we always agree with
the author’s ethical estimates. It is, however, admirable in its spirit,
and, on the whole, full of sound sense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 782. D. 11, ’09. 550w.
“This novel is not very artistically constructed. There are parts of it
which might be retrenched without loss, and even with advantage. But,
whatever its defects, the book is profoundly interesting.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 953. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.=^{[12]} Sacerdotalism in the nineteenth century:
a critical history. *$2. Meth. bk.
9–4570.
“Professor Sheldon has given us in this volume a concise statement of
the systems of faith which exalt the priestly hierarchy, and bases his
criticisms of them upon the principle that ‘so far as the church is
controlled by sacerdotalism, it has turned away from the spiritual ideal
of Christianity.’ The first half of the volume is concerned with the
Roman type of sacerdotalism.... The Anglo-Catholic or High church
movement is traced in the church of England. Patristic authority in
interpretation and apostolic succession are discussed.... Less important
developments of sacerdotalism are represented by the radical
Neo-Lutherans, the Irvingites and the Mormons. In conclusion the author
urges evangelical Protestantism to recognize its great task of
maintaining itself against the sacerdotal attempts to subjugate the
world to the dominion of priestly sovereignty, which is already menaced
by increased intellectual activity.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“With ample learning, fine logical acumen, and sufficient polemical
zeal, this well-known church historian has produced a very useful
polemic.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 653. O. ’09. 80w.
“As a work in polemics this volume is generally strong and is of value
to the student of the relations of church and state as well as to the
theologian.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 190. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“It is questionable whether the book does anything more than retell a
twice-told tale. However, so long as such views are held it is as well
that they should be generally known and clearly stated. Prof. Sheldon
has contributed to such a clear understanding of them. And for a
controversial work his book is fairly free from the spirit of
bitterness.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
=Sheldon, Samuel; Mason, Hobart; and Hausmann, Erich.=^{[5]}
Alternating-current machines; being the second volume of Dynamo
electric machinery, its construction, design and operation. 7th ed.,
completely rewritten. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
8–30354.
“In the present edition the subject-matter has been thoroughly revised
in order to keep it abreast of the best going practice.” (Engin. D.) “On
comparing this seventh edition with the first, one of the most important
additions noticed is the group of 12 problems placed at the close of
each chapter, and embodying the application of principles studied
therein. The use of imaginary complex numbers has been resorted to for
extended study of impedance and admittance of circuits. This was
carefully avoided at first. A third important addition is the matter of
single-phase series motors, which have come into prominence through
recent notable advances in alternating-current railroad engineering.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The descriptive matter relating to the various types of apparatus is
somewhat brief, but it is to the point and covers the features of
interest sufficiently for the ordinary needs of the engineering
student.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 1604. Je. 24, ’09. 350w.
“Engineers, other than electrical, who have occasion to inform
themselves on any particular phase of the subject, will find the book of
value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 417. Ap. ’09. 230w.
“The rearrangement will add to the value of the book for many teachers
and students, but will probably detract from its popularity with a few
others on account of an apparent loss of simplicity.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 50. Ap. 15, ’09. 340w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 50w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.=^{[11]} Gilbert White and Selborne. *$1.50.
Scribner.
An appreciation of the naturalist, Gilbert White, and his writings,
especially “Cameos from the Natural history of Selborne.”
* * * * *
“For a charming and easy glimpse into the best aspect of
eighteenth-century life we can commend these fluent pages.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 439. N. 4, ’09. 130w.
“This little book is not badly done so far as it goes, but there is
nothing in it that has not often been said before.”
− + =Nature.= 81: 334. S. 16, ’09. 100w.
“Affords a biography of the famous naturalist which can be read with
pleasure and profit as a sort of preface to his work. It is written in
an easy, well-rounded style, but is rather more verbose and inclined to
the use of ornament than usually suits the fancy of American readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 769. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“This is in every way a worthy tribute to the character and genius of
the great naturalist.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 425. S. 18, ’09. 280w.
=Shelley, Henry Charles.=^{[11]} Inns and taverns of old London. $3.
Page.
9–28080.
Sets forth the historical and literary associations of the ancient
hostelries, together with an account of the most notable coffee houses,
clubs and pleasure gardens of the British metropolis. “From Chaucer’s
old Tabard Inn, with which he starts, to Finch’s Grotto Gardens, with
which the author closes, he keeps the reader almost in a state of
bewilderment with the names of the great and witty of England, and with
anecdotes of their social life.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 67: 1350. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“The book is a notable addition to the series of popular travel books
issued in late years in uniform style by the same publishers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 788. N. 6, ’09. 100w.
“In a good part of the book he traverses the same ground as Timbs, in
his well-known ‘Club life of London,’ and the later work, by its too
great jauntiness and rapidity, suffers from the comparison. But Mr.
Shelley has a good subject, and his writing certainly cannot be
condemned for heaviness. Though his style is light, there is evidence
that he has turned over many books to get his material together.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 180w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=^{[12]} Letters; collected and ed. by Roger
Ingpen. 2v. **$6. Scribner.
“Into the two volumes before us Mr. Ingpen has collected with pious and
indefatigable labour the whole scattered mass of Shelley’s extant
correspondence; he has arranged it in chronological order and annotated
it throughout, giving besides a sketch of the personal history of each
correspondent. So that if a man’s character, as Cardinal Newman thought,
is best revealed by his familiar letters, every reader now may draw his
own portrait of the ‘real’ Shelley.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The text of the letters and their annotation show commendable care and
study. The unavoidable vice in a work like this, if vice it must be
called, is that any one disposed to take it as a book to be read right
through will probably find himself near the end of the first volume
before he begins to be deeply interested in what the poet has to say to
his correspondents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 550. N. 6. 1700w.
“Mr. Ingpen’s edition of the letters represents a new documentary
contribution to our knowledge of Shelley rather than a new
interpretation.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 778. D. 11, ’09. 360w.
=Spec.= 103: 889. N. 27, ’09. 2100w.
=Sherman, William Tecumseh.=^{[11]} Home letters of General Sherman;
ed. by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. **$2. Scribner.
9–26989.
“During the first years of the war his letters are grim pictures of
undisciplined and often cowardly troops, whose conduct filled him with
disgust. As the effect of his rigorous discipline began to show, and as
his position became more assured, and the hated politicians let him more
alone, his spirits rose, and his letters were more hopeful. It is a fine
study of gradual growth in efficiency, and the contrast between the
beginning and end of the war is really wonderful. The early letters are
of interest as showing the conditions under which Sherman’s character
was formed, but the war-time correspondence is truly thrilling, though
couched in the cool, measured language characteristic of the great
general.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Apart from the popular interest, which must be roused by this unique
collection of letters, its historical value will be recognized by every
specialist.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
“No one can read the ‘Home letters of General Sherman’ without being
conscious of electrical contact with a nature of exceptional strength
and contagious energy.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 190w.
“Their historic importance, not to speak of their biographical
significance, is very great.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 170w.
=Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock.=^{[10]} Stained glass tours in England.
*$2.50. Lane.
9–35797.
“In this book the author has done for England what he did in a previous
work for France. He conducts the reader through various tours to
cathedral cities and other places of interest, where fine examples of
stained glass may be seen. Mr. Sherrill has all an American’s enthusiasm
for things English, and writes as interestingly and as sympathetically
about stained glass in this country as he did in ‘Stained glass tours in
France.’ The various itineraries he maps out for the reader strike one
as being extremely well arranged.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The glass in cathedrals, churches, universities, and civic and private
buildings is described with enthusiasm and discrimination.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“Apart from its undoubted charm, the work should prove of very practical
value as a guide book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 328. O. ’09. 100w.
“A volume which European tourists will find readable and instructive.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 544. O. 2, ’09. 60w.
“A companionable and useful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 567. S. 25, ’09. 220w.
“A book which not only proves him to be a true lover of mediaeval glass,
but proves also his enlightened comprehension of its evolution and its
changing style.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 96. Jl. 17. ’09. 1600w.
=Shield, Alice.= Henry Stuart, cardinal of York, and his times; with
introd. by Andrew Lang. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–37058.
“Although the ambition to recapture the crown of England made no appeal
to the heart of Henry, Duke of York, and he would have nothing to do
with intrigues and struggles looking toward that end, Miss Shield has
written his story as a part of the troubled domestic and political
history of his house, and closely intertwined with the activities,
misfortunes, and fates of his father and his brother. Her book evidences
profound and careful study of the men and movements of the time, and
shows a penetrating appreciation of the characters of her subject and
his near relatives.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“There is abundant evidence of the keenest research; but the result is
desultory in its preoccupation with the detail of what was at the same
time a romantic and a quiet life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 611. My. 22. 1100w.
“The newest part of the book is the account of the quarrels and
‘tracasseries’ which took place time and again between the prince and
his ‘just’ father, but even here we should have been glad if the writer
had not tried so conscientiously to be loyal to her Stuart ideals.” A.
F. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 409. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“She writes well, with an ever-present sense of the purely human
interest and value of incident and character and with a freshness of
touch which makes her work interesting without lessening its scholarly
quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 749. D. 5, ’08. 210w.
“The present biography is well and sympathetically written, and contains
much interesting information, especially on the miserable married life
of Prince Charlie.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 601. My. 8, ’09. 670w.
“There is much that is pleasant reading in Miss Shield’s account.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 308. F. 20, ’09. 430w.
=Shields, Thomas Edward.=^{[6]} Making and the unmaking of a dullard.
*$1. Catholic education press.
9–6592.
A book of distinct educational value which traces the career of a
dullard from the early cause found in the assignment of too heavy tasks
by a stupid teacher to the awakening to self-confidence after years of
toil on a farm. The invention of a grubbing machine marks the beginning
of his ascent which in time leads to a doctor’s degree. “As in all
modern books on education, our present elementary school system is
severely criticised.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 89: 397. Je. ’09. 350w.
“He has opened up new links of thought in a delicate and abstruse field
of inquiry, and no one who knows and loves children will fail to see and
follow the wisdom of his prescriptions.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 105. Jl. 17, ’09. 140w.
“Although Dr. Shields handles the form rather awkwardly, the persons
being far too impersonal, and quoting, like a book, long passages from
newspapers and periodicals, still the chief character, Dr. Studevan,
holds our attention throughout with the convincing narrative of his
boyhood and youth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 500w.
=Shillington, Violet Mary, and Chapman, Annie B. W.= Commercial
relations of England and Portugal. *$2. Dutton.
8–3943.
“In this work, containing the substance of two theses approved for the
degree of Doctor of science (economics) in the University of London, the
authors have dealt systematically with the subject of the famous
commercial intercourse between this country and the Portuguese kingdom
from 1200 to 1807.” (Ath.) “For the student of American colonial history
much light is thrown by this book on England’s commercial policy and the
effects of colonial trade on her attitude toward other European
countries.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“The importance of the subject and the absence of any previous general
treatment fully justifies their presentation in their present form. The
two parts of the book are of unequal length and of unequal value to the
student, though this does not indicate any inferiority in Miss
Shillington, who discusses the medieval period down to 1487. Lack of
material has necessarily made her treatment of this portion rather
sketchy.” A. C. Howland.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 216. Ja. ’09. 580w.
“It may be fairly admitted that the historical method pursued by the
authors is both original and scientific. We have no hesitation in
predicting that this work will at once take a place amongst the
recognized authorities for the history of English commerce. The
arrangement of the book, if somewhat inconvenient, is at least
methodical and suggestive.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 509. Ap. 25. 300w.
“Such general outlines are not at all unfamiliar, but they are
supplemented in this volume by a mass of detailed information, which
bears witness to wide and discriminating research. Fresh light is thrown
upon the period 1756–86. Beawes’s ‘Lex mercatoria’ might perhaps be
added to the authors’ excellent bibliography; the map that faces the
title-page requires some explanation.” G. B. H.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 615. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Brontës; life and letters. *$6. Scribner.
9–557.
An attempt to present a full and final record of the lives of the three
sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, from the biographies of Mrs.
Gaskell and others, and from numerous hitherto unpublished manuscripts
and letters.
* * * * *
“The most complete and authoritative biography in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 22. S. ’09.
“We close the book with the feeling that any man of discernment who has
mastered its contents should have a just view of the author of ‘Jane
Eyre.’ Of the splendid and secluded genius of ‘Wuthering Heights’ all
that industry can gather is here, but she remains an inscrutable
figure.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 535. O. 31. 1200w.
“A stern critic might argue that these two great tragic volumes are
lengthy, are monotonous, contain among their seven hundred and eleven
letters many that were not worth preserving from a literary point of
view, or even, in some cases, for any purpose of throwing fresh light on
the character or genius, the joys or sufferings, of Charlotte Brontë and
her sisters. There would be more than a grain of literal truth in all
this. Yet, in spite of these objections, we doubt whether any really
open-minded reader would find it possible to lay these volumes down with
a page still unread.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1058. D. 19, ’08. 1650w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Napoleon and his fellow travellers: ed. with
introd. and notes. *$4. Cassell.
9–18479.
“A collection of some little-known narratives by eyewitnesses relating
to Napoleon’s sojourn on the ‘Bellerophon’ and the ‘Northumberland.’”
(Spec.) “The most valuable of the narratives in this volume is that of
the Hon. W. H. Lyttleton. It describes his interview with Bonaparte on
board the Northumberland.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“If Mr. Shorter had given us a really critical study of these
narratives, his book might have been welcomed; but his footnotes are in
the main biographical notices of the persons named in the text. Here and
there he adds a few trifling corrections, but they are, as a rule, on
trivial personal matters. His introduction bears marks of partisanship
and does not impress us with his knowledge of the Napoleonic age.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 40. Ja. 9. 550w.
“Of more real interest, however, than any of these narratives is Mr.
Shorter’s introduction in which he criticises the existing biographies
of Napoleon.” H. T. Peck.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 303. My. ’09. 1400w.
“The accounts of all these eye-witnesses, written from different angles
of vision and with varying emotions, are of intense human interest and
offer valuable material for historical and psychological study.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 170w.
“Every reader who has a taste for curious and personal details connected
with great historical events—and who has not?—will be grateful to Mr.
Shorter for bringing these forgotten narratives once more into
circulation.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1101. D. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Shurter, Edwin Du Bois.= Oratory of the South: from the civil war to
the present time. *$3. Neale.
8–35842.
A book of excerpts culled from the addresses of prominent latter-day
southern speakers. Together they form a volume of representative
southern oratory since the civil war.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 45. Ja. 23, ’09. 170w.
=Shute, Henry Augustus.=^{[12]} Farming it. **$1.20. Houghton.
9–29850.
A story of a commuter’s life on two and a half acres of land, in which
lively emphasis is placed upon a series of barnyard adversities. He has
the usual trying experiences of a farmer which are related humorously
and from which he finally emerges to view calmly and dispassionately the
accrued advantages of such a life: “I have brought my farm to a high
state of fertility, hardened my hands, strengthened my muscles, cured my
indigestion, and benefited every member of my family, and I have never
neglected in any way the duties of my profession.”
* * * * *
“This is a wholesome and invigorating sort of book, take it all in all,
with an abundant leaven of common sense to relieve its obstreperous play
of drollery. It contains passages also, of a serious quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 739. N. 27, ’09. 1000w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullmann), and Paynter, Mrs.=^{[12]} Children’s book
of gardening. *$2. Macmillan.
An attractively illustrated book whose aim is that of telling juvenile
readers how to make their gardens grow, and the information, free from
description, reflection or amusements, keeps within the limits of what a
child can do. The author discusses the situation and soil, tells how to
make certain annuals and hardy perennials yield satisfaction; talks
about rock and wall gardens; difficult and shady gardens; window, room
and Japanese gardens; fruit and vegetables; and adds a calendar of work
and an index.
* * * * *
“Will bring much satisfaction to English young people.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1370. D. 16, ’09. 20w.
=Sidgwick, Frank=, ed. Ballads and lyrics of love. **$2. Stokes.
Consists of selections from Percy’s “Reliques of ancient English
poetry.” including “King Estmet,” “Lord Thomas and fair Annett,” “Fair
Margaret and sweet William,” “King Cophetua and the beggar maid.”
* * * * *
“Chosen with scholarship and taste. We note as a distinct blot in the
editing that no indication of the authorship of the known lyrics is
given. Mr. Byam Shaw has caught the romance and humor, the simplicity
and colour and ‘abandon,’ which characterize these indigenous flowers of
the British soil.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 332. S. 19. 160w.
“Illustrated, not without crudeness, after Byam Shaw.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Sidis, Boris.=^{[5]} Experimental study of sleep. *$1. Badger, R: G.
9–140.
To atone for the indifference of school-physiology to the subject of
sleep the author gives an exposition of his observations and experiments
on sleep. The pamphlet treats the subject experimentally and
theoretically.
* * * * *
“A bibliography of about 250 titles is appended, but it has no relation
to the matter of the monograph, for few of the books and articles are
referred to in the body of the work, and some of those to which
attention is called are not included in the bibliography. It is
unfortunate that the author did not consider it necessary to be more
specific in the bibliography because dates, and, in referring to general
works not especially pertaining to the subject, page references would
have added to its value.” S. I. Franz.
− =J. Philos.= 6: 442. Ag. 5, ’09. 450w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy, and Lyall, Sophie.=^{[9]} Dutch bulbs and
gardens; 24 plates by Mima Nixon. (Color books.) *$2. Macmillan.
9–35799.
“A book that leavens technical information with a bit of comment and
reflection here and there on Dutch character and life, and adorns both
with all the colors of tulip and hyacinth and crocus and snowdrop in the
twenty-four full-page plates painted by Miss Mima Nixon, and reproduced
by the color process. The text is credited to Miss Una Silberrad and
Miss Sophie Lyall, the descriptions being probably mostly Miss Lyall’s;
the touches of human interest Miss Silberrad’s. But the bulb’s the thing
in text and picture, not the people who grow it and sell it. To lovers
of flowers the book is therefore primarily addrest.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 49. O. ’09.
“Is naturally a book to delight all lovers of flowers and gardens; but
the story of bulb-growing in Holland is entertaining enough to make a
much wider appeal, and the authors have taken full advantage of that
fact to introduce a variety of interests besides the horticultural one.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 270w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 484. Ag. 26, ’09. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 288. S. 23, ’09. 330w.
+ − =Spec.= 102: 983. Je. 19, ’09. 160w.
=Silburn, Percy Arthur B.=^{[8]} Colonies and imperial defense. $2.
Longmans.
A discussion whose burden is cooperation between the colonies and the
mother country. The author “does not believe in direct monetary colonial
contributions for the support of the Imperial navy, although he is
convinced the colonies should depend upon that navy and not undertake to
have navies of their own. His contention is that each unit in the empire
should, at its own expense, provide adequate land defenses for its
coasts, and establish absolutely safe harbors of refuge and coaling
stations for the use of the Imperial navy. In addition each unit should
assume some responsibility for the Imperial army in men, money, horses,
and equipment.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 260w.
=Sill, Louise Morgan.= Sunnyfield. †$1.25. Harper.
9–7336.
Sunnyfield is the playground of two lively, resourceful town children
where they romp, dig, plant, have picnics and circuses. To be sure they
are very much guarded and tended by maids and coachmen; which fact
reduces to a minimum the round of accidents falling to the lot of the
normal boy and girl.
* * * * *
“The authoress shows a thorough sympathy with child life. Not a single
‘goody-goody’ type is to be found.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 730. Ap. 24, ’09. 240w.
=Simpson, Frederick Moore.=^{[7]} History of architectural
development. (Architects’ lib.) 3v. ea. *$6. Longmans.
=v. 2.= Mediaeval.
“The first half of the volume is occupied with such details of churches
as arches, arch-mouldings and labels, columns, piers, capitals, bases,
walls, buttresses, plinths, windows, vaultings, towers and spires, mural
decoration, and other ornamental adjuncts, all discussed and illustrated
seriatim, much valuable technical information being given; and the
second part is devoted to a consideration of the churches as integral
structures.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Though the churches dealt with by Prof. Simpson have been described
many times before, there is so much freshness and originality in the
author’s treatment of the subject, the result of personal acquaintance
with most of the structures he deals with, that the work has every right
to rank among the standard literature of the subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 77. Jl. ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The quality of sympathetic understanding of a difficult subject
distinguishes Mr. Simpson’s work on mediaeval architecture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These oddities with some of spelling are worth noting solely because
the book is so admirable; sound, compact, amazingly complete, within the
moderate compass of three hundred and seventy-five pages, and not a
little delightful.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 258. Ag. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Simpson, Patrick Carnegie.=^{[12]} Life of Principal Rainy. 2v. *$6.
Doran.
“More of the man is revealed in Mr. Patrick Carnegie Simpson’s ‘Life of
Principal Rainy,’ but here, too, the chief interest is historical, not
biographical in the closer personal sense—historical and sometimes
almost controversial. This was unavoidable, for, as his biographer says,
Rainy’s ‘ambition was to study and teach or write church history; his
task, to make it.’ Rainy’s close connection with the history of the
Scotch church during the last half century—its ‘apologia’ Mr. Simpson
calls him—has given the book its color and direction.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The interest of these volumes is politico-ecclesiastical rather than
literary. Mr. Simpson is a Free churchman, looking at things from his
hero’s point of view, misreading some, and extenuating many proceedings
which an impartial biographer would have interpreted otherwise or
condemned.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 584. N. 13. 1350w.
=Ind.= 67: 1140. N. 18, ’09. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 784. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
“A book which, in spite of certain blemishes, is worthy of its subject.
To begin with, he has the proper standpoint for such a task. But,
further, he is a student of general church history and an interested
observer of secular policies, so his book has none of the narrowness of
too many ecclesiastical biographies. When he is picturesque, he falls
into odd grammar and strange locutions. As our final criticism of a
remarkable piece of work, we would note that in one or two passages his
mind scarcely seems to bite upon the subject at issue.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 557. O. 9, ’09. 1850w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr., and Williams, Michael.= Good health and
how we won it; with an account of the new hygiene. **$1.20. Stokes.
9–2074.
A book which represents the combined efforts of two health seekers to
gather up the present day new health knowledge and to present it in form
that can be used by the average man. Here are brief, practical results
of investigators, path-breakers on the journey to health. Important
facts are furnished on what to eat, how to eat, health and the mind,
diet reform, breathing, exercise, bathing, cleanliness, etc.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 67: 1092. N. 11, ’09. 340w.
=Lit. D.= 38: 474. Mr. 20, ’09. 140w.
“In brief, compact, and simple form it presents a compilation and
summary from which one may quickly and easily learn what the great food
reformers think and know about their subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 260w.
=Sinclair, William Macdonald.=^{[12]} Memorials of St. Paul’s
cathedral. *$4. Jacobs.
Although it was supposed that Dean Milman’s “Annals” contained the final
history of the great cathedral, changes have taken place since 1868 when
that volume was written. The record of these changes and the reforms
that have been instituted there have furnished the author an incentive
for bringing the history down to date.
* * * * *
“He has evidently read widely all that is of any worth among the
numerous printed books which have, in whole or in part, dealt with the
history or fabric of the great cathedral church of St. Paul, and shows
no small ability in the assimilation of his materials.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 701. D. 4. 1500w.
“The book is both a history and a guidebook, and contains many valuable
biographical notes.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 360w.
“The book before us is one which no lover of St. Paul’s would willingly
be without; it is at once a chronicle of the highest interest and a
valuable guide. But the Archdeacon must give it a careful revision in
future editions.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 716. N. 6, ’09. 720w.
=Sindall, R. W.=^{[8]} Manufacture of paper; with illustrations, and a
bibliography of works relating to cellulose and paper-making.
(Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–14835.
An elementary textbook telling what paper is made of and how it is made.
“What the skill of the engineer does, and what the knowledge of the
chemist supplies, are here set forth. Analyses of the substances chiefly
used, esparto grass, for instance, and wood-pulp, are given. Various
quantities and uses of the article are distinguished.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The author’s well-known ability to deal with his subject is displayed
in a concise and thoroughly well-planned book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 430. O. 9. 90w.
“The book will be of practical service to those who purchase as to those
who manufacture paper.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 633. D. 23, ’09. 40w.
“Is as regards matter, a series of sectional chapters dealing with
aspects of the industry and its processes, with no continuity or
cohesion of plan; and as regards ‘form’ there is not merely an absence
of style, but a disregard of accuracy of definition and precision of
statement which, in an elementary text-book, as it claims to be, is a
usual feature of distinction as of moral influence on the mind of the
student reader. Such a work can be commended to a certain class of
readers, notably those representing the stationers or consumers, and
also those who require general information without regard to close
accuracy. There is certainly room for a work of this character, and with
a rigorous revision the volume might be made a useful addition to the
literature of paper making.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 422. Je. 10, ’09. 580w.
“The book should be in the hands of every newspaper, magazine, and book
producer.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 470. Ap. 10, ’09. 100w.
“The whole subject is treated by an expert.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 544. Ap. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Singleton, Esther.=^{[10]} Dutch New York: manners and customs of New
Amsterdam in the 17th century. *$3.50. Dodd.
9–24462.
“A picture of the daily life of the worthy burghers, their wives and
children, their orchards and gardens, their houses, furniture, silver,
glass, curios and ornaments, their housekeeping, servants and slaves,
their provisions for the education of their children, their business,
recreations, sports and festivals, their courtship and marriage customs,
their physicians and surgeons, tavern and excise laws, their religion,
superstitions, and many other things.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer’s ‘Gude vrouw of Mana-ha-ta’ and Alice
Morse Earle’s ‘Colonial days in old New York’ cover the same ground but
not so thoroughly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 85. N. ’09.
“Miss Esther Singleton brings to her latest research a valuable
background of related information.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 453. D. 1, ’09. 360w.
=Ind.= 67: 757. S. 30, ’09. 150w.
“Is perhaps the most important book thus far issued that bears the name
of Esther Singleton as author.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1352. D. 16, ’09. 110w.
“The work is not only timely in its appearance, but should remain a
valuable storehouse from which historians may derive illuminating
paragraphs for their own future books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 638. O. 16, ’09. 130w.
“Presents as far as it goes a faithful and interesting picture. One
fault to be found with it, however, is that she sometimes fails to
specify plainly enough whether she is writing of life in old or new
Holland.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 547. S. 18, ’09. 950w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
“This volume on the American metropolis during the period of Dutch
dominion seems to us particularly well done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 510. O. ’09. 150w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp.^{[12]} Famous cathedrals as seen and
described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
9–27135.
“It was of course impossible to include in one volume all the notable
cathedrals; so Miss Singleton has added to those universally agreed upon
as the most celebrated, others that will offer to the reader the
greatest possible variety of instruction and pleasure. A still more
varied programme is secured by mingling architectural, descriptive, and
historical selections and including a few impressionistic pictures, like
Mr. Arthur Symons’s of Bourges, and Gautier’s of St. Isaac. Each
selection is accompanied by an excellent photograph of the cathedral in
question.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Altogether Miss Singleton has achieved an excellent handbook,
interesting in itself and well adapted to introduce its readers to more
detailed and less alluring studies of cathedral lore.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 462. D. 1, ’09. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 60w.
“It will be useful as a traveling-companion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1083. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
“This sort of stitchery does not lend itself to criticism, but possibly
what Goethe had to say about Strassburg might still afford a titbit,
while Viollet-le-Duc, if only for piety’s sake, should not have been
ignored. Still for those who take their reading in capsules there are
few more intelligent and amiable pharmacists than Miss Singleton.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 582. D. 9, ’09. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
=Singleton, Esther. Holland.= (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Will be found useful in supplementing cyclopedias and art histories for
information about minor Dutch artists.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 84. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It is not only comprehensive in scope, but salient in matter.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 100w.
“A compilation from all sorts of sources, put together without
discoverable method.”
− =Nation.= 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 180w.
“So far as a general impression may be trusted there are few if any
errors in the statement of known facts. Occasionally, in giving a
colloquial turn to her accounts of the artists, the author seems to mix
things up somewhat.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’09. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 125. Ja. ’09. 20w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Turkey and the Balkan states, as described
by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–35947.
“Gives a general idea of the history, the present conditions, and the
character of the people of Turkey, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Servia,
Bosnia, Montenegro, and Roumania by means of quotations from the
published works of modern travelers. Among the authors who are thus
quoted are Edward A. Freeman, for the history of Turkey; William J. J.
Spry, John Foster Fraser, Harry de Windt, Helene Vacaresco, Herbert
Vivian, Lady Thompson, Sutherland Menzies, and others. A good deal of
space is devoted to description of the life, manners and customs of the
Balkan peoples and of the Turks. The illustrations, of which there are
many, are from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A very timely book and one which shows how quickly and acceptably such
a volume can be prepared by the trained compiler.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 3: 808. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 64. Ja. 9, ’09. 170w.
=Singmaster, Elsie.=^{[10]} When Sarah saved the day. †$1. Houghton.
9–27449.
The story of a little Pennsylvania Dutch girl who, orphaned at the age
of fifteen, resolutely sets to work alone to fight a whole colony of
uncles and aunts who had designs on the farm left her and her small
brother and sisters by her parents. How she saves the day with the aid
of the village school teacher is quite dramatically told.
* * * * *
“It is not often that we find among children’s books a story that is so
full of local color, and so Dickenslike in its humor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 60w.
=Slater, Rev. Thomas.=^{[10]} Short history of moral theology. 50c.
Benziger.
9–26330.
Traces the chief stages in the development of Catholic moral theology.
Two periods are treated: The patristic period, and The modern period.
* * * * *
“He does not write for the scholar who delights in and demands detailed
analyses of problems and evidences, but for the busy man of affairs, of
students of other sciences, who want only a general but reliable
knowledge of this subject. Such readers will find his book interesting
and instructive.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 258. N. ’09. 70w.
=Sloan, Patrick James.=^{[5]} Sunday-school director’s guide to
success. *$1. Benziger.
9–7555.
A book for the Sunday-school organizer and director. “Here teacher and
pupil, methods and material equipment, souls and bodies, are all
considered from the point of view of the man who is ultimately
responsible for the success or failure of this serious charge. How
serious it is, and how far from successful, commonly speaking, it is in
one or two very important respects, Father Sloan tells us very clearly.”
(Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“He treats the entire subject systematically and in an eminently
practical way.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 251. My. ’09. 200w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.=^{[11]} Cameralists: the pioneers of German
social polity. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–26389.
A second volume in a series on the preparation for sociology in the
fragmentary work of the nineteenth century social sciences. It deals
with cameralism as a single factor of the German state and presents a
digest of everything in the writings of the leading cameralists which is
necessary to an impartial conclusion about their meaning for the German
social sciences.
=Smile= on the face of the tiger. 50c. Bacon & Brown, Boston.
8–33306.
A group of limericks supposed to be edited by Charles Knowles Bolton of
the Boston Athenaeum. Its contributors include David Starr Jordan, Arlo
Bates, Carolyn Wells and Du Maurier.
* * * * *
“A diverting collection of limericks.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 80w.
=Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 130w.
=Smith, Arthur D. Howden.= Fighting the Turk in the Balkans: an
American’s adventures with the Macedonian revolutionists. **$1.75.
Putnam.
9–540.
Not a history of political events but a presentation of a phase of
twentieth-century life which is unknown to the general reader. The
author says: “I have pictured Macedonia as I saw it. I have tried to put
into the pages the feelings of the chetnik life, with its wild surge of
emotions, tense and over-strained. I have tried to portray the swift
moving procession of picturesque types that I have met, each with a
strange and distinctive individuality—brave women, Turkish askares,
chetniks, priests, doctors, lawyers, peasants, white-kilted
mountaineers, and voivodes. And I have tried to picture, too, the land
that was the stage for the drama, with its rugged towering mountains,
its dark ravines and the torrents that swept impetuously through them.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 85. Mr. ’09. ✠
+ =Dial.= 46: 191. Mr. 16, ’09. 340w.
“He has made a very readable book out of his adventures, and has done so
without adventuring too far into heroics or calling to his aid the
dazzling vocabulary of the modern war correspondent. One reservation we
would make is that the Bulgarians cannot quite be the utterly angelic
folk our author makes them.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 44. Ja. 14, ’09. 300w.
“A very remarkable story of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 36. Ja. 16, ’09. 720w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“A vivid and readable description of the fighting on the part of the
Bulgars.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 293. F. 6, ’09. 330w.
“His style is graphic and entertaining.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 50w.
=Spec.= 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 80w.
=Smith, Arthur W.=, comp.^{[7]} Selected bibliography, sanitary
science and allied subjects; prepared for the use of classes in
sanitary science in the College of liberal arts, University of
Colorado, pa. *50c. Stechert.