“A very modern tale, dealing very modestly with British society—with
true love, unsanctified passion, stark madness, and many vanities and
pretences of this wicked world.... The hero is intellectually a fool
... a fine strapping young chap of true English meat, dull, but sound.
Being the only son and heir of a baronet, his mother, who believes
firmly in mustard plasters, has kept him out of the army and the
university. Therefore going up to London, he promptly falls a victim
to the wiles of a certain charmer of the town ... very beautiful and
very, very wicked.... The book is full of malign caricatures of
British types, the malignity lying largely in the closeness of the
caricature to the living original.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This tale of intrigue is well handled, and sometimes well told. It is
always told with power; and it has the merit of being essentially
interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 340w.
“The book would be melodrama, if not for the atmosphere of reality it
exhales, and the fine sanity of the lesson it teaches.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 300w.
“There is nothing to redeem ‘The idlers’ from being the worst of
fungus fiction except this element of masculine health in closing the
situation.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 450w.
“It is a good story for people who like their romance spiced with wit
and anchored to a sense of things as they are.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible,
because it is cynical and too realistic in its presentation of
viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
=Robertson, Florence H.= Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25.
Badger, R: G.
Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of
slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her
“mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who
had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s
heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”
=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and
modern. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now
been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two
stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two
volumes are no exception.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 160w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 40w.
“He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a
felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 880w.
“It might be termed the history of unbelief. It is comprehensive. But
it is not marked by any notable philosophical insight or dramatic
power.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Robertson, Morgan.= Land ho! †$1.25. Harper.
Angus McPherson, otherwise known as Scotty, “a man with a face like a
harvest moon and the soul of a Scotsman” is the principal figure in
several of the adventures narrated in Mr. Robertson’s new book of sea
tales. “The sea, as Scotty and the rest of Mr. Robertson’s heroes know
it, is a hard mistress, exacting a heavy toll of labor and sorrow and
making little return; and as a whole Mr. Robertson’s book does not
make cheerful reading.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“His style is powerful, but his insight is always exercised on
gruesome situations.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“As a whole the stories are very readable.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The book is always interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ’05. 270w.
“The tales are remarkable rather for ingenuity than for any convincing
quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
“A rattling, rousing, salty story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 20w.
=Robie, Virginia.= Historic styles in Furniture. *$1.60. Stone.
“The title indicates the special point of view of this new ‘furniture
book.’ Sometimes the century made the style, as in the fifteenth
century; sometimes the period, as with the Italian Renaissance;
sometimes the monarch, as with Louis XV. Taking each style as a
chapter division, the author writes clearly of its development,
highest type, and merger into other styles. The illustrations are
admirably chosen and well printed.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“For a convenient and well-balanced account of the general trend and
development of styles this book is to be commended.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 114. O. ’06. 450w.
“Mistakes, however, are discoverable, and some of them seem as if
caused by a lack or knowledge of the actual pieces.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 610w.
“The book which is popularly written, adequately serves two
purposes—an introduction to those elaborate monographs by specialists
already mentioned: a text-book by the means of which the modest house
holder may be inspired to beautify his home in many artistic ways.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 233. Ap. 7, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
“It is designed for popular reading, a somewhat slight work but at the
same time unpretentious. While by no means a scientific military
biography, it yet gives the main facts in the life of Sherman
correctly, and in as much detail as the ordinary reader requires.” J.
K. Hosmer.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 928. Jl. ’06. 690w.
“Quite up to the creditable standard of its predecessors.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“He has made an excellent portrait of the great soldier, giving the
shadows as well as the lights.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 190w.
“His is distinctly not a biography, but a military memoir.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 510w.
“There is a pleasant atmosphere of fairness about his book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 520w.
“It presents a truthful and striking portrait, and is very acceptable
as a military memoir. It is to be wished that in his presentation he
had attained a higher level of literary quality.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 170w.
“The book is written attractively and with due regard to the official
and standard authorities.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 120w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a
prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 270w.
=Robinson, Edward Kay.= Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.
“A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The
seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block
to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of
refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his
solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced
when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has
attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied
considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought
deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”
– =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 1970w.
“This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a
verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively
gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this
interesting book.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1520w.
“The essay is an interesting one, but to many persons it will not seem
that it is possible to follow the author in all his deductions.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 170w.
“A book that is sure to interest a large number of readers. In the
opinion of the present writer, though, Mr. Robinson fails to prove his
thesis.”
+ – =Nature.= 74: 513. S. 20, ’06. 550w.
“The motive and spirit of the writer are more commendable than his
reasoning.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 96: 978. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.
=Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night. **$1. Scribner.
“Shows real poetic insight and a fine touch.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Robinson, Emma Amelia, and Morgan, Charles Herbert.= Short studies of
Old Testament heroes. *50c. Meth. bk.
Bible heroes are treated in text book manner for any who wish a short
and simple Bible course.
=Robinson, Frederick S.= English furniture. *$6.75. Putnam.
A late addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The subject is treated
historically from the collector’s point of view, covering the entire
period of furniture-making in England down to the beginning of the
nineteenth century. “After the different styles of furniture have been
dealt with and their characteristics compared and their particular
points shown, Mr. Robinson provides a few notes on the materials,
manufacture, and care of furniture made of oak, walnut and mahogany,
giving instructions for polishing, the retaining of the color of the
wood, etc.” (N. Y. Times.) There are 160 collotype plates and one
photogravure all appearing at the end of the work.
* * * * *
“On a subject crowded with sociological interest and aesthetic
pleasure, Mr. Robinson has given us a book that should form the type
and pattern for future volumes in the ‘Connoisseur’s library,’ and at
the same time, be the last word on English furniture for at least a
generation.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Mr. Robinson’s book is indispensable to a connoisseur.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 730w.
“Furniture collectors and dealers will find helpful and valuable
information in this book.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 628. Mr. 15, ’06. 840w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Robinson’s may be described as a very useful general survey of
the history of this branch of art, and as a worthy successor to Mr.
Dillon’s book on porcelain, published in the same series.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 80w.
“It may be stated as a general truth that the book is written
throughout with a strong personal character impressed upon it, as
being the work of one who has collected or at least studied and
gathered material on his own account.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 220w.
“Altogether the book is a valuable and attractive addition to the
series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 260w.
=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed.
*$1.50. Ginn.
A high school text which is a collection of extracts from the sources
chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in
Western Europe since the German invasions. Each chapter is accompanied
by a carefully chosen bibliography.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“The book is so admirably adapted to its purpose of aiding the
imagination and rendering more vivid the history of Europe from the
period of the German invasions that it is gratifying to have it in a
form in which it will find its way into the hands of many pupils who
would not otherwise have known it.”—F. G. B.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 168. O. ’06. 240w.
“Selected with a wide knowledge of the field, and nice judgment of the
needs of youthful learners.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.
=Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Good judgment has been used in the abridgment, but the omission of so
many important and interesting extracts is a cause for regret. The
book fills a long-felt want.” M. W. Jernegan.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 619. O. ’06. 130w.
=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.
The period of this poem is fixed sometime prior to the Trojan war and
the action extends thru eighteen days and part of the miraculous three
days and nights of continued darkness over the land of Egypt. The
fable which deals with the oppression of the Israelites by the
Egyptians assumes that liberty—inseparable from the redemption and
happiness of mankind—looks to the Exodus from Egypt as the true
turning point in its triumph over the ills of slavery and despotism.
=Roden, Robert F.= Cambridge press, 1638–1692: a history of the first
printing press established in English America, together with a
biographical list of the issues of the press. *$5. Dodd.
The second volume in a series on “Famous presses.” The author deals
historically and bibliographically with the history of the first
printing press established in English North America. “The treatment of
the subject comprehends a list of the publications of the Cambridge
press; sketches of the several printers whose names are connected with
its history; and matters of interest connected with the rare volumes
published at this early date, the history being given in many
instances of their transmission from purchaser to purchaser and of the
constant appreciation of the market value of these much-sought-after
treasures. This method of treatment brings the reader in contact with
many collectors of Americana during the last century whose names are
as familiar as household words to librarians and students.” (Am. Hist.
R.)
* * * * *
“The book has a meagre index, but on the whole is a satisfactory piece
of work, the only serious blemish being the unnecessary attack on the
Boston collectors.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 906. Jl. ’06. 730w.
“He certainly has made a valuable and useful book, and if it is in
parts rather barren reading, it is because the history of the first
press established in English America is not a very fruitful theme. It
is to the historian of early presses in America and to the
bibliographer and the collector of early American imprints that this
book must of necessity appeal.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 430w.
“It will prove itself a necessity in the library of any collector.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 420w.
=Rogers, Bessie Story.= As it may be: a story of the future. *$1.
Badger, R. G.
“As it may be” jumps to the year 2905 and shows how sickness and
consequently doctors have been eliminated not thru spiritual freedom
but thru liberty that results from nourishing the body according to a
set of Utopian principles.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
=Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the
trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in
color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe
Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.
“One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of
popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.)
Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree
families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty
biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to
the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of
the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.
* * * * *
“The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is
scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 358. Je. 1. ’06. 1040w.
“The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most
practical.” Mabel O. Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 1410w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3.
Scribner.
“His pages are alive with healthy incident and an observant criticism
of birds and beasts, together with an admirably expressed appreciation
of the wild and beautiful districts he visited in search of sport.
From a British point of view this work is enhanced by being written in
good readable English.” P.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 89. Ja. 27, ’06. 1540w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 260w.
“Mr. Roosevelt’s style is, as usual, practical and prosaic, almost
unimaginative. But the volume is well-nigh cyclopaedic upon the ground
that it covers. The author gathers large stores of information, and
does not jump at conclusions. He is scrupulous as to the accuracy of
the smallest details.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 420w.
“It would be hard to put one’s finger on another writer on sport who
is so keen an observer as President Roosevelt, or who gives us in his
chapters on hunting so many interesting and good observations on
natural history.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1535. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 10w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 70. Ja. 13, ’06. 1400w.
“It is written by a man who is a delightful ‘raconteur,’ and who has
an intense conviction of the virile reality of his own life and of the
deep integrity of the life around him.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
“The volume that records his adventures is straightforward, vigorous
and pithy, with no wasted words and no ineffective ones.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 339. F. ’06. 310w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the
problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of
Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book
of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure
portrait appears on the frontispiece.
=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who
has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance
that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that
honestly seeks Him.
=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism.
**$1.50. Scribner.
“The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of
Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of
these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what
New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and
Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic
days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe
the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so
great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of
the history and literature of the apostolic age.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 30w.
“Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a
compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in
the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed.
The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and
impartial.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 370w.
“The poetical element in the character of the man of Tarsus has rarely
found more sympathetic and forceful exposition.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Examination of the work reveals not only a thorough and painstaking
scholar, but also a writer of no little skill in holding material well
in hand, in suppressing overplus of detail and bringing salient points
into the clear, and also in presenting critical results with a minimum
of offence to the traditionalist. There are occasional blunders in
proofreading.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 360w.
“Professor Ropes gives an admirable survey of Jewish Christianity, an
admirable character sketch of the Apostle Paul, and an admirable
summary of the modern view respecting the date, origin, and form of
composition of the four Gospels. His interpretation of Paul’s theology
is, unfortunately, couched too much in modern theological phraseology,
and he seems to us to fail to bring out the most fundamental
characteristic of Paul’s teaching, namely, its subjective character.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 427. O. 20, ’06. 500w.
=Roscoe, Henry Enfield.= Life and experience of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
written by himself. *$4. Macmillan.
“There is a refreshing old-time atmosphere about the volume of
reminiscences recently written by the famous English chemist.... There
is much ... in the way of illuminating recollections of later giants
of the nineteenth century—the illustrious Bunsen, who pointed him the
path to success in chemical research; Faraday, Pasteur, Huxley,
Tyndall, Lister, Kirchoff, Helmholtz, Dalton, Jevons, and, outside the
realm of science, Gladstone, Martineau, Francis Newman, Richard
Hutton, John Bright, and Sir Leslie Stephen. But perhaps the most
interesting aspect of this volume lies in the light it throws on the
progress of scientific investigation in Great Britain.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It should also be available at all public libraries as the story of
one who has made use of his life and health to do work which has
benefited his fellow-citizens, his fellow-countrymen, and the world at
large.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 680w.
“Not for a long time has there come from England an autobiography of
more all-around interest.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 515. Ag. 30, ’06. 760w.
“It contains pleasant references to numerous men of mark, but it is as
a valuable contribution to the history of education that it claims
lasting recognition.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 278. Ag. 10, ’06. 1090w.
“The index is so meagre as to be almost worthless.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 610w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 289. Jl. 26, ’06. 1750w.
“An unassuming and leisurely narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 407. Je. 23, 06. 1740w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 600w.
=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
Mr. Rose, a practical business man, proves that hell fire is an
absolute absurdity, and then reveals the reasonable, logical, sane and
adequate hell which awaits each person who dies in his sins.
=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900.
2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
A two-volume work by the historian of the Napoleonic period. The
author says: “After working at my subject for some time, I found it
desirable to limit it to events which had a distinctly formative
influence on the development of European states.” The two great
impulses of the world—Democracy and Nationality as developed in the
nations of Europe during the past four decades—are fully discussed and
criticised from the vantage point of a twentieth century observer.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 474. My. 19, ’06. 1500w.
“Though Mr. Rose’s essays have considerable value, they are very far
from justifying his title or constituting a history of the period.”
Victor Coffin.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 895. Jl. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Rose has a sound judgment and a clear lucid style. Our only doubt
is whether in every case he can have obtained certain data on which to
found his conclusions.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 723. Je. 16. 1910w.
“It must be said that the second volume is of a distinctly lower grade
than the first. There is in it a note of weariness of the task. It is
correct and up to date, but the language is less vivid. But both
volumes are always and everywhere absolutely simple and clear, so that
concise and correct information on whatever of importance pertains to
modern European history, within the period covered, is available to
anyone.” E. D. Adams.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 1670w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Combining wide reading, sound judgment, and an absence of party
spirit not often found together.” W. Miller.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 396. Ap. ’06. 560w.
“The title-page of Dr. Rose’s latest book is full of promise. The book
itself, however, disappoints the hopes thus invoked. It is an
eminently readable book. Dr. Rose is a craftsman of experience, who,
on the whole, does his work well.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 816. O. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“The substantial merits of this volume, which contains a large amount
of useful information laboriously compiled, are obscured by a
slipshod, sometimes almost illiterate style.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 34. F. 2, ’06. 1470w.
“Mr. Rose is somewhat uneven in style. Yet the period he deals with is
so important and so interesting, and reliable works upon it are so
few, that his volumes deserve a warm welcome.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 515. Je. 21, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As a pioneer work this must rank very high. The author shows great
independence of thought as well as judgment and discretion.” R. L.
Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 857. D. 2, ’05. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Taken as a whole, the volume offers an interesting if not valuable
insight into the attempts of old régimes to adjust their policies to
the irrepressible growth of internal liberty of thought and action.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 632. O. 6, ’06. 2360w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Until the private papers of great personages and state documents now
locked up shall come to light, the sources of history used by Dr. Rose
can hardly be enlarged. The reader cannot fail to see in his work the
hand of a careful and sympathetic student of the struggle of nations
toward the realization of their ideals.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 43. Ja. 6, ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His work is singularly valuable for an understanding of the
international relations of contemporary Europe.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A period of European history as yet only cursorily treated ... has
been graphically summed up in a scholarly manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Rose has the faculty of writing history in an entertaining way
and making the essential facts stick in the memory.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is skilfully planned, carefully executed, and exhibits on every
page a sincere desire to master the problem and present it fairly and
accurately.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 782. D. 16, ’05. 1900w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 183. F. 3, ’06. 1600w.
=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph
Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of
intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than
a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the
field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery
and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights
thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell,
and others.
* * * * *
“The best literary work, in our opinion, which he has produced.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 395. O. 6. 1370w.
“In literary quality and in the human interest of its pages, this book
will bear comparison with the former monographs of the distinguished
author.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“The book is small, but every page attracts, instructs, and inspires.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 960w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 240w.
“One cannot but wonder, on closing this fascinating yet disagreeable
volume, why its author wrote it. At the end, you are conscious, more
than anything else, of a bad taste in the mouth.” Edward Cary.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 736. N. 10, ’06. 1120w.
“What this monograph lacks in care and polish is more than made up for
by its spontaneity, and by the vital interest of Lord Rosebery’s
comments on the political parties of his own day, and on a career
which has some striking points of resemblance to his own.” Arthur A.
Baumann.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 422. O. 6, ’06. 1840w.
=Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the
cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 280w.
“Powerful and admirably translated story.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1077. D. 23, ’05. 2030w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Like Professor Ross’s previous studies of the influence of social
control upon human society, his work of analysis and criticism of the
foundations of sociology deserves universal recognition as a
contribution of the first order to both sociological literature and
sociological science.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 541. S. ’06. 1720w.
=Ross, Henry M.= Her blind folly. $1.25. Benziger.
The story of a girl’s unhappy marriage and its attending trials
relieved by the Roman Catholic faith.
=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Florentine palaces; with 30 il.
by Adelaide Marchrist. **$1.50. Dutton.
“It is with the historic and literary associations of the Florentine
palaces—the bold, massive, rusticated buildings, so characteristic,
Fergusson says, of the manly energy of the republic in the Medicean
era—that Mrs. Ross is chiefly concerned.” (Ath.) “She gives to us
suprisingly scant information concerning architecture, but a great
deal about the important events which happened within the buildings
she describes or in connection with them.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The style is somewhat dry, but the book is none the less a delightful
one to dip into here and there.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Her book is a mine of valuable information, gathered not only from
the standard works of Villari and other writers, but also from
little-known contemporary records inaccessible to the English reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 887. D. 30. 560w.
“Mrs. Ross has every qualification for writing a book of this kind.”
– + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.
“The volume will be found more interesting for reference than for
consecutive perusal.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 331. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“A solid study, a reference book for any one who may purpose spending
intelligently a winter in Florence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 27. Ja. 13, ’06. 480w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 100w.
“She writes history admirably well, having a due consideration for the
general reader, and not shrinking from recounting, in a fresh and
pleasant way, old stories which the superior person may sniff at as
stale. The work is not free from small inaccuracies.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael
Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
Interesting recollections and anecdotes concerning founders of the
Pre-Raphaelite movement that bring the reader in touch with a
procession of famous artists and men of letters. “Of course, we want,
too, illuminating gossip about our remarkable figures. That is why we
welcome Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences. We need to know all we can about
humanity—not because humanity is Pre-Raphaelite, but because it is
interesting.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“It would be difficult to find a commentary more useful to those
interested in the men and movements of the last sixty years.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 466. N. 10, ’06. 1590w.
“Next to the outspokenness with which we have dealt ... the most
striking attribute of the confessions is common sense.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 541. N. 3. 1800w.
“The general tone of these memoirs is a little disappointing. Mr.
Rossetti is so afraid of saying something that he has said already, as
well as seeming either to blow his own trumpet or to cast undue blame
on someone else, that his chapters decidedly lack color and movement
as compared with much of his previous writing.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 444. D. 16, ’06. 2270w.
“Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would
have been enough and, possibly, too much.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 480w.
“It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a
disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs
and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is
left for this garnering.”
– =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 890w.
“Delightfully written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.
Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the
keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’
gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love,
war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in
Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas
from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when
Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power
behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is
Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong
impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How
the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his
lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is
General McClellan.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr.
Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of
Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 166. O. ’06. 940w.
“The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably
terse.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with
well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that
give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities
are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H.
Cooper.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 254. Ap. 16, ’06. 1180w.
“All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill
and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and
convinces.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 550w.
“It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary,
intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is
sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation
of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his
achievement.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 760w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 102. Ag. 2, ’06. 1060w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 340w.
“I believe that Mr. Rothschild’s book is the best of all for the
Lincoln student to begin with, to keep to hand during his course, and
to rely on as help in reviewing at the end. The faults are but few.
The greatest is the disrespect shown Douglas, one of the ablest men of
his day.” John C. Reed.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 2720w.
“He is open to criticism in his delineation of the men whose policies
and purposes at times crossed with Lincoln.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 623. Jl. 14, ’06. 1390w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 508. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.
“Mr. Alonzo Rothschild premises an acquaintance with American
political history which is beyond the equipment of the ordinary
English reader; he is unduly redundant. But he has a definite theme
and he keeps to it.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 130. Jl. 28, ’06. 1870w.
=Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Trail of the dragon, and other stories. $1.25.
Benziger.
Twenty and more short stories by such writers as Marion Ames Taggart,
Anna T. Sadlier, Jerome Harte and others.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great
variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
The following subjects are treated in an interestingly informing
manner: Climbing the Alps, The great wall of China, Nature study and
photography, The making of a newspaper, Rookwood pottery, The magic
kettle, Some wonderful birds, Ostriches, Skis and ski racing, The
marvel of the New World, Triumphal arches, and Venders in different
lands.
=Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The author of ‘The fall of Tollan’ displays considerable aptitude in
his wielding of blank verse, and a fair degree of the ability to
‘visualize’ the scene.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 184. F. ’06. 210w.
=Rowe, James W.= Hand-book on the newly-born. *75c. J. W. Rowe. (For
sale by U. P. James, 127 W. 7th st., Cincinnati.)
A book for young physicians and nurses.
=Rowe, Stuart Henry.= Physical nature of the child, and how to study it.
*90c. Macmillan.
The fifth edition of a useful book on “child study.” The author
acquaints a child’s sponsors with everything they should know for the
best possible development of the child. “The treatise is based upon
the principle that activity is the cause of growth, that individuals
vary enormously in their capacity for different kinds of mental and
physical action, and that physical conditions affect fundamentally
that power of action in most various ways in different children.
Therefore, the teacher, and the parent as well, should know and pay
constant attention to the physical condition of their children.”
(Bookm.)
* * * * *
“The revised edition ... is justified by its serviceableness to
teachers in general.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“We heartily agree with Superintendent Maxwell’s praise, cited in the
preface to the second edition, and wish that every teacher and parent
might read the book.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.
“Is an admirable guide in this line of work both for teachers and
parents.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
=Rowell, George Presbury.= Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905.
Printers’ ink pub.
“This is a most engaging volume—this breezy gossipy story of the life
and observations of an advertising man.... You will find mentioned
among Mr. Rowell’s acquaintances most of the names that you have ever
seen associated with pills, lotions, hair restorers, and panaceas
generally. Mr. Rowell speaks quite familiarly of these great men and
supplies much curious inside information—all in the friendliest
spirit. His anecdotes are not, however, confined to patent medicine
people; he tells stories of famous newspaper publishers all over the
country, beginning with Boston of forty years ago and ending with New
York of last year; he reveals a number of prison-house secrets and
supplies gossip about many statesmen and men of affairs.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Truth is, Mr. Rowell is the Horace Walpole of the world of ‘business’
during the past four decades.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 1120w.
“The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers,
and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in
advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting
charm.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 560w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure
bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.”
(N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of
becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti.
Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to
type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and
alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.”
(Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive
races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out
to a logical conclusion in the story.
* * * * *
“A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing
study it is.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 414. Je. ’06. 860w.
“We simply refuse to admit that the magnificent specimen of cultivated
manhood who appears in the opening chapters can be one and the same
person with the cowering wretch who makes his exit from the stage at
the close of the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the
story-with-a-moral sort, its characters are by no means therefore
puppets.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 450w.
“There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and,
although it is told with vividness, one doubts whether such a
psycho-physiological analysis is really desirable.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 100w.
“The story as a whole impresses the reader with a sense of futility.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 50w.
“This is a remarkable novel in every way. It possess unusual grip and
vital human interest. Written in terse, nervous language it is the
work of a man who has made an intimate study of psychology.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 270w.
“For all these artistic blemishes, the book shows originality and
power; its interest heightens as the narrative advances, and the
terrible scenes in Hayti and the cypress swamp, gruesome as they are,
yet lift the romance from the level of melodrama to that of real
tragedy.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 988. Je. 23, ’06. 1230w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.
“In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of
the few writers who can tell a tale ‘just so’ when he wants to do so.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 492. Ja. ’06. 690w.
“Is an unusual book, albeit morbid, as tales of the uncanny need must
be.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“There is plenty of go to the stories, which afford a pleasant couple
of hours’ entertainment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
“Remind one very strongly of the work of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells
... though they fall perceptibly short of the very close approach to
technical perfection of both those writers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 620w.
=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
“There is probably no more useful work on the whole subject of betting
and gambling than the present volume.” W. R. Sorley.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 380. Ap. ’06. 1190w.
=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade,
v. 1. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume is concerned with public-houses, hotels,
restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs as they are managed in
Great Britain. It also includes two chapters on the subject of license
taxation in the United States, giving the varied experiences of such
states as Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The chief purpose
of the writers in this volume is to show the inadequacy of the
existing scale of taxation in Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ Ind. 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Though written with a distinct purpose and to support a precise
programme, it is a careful study of a highly complex question, a well
stored armoury for the friends of temperance, and also a careful aid
to the fiscal reformer.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 262. Jl. 27, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Our authors are concerned chiefly with the fiscal aspects of the
license problem, and it is from this point of view that their
performance must be judged. Tested by such a criterion, they have done
their work well and they have left few loopholes for the shafts of the
severest critic.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 312. O. 11, ’06. 980w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Timely and valuable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 498. Mr. 31, ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an
historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from
the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
=Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Halsey has given his edition a very thorough equipment of
historical and bibliographical matter.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Rumbold, Sir Horace.= Final recollections of a diplomatist. $5.
Longmans.
The fourth volume of Sir Horace Rumbold’s reminiscences covers the
period from 1885 to his retirement from diplomatic service in 1900.
During these years he was sent to three courts—to Athens, The Hague,
and Vienna.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 69: 1194. N. 18, ’05. 880w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 40w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 700w.
“It is characterized by the same lightness of touch as its
predecessors, and also, perhaps by the same preference for matters of
superficial and personal interest over the graver side of public
affairs.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 2130w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“The reader’s one regret is apt to be that the man who had the chance
to see so much saw so little.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.
“Garrulous Sir Horace Rumbold is in the sense that he repeats a fact
simply because it is a fact, and he happens to remember it, without
ever stopping to consider whether it is an interesting fact.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 561. O. 25, ’05. 810w.
“The merits of this book, if viewed not only as the story of a long
diplomatic life, but as literature, are visible in every chapter.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.
=Runkle, Bertha.= Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.
Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be,
gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality.
The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more
or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot,
but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his
love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or
Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the
triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces
to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is
his, but not his to renounce.
* * * * *
“There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new
book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in
fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.
“This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken
seriously from any point of view.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 200w.
– =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill
both in tangling and untangling its threads.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“There are a dash and vigor about the handling of this novel of modern
New York life that will carry it perhaps beyond its real merits.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 100w.
“It can hardly be counted a successful piece of fiction.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.
“From the ‘Helmet of Navarre’ to ‘The truth about Tolna’ is a long
leap, but Miss Runkle has taken it with no signs of effort.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
=Ruskin, John.= Works; edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.
37v. ea. $9. Longmans.
The thirty-seven volumes which make up this library edition contain
the complete written life-work of Ruskin, illustrated with woodcuts,
plates, and facsimile manuscripts. “The introductions ... are
consecutive chapters of what will always remain a far more
authoritative biography of Ruskin than any that exists. The reprints
of the published books and lectures contain the best possible text,
with annotations as careful and minute as if the editors were dealing
with a Greek classic; they give us a remark on every various reading,
hundreds of cross references, and many references also to many
passages in other writers who have been influenced by them or
controverted them. Moreover ... a great number of the lectures and
letters are here published for the first time.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The editors have striven with the most praiseworthy diligence to make
their edition complete and definitive. They have done a great work.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 137. Ap. 20, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–22.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 8.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 235. Ap. 7, ’06. 820w. (Review of v. 20.)
=Russell, George William Erskine.= Social silhouettes. **$3. Dutton.
“An essay in ‘character’ writing, the author passing in review most of
the types that a clubman and Londoner meets with in the narrow
confines of his life—the eldest son, the journalist, the Bishop, the
don, the carpet-bagger, the invalid, the buck, and so forth.” (Lond.
Times.) “They catch those fleeting aspects of things which, once let
slip, are recovered with the utmost difficulty; and they establish
suggestive standards of comparison between the present and a
comparatively recent past. Mr. Russell knows Dickens, Thackeray, and
Disraeli by heart, nor has he neglected that most faithful of writers
Anthony Trollope.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“‘Social silhouettes,’ it is not unfair to remark, are a little
lacking in balance. Still, without attaining omniscience, Mr. Russell
has succeeded in hitting off the polite and professional world in
nearly every instance, and his stories are so cleverly handled that he
avoids wounding the feelings even of the most susceptible.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 800w.
“We lay the book aside with the conviction that Mr. Russell has not
observed enough, has not lived enough, for this kind of work. He has
met many men and heard many stories, but he lacks alike the seeing eye
and the searching phrase. Also the sense of the moment for he seems to
have stood still for many years.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 500w.
“The political portraits are drawn with a peculiarly expert hand.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 330w.
“The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and
enlivening touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.
=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an
optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.
The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author
predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a
world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no
washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated;
dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be
perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work
of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple
thing.
* * * * *
“Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a
certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of
scientific probability.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.
“So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not
caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many
interesting suggestions.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.
“Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of
scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost
in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 150w.
=Russell, W. Clark.= Yarn of Old Harbour town. *$1.50. Jacobs.
Harbor life, and life on the high seas one hundred years ago is
vividly pictured in this story of Lucy Acton who was kidnapped by her
lover and feigned madness for her own protection. The search made for
her by her father in his “Aurora,” the appearance of Admiral Nelson,
the rescue of Lucy, all making stirring reading, but after all is
done, instead of bringing her abductor to justice Lucy nurses him thru
an illness, forgets, forgives, and marries him.
* * * * *
“Although the plot and construction of the tale leave little to be
desired yet there is much superficial description, and many trifling
details are here introduced.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“As a love story the book is not very successful, but as a picture of
sea and harbor life a hundred years ago it cannot fail to interest its
readers.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radio-activity. 2d ed. with much additional
matter. *$4. Macmillan.
“The fact that the second edition is almost a new work, although the
first edition was everywhere hailed as most remarkable, simply
evidences the wonderful advance of the science in which Professor
Rutherford is himself so large and active a factor.” (Nation.) “It is
not a popular work. It is not easy reading to the layman: it is not
intended for him. It has a spaciousness of active scientific thought
which reaches far into the unknown. Authentic, it is rich in
suggestions to the investigator, be he chemist, physicist, engineer,
or physiologist.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It seems likely, therefore, that for some years to come successive
editions of Professor Rutherford’s work will remain the best source of
information for the reader in whom may be assumed a certain modicum of
technical information.”
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 418. S. ’06. 40w.
“No words are wasted. The terse diction of the masterpiece gives it a
literary charm that carries the competent reader on almost
precipitously, yet with discriminating caution.” Charles Baskerville.
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 77. Ja. 18. ’06. 1290w.
“For the student. Professor Rutherford’s book is of the greatest
value.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Is the most complete and authoritative account of the recent
remarkable discoveries in this field by one who has made many of
them.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 1240w.
“We must once more congratulate Prof. Rutherford on the admirable
manner in which he has brought his book up to date.” R. J. Strutt.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 289. Ja. 25, ’06. 1100w.
“The new treatise gives evidence of the same skilful presentation and
arrangement as the old.” C. Barus.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 262. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
=Ryan, Coletta.= Songs in a sun garden. **$1. Turner, H. B.
In Miss Ryan’s poems dreams seem so possible of realization that one
credits her with having found a demonstrable principle of life. Head,
heart and imagination are all active. “She is a young woman of strong
emotion, a child of the imagination, and if no conventional or
reactionary power curbs or holds in check her higher and finer
impulses, she will do much fine and vital work.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“There is much imagination displayed in some of the lines—something
all too rare in present day verse. Many of the poems are also rich in
rhythmic and musical qualities that tend to sing the lines into the
mind of the reader.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 556. My. ’06. 1040w.
“‘A lover’s song’ is one of the few things afforded by this volume
that are reasonably acceptable.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 170w.
“They are in the main, bright and sweet, with individuality in their
tenderness and with a buoyant spirit of trust and good-will.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 180w.
=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects.
*$1. Macmillan.
The work of a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in St. Paul’s
seminary. “It is perhaps the first attempt in the English language to
elaborate what may be called a Roman Catholic system of political
economy.... Professor Ryan combines in this work economic and ethical
arguments with those derived from authority, and while Professor Ely
admits [in the introduction] that members of other religious bodies,
both Christian and Jewish, may reject this particular system of wages
because it is assumed to rest on the approved teachings of the Roman
Catholic church, he bespeaks for it an examination of the question:
Does or does not this doctrine of wages rest upon broad Christian,
religious, and ethical foundations?” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“The credit due to him for the conception of his task is doubled by
the manner in which he has executed it. Thoroughly acquainted with all
authorities on political economy, economics and ethics, he has done
his work in scientific fashion.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 83: 688. Ag. ’06. 1560w.
“Mr. Ryan’s economics are stronger than his ethics.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 517. Ag. 30, ’06. 550w.
“As an alternative to socialism, as an antidote to anarchism. as a
stimulator of thought the book seems to us well described in Dr. Ely’s
words—‘a meritorious performance.’” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 2290w.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Many modern writers have dealt with the subject from the same point
of view. Few of them have had the courage of their opinions to the
same extent as Professor Ryan.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 233. Ag. 18, ’06. 2260w.
=Ryan, Marah Ellis (Martin) (Mrs. S. E. Ryan).= For the soul of Rafael:
a romance of old California. †$1.50. McClurg.
The heights of San Jacinto stand guard over the valley which furnishes
the picturesque setting of this tale. The ruined dome of an old
mission gleams among the clustered adobes of the Mexicans which are
“like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother: and
beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley.” The characters
are all the fine, aristocratic Spanish type, looking upon Americans as
“godless invaders.” Dramatic intensity marks each development in a
story of strong passions and a splendid renunciation.
* * * * *
“A picturesque and romantic story, which stands out vividly against
the careful and realistic brushwork of the background.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 320w.
“Mrs. Ryan’s new novel has so confused a way of introducing its
characters and setting forth their relationships that we are midway in
the volume before we have fairly straightened them out. Aside from
this defect of constructive technique, we may say that the work is one
of vivid dramatic quality and appealing romantic charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.
“A somewhat crudely told melodrama.”
– =Ind.= 60: 1374. Je. 7, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26. ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A dramatic story of California.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 110w.
S
=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France; with preface by the
translator Robert Dell, and the French-English text of the Separation
law, with notes. *$1.25. Scribner.
This work “is partly an examination of the deep-seated causes (as
distinguished from the accidental circumstances) which led to the
denunciation of the Concordat, and partly an attempt to forecast the
religious consequences of that extreme anti-clerical measure. In his
treatment of the first half of his subject ... the author seems to us
both lucid and just.... The second half of his volume is of a more
speculative character. He fancies that he foresees ‘the advent of a
new Catholicism’ and ‘the rising of new sap in the old religious
trunk.’”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 71: 56. Jl. 21, ’06. 1820w.
“Not an important contribution to the literature of the ecclesiastical
controversy in France. The tone of the author is as polemical as the
style of the translator is journalistic.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 512. Ap. 28. 1180w.
“The translation of the pamphlet is well done by Mr. Robert Dell, who
also contributes an interesting explanatory preface.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’06. 740w.
“Its chief defect, for those who are not among the admirers of the
writer’s earliest work is, as might be anticipated, its complete
failure to attain an historical point of view.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Walter Littlefield.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 8, ’06. 1350w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 813. Ag. 4. ’06. 320w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 130w.
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during
the winter of 1904–1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Mystery of Hornby hall. 85c. Benziger.
A book for young people which contains the chivalric unearthing of a
mystery guarded by a human tigress and one involving the happiness of
a long wronged child.
=Sage, William.= District attorney. †$1.50 Little.
A son who dares to array his intellect, his honor and his ideals
against his father, a trust magnate with an iron hand, fights a
creditable battle for political, financial and domestic liberty.
Impersonal right is his might even tho it make useless the tools
without which his father is helpless. It is an interesting character
study backed by sound principle.
* * * * *
“Not since Robert Herrick’s ‘The common lot’ has there appeared a
finer study of present-day American life than ‘The district
attorney.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 570. N. ’06. 390w.
“A book that not only shows careful workmanship, but is apt to set the
reader thinking rather seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 460w.
=Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“We are inclined to think that the note of didacticism is at times a
little too effusively sounded: but to the book as a whole sincere
praise may be accorded.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
=Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“Barring a touch of ‘preciousness,’ a proneness to euphuistic
smartness not quite foreign to more sincere artists, the style of Mr.
Sage would lend itself well enough to building up a story that might
touch the reader as a page out of life. But instead of this, it has
been employed to provide verisimilitude for a conventionally
sensational tale about conventionally unreal people.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author tells his story in a straightforward, manly fashion. His
book deserves a wide reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Self-supporting home. **$1.75. Macmillan.
An interesting book which records an experiment made by an ambitious,
energetic woman. From city flat life she transplants her family to the
country, and shows how she makes a farm of twelve acres pay for itself
and provide comfortably for all needs. She gives the stages in her
farm development, with specific directions for each point gained, so
that the book is of value to every amateur farmer and gardener.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 80w.
“She writes with that tempered enthusiasm that is apt to be
convincing; and although she takes her subject seriously, she allows
herself occasional touches of humor.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Full of sound sense and practical advice.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 350w.
“The style of the author is simple and unaffected.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 460w.
“The book is no theoretical treatise or dream, but the earnest work of
a woman of charming personality, which she modestly strives to
conceal, who in sharing the fruits of her success with a public that
has need of the information given, does it a greater service than a
score of learned writers on social and political economy.” Mabel
Osgood Wright.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ’05. 800w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“It has particular value for the beginner in that the author was a
city woman who had to learn by experience, so that she knows how to
help others to avoid the mistakes which she made.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
“The author convinces us that she is intelligently at home in her
environment, and that what she says is the result of discrimination
and practical sense.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 140w.
“A simple, straightforward, delightfully written account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“There is much instruction to be found in the book.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 229. F. 10, ’06. 140w.
=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the eighteenth century,
historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley, with a critical
introd. by Edmond Scherer. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
Miss Wormeley has not only translated but edited these Sainte-Beuve
essays in a manner to insure their popularity. There are portraits of
such historic and literary personages as the Duchess du Maine, Le
Sage, Montesquieu, Voltaire, the Earl of Chesterfield, Louis XV, Marie
Antoinette, Frederic the Great, Necker, Mme. de Lambert, Grimm,
Rousseau, Goethe, Prevost, Beaumarchais, Adrienne Lecouvreur and
others.
* * * * *
“It would certainly be impossible to mistake them for anything but
translations, and translations of a rather literal order.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ’05. 60w.
=Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 90w.
“For delicacy, good taste, profundity of research, and brilliancy of
finish, his work remains unique, and well deserves the tribute of
adequate translation and sumptuous publication now being rendered it.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.
“For the most part accurately rendered, and disposed in such fashion
as to convey a general impression of the interesting pre-Revolutionary
epoch.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ’05. 220w.
“The translation by Katharine P. Wormeley is all that could be asked
in sympathy, exactness and choice of phrase.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 449. Mr. ’06. 510w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 130w.
– =Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 948. Je. 16, ’06. 2240w.
=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of English prosody, from
the twelfth century to the present day. v. 1, From the origins to
Spenser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
The first of a three volume work whose aim is to examine “through at
least 700 years of verse what the prosodic characteristics of English
have actually been, and what goodness or badness of poetry has
accompanied the expression of these characteristics.” Mr. Saintsbury’s
examination is based upon facts which he presents chronologically,
showing the simultaneous development of language and versification. He
says “In this book we do not rope-dance, but keep to the solid paths,
and where the paths are not solid we do not care to walk.”
* * * * *
“When the three volumes of which the work is to consist are published,
a blank in the history of our literature will have been filled. Few
people more competent than Professor Saintsbury could have been found
for the task.”
+ + + =Acad.= 70: 522. Je. 2, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One of the main qualities of Prof. Saintsbury’s book is what may be
called its practicalness. The main value of the book is that it is a
firm denial and, as it seems to us, complete disproof, of ‘the error
that the prosody of English is a fixed syllabic prosody.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 629. My. 26. 2910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What saves him from pedantry is his fund of humor, of a peculiarly
literary quality, which is so closely allied, as all humor is, with
common sense.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 394. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There are many passages in Professor Saintsbury’s book which only
experts will be able to understand. He calls it a history, and he has
tried to make it one; but no one ever had a style less suited to the
telling of a plain story. Yet, anyone interested in the subject will
make a great mistake if he refuses to read the book because of the way
in which it is written; for it has one merit great enough to atone for
a thousand minor faults.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 229. Je. 29, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that,
unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one
English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those
who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse
composition.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He writes in a breezy, somewhat pugnacious, frequently erratic style,
... and he manages to make even the dryer linguistic parts of his
subject interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Freshness of style and illustration makes It much more delightful
than most technical works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Needless to say, the great erudition we have come to expect from all
Professor Saintsbury’s work is apparent on every page.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Saintsbury, George=, ed. Minor poets of the Caroline period. 2v. v. 1,
*$3.40. Oxford.
“The volume possesses so many points of interest that it is easy to
forget the portentous mediocrity which is really its dominant
feature.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 115. Ja. 27, ’06. 1780w.
=Sakolski, A. M.= Finances of American trades unions. 75c. Johns Hopkins
press.
Under the divisions, Revenue, Expenditure, and Administration, this
volume in the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
political science,” gives the results of much careful investigation of
the financial phase of the leading American, national and
international trade unions.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Evolution the master key. *$2. Harper.
Instead of reducing “the many and ponderous volumes of the synthetic
philosophy to brief and popular form,” the author attempts to justify
his conviction “that the philosophy of universal and ordered change is
far more easily demonstratable to-day than ever before,” and he
proceeds with his demonstration “in the light of human knowledge in
the first lustrum of the twentieth century.” His discussion falls into
seven parts: General, Inorganic evolution, Organic evolution,
Suborganic evolution, Evolution and optimism, Dissolution, and
Evolution and the religion of the future.
* * * * *
“The work it is true exhibits certain defects perhaps unavoidable in
so comprehensive a scheme. Some of the chapters are too brief to do
anything like justice to the vast topics of which they treat.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 304. Mr. 31, ’06. 860w.
+ =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 519. Ap. 7, ’06. 1090w.
“The grand range and sweep of his reasoning is remarkable. He deals,
and generally very ably though very briefly, with most of the
profoundest problems of science and philosophy.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 122. Je. 7, ’06. 750w.
“Dr. Saleeby has mastered his subject and knows what he wants to
explain. He has a style lucid, incisive, exact, and boldly individual,
and, considering his scientific enthusiasm, a sense of humor
remarkably sane.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Beyond his exposition of his great master, ‘an immortal,’ it does not
appear that Dr. Saleeby has contributed anything of importance upon
the subject of evolution.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 240w.
“Latest masterpiece of philosophy. Such recognition [of predecessors]
does not grate, but rather makes an agreeable impression—and this,
together with the use of the highest scientific ability and the purest
English, makes this work invaluable in every way.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 790w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in
Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.
“A very valuable manual.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 350w.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 847. Mr. ’06. 210w.
“Pictures of the saint began to be made as early as the thirteenth
century, and are usually to be found in rather out-of-the-way places,
such as Greccio, Subiaco, Pescia, etc. Not the least valuable portions
of Miss Salter’s book are the few pages of ‘Practical hints’ for the
traveler, showing him how to reach these places.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The author does not suffer from the modern disease—the fussiness of
expert knowledge; and the little book disarms criticism because it is
so unpretending.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
“An entirely sound, useful, practical, much-needed work, which it
would be difficult adequately to praise, and impossible almost to
overestimate.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 849. D. 30, ’05. 1010w.
=Salter, William.= Iowa: the first free state in the Louisiana purchase.
**$1.20. McClurg.
“The little book seems quite free from errors.” E. E. Sparks.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 442. Ja. ’06. 510w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.
†$1.25. Wessels.
“The book’s superficial smartnesses fail to conceal its lack of
serious intention.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 30w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Vanity Square. †$1.25. Lippincott.
This “story of Fifth avenue life” written in the author’s clever vein
is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the joys that
wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including
his charming wife and child. A woman of rare beauty comes into his
home to nurse his little girl, and then developes a most heinous plot
in which this beautiful viper tries to murder the wife by means of a
subtle poison, so that she may win the husband and his wealth. In the
excitement of this discovery and the events which follow, in their
selfish joy at their re-union and their re-found happiness, they allow
her to go unchallenged, and discover too late that she has made
another woman and another home her prey.
* * * * *
“Mr. Saltus has a strange taste in adjectives, and invents words that
are new to our dictionaries.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 220w.
“Is a smart and interesting story; no better, ethically, perhaps than
the ordinary ‘society novel’ but immeasurably better than most of that
kind in its literary graces.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 365. Je. 9, ’06. 860w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
=Sanborn, Katherine Abbott (Kate Sanborn).= Old time wall papers. $5.
Literary collector press, Greenwich, Conn.
An account of the pictorial papers of our forefathers’ walls, which
includes, also, a study of the historical development of wall-paper
making and decoration. Her treatment covers the following subjects:
From mud walls and canvas tents to decorative papers, Progress and
improvement in the art, Earliest wall papers in America, Wall papers
in historic homes, Notes from here and there, and Revival and
restoration of old wall papers.
* * * * *
“Should make a strong appeal to collectors of antiques as well as
those interested in primitive house decoration.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 177. O. ’06. 330w.
“Miss Sanborn has had a most interesting subject in old time wall
papers and she has treated it in a delightful manner.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“Her book is likely to become a standard, and people who care for
antiques will wish to own it.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 740w.
=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. †$1.50. Little.
“Just a love story—and a particularly nice one.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Criticism of the fourth Gospel. **$1.75.
Scribner.
Eight lectures on the Morse foundation delivered in the Union
seminary, New York, in October and November, 1904. Stress is laid upon
the internal argument for the authenticity of the fourth Gospel.
* * * * *
“The present volume bears the familiar marks that are characteristic
of all Canon Sanday’s work: learning, clearness, fairness to
opponents, judiciousness in judgment, conservatism.” Ernest D. Burton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 115. Ja. ’06. 840w.
Reviewed by James Lindsay.
+ + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 372. Ap. ’06. 630w.
Reviewed by James Drummond.
=Hibbert J.= 4: 442. Ja. ’06. 1880w.
“It seems a little strange that one so openminded as Professor Sanday
should be unable to distinguish between intentional fraud and innocent
pseudonymity, yet it is this inability which holds him to the
traditional opinion on the question under discussion.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ’05. 720w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ’05. 40w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ’05. 1690w.
=Spec.= 96: 306, F. 24, ’06. 160w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ **$1.25.
Scribner.
“The work is done with all the author’s painstaking care, scholarly
balance and fairness of mind; a mind ever open to new light, but
instinctively leaning to conservative positions.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 933. Jl. ’06. 1260w.
=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches. **$1.75. Macmillan.
+ =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“As a sample of the better class of sporting literature Mr. Sandys’s
work would be difficult to beat.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 149. D. 14, ’05. 390w.
=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that
is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.”
P. S. A.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Fairest girlhood. **$1.50.
Revell.
With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written
once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and
it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The
old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The
dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts,
Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades,
Christian service, and kindred subjects.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy
for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and
aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen
short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal
femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs.
Sangster’s literary work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“It deals with almost every phase of the life of girls, and is full of
helpful suggestions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood. **$1.
Bobbs.
“The book as a whole is rich in matter of vital interest and worth to
home-builders.”
+ + – =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Story Bible. **$2. Moffat.
A group of sixty-two stories, forty-eight of which are from the Old
Testament, and fourteen, from the New. They are intended for children
as an introduction to the Bible itself.
* * * * *
“Like all of Mrs. Sangster’s writings, this book for children is
pervaded with the beautiful and gentle spirit of her personality. To
the more modern students of the Bible the book may seem inadequate.
The author has revealed no unusual insight in finding the central
theme of the stories told. Also from the point of view of present
educational thought the book is faulty.” Sophia Lyon Fahs.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 349. N. ’06. 300w.
=Critic.= 47: 577. D. ’05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
=Sankey, Ira David.= Sankey’s story of the gospel hymns and of sacred
songs and solos. *75c. S. S. times co.
The life story of Mr. Sankey followed by the words and music of four
of his most popular hymns forms the first part of the little volume
while the larger portion “is devoted to brief narratives of the
circumstances occasioning the compositions and the incidents connected
with the use of the very many of the ‘Gospel hymns’ so effective in
Mr. Sankey’s ‘singing the Gospel’ which Mr. Moody preached.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 20w.
“The book is of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 140w.
“The book is packed full of human interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 150w.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Those who seek an abode for an abundant and varied life will find in
his five volumes plans and elevations, together with many admirable
suggestions for beautiful features or details very suitable for such a
necessarily palatial residence as a developed modern mind requires.”
T. Sturge Moore.
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1313. D. 16, ’05. 650w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“One cannot take leave of Professor Santayana without grateful
recognition of the excellencies of his style and marvelous lucidity
and untechnical character of his language.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 161. Ja. ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 1230w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volumes on Art and Society are excellent. But his discussion of
Religion calls to mind the theory that no heretic has ever been
condemned for heresy.” George Hodges.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Few readers will turn from its pages without consciousness of some
mental renovation, without a whetting of some blunted perception.” H.
B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 527. Ja. ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Current Literature.= 40: 411. Ap. ’06. 1450w.
Reviewed by A. K. Rogers.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 87. F. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“For the combination of fertility, sanity, and keenness of insight in
the criticism of life and human ideals, with a high degree of literary
charm, it would be difficult to point its equal in modern
philosophical literature.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by F. C. S. Schiller.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 462. Ja. ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has well earned, therefore, the sustained interest which his
readers continue to take in his ideas and in his style from first to
last. And he has succeeded also in conveying a distinct impression of
his individual soul which cannot but charm and instruct even those who
differ widely from his views and dissent from the philosophic
solutions which he favors.” F. C. S. Schiller.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 936. Jl. ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 3–5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Brilliantly written and stimulating exposition of his philosophy of
life.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“It was to be expected that Professor Santayana’s volume on art would
be authoritative; and in the main this expectation is not
disappointed.” A. W. Moore.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 211. Ap. 12, ’06. 6300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite the discordant note of finalism, it still remains that
nowhere has the essentially _vital_ character of reason been more
clearly, forcefully and gracefully stated than in these volumes.
Moreover, the distinctive thing in Professor Santayana’s important
contribution is that this character of reason has been exhibited, not
in formal and dialectic fashion, but by scholarly appeal to the
various continual ‘fields’ of experience.” A. W. Moore.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 469. Ag. 16, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Lit. D.= 32: 362. Mr. 10, 06. 950w.
“Its philosophy may be admirable, but it is unintelligible to one not
a trained metaphysician, and its style seems constantly on the verge
of a lucidity which as constantly proves elusive.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work remains of high interest as a human document, and abounds in
memorable sayings and incitements to quotations.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If it fails wholly to please us it must be because we are too weak to
care for the truth, or too lazy to follow it. One can hardly fancy a
work on natural science more clear or more logical.” Bliss Carman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 3870w.
“The fundamental misconceptions that have been noticed in the former
volumes stand out in this. Professor Santayana’s skeptical criticism
of scientific method and progress has the advantage of a charming
literary style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is a work nobly conceived and adequately executed.” John Dewey.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 223. F. 9, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
Believing that the training of the body should be placed upon the same
educational basis as the training of the intellect, Dr. Sargent has
published these papers as pioneer efforts toward the realization of
his ideals. The earlier physical condition of the American people is
described, and the urgent necessity for some form of physical training
is shown, then follow chapters which contain “the principle theories
which the author has employed in evolving a comprehensive system of
physical training.” The table of contents includes; Physical education
in colleges, The individual system of physical training, Athletes in
secondary schools, Military drill in the public schools, and Physical
training in the school and college curriculum.
=Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Owes its undeniable charm partly to the skill with which the author
has utilised an unfamiliar and impressive background, and partly to
qualities of sympathy and humour together with breadth and freshness
of view.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
=Saunders, Margaret Baillie-.=Saints in society. †$1.50. Putnam.
The author’s first work accepted by Mr. Fisher Unwin for his “First
novel library.” “A poor young couple become suddenly rich and
experience all the debilitating effects of great wealth and a high
social position in consequence. The husband forsakes the noble ideas
of his younger days and finally dies unhappily. The widow founds a
baby farm, where she lives quietly until it is decent for her to
receive the lover whom she acquired, but held virtuously at bay,
during her husband’s lifetime.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Her story is interesting, and it is written with a kind of rough
power, but it does not come within a thousand miles of being
literature, while considered as a picture of modern English life it
appears to us to be frankly farcical.”
– + =Acad.= 69: 1105. O. 21, ’05. 550w.
“Mrs. Baillie-Saunders’s style is much the best thing about her novel.
It is picturesque and clear, and has vivacity.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 320w.
“The author may be a little arbitrary—but the book interests and half
convinces.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 330w.
“Was intended to be a good book.... But it is simply another case of
people being led into temptation instead of out of it.” Mrs. L. H.
Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A well conceived, but far too cursorily executed book.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 450w.
“Here we have one more thesis novel, but despite the numbers of such
this bears itself with a distinction quite its own.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“The author writes with superficial smartness, but fails to impress
her readers with the reality of her convictions or the artistic
command of her material.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 300w.
“Her work is an odd mixture of cleverness and absurdity, of
improbability and realism, or knowledge and ignorance.”
– + =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ’05. 160w.
“It is to be hoped that if Mrs. Baillie-Saunders continues to write
she will acquire her experience at first hand, and will take rather
more pains in the construction of her story.”
– =Spec.= 96: 63. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Sauter, Edwin.= Faithless favorite, a mixed tragedy. Edwin Sauter, 1331
N. 7th St., St. Louis.
A play founded on old Saxon chronicles in which such historical
personages as King Edgar, Athelstane, Athelwold, Elfrida and Dunstan
figure. “It contains a deal of frank language and some bitterness.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 70w.
=Savage, Charles Woodcock.= Lady in waiting; being extracts from the
diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady in waiting to her majesty Queen
Marie Antoinette. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The romance of a little French countess in the court of Marie
Antoinette.... Escaping ‘paying the debt’ that all her family paid
with their lives, the lady fled to America, where she won the
republican court at Washington as she had the aristocratic court of
France. We are gratified to know that her sweetness and beauty were
rewarded by happy love and a home in her own country at
last.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Much familiar historical material is worked into the plot, but the
style is good.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 322. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Is interesting, though not novel either in plot or style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35.
Putnam.
“There are some notably good poems in the new volume.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 260w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems; or, Is this a good world?
**$1.35 Putnam.
“A distinct and powerful spiritual impulse is inevitable to the
Christian who will read these luminous pages.” Edward Braislin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 230w.
“The title of his book and the subjects considered suggest help and
comfort to the sorrowful and perplexed: but if that be the author’s
purpose, he has marred his work by slashing doctrinal controversy.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28. ’05. 190w.
=Scarritt, Winthrop Eugene.= Three men in a motor car. **$1.25. Dutton.
Mr. Scarritt, a former president of the Automobile club of America,
tells the story of a tour which three enthusiastic automobilists made
first thru England, thence to Paris, next to Lucerne by way of Basle,
Switzerland, to Geneva, and back to Paris thru Aix-les-Bains. The
illustrations show roads that an American only dreams of—the
too-good-to-be-true variety.
* * * * *
“The intrinsic value of the book lies in the specific information that
he gives to other automobilists as to how to ‘do’ Europe in a motor
car.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.
“Will be most thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by traveled
Americans.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 90w.
=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Except for this neglect of the national point of view, Professor
Schafer’s book could scarcely be improved.” F. H. Hodder.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 949. Jl. ’06. 480w.
“The author’s tone and treatment are admirable, and we can highly
commend this most lucid history of the Pacific North-West.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.
=Schauffler, Robert Haven.= Where speech ends. $1.50. Moffat.
In this music makers’ romance “all the persons concerned are members
of the great Herr Wolfgang’s symphony orchestra.... Franz, who is
introduced as a boy violinist, sick with desire to be a real boy
instead of a musical prodigy, grows up to be a very noble and serious
sort of a genius. The other boy, who had the passion for the flute,
also grows up, to play Jonathan to Franz’s David. And there is a girl.
The girl plays the harp and writes poems, and she is very lovely and
very good.... The other leading characters are a first violin, who is
a villain, and the conductor, the famous Herr Wolfgang. The remainder
of the orchestra is cast for comic parts.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Nor can it honestly be said that Mr. Schauffler has given us a very
satisfactory analysis of the musical temperament.”
– =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“The story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung together,
charming in their freshness, and intimate in their revelation of the
musician’s everyday life. It makes reading of an altogether wholesome
and delightful sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 6, ’06. 480w.
“It has an unhackneyed theme ... worked out in a convincing, if
unskilful, way, and it tells an exceedingly pretty love story.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 138. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.
“There is no story except in a mechanical sense. The author is like
his own young flutist—more absorbed than inspired.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 430w.
“A book not to be read very critically; its shortcomings are too
obvious.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
=Scherer, James Augustine Brown.= Holy Grail. **$1.25. Lippincott.
“The Holy Grail” is the “binding theme that unites this sheaf of
essays and addresses.” The first bears the title subject; the two
following sketch the work of Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier
respectively, than whom “no men since the days of Galahad and
Percivale have more utterly lost themselves in the knightly quest;”
and the last three essays are “The crusaders,” “Liberty and law” and
“The century in literature.”
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 2, ’06. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 110w.
=Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio.= Astronomy in the Old Testament.
*$1.15. Oxford.
A scientific treatment of the scattered astronomical data of the Old
Testament by the director of the Brere observatory in Milan. “The
introduction discusses Israel’s learned men and its so-called
scientific knowledge; and its general view of the physical world as
seen in the book of Job. The firmament, the earth, and the abysses are
sketched in a figure, which seems to represent as nearly as can be
done, the Hebrew idea of the world. Indeed, it greatly aids the reader
in understanding many hitherto obscure passages regarding the abyss,
the depths of sheol, etc. With a master’s skill he treats stars and
constellations—dependent, however, in many places on the results of
Hebrew scholars for his word-meanings. The days, months, and the year
of the Jewish calendar are particularly instructive after his
discussion. While he recognizes some value in the Babylonian
astronomical data, he is distinctly conservative in his use of them.”
(Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“We are disappointed to find that the Clarendon press should allow a
book of such intrinsic value to leave its presses without an index of
subjects and scripture texts. Such omission discounts its value in
these times.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 210w.
“It is impossible to read this interesting little work without
admiring the wealth of learning with which the author has discussed
astronomical and chronological allusions in the Old Testament; and.
for the reasons given above, the English edition will be of value even
to those who have read the Italian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 650. N. 11. 260w.
“Has been turned into very good English. The book with all its
discursiveness or rather by reason of it, is quite entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 246. Mr. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“All is most interestingly expressed, and the archæological and
historical references are most valuable.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 410. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Dr. Schiaparelli’s little book has been excellently translated, and
is likely to be accepted as the final authority on questions relating
to Hebrew astronomy.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.
=Schillings, C. G.= Flashlights in the jungle; tr. by F: Whyte from the
Germ. with co-operation of the author. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Same; with title With flashlight and rifle; photographing by flashlight
at night the wild animal world of equatorial Africa; tr. and abridged
from the Germ. by Henry Zick. **$2. Harper.
A naturalist’s reproduction of the intimate life of animals “which no
human eye had ever before witnessed.” “The lion, elephant, giraffe,
rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, and hyena, monkeys, antelope,
jackals, leopards, and many kinds of birds are the subjects. All of
them Mr. Schillings has hunted, photographed, studied, and killed,
often at the greatest risk.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 476. Ap. 21. 460w.
“His pluck, endurance, sincerity and enthusiasm are as real as his
pictures.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“It is probably no exaggeration to say that this is the most
remarkable book of wild animal photography that has ever been printed,
but there our praise is inclined to stop. We can commend the laborious
efforts of Mr. Schillings in gathering his elaborate scientific data,
but we can hardly praise his narrative or descriptive skill.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 232. Ap. 1, ’06. 780w.
“The translation [by F: Whyte] is a good one and appears to follow the
text closely. It is a portrait gallery of wild life for Africa, such
as is Wallihan’s ‘Camera shots at big game’ for the Rocky mountains.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 221. Ja. 25, ’06. 720w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 16w.
“The book ... is not a unified whole so much as a series of detached
monographs in which a great deal too much is taken for granted. The
work has obviously suffered in translation.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 760w.
“His observations of their habits, full of careful insight as they
are, add a large number of substantial stones to the cairn of human
knowledge.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 36. F. 2, ’06. 520w.
“The finest series of reproduction of photographs from life of the
various animals encountered which have ever been produced.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 1660w.
“Neither he nor his translator, Frederick Whyte, excels in narrative
or descriptive skill. The work ... is packed with information and
suggestion.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 31. Ja. 20, ’06. 1300w.
“The volume contains what is probably the most remarkable series of
photographs ever made of wild animals in their native haunts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ’05. 80w.
“Aside from his photographs, Herr Schillings’s book is a valuable
account of exploration and of hunting big game; it is a sturdy
narrative, the dramatic value of which one does not have to be a
hunter to appreciate.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ’05. 140w.
“The translation seems to be well done, and the text is extremely
interesting from end to end.” Francis H. Herrick.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 540. Ap. 6, ’06. 2480w.
“His book is a real contribution to our knowledge of wild beasts.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 343. Mr. 3, ’06. 900w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudran, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people”
series, this old German epic, which traces its origin to the
thirteenth century, is put into a simple prose form which brings the
romance of Gudran the courageous maiden of long ago, within the reach
of the less venturesome little maids of today.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Nibelungs, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
The translator has used the old form of English expression in this
version of the Nibelungen Lied which gives it a quaintness in keeping
with the story of Siedfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Hagen and the rest.
The story has been slightly softened and some parts have been omitted
to make it conform in both size and style to the other volumes of the
“Life stories for young people” series.
=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the
creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved
away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament
anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth,
that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never
claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed
was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous
insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous
ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills,
that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good
during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all
their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J.
Ethics.
* * * * *
“Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to
deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy
the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him
for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the
author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard
His word.” R. T. Herford.
+ – =Hibbert J.= 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.
“No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the
understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one
admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of
learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the
analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.
+ – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.
=Schnabel, Clark.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
“It is the best book of its kind, and that is the best that can be
said of it.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 11. Ja. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The translation, as well as the original, bears the impress of
authority and direct knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a whole, the book is reliable. The material is sufficiently
comprehensive to give a thorough review of present metallurgical
practices and the history of their development from early times.”
Joseph Struthers.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 66. Ja. 12, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxons: a drama of Christianity in the
North. $1.50. Hammersmark.
“‘The Saxons’ is one of the best reading dramas that has appeared in
years. The thought is elevated and it is presented with the dignity
that such a theme requires.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 555. My. ’06. 580w.
=Schouler, James.= Americans of 1776. **$2. Dodd.
“‘An original study of life and manners, social, industrial, and
political, for the revolutionary period.’ It comprises in substance
occasional lectures given at Johns Hopkins university during the years
1901–1905.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 746. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“The author of a standard history of the United States has here
supplemented his larger canvases with what one might be tempted to
call literary picture postals of colonial scenes.” Woodbridge Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 627. Ag. ’06. 1260w.
“Other writers have in recent times attempted with varying success to
give us glimpses of the environment of our forefathers,—their homes,
their furniture, and their customs; but no one has approached the task
with the scholarly experience of Mr. Schouler.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 500w.
“Not deterred by the ‘dignity of history,’ the author has seized the
straws floating upon the currents of colonial life and arranged them
in an entertaining way.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 221. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.
“A most entertaining and distinctly valuable volume. Hardly a detail
escapes his eager scrutiny.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 720w.
“The author, indeed, makes no claim to originality of treatment, and
if there is from first to last no observations of a profound or
illuminating character, we have observed few misleading or erroneous
statements.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26. ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 110w.
“A novel monograph which should find a place in the working library of
every student of American history and a wide circulation among the
educated public generally.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 904. Ag. 16, ’06. 1040w.
=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young
women; ed. by Rev. Edmund J. Werth. *$2. Benziger.
“Building materials,” “simple sketches,” “outlines,” are the author’s
words for a series of chapters which he hopes will help the preacher
to build finished addresses for young men and women in Roman Catholic
leagues and sodalities. The young man’s aim, and amusements, the path
of iniquity, drunkenness, impurity, The Christian young woman’s crown,
the virtue of modesty, wolves in sheep’s clothing and kindred subjects
are treated.
=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in
lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 372. Ap. ’06. 280w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 640w.
=Schupp, Ottokar.= William of Orange, tr. from the German by George P.
Upton. *60c. McClurg.
This volume in the “Life stories for young people” series, furnishes
an elevating study for youth in the life of William the Silent and the
noble part he played in the history of the Netherlands. The whole
story of cruelty and bloodshed is given in a such way that the moral
is not lost.
=Schuyler, Livingston Rowe.= Liberty of the press in American colonies
before the revolutionary war; with particular reference to conditions in
the royal colony of New York. **$1. Whittaker.
“The very first amendment adopted for the Constitution of the United
States was that which forbids congress making any law abridging the
freedom of speech or of the press. What existed in this country before
that time in regard to the freedom of the press is told in a most
interesting and curious way in this monograph. The several chapters
take up the question as it existed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and
the Southern colonies, while the conclusions reached in the final
chapter show that at the close of the period under discussion there
was really no liberty of the press as we now understand the
term.”—Outlook.
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“Authorities in print have mainly been consulted; dates are lacking in
places where they ought to appear, and where they could have been
given with a little further research; and the index is inadequate.”