+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
=Schuyler, William.= Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
With a setting true to historical fact, and in the spirit of reverence
the author has traced the important events of the closing years of
Jesus’ mission. The story is in the form of letters written by a
nephew of Pontius Pilate to a friend in Athens. There are near-by
views of the disciples, of Mary Magdalene, of people whom Jesus
healed, of the Roman officials and of the mob. The book has the
atmosphere of dramatic intensity thruout.
* * * * *
“Aside from the intrinsic value of the narrative ... the interest of
the book lies in its unusual point of view and in the vraisemblance
which the author has contrived to impart to a contemporary account of
the momentous epoch.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Elinor’s college career. †$1.50. Little.
The girl who came to college for fun, the one who was sent, the
daughter of wealth who came for the sake of atmosphere, and the
“shabby girl” whom the other three call a genius are roommates and
chums during their four years at college—presumably Vassar. Their
frolics and study make anything but tame pastime for the young reader
bent upon wholesome entertainment.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“There is very little of the story element in the book, but the author
is skillful and vivid in her portrayal of student life and of the
characters of the young women, and the young girls who are looking
forward to a college career will find the book very readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 760. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton,
N. Y.
“His rhythms are raised above mediocrity only by their almost unvaried
pomp. His style is in keeping; it is lacking in precision as much as
in restraint.”
– =Acad.= 70: 59. Ja. 20, ’06. 480w.
=Scott, Duncan Campbell.= New world lyrics and ballads. 60c. Morang.
“Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown,
history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic
verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of
life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his
reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty
that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from
poetry.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are
acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good
as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.
=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June,
1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
“A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The mythical kingdom of Valeria becomes very real to the reader who
follows the fortunes of the young American army officer who becomes a
grand duke and a suitor for the hand of his new found cousin, the
beautiful princess royal. The story is full of love and intrigue, of
court life, masques and duels and one meets a king, a villain, an
adventuress, a dashing prince, a very human princess and many other
people both brave and clever in the course of the well devised plot.
* * * * *
“While the book is not without exaggeration and incongruity it at
least keeps above the level of the ‘opera bouffe.’” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 51. S. ’06. 510w.
“The story is a capital one of its kind.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Those with a taste for love, sword, and mystery in liberal mixture
will find this volume a pleasant toothful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.
“Captain Scott’s account of the voyage of the ‘Discovery’ is the most
important narrative of adventure and investigation in the Antarctic
regions that has been produced in the last half century.” Albert White
Vorse.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 292. My. ’06. 1780w.
“Despite blemishes, this story of effort will long endure as a
standard of high endeavor and heroic accomplishment.” General A. W.
Greely.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 33. Ja. 4, ’06. 2590w.
“An intensely interesting story of the adventures of his party.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 140. Ja. 27, ’06. 1110w.
“The narrative of Captain Scott easily takes rank among the foremost
books of travel and discovery which a half-century has brought out,
and it will be read with the same pleasure that both old and young
like to associate with the reading of Livingstone and Kane.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 13. Ja. 4, ’06. 1710w.
“Is a most valuable contribution to the knowledge of what will
probably always be one of the most interesting parts of the Antarctic
continent. It is written in a charmingly easy and fluent style; the
narrative is modest and frank: and the story is always pleasant
reading.” J. W. Gregory.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 297. Ja. 25, ’06. 2610w.
“Probably the most complete account of the antarctic regions ever
published in English.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Complete poetical works; with introd. by Charles
Eliot Norton. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” this pocket edition of Scott
contains besides the complete text full editorial helps.
=Seaman, Louis Livingston.= Real triumph of Japan; conquest of the
silent foe. **$1.50. Appleton.
“Major Seaman expatiates further in this volume upon the same theme
exploited by him in his former account of his experiences with the
Japanese army—the success of the Japanese officials in preventing and
curing disease. The reasons for this remarkable record are the simple,
non-irritating food of the Japanese soldier, the obedience to orders
of the surgeons invariably displayed, and the thorough preparation and
constant vigilance of those in charge of the health of the army. Major
Seaman considers this a greater victory than that won on the field of
battle, and makes an earnest plea for similar measures in the American
army.”—Critic.
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 360w.
“The book is deserving of more careful consideration than ‘From Tokio
through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ as it enlarges upon the reasons
for the statements made in that readable volume.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 140w.
“The American patriot, the soldier in the ranks and his relative at
home, as well as the book-critic, can gladly commend this well-written
work and be thankful for it. It is a trumpet-blast of prophecy.”
William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 1130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 650w.
“Is perhaps a rather more seasoned and mature judgment than the other
books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 150w.
“Dr. Seaman’s book is worth reading from end to end.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 330w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Chateau of Montplaisir: 4 full-page il. by
Gordon Grant. †$1.25. Appleton.
A poor Frenchman, Louis Victor de Latour inherits with no income the
dilapidated Chateau of Montplaisir. He is the object of interest to
one Victor Louis de Latour, a soap-boiler who offers 300,000 francs
for the privilege of sharing the glory of the name and placing the
family crest on his carriage. Among the gay group who are responsible
for a series of surprising situations is “the antique Comtesse de
Beauregard, with a predilection for youthful habiliments and
abhorrence for piety in men.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“This trivial tale is quite unworthy of the author of ‘Children of
destiny.’”
– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“It is sparkling with humor and is full of amusing situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
“Pure merriment, absurd combinations, delicious impertinence, sparkle
throughout these pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 90w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Loves of the Lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A midshipman upon one of his English majesty’s ships of the line who
takes part in a successful engagement with the French and thereby wins
promotion, tells the story of the beautiful Lady Arabella, ward of his
uncle Sir Philip Hawkshaw, whom he at first loves and then comes to
despise. A joy to the eye, Lady Arabella is a menace to the morals. A
lover of cards and a trifler with men, she throws her heart at the
feet of a man who will not have it, and all but swears away the life
of an impetuous youth whose love she has spurned and who tried to
elope with her, then later, to spite them both, she marries the head
of their house and thru her first-born succeeds in cutting them both
off from a fortune. Other characters, however, share the honors with
Arabella and there is a truly true love story which is not hers.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= The victory. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The scenes of the story are laid at the time of the Civil war. The
adopted daughter of a Virginia family is married to a son of the
house, who goes over to the union lines. She is very young and does
not know what real love is, although her husband adores her. While he
is away fighting, a French family moves into the neighborhood, and
their son and the girl learn to love each other. Both, however,
respect her marriage vows, and neither tells the other of the
attachment. The girl’s husband is killed in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“While there is nothing particularly original in theme or style, the
story is well told and the characters are lifelike and interesting.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs.
Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures
which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book
strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.
“The book is full of humorous touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
Secret life: being the book of a heretic. **$1.50. Lane.
“In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret
garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a
sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’
Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this
theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and
actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects
such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur
saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American
parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul
etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Ostensibly, it is a diary in which a married woman, of middle age,
moving in a cultivated circle of American society, sets down the wild,
original, heretical ideas which she has elaborated during her travels
in Europe. Actually, it is a story of the spiritual adventures of a
commonplace mind of a chameleon nature vagrant among unrealised worlds
of thought.”
– =Acad.= 71: 394. O. 20, ’06. 1020w.
“However much we may differ from her expressions of opinion, their
frankness and sincerity combined with the author’s genuine culture and
love for literature and art in all forms make them worth reading.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Banks.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 1630w.
“The excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy certainly
deserve to have their author known.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Shadow of life. †$1.50. Century.
If indeed it is in the shadow of things that this story pursues its
way, it is such a shadow as Ruskin attributes to disappointment, the
Titian twilight in which one sees the “real color of things with
deeper truth than in the most dazzling sunshine.” Gavin and Eppie are
two lonely children, hungering for happiness, who during a brief
summer in a Scottish country home exchange their weird confidences.
During sixteen years, Gavin is absent, then returns to find Eppie a
splendid young woman of such strength, sweetness and daring that she
seemed a “Flying victory” done by Velasquez. The romance that is
quickened to the point of vows is blighted by temperamental
differences. Gavin forces Eppie who loved life and battle to see that
he would suffocate her, that he was the negation of everything that
she believed in. The tragedy is one of helplessness.
* * * * *
“The book is an achievement, and an achievement on a high and unusual
plane.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
“Even more compelling in its hold over the imagination of the reader
and in its searching analysis of the hidden springs of human action
than her previous work.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“Withal, the thing has been done really well.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7, 260w.
“Has written ‘an impossible love-story’ with immense skill, delicacy
and grace.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 464. My. ’06. 550w.
“The story is interesting, the scenery is charming, and the author
leads her characters thru it according to her despair, a despair which
she spreads over the reader’s mind with astonishing wisdom of words.”
Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 650w.
“The author has employed a seductive, pseudo-mystical manner of
expression and made a deliberate effort to destroy every reason for
the hopes and affections which fill life with interest.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Mrs. Sedgwick works on a high plane, and many who care little for the
metaphysics of the book will value it for its graces of style and
grasp of character.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 420w.
“It is a book of great power and significance. The author’s grasp of
her material and her instinct for what is vital have kept her
characters thoroughly alive—even Gavin, in spite of himself—but the
novel would have gained in every way had not the drama been so often
obscured under the study of a soul.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 1490w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 929. Je. ’06. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 460w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 390w.
“Is unreal and unconvincing”
– =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 280w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, jr.= Short history of Italy. **$2. Houghton.
A short history of Italy which covers a wide range of years—from 476
to the end of the nineteenth century. It “makes no pretense to
original investigation,” but aims to give a bird’s-eye view of Italian
history as a whole.
* * * * *
“Mere differences of view as to relative emphasis will keep no
fair-minded person from doing full justice to the author’s grasp, his
sober judgment, and his charm of manner.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 877. Jl. ’06. 740w.
“He shows good judgment in selecting the points of greatest interest,
and putting the emphasis there.” J. W. Moncrief.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 348. Ap. ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has done an exceedingly difficult thing better than it
was ever done—in English, at least—before, and about as well, one may
venture to affirm, as it ever can be done.”
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 554. Ap. ’06. 490w.
“For the reading public rather than the scholarly world, the volume
combines brevity, conciseness and a grasp of essentials with accuracy
of fact and a pleasing narrative style.”
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 645. F. ’06. 240w.
“It is hard to determine for what class of readers this book was
written.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“It is not childish enough for children, it does not show sufficient
research to give it value to the student, and is far too casual in its
descriptions of many events ... to be useful to persons of little
knowledge, but much desire to learn history.”
– =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 70w.
“He has a good sense of proportion, and good ideas of historical
perspective; he writes in a vivid style, and possesses a keen sense of
humor which contributes not a little to the entertaining quality of
his book.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Nevertheless, after making all necessary deductions, we conclude by
recommending the book to the public for which it was written. It has
no competitors in English.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 166. Ja. 18, ’06. 820w.
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“It is a mine of condensed information, imparted brilliantly and
trenchantly, and abounds in philosophic generalizations which at once
visualize and explain.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has little to fear from the abstract of Sismond’s
‘Italian republics’ (1832). good but antiquated, or from the Rev.
William Hunt’s ‘History of Italy’ (1875), a dry textbook.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 391. My. 10, ’06. 740w.
“It is a lively and interesting narrative that he has written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ’05. 780w.
“The present volume has suffered from the necessity of
over-condensation.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 110w.
=Seeley, Levi.= Elementary pedagogy. *$1.25. Hinds.
“The main purpose of the school is to furnish instruction,” says Dr.
Seeley, and he gives valuable information and advice to young teachers
along the lines of elementary processes.
* * * * *
“Adds one more to the list of educational works, already too numerous,
which are chiefly compendiums of the ideas of others with a modicum of
the writer’s own thought. In plan of organisation and continuity of
development, the book is distinctly weak.”
– – + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 160w.
“Dr. Seeley’s ideas are always sane and practical, and no one need
hesitate to follow him, always of course with intelligent choice and
adaptation.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.
“Dr. Seeley writes for young teachers what every parent may read with
profit. It is a well-digested manual of practical wisdom, well
assorted and packed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 180w.
=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special
reference to American conditions. *$2.25. Longmans.
Professor Seligman’s work is divided into four parts: Introduction;
Elements of economic life; Structure and process of economic life;
Conclusion.
* * * * *
“The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which
enables him in many cases to present more than one view and
explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs
through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The
book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a
supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.
“The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the
author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety
and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More
Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.
“So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there
can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor
Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to
handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C.
V.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the
reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is
equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and
cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly,
effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of
statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above
all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.
“With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’
has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of
reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any
other recent work.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.
“His style is remarkably clear, easy, logical, and candid.” Edward
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
“We commend this volume heartily to any thoughtful layman who desires
to get from a responsible authority some grounding in the essential
principles of industrial laws.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 300w.
“There are passages in Professor Seligman’s book where either the
reasoning is at fault or else the exposition so brief that it is
impossible to make out just what the reasoning is. Sometimes, too,
there is positive carelessness. The book is an encyclopedic plan, and,
as a textbook, suffers from covering so much ground.” Frank W:
Taussig.
+ – =Quarterly Journal of Economics.= 20: 622. Ag. ’06. 4100w.
“This book is interesting both as a restatement of economic theory,
and particularly as an exposition of actual conditions in this
country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“A thorough, well-balanced treatment of the subject which he handles.”
G. W. Flux.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 93. My. ’06. 840w.
=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.
“Surveys the painter’s works with thoroughgoing system, and it is
rational in criticism.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 70w.
“His arguments are not always the soundest, nor is his criticism as
discriminating as it might be. Moreover, his treatment of the whole
subject lacks thoroughness. Should prove of much value to beginners in
the study of art, and may serve them better than would many a more
scientific but less enthusiastic work.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.
=Selkirk, Emily.= Stigma. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
A Southern girl teaching in Arkansas and the Southern principal of the
school appear on the stage of this drama as champions of the negro
race. One of the chief actors is a mulatto girl whose “stigma” of
blood makes life unbearable, so she ends it. “Equal educational and
political advantages for black and white are urged, and from the text
furnished in ‘a crimson-backed novel by a Baptist preacher’ the
unequal standards obtaining in the South and all over the country are
strongly arraigned. There is unquestioned truth in the representation,
and it may be well to meet an appeal to public opinion in fiction by
fiction.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 290w.
“The story is extremely painful, and as a story is simple almost to
baldness.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.
=Selous, Edmund.= Bird watcher in the Shetlands. **$3.50. Dutton.
A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their
whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his
“tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items
jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But
he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a
help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct
observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr.
Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books
on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious,
though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and
luxuriant.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 113. F. 3, ’06. 840w.
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.
“The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some
obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are
taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from
photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.
“It deserves its place alongside with the investigations and
vaticinations of Thoreau. In fact, it is one of the best books of its
class that we have happened upon these many months.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 600w.
“Altogether, the book commends itself for unusual suggestiveness and
interest.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 310w.
“He discourses, with digressions, delightfully upon his experiences.”
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 414. Mr. 1, ’06. 730w.
“You read his notes as he writes them, and begin presently to catch
his enthusiasm, and sharing in imagination his physical point of view
to share his mental attitude also—in part, at least.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 720w.
“With this somewhat whimsical humor the book abounds—but more
substantial and certainly of great value to the student are the
detailed records of observations, both birds and seals having been
minutely and most patiently studied.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 300w.
“A sadly disappointing book.”
– =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 270w.
=Semple, Rev. H. C.= Anglican ordinations; theology of Rome and of
Canterbury in a nutshell. 35c. Benziger.
A little book which addresses Catholics directly.
* * * * *
“A short, clear, temperately written essay from which anybody, in an
hour, may get up the facts and arguments of the case.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 399. D. ’06. 180w.
=Serao, Mathilde.= In the country of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by
Richard Davey. **$2. Dutton.
“As the translator says in his brief note, Signora Serao writes from
the point of view of a very orthodox and fervent Catholic, who
unhesitatingly accepts not only the Gospels, but also the ancient
traditions of her church. She sails along the Nile, goes through
Cairo, sees the Pyramids, and goes on to Syria. She then takes in
Jerusalem, visiting all the places of interest, Galilee, and other
places visited by Christ or connected with his life and works.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens the whole story.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“It is not quite perfect. There are florid passages which we regret,
chiefly, perhaps, because the translator has not exercised a wise
discretion. There are also slight mistakes.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1750w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Davey’s translation is admirable for Anglo-Saxon readers, for he
admits that in his work he has lopped off certain extravagant
expressions. Extravagant or not, Mathilde Serao is seldom
uninteresting.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 100w.
“There is much in this book to charm the reader. But it is impossible
not to be struck by her curious ignorance of what one would suppose
every visitor to the Holy Land would be sure to know.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 390w.
=Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Burlesque Napoleon: being the story of
the life and the kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. *$3. Brentano’s.
“An account of the flashy Jerome Bonaparte in court and camp and at
home. It is one of many books on members of the Bonaparte family
published of late years which are chiefly read with interest for the
sidelights that they may throw on Napoleon, and a good specimen of its
class.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The book adds nothing to the sum of our knowledge of the period.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1183. N. 11, ’05. 310w.
“The narrative is well put together, and the style is not without
merit, though occasionally it is disfigured by slipshod expressions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 740w.
“There is no lack of incident ... but it is poorly and thinly written,
and throughout the author seems to be in an attitude of apology for
having written it at all.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 330w.
“His literary powers are not sufficient to impart freshness or
interest to such a personage.”
– =Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Sergeant is a lively raconteur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 337. My. 26, ’06. 1450w.
=Sat. R.= 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a
dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
=Bookm.= 23: 90. Mr. ’06. 450w.
“Except for the reindeer story, Mr. Seton has made certain advances
here even over his first work. He shows greater variety of treatment,
more flexibility of style, and less strain.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 140w.
“Read with a mind closed to doubt, however, they are hugely
entertaining and no better book could be asked for an evening’s
diversion.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“His methods are not sensational, his literary art is excellent, his
knowledge is wide.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 230w.
“Alike to young and old the book may be heartily commended as an
excellent example of the best style of animal biography.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 295. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
=Spec.= 97: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 1770w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Admirers of Sir Conan Doyle will find this detective story replete
with the inductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes, while missing the
highest artistic finish of their favorite.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
=Sewell, Cornelius V. V.= Common-sense gardens. **$2. Grafton press.
A veritable spur to people who neglect the garden possibilities of
their bit of earth. “Two points in this excellent and amply
illustrated book are worthy of special notice,—the author’s praises of
box, and his pictures of enclosed gardens.” (Dial.) “The instructive
volume is illustrated by good reproductions of photographs, and
decorated in excellent taste at the beginnings of the chapters.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 435. My. 24, ’06. 1020w.
“The hints are such as may be followed, as a rule, by people of
ordinary means, and it is to the credit of the work that it always
prefers the sensible and practical thing to that which is a fad of the
day or which leans toward ostentation.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
=Shadwell, Arthur.= Industrial efficiency: a comparative study of
industrial life in England, Germany and America. 2 v. *$7. Longmans.
Dr. Shadwell’s investigations are the result “of laborious inquiries
to which the authors of comparisons between the industrial conditions
of different countries rarely condescend—inquiries conducted in
England, Germany and the United States, and with ‘the help of hundreds
of people, from the British ambassadors in Berlin and Washington to
ordinary workmen,’ inquiries not merely in books and documents, but in
many factories and workshops.... Rarely do chief conclusions emerge in
such distinctness and due proportion from a crowd of individual facts.
Some of the chapters ... are models of economical investigation.”
* * * * *
“The style is excellent for its subject: even lucid, simple, carrying
the reader insensibly forward through nearly a thousand pages without
any sense of fatigue.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 660. Je. 2. 1450w.
“Two volumes of clear, interesting, forcible writing that are worthy
to stand on our shelves alongside the classical works of Bryce and De
Tocqueville.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 751. S. 27, ’06. 1180w.
“To have written an original book upon a somewhat trite subject; to
have set in a new light many facts which have been treated recently by
a score of writers, some of them of no mean ability; to have made a
narrative of dry facts readable as well as instructive, is a
considerable achievement. It is not too much to say that Dr. Shadwell
has accomplished all this.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 69. Mr. 2, ’06. 1750w.
“A shrewd observer of men and affairs, who has cared more to gather
facts than to spin theories about them.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 840w.
“These volumes discuss [the topics] instructively and with scientific
love of truth and lack of prejudice. The author is no faddist or
theorist.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 272. Ap. 28, ’06. 2270w.
“Throughout, these chapters are full of acute criticism and while it
is a personal view which is put forward it is a view based not only on
reading and travel but on countless interviews with all sorts and
conditions of men.” Henry W. Macrosty.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 550. S. ’06. 1360w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 493. O. 6, ’06. 1610w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke. **75c; limp. lea. **$1. Crowell.
“The editors are exceptionally well fitted for their work. Indeed, we
doubt whether there are in America two persons better fitted for the
task. Far and away the best popular set of Shakespeare that has
appeared in America.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 340w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Poems and Pericles: being reproductions in
facsimile of the original editions; with introds. and bibliographies by
Sidney Lee. 5v. *$30. Oxford.
This work supplements the Clarendon press edition of the facsimile
reproduction of the Shakespeare first folio, and contains besides,
“Pericles” the four volumes of poems, “Venus and Adonis,” “Lucrece,”
the “Sonnets,” and “The passionate pilgrim.” A great wealth of
critical and historical matter is provided for each volume.
* * * * *
“We have met with few books more thoroughly satisfactory than this
Shakespeare facsimile. The book, as it stands, is a treasure that
ought to be in every library.”
+ + + =Acad.= 69: 1282. D. 9, ’05. 1470w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 838. D. 16. 2040w.
“The five introductions transcend in interest even Mr. Lee’s
introduction of 1902.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 437. D. 15, ’05. 2050W.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 264. Mr. 29, ’06. 3020w.
“The Introductions and Bibliographies ... leave little or nothing to
be desired. All that unwearied industry and research can acquire he
has made his own.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 80. Ja. 20, ’06. 1290w.
=Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 140w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter
and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
“For the general reader who is interested in the history of the texts,
it is a cheap and satisfactory substitute for the costly facsimiles of
the Folio of 1623.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 70w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Twelfe night, edited by Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The famous first folio text of 1623 with its original Shakespearean
spelling and punctuation is here reproduced in handy form and at a
popular price, with notes which indicate the editorial changes of
three centuries, an introduction, glossary, lists of variorum
readings, and selected criticism.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 700. S. 20, ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 1007. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Duffield.
“He has written an interesting little book, which will repay reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 315. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“It would be difficult to match this little book with another so
simple, so strong, so informed with material knowledge and so inspired
with loving reverence for our common mother, the young old Earth.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1283. My. 31, ’06, 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 285. Ap. 5, ’06. 1670w.
“Written by an eminent geologist who has command of a fascinating
English style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.
=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will.
**$1.50. Duffield.
Self-mastery over various kinds of disadvantages of life is the
keynote of Mrs. Shaler’s study. In it are recorded “the achievements
of noted persons who, under the stress of grave difficulties, have
shown skill in marshalling their physical and spiritual forces to play
the part of men.”
* * * * *
“Mrs. Shaler’s book should give chronic invalids renewed courage, and
should help them to resist the disheartening down-pull of bodily
weakness and decay.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 270w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 70w.
“A heroic spirit pulsates thru this book. It is an inspiring story, or
rather a series of such stories, briefly told, and told for a
purpose.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 200w.
“Mrs. Shaler has chosen her examples happily. The book breathes
precisely that spirit of high endeavor that is most bracing, and its
admonition is for the sound as well as the feeble, for if the sorely
hampered can do these works, what ought not to be done by the whole?”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 317. D. ’06. 220w.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Days of the past: a medley of memories. **$3.
Dutton.
“Not a mere bookman, but also a general amateur of life—a sportsman, a
gastronomer, even a taker of ‘fliers,’ or, as he calls them,
‘flutters,’ on the stock exchange.” (N. Y. Times.) Mr. Shand records
with a sure and steady touch the interesting phases of sixty-five
years of memories. “Mr. Shand’s recollections of old Edinburg and the
almost forgotten ecclesiastical Scotland in which Guthrie and Tulloch
played their not unimportant parts shows him at his best. Next to
these are his portraits of hosts of men of letters and journalists
whom he has come across in his time, such as Blackwood, Delane,
Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Lockhart, Kinglake, Hayward, and even Mr.
George Meredith.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Shand’s memories, however, might with advantage have been less of
a ‘medley.’ His tendency to hop from topic to topic produces a blurred
impression, and he is provokingly chary of dates.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 460w.
“Written in vivacious and free-and-easy style not unmixed with slang.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“The author writes in a rapid, readable style and draws on an ample
store of personal experience in many lands, although his adventures
never approach the thrilling, or even the extraordinary.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Is not merely an amusing book, but also something far more valuable.
It is an account unconscious, perhaps, but none the worse for that, of
the philosophy of a happy life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Mr. Shand’s peculiar weakness is gastronomic. He delights to record
his various experiences in eating and drinking. On the other hand, his
chapters on the changes in London and on Old Edinburgh, and his
literary recollections, are both interesting and valuable.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 230w.
“If he knows how to write, how can he help writing a delightful book
out of his reminiscences of such an enjoying and enjoyed life? At any
rate, Mr. Shand has not been able to help writing such a book.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 101. F. 17, ’06. 1160w.
“The book is discursive and agreeable rather than important.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 60w.
“This is one of the most delightful books of the reminiscences’ order
that has been published for a long time.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ’05. 540w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Micky. $1.50. Macmillan.
An entertaining story of a sturdy little English boy and his brother
who are left at home with their father and the servants while their
mother is absent in Australia. “The book is designed to inculcate
manners and morals in the young, and if it accomplishes this end there
is little doubt that it will be worth while.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has both an excellent grasp of the childish mind, and a
capital way of putting on paper its humors, limitations, and
sincerity.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 50w.
“Reminds us of that clever and charming story, ‘Helen’s babies.’”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 70w.
“An engaging little story, with an improbable plot, but very probable
characters.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ’05. 110w.
“Is designed for older as well as young readers. The result is that it
is hardly likely to absolutely hold the attention of either.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 915. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“It seems, however, more likely to interest older people who like to
read about children than the children themselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 30w.
“Miss Evelyn Sharp’s picture of a sensitive, imaginative child is most
delicately and tenderly drawn.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 40w.
=Sharpless, Isaac.= Quakerism and politics: essays. $1.25. Ferris.
In his collection of essays and addresses, President Sharpless of
Haverford college treats chiefly the political conditions of
Pennsylvania, past and present, and the part played by members of the
Society of Friends in the state politics.
* * * * *
“There are a few instances of careless proofreading in this volume.”
Herman V. Ames.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 148. O. ’06. 570w.
=Ind.= 61: 220. Jl. 26, ’06. 270w.
“A book which in general gives wholesome and needful counsel to
Pennsylvania Quakerism as to its political duties and
responsibilities.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 300w.
“Written from the Quaker point of view, they are valuable to
non-Quakers as an exposition of the principles underlying Quaker
conduct, and to Quakers as a stimulus to definite action in the
direction of insuring political reforms.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 250w.
=Shattuck, George Burbank=, ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.
“It is the most complete and authoritative work that has ever been
published on these islands.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 220w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well
A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James
Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
Selections collected from the dramatic criticisms of Bernard Shaw
during 1895–1898 when he sat with the “critical mighty and filled his
eyes and ears with bad, mad, and mediocre plays.” So says Mr. James
Huneker in his prefatory “Word.” Also, “Here is a plethora of riches.
Remember, too, that when Shaw wrote the criticisms in this volume he
was virginal to fame. It is his best work, the very best of the man.
It contains his most buoyant prose, the quintessence of Shaw. His
valedictory is incomparable. He found that after taking laughing gas
he had many sub-conscious selves. He describes them.”
* * * * *
“The drama in America is about ten years behind that of England, and
we are passing thru a transition period similar to that when these
‘Opinions’ were written, so they are especially pertinent.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 470w.
“Contains a large amount of entertaining matter. It is doubtful,
however, whether the collection will prove beneficial to his
reputation.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 490. D. 6, ’06. 460w.
“A more or less patent examination of these essays has convinced at
least one reader that they show flippancy, verbosity, unbounded
egotism, and that they fail to rise above the pretentious mediocrity.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 898. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.
“In brief, it is the raw, inexperienced venture of an immensely witty
person, formless in a way, full of pith, full of promise.” Mary Moss.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 440w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“He leaves us just where he finds us, as far as any serious discussion
of the question goes. The display of pyrotechnics in the story is not
bad, though of course these be but pale and ineffectual fires beside
the author’s later work.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 560w.
“Its cleverness is beyond question; so too is the frigidity of its
characterisation. We can cordially recommend the first twenty-five out
of the four hundred odd pages which the book contains.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Plays: pleasant and unpleasant. 2v. **$2.50.
Brentano’s.
The first of the two volumes contains the “unpleasant plays,”
“Widowers’ houses,” “The philanderer,” and “Mrs. Warren’s profession.”
They are so called because “their dramatic power is used to force the
spectator to face unpleasant facts,” and in “dealing with economics
social and moral relations, Shaw has delivered the most direct blow
yet levelled by the stage against the cowardice of social compromise.”
The “pleasant plays” are “Arms and the man,” “Candida,” “The man of
destiny,” and “You never can tell.” They “deal less with the crime of
society and more with its romantic follies.”
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 396. Ag. 16, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Shaw is not only entertaining in his plays, as are some other
men, but he is also immensely entertaining in his prefaces.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. ’06. 80w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Three plays for Puritans; being the third volume
of his collected plays. **$1.25. Brentano’s.
A reprint of the 1900 edition of the three plays, The devil’s
disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound’s conversion.
The volume contains the author’s characteristic preface to the 1900
edition and a note—the only new matter included in the issue—in which
the following statement appears: “Now that the turmoil has abated, the
platformer, ever ready to seize upon the public’s passing whim, has
told all he does not know about Shaw, the dust settled, one gets a
clear perspective, and finds him standing pretty firmly after all.”
=Shaw, Judson Wade.= Uncle Sam and his children. **$1.20. Barnes.
“In prosecuting the work of his organization Mr. Shaw found everywhere
a demand for a book that should not simply outline the machinery of
the government, but should emphasize its special advantages and the
duty of citizens in the use of their privileges. He has accordingly,
embodied in the present volume an account of the struggles through
which the founders of the country passed, a statement of the
principles that actuated them, an outline of our territory and its
resources, and some discussion of the perils that threaten us and how
to meet and escape them.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 110w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ’05. 170w.
“His book is a sort of elementary manual of American
good-citizenship.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ’05. 150w.
=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck
and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75.
Longmans.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 570w.
=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. *$1. Whittaker.
Some three dozen brief but strong pleas for Christian living under
such headings as: The value of self control, The duty of service,
Socialism true and false, Money mad, Choosing a life work, Begin at
home, The gospel of wealth, The gospel of pain, “The house of mirth.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Sheedy seems to be a fearless, straightforward preacher, with a
turn for the moral and practical, and with ability to couch his
thought in vigorous English.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Sheldon, Anna R.= Pistoja [a guide book]. *$1.25. Brentano’s.
A “few pages of collated facts” gleaned from a variety of sources
which throw light on “one of the most interesting cities in Tuscany,
because of its charming situation, its long and varied history, its
people—a hardy, vivacious, and well-favored race; as the birthplace of
many illustrious men, patriots, jurists, and churchmen, scholars,
poets, and artists, and finally, because of its valuable monuments of
art.”
* * * * *
“If only a few more pages were devoted to the history of the town—half
a dozen written in the proper spirit would suffice—this little volume
would be as welcome in the study as it undoubtedly will be in the
pocket of the tourist.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
“Supplies the lack of a convenient guide-book in English, handsomely
illustrated. It was a happy thought and is well worked out.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
=Sheldon, Walter Lorenzo.= Divine comedy of Dante: four lectures. 50c.
S. Burns Weston, 1415 Locust St., Phil.
Four lectures “intended especially for those who have never read the
poem but would like to know something about it.”
* * * * *
=Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The class of people for whom it is written may read it with both
interest and profit.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
It is over the English footpaths that the reader is invited to journey
in meditative mood with eye and ear eager for sights and sounds
unfamiliar to the more frequented highway. The haunts of Spenser, Sir
Philip Sidney, William Penn, Burns, Keats, Carlyle are all visited,
also the birthplace of Gray’s “Elegy” and Goldsmith’s “Deserted
Village.” The volume is generously illustrated with reprints from
photographs.
* * * * *
“The novelty of the work does not consist so much in new discoveries,
for there are none of consequence, as in presenting his subjects in a
light not usual.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Shelley’s book is sympathetically written and gives evidence of
individual research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
“The author has not failed to make researches that were worth while,
and he has an agreeable style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 230w.
“The book should revive in many minds a longing to reread the English
classics in the light thus shed in picture and text on some
personalities which still inspire the finer things in letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Rarely does one come upon so charming a literary sketch-book as
this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 140w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Poems; with introduction and notes by Edward
Dowden. $1.25. Crowell.
A valuable feature of this “Shelley” which appears uniform with the
“Thin paper poets” is the comprehensive sketch of the poet’s life by
Edward Dowden.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson
McMahan. **$1.40. McClurg.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 557. Ap. ’06. 320w.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 67. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of instruction
and information for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
A manual arranged as a calendar “giving detailed instructions as to
what to plant in each month of the open season, with many useful hints
of a miscellaneous character.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“The directions are clearly worded, well grouped, and reasonable. For
a small garden and a young gardener, the book will render the real
service for which it was written.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
“A very practical manual for the amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 40w.
“The book supplements, but cannot replace, the formal garden
handbooks.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 846. Je. 7, ’06. 160w.
“She does not realize that the brevity of her descriptions may be
confusing and not carry to the novice the very idea that she is
seeking to implant.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 500w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Life of Oscar Wilde. $4.50. Kennerley.
“The life-story of the brilliant but erratic genius, Oscar Wilde,
whose sun of promise rose so bright and had so dire a setting, is
presented to us in a handsome and dignified volume.... Although the
book is confessedly an apology or defense, and promises at the outset
to refute many calumnies and to effect noteworthy results in clearing
from the foul aspersions of malignity a name still dear to hundreds of
faithful disciples, yet there is fortunately, a wise avoidance of
unsavory details regarding the events that clouded Wilde’s closing
years and led to his tragic end.... The volume ... is supplied with a
good index; while the bibliography, showing a surprising number of
titles in prose and verse, with translations into French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, and Polish, gives a new sense of
the brilliancy of Wilde’s talents as a writer, mingled with regret and
pity for his downfall as a man.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“One cannot deny that it is interesting, even though parts of it be
painful.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 365. D. ’06. 1860w.
“Mr. Sherard’s account of this strange and broken life is full and
interesting, although it suffers from the extravagant tone of eulogy
and admiration which colors it throughout. It is to be taken as we
have said, at the outset, as a defense and an apology; and taken thus,
it well repays perusal.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 156. S. 16, ’06. 2960w.
“This author has had access to abundant material, and writing with a
full appreciation of the limitations of Wilde’s genius he has produced
what may be called the most intimate biography that has yet appeared.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Sherard’s tones are not quite clear; his moral philosophy is not
quite robust and direct enough for the terrible problem of human
responsibility and error with which he has to deal.”
+ – – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1000w.
“Little excuse for its existence. As for Mr. Sherard he certainly
possesses qualities we like to see in a biographer. He can draw
distinctions and take note of both sides of his subject. He writes
fluently and well. But he has chosen a hopeless, pitiful subject.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 545. S. 8, ’06. 820w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some
recollections of a literary life; 2nd ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
Interesting are the different ranges at which Mr. Sherard, an
Englishman in Paris, views a group of men prominent in French affairs.
Motives of friendship, of admiration for statemanship and for literary
genius operate in his reminiscences. Zola, Renan, Daudet, de Lesseps,
Guy de Maupassant, Madame Adam, Victor Hugo, and Jules Verne are among
the notables who figure in Mr. Sherard’s recollections.
* * * * *
“The volume is full of good anecdotes which strike us as new.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9. 970w.
“The whole narrative moves so briskly, the dialogue is carried on by
so many and so interesting actors, the stage is so crowded, and the
scenes succeed one another so quickly, that it would be unhandsome to
feel otherwise than friendly toward the purveyor of so much varied
entertainment.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 316. N. 16, ’06. 1640w.
=Sherman, Frank Dempster.= Southern flight [poems by] Frank Dempster
Sherman and Clinton Scollard. *$1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
A volume of verse containing fifty-odd pieces with Southern themes.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“A small volume of tender and graceful lyrics.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Contains no piece quite at the highest level of either of its
authors. There is somewhat too much sweet in it, but it is full of
melody and pretty imagery.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w.
“They are perilously slight in subject and treatment. Though the
verses in ‘A Southern flight’ are metrically simple they demand more
careful pruning than they have received.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.
=Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c.
Macmillan.
=Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 60w.
“On the whole, the book would prove an unreliable text in the hands of
students. It should be of some value to teachers by reason of the
suggestions in the second part in regard to the method of study and
the teaching of civics.” A. R. Hatton.
– + =School R.= 14: 466. Je. ’06. 220w.
“It is to be regretted that this new book on civil government was not
written in a better style with more literary form and flavor, as to
the average reader it is bound to be dull.” George L. Fox.
+ – =Yale R.= 14: 426. F. ’06. 370w.
=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6.
Longmans.
Mr. Sherring’s book has grown out of a political mission for the
Indian government upon which he was sent for the purpose of looking up
this country and estimating its resources and commercial
possibilities. “Unlike the many volumes dealing with Tibet and Lhassa
that have been appearing the past two or three years, since the
British expedition reached and entered the ‘heaven’ of Hindus and
Buddhists, the present one treats popularly of the ‘holy lore’ most
sacred to Tibetans, the legends and myths of Western Tibet, and the
customs and manners of the people. The author writes from personal
experience and study.” (N. Y. Times.) Numerous illustrations add to
the interest of the book.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 542. N. 3. 1890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“The qualification of the author for his task is a long and close
acquaintance with the tribes of British India upon the Tibetan
borderland; but he labours under the double disadvantage of having no
previous knowledge of Tibet, save that derived from books, and no
acquaintance with the language. Moreover, Mr. Sherring is apt to be
led astray by his own learning.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 690w.
=Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Coming of the tide. †$1.50. Houghton.
Miss Sherwood “tells the story of a summer on the Maine coast whither
the heroine, a Southern girl, goes to forget a great sorrow. The plot,
which is very simple, involves a study in heredity. The hero, a dreamy
philosopher, is morbidly conscious of his inheritance of ancestral
traits and ancestral quarrels. But the girl from Virginia makes him
feel the joy of living, and understand the song of the tides.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“There is, however, enough merit in the book to justify the belief
that the author may write a much better novel when she has acquired
more restraint.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 72. Ja. 20. 150w.
“The charm of the book lies largely in Miss Sherwood’s delicate humor,
delightful fancy, and carefully finished, but never coldly classic,
style.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It is not quite so taking as her earlier romances probably because
there is an intrusion of real things; and it is a little overloaded
with description; but it is done with ... delicacy and refinement.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ’05. 140w.
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 110w.
=Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khayyámi. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Shirazi has made an interesting book out of a subject that at
first sight seems to have been done to death.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 810w.
“The biography is interestingly written, and is at variance in some
minor points of western interpretation of the conditions under which
Omar wrote. It cannot be regarded as a contribution of permanent value
to the literature on this subject, but it is profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 230w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. **$1.
Scribner.
+ =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 170w.
“It is disappointing to read a Brontë life that, however accurate and
complete, is of cyclopediac aloofness and reserve.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Altogether, Mr. Shorter has produced such an excellently concise
handbook of “Brontëism” that it is hardly possible to conceive of a
better taking its place in popular favour.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 443. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement King Shorter).= Story and song of
Black Roderick. †$1. Harper.
The Black Earl Roderick for policy’s sake weds the Little Bride, and
she dies because of her failure to win his love. Such is the burden of
the first part of a quaint story told in verse and prose in whose
second part the Little Bride’s soul, by self-sacrifice, saves that of
Roderick.
* * * * *
“The whole story is mediaeval in tone, very daintily told, and full of
tender grace.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A specimen of that somewhat difficult style of narrative, not
altogether satisfactory.”
– =Ath.= 1906. 1: 577. My. 11. 310w.
“It is inspired by recollection and study, not by genuine faith and
feeling; and whether we are right or wrong as to the model which Mrs.
Shorter had in mind, the praise of her story must be limited to the
praise of the clever imitation.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 360w.
“It is like her former books, and like most books of poetry, tenuous.”
Percy Vincent Donovan.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 832. D. 1, ’06. 2340w.
=Shroy, John L.= Be a good boy; good bye. J: L. Shroy, 1738 Diamond st.,
Phil. [Lippincott.]
A book of poems dedicated to “Mother” whose charge, “Be a good boy;
good-bye” has been the author’s motto thru life. The poems are mostly
reminiscent with such themes as Fourth of July, the country circus,
apple-blossom time, sugared bread and running barefoot.
=Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley.= Greece from the coming of the Hellenes to
A. D. 14. **$1.35. Putnam.
The first of the two volumes on Grecian history which Dr. Shuckburgh
has been asked to contribute to the “Story of the nations” series. “In
accordance with better ideas of relative importance, the emphasis is
thrown upon political, intellectual, and artistic development rather
than the vicissitudes of military operations.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“A work of some literary merit, but one pregnant with mischief through
restating old misconceptions in graceful language. And yet there is an
urgent need for somebody ... to animate a scholarly summary of recent
work with the breath of a genial personality.” W. S. Ferguson.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 870. Jl. ’06. 1020w.
“The author’s learning is successfully devoted to enabling the reader
to obtain a firm grasp of the events narrated rather than to
perplexing him with discussion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 220w.
“The narrative is well written and in this respect is superior to
several of the recent volumes of this series.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 456. Je. ’06. 200w.
“The remarkable feature of the book is its comprehensive brevity.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“While no more scholarly than Bury or Bristol, is more readable. There
are several other minor slips which detract from the pleasant
impression made by the book as a whole.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 330w.
“The sketch of the history of Greek literature seems inaptly tacked on
at the end of the book of which it is the least satisfactory part.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The narrative reads easily, and has the merits of a consecutive and
well-proportioned story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Shuckburgh’s volume was needed to supplement Professor Harrison’s
‘Greece’ in the ‘Story of the nations’ series, because the latter
volume covered so much ground that not any of it could be covered
thoroughly.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
“The book deserves a welcome on its own merits. It is an able and
scholarly production, and provides us with a very interesting sketch
of one of the most important periods of the world’s history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 337. Mr. 17, ’06. 900w.
=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3.
Dutton.
“The gifted writer ... presents, here, the results of much research in
out-of-the-way paths, and much plodding through old memoirs, documents
and books, which have received but little recognition from the
historians who have aimed at a comprehensive narrative of the times.
She has made good use of her materials.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 846. Mr. ’06. 380w.
“A book which will give great pleasure to a wide circle of readers.”
E. Armstrong.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 375. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Life and letters of Alfred Ainger. *$3.50.
Dutton.
The chief interest of this work is derived from the correspondence of
Canon Ainger with such men as Horace Smith, Du Maurier, Edmund Gosse,
Sidney Lee, Swinburne and others. There are chapters on the different
periods of his life, his literary work, his work as lecturer,
preacher, critic, his canonical duties, his humor, and his friendships
in literature.
* * * * *
“A charming biography of one of the few wits of our time.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 469. My. 19, ’06. 1670w.
“Miss Sichel has done her work well on the whole; in dealing with the
correspondence, however she has not always shown discretion. The
volume is furnished with a four-page ‘Index;’ from which the more
important topics and names appear to have been carefully excluded.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 325. S. 22. 1760w.
“Miss Sichel has given a vivid delineation of a winsome personality.
In evident sympathy with her subject, she writes in a way to enlist
the reader’s sympathy also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 83. Ag. 16, ’06. 1280w.
Reviewed by Henry C. Beeching.
+ + + =Living Age.= 250: 242. Jl. 28, ’06. 2730w.
“Miss Sichel has armed herself with so many documents, she has printed
such masses of correspondence, and quotations, and confirmatory
opinions, as almost to obscure the image she would evoke before us.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 178. My. 18, ’06. 2000w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.
“She might, too, have left a clearer-cut impression by more rigid
exercise of her editorial prerogatives in the matter of the
correspondence, not all of which seems worthy of preservation. Taken
as a whole, her volume is not an unworthy memorial.” H. Addington
Bruce.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 835. D. 1, ’06. 2810w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 370w.
=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur
Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
“Henry Sidgwick represented the most modern type of University
teacher, the type which is closely in touch with all sides of national
life and exercises an influence far beyond the lecture-room. He was a
distinguished professor, a successful administrator, a writer of good
books, but above all things he was a personality from whom radiated a
subtle attraction which many felt and few could wholly describe.... It
is almost impossible to reproduce for those who did not know him the
charm of his character and the peculiar distinction of his mind. His
books do not show it, and the tributes of friends are mere evidence
for what cannot be glibly summarized. On the whole, the editors of
this Memoir seem to have chosen the wisest path, and made their books
a series of extracts from his letters and journals, connected with the
bare minimum of narrative.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“This is a long and baffling life of an extremely interesting man. The
impression produced by the whole [is] one of commonplace.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 198. Mr. 3, ’06. 1370w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 383. Mr. 31. 2860w.
Reviewed by Wm. Everett.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 93. Jl. ’06. 2330w.
“Is of deep interest and value both to those who had the great
privilege of knowing him, and to others. It is perhaps not too much to
say that the book does not contain a page, or even a paragraph which
is not interesting.” E. E. C. Jones.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 208. O. ’06. 2360w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 78. Mr. 9, ’06. 2020w.
“Many of [the letters] are not greatly above the level of ordinary
epistolary communications, and may disclose little of what was
actually going on in their author’s life.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 471. Je. 7, ’06. 2130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 188. Mr. 24, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 332. O. 6, ’06. 2200w.
“Our only complaint is that in the earlier chapters there are too many
quotations so scrappy as to have little value, and too many examples
of what is a common stage of development in young men at college.
Throughout the book also there is a little too much University
politics. But, taken as a whole, the book is one of high value, and
absorbing interest.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 459. My. 24, ’06. 1930w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullman) (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Professor’s legacy.
†$1.50. Holt.
“It is better than most of its kind, in being rather carefully done,
the characters being drawn with a care that makes them seem real.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“An agreeable composition of nicely-adjusted parts.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“A very German story.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 350w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
Reviewed by E. A. Taylor.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 91. Ja. ’06. 480w.
“In fact so admirable is the form of these ‘Essays and addresses’ that
it is scarcely too much to say that they merited republication as
models of style quite apart from the undoubted timeliness of nearly
every one of the discussions which they contain.” Henry R. Seager.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 720. D. ’06. 970w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures
and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.
=Acad.= 70: 202. Mr. 3, ’06. 850w.
“The lectures on Kant, Green and Spencer contain an unusually clear
account of the most striking metaphysical doctrines of these
philosophers.” G. E. Moore.
+ + =Hibbert, J.= 4: 686. Ap. ’06. 2460w.
“He appears to be too apt to emphasize apparent contradictions,
without considering how far the changes in expression are due to the
development of the writer’s thought. Notwithstanding this defect,
however, there can be no doubt that the criticisms are extremely
valuable.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 261. Ja. ’06. 270w.
“Personally, I should, I think, be inclined to regard the lectures
which deal with the ‘analytic’ as the best, and those which discuss
the ‘antinomies’ as the weakest part of the course.” A. E. Taylor.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 214. Mr. ’06. 470w.
“From beginning to end his attitude is critical and destructive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 848. D. 30, ’05. 990w.
=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= On the field of glory: a historical novel of the
time of King John Sobieski; tr. from the Polish original by Jeremiah
Curtin. †$1.50. Little.
The scenes of Mr. Sienkiewicz’s latest story are laid in Poland during
the reign of King John Sobieski, just before the Turkish invasion in
1682 to 1683. It concerns the romance of Panna Anulka and Pan Yotsek,
an impecunious scion of a noble house. The guardian of the heroine, a
strong-headed Polish nobleman determines to marry his ward, but dies
on the eve of their betrothal. The fibre of the story is woven amid
brawls and duels, lawlessness, riot and drunkenness: yet on the plane
of this early barbarity are expressed fine notions of honor, loyalty
and patriotism which are elements in Poland’s spiritual harvest.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
=Arena.= 35: 558. My. ’06. 290w.
“The translation lacks ease, and must be called indifferent.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 240w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 263. My. ’06. 150w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 240w.
“Although the story has this background of patriotic expectancy, it is
in reality a story of private interest, a love-story of freshness and
charm, a story of strange manners and exciting adventures.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 250w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 590w.
“Whoever has read and liked Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical
romance is advised to read ‘On the field of glory.’ There is the
family likeness of authorship. The translation is made with Mr.
Curtin’s accustomed brilliancy, flecked by an occasional blur.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 600w.
“M. Sienkiewicz, unlike some lesser writers, does not find his great
powers trammeled by the telling of a thoroughly pure, healthful tale.”
M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has translated the book with his usual
faithfulness and sympathy with the author’s genius.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 30w.
“The action is rapid and the pictures veracious.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
“We cannot altogether concur in the eulogy of this historical novel
offered in the ‘Publisher’s preface.’ The translation runs easily.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
“The book is full of adventures related with all the author’s
picturesqueness of detail and vigour of outline; but the plot has no
very great coherence, and the story cannot be called very pleasant
reading.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 336. S. 8, ’06. 20w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Curayl. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Beatrice Curayl has married Sir William Goyte for his money and her
father’s convenience. She longs to break the bargain between herself
and her despised and despicable husband, but is restrained by the
advice of a stranger, Anthony Luttrell, who reminds her that ‘it is
not gentlemanly for either party to cry off.’ Then comes the epidemic,
and Sir William’s refusal to help the tenants drives Beatrice to offer
her personal assistance to the little band of volunteers who are
fighting the fever. She finds Luttrell in command, adored and obeyed
by all.... The developments of the finer side of Beatrice’s nature,
from the moment she realises that sordid motives alone prompted her to
marry Sir William to the end of her purgation show that Miss Silberrad
is capable of doing strong and skillful work, as wholesome as it is
clever.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Here, as in former novels, the author gives us pleasant proof of her
duality as a storyteller; but construction is not one of her strong
points.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w.
“This cannot, in the common acceptation of the term, be called a ‘good
story,’ because it has not the requirements—plentiful incident and
growing excitement.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 180w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 417. Je. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault lies in the excess of brutality—as far as artistic
effect is concerned—with which the unspeakable Sir William Goyt and
the equally detestable Delmar are endowed.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Were the character drawing more subtle we should not so much resent
the book’s stuffiness but it is for the most part superficial and
conventional.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 93. Mr. 16, ’06. 240w.
“Is a very good little novel of the minor order, and throughout holds
the interest.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 320w.
“‘Curayl’ the reader is inclined to believe, is a very superior novel,
but one which requires the most careful and thoughtful reading to be
appreciated fully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 294. My. 5, ’06. 400w.
“An ill-constructed plot.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 433. Ap. 7, ’06. 110w.
“The story is successful in as far as it engages the attention of the
reader, though, perhaps, a doubt may be permitted as to whether it is
quite up to the literary standard which Miss Silberrad has set for
herself in her previous work.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 230w.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
This complete edition of Mr. Sill’s poems, chronologically arranged,
makes its appearance in the “Household series” of standard English and
American poets.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“An edition of Edward Rowland Sill’s poems in a single inexpensive
volume has long been a desideratum. There may be some question about
the additions, for in case of a minor poet the half is commonly better
than the whole; there certainly can be no intelligent question about
the illustrations which were far better omitted.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18, ’06. 370w.
“In his desire to give us much of the as yet unpublished work the
editor has doubtless had in mind an edition for the student rather
than the lover of Sill. This is perhaps a mistake, for Sill will have
many lovers, but few students. His brief introductory note is a model
of sane criticism, written with becoming sympathy and regard.”
Christian Gauss.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 820. D. 1, ’06. 2070w.
=Sill, Louise Morgan.= In sun or shade. **$1.50. Harper.
The thought of infinite and invincible energy gives character to Mrs.
Sill’s poetry, whether it be the buoyancy of responsibility, the faith
of hero worship, the lessons of bird and flower, or the perfection of
love in its great limitless reaches. Whether in “sun or shade” she
urges mankind to live, to act.
* * * * *
“There is not a morally unwholesome line in her whole work. The book,
therefore, is one which the author may well feel proud of having
produced and the reader thankful to possess.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 266. My. ’06. 730w.
“We are indebted to her for much that is lovely, tender, and
charming,—and, often, for a wise note of womanly wisdom.” Edith M.
Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 218. S. ’06. 240w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Although there is much in her book that is rather dull, occasionally
... she strikes a fairly searching chord.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than
Louise Morgan Sill, and the poems are well arranged.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre.= Robert Louis Stevenson. *75c. Luce, J: W.
“A ten minute life of the novelist,” the second volume in the “Spirit
of the age series.” The illustrations are four portraits of Stevenson,
including the one painted by Count Nerli in Samoa.
* * * * *
=Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 20w.
“There is little new in Miss Simpson’s book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
=Simpson, Frederick Moore.= History of architectural development. 3v.
*$4. Longmans.
“Professor Simpson’s book ... is the first of three volumes destined
to treat of all the historic styles from Egyptian to the Renaissance,
and they are intended to form part of a new series of books on
architecture.... He deals exclusively with the great historic styles,
wisely leaving aside the mazes of Hindoo, Chinese, and other exotic
art. His work is an excellent example of the modern method of
regarding architectural history as a continuous whole.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Having studied all the authorities and weighed all the evidence, he
gives a well-reasoned and balanced opinion on each disputed point. The
book is therefore pre-eminently a safe guide for the beginner.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 930w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the most part we have sound criticism, forcibly set forth. Slips
are rare.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For reasonably mature beginners, who intend to make a serious study
of architecture, we know of no work which seems so well fitted to give
them a general view of the development of the subject without undue
time being spent on the aesthetical phases which can readily be
supplied by teachers or more fanciful books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 83. F. 10, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His writing is lucid and concise.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Simpson, W. J.= Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.
“He has not the pen of a vigorous and interesting writer, but, on the
whole, he has performed the task with judgment and skill; and his book
may be taken as a compendious statement of all that is known or
reasonably surmised about plague up to the present time.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 660w.
=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
“The story of the moral havoc wrought in the lives of men by a woman
without a heart.... An early novel in a new edition.” (Lit. D.)
“Audrey herself is a distinct creation, dominating the story even more
than is the wont of heroines. Beside her, her lovers are shadowy....
Having yielded her heart in rapid succession to the child of nature,
to the painter, to the writer, to the austere divine, she ends as the
wife of the dullard.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author is not without the defects of her qualities; and while
these do not seriously mar the beauty of her work as a whole, they are
not unapparent to critical admirers of an author whose novels may be
said to make waste paper of most of the fiction of a season.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 200w.
“While remarkable in quality, is immature. The interest of the story
never flags, but it has its thin places. The writer’s powers are well
in evidence, but not yet held firmly in hand.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 543. S. 1, ’06. 580w.
“While ‘Audrey Craven’ is not well rounded out and lacks breadth of
treatment and firm grasp on the reader’s attention, it shows very
clearly the intelligent quality and the subtle knowledge of character
that are applied in ‘The divine fire’ to a more complex play of motive
and action, and to a far more striking situation.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 120w.
“Lacks dramatic power and real human interest.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.
=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 72. Ja. ’06. 610w.
=Living Age.= 248: 730. Mr. 24, ’06. 610w. (Reprinted from
Edinburgh R.)
=Sinclair, May.= Superseded. $1.25. Holt.
Little Miss Quincey, the pathetic old-maid teacher of mathematics, who
has withered away under her daily drudgery and has never known youth
or life, is the real heroine of this sad little story altho the
personality of Rhoda, beautiful and brilliant, overshadows and
eclipses her, and altho happiness, love and her beloved Mr. Cautley
all pass her by. For “Nature has made up for any little extra outlay
in one direction by cruel pinching in another.... Nature had indulged
in Rhoda Vivian and she was making Miss Quincey pay.”
* * * * *
“Is one of the books which ought not to be missed.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 53. S. ’06. 290w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 207. S. ’06. 230w.
“There are real pathos in the book and considerable underlying humor.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4. ’06. 190w.
“She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and
human.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a
level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range,
substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale
told with the most delicate feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
=Sinclair, May.= Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.). $1.50. Dodge, B.
W.
“There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as
strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a
novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan
education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and
polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country
gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is
universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a
devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature.
For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His
return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity,
and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s
death in Africa.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark
Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.
“The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite
its faults.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 80w.
“The story, powerful as it is, is too ‘unpleasant’ to commend itself
to the wider reading public.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 600w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Chicago in its worst industrial phases is the scene of Mr. Sinclair’s
story. His hero is a sturdy Lithuanian who, with a little colony of
fellow countrymen, including the frail Ona whom he would wed, settles
in the Packingtown district. It is first as a wage-earner—the victim
of foremen’s immoral practices and of real estate sharks’
trickery—that Jurgis Rudkus struggles; worsted in his battle, and
yielding to exhaustion and hopelessness, he becomes a tramp, a common
thief, a highwayman, a beggar. Temporary respite comes with the
protection offered by a corrupt political machine whose bosses secure
him work. He looked out on “a world in which nothing counted but
brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the
subjugation of those who did not.” Finally the “saving grace” of
socialism is balm for his industrial grievances, and here the author
expatiates upon the salutary virtues of socialism.
* * * * *
“Is one of the strongest and most powerful voices of protest against a
great wrong that has appeared in America.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 651. Je. ’06. 5780w.
“It is a book that holds the attention by its vividness, earnestness,
and simplicity.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 240w.
“It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm;
and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their
cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so
naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted,
that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with
the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w.
– =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech
are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as
literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book
is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.
– – =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.
“Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely
exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The
jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w.
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.
“We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a
deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear
continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’
his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems
to write not from the heart but from the head.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.
“Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque
that we have in English fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 925. Je. ’06. 230w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s indictment of the employing classes would have been
more convincing if it were less hysterical.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s bias ... has led him to indiscretions of the head
rather than of the heart.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 870w.
“When a story reveals so much of artistic penetration and power as
does ‘The jungle’ one keenly regrets what seems like unfairness in
point of view. The very brutality of the book is likely to cause it to
be talked about.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 700w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“We are inclined to believe that more enlightenment is to be gained
from ‘The jungle’ than from Mr. Lawson’s ‘Frenzied finance.’”
+ =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 950w.
=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition
and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth
Higginson. **$1.50. Small.
“The over-zealous critic might point out many faults in the work. It
is not well-digested, there are some overstatements, and much padding
in the way of poetry and quotations from easily-accessible sources.
And yet the book is of great value. It is alive. It is throbbing.” W.
E. Burghardt Du Bois.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 520w.
“To the student of social problems the book is of great value, not as
a repository of facts, for the facts in it are badly warped, but
simply as a ‘human document.’ As voicing the sentiments, then, of the
class of influential negro radicals that book has a distinct value.”
Walter L. Fleming.
– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 344. Je. ’06. 540w.
=Singer, Hans W.= Dante Gabriel Rossetti. *$1. Scribner.
The life and art of Rossetti receive enthusiastic treatment in this
volume which also contains an account of Pre-Raphaelitism and a list
of Rossetti’s principal works in both public and private collections.
Reproductions of a dozen of his best pictures are given with a
portrait of the artist-poet.
* * * * *
“The sketch, in the main, contains several interesting observations
and some facts, but little that is new. It merely attempts to
popularize knowledge.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ – =Forum.= 38: 104. Jl. ’06. 330w.
“In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w.
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.
“The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”
– =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Singer, Hans W.= James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.
“This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the
absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin,
Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making
enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs,
etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to
critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory
of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to
enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of
pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and
present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of
praise is to be said.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
Miss Singleton’s “Holland” is a book of extracts compiled upon the
plan of her books on London, Paris, etc.—excerpts being taken from
prominent writers’ works. The book is divided into six parts, as
follows: The country and race, History, Descriptions, Manners and
customs, Painting and statistics.
* * * * *
“It gives us expert description and criticism.... is therefore an
admirable supplement to all the guide-books.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
=Skae, Hilda T.= Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“So many and so elaborately controversial have been most of the
numerous works recently published upon Mary Stuart, that it is hardly
possible not to welcome as a relief a little volume like this, which
takes a very great deal—including Mary’s essential goodness—for
granted, and tells the familiar old story in the spirit and language
of romance.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 40w.
– =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A narrative bringing out into strong relief the sentimental and
pathetic features is what she provides.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ’05. 390w.
“She has constructed a pleasant readable book which even Mariolaters
may find useful for reference purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ’05. 200w.
=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton.= Sicilian marriage. †$1.50. Pott.
“Mr. Sladen says: ‘To make my story exciting I have crowded it with
melodramatic events which really only come like angels’ visits.’ This
quotation is an adequate description of ‘A Sicilian marriage’ and a
characteristic example of Mr. Sladen’s style. His book is a fair
specimen of the guide-book novel, which sandwiches history with
love-scenes, and art-criticism with adventure.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The characters are like the incidents, stereotyped and familiar.”
– =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“A love story of much interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Sladen evidently knows a great deal about Sicily, but has not a
very fortunate manner of imparting his information.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
“The story proper is not interesting, and the descriptions of the
antiquities of Sicily would be really much more readable without the
personages who move, rather stiffly, among the temples and museums.”
– =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume will be found to contain a feast of good things for every
book collector.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 30w.
=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch.
*50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A monograph which discusses the circumstances under which Tyndale
gained his knowledge of Hebrew, the sources he used in his version of
the Pentateuch and to what extent his work was original, and the
influence his version exerted upon later translations and upon English
literature.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 11: 169. S. 16, ’06. 80w.
=Slattery, Margaret.= Talks with the training class; with introd. by
Patterson Du Bois. 60c. Pilgrim press.
These talks designed for the teacher-training department in the
Sunday-school are based upon the study of what the great teachers of
the ages have given us, upon personal influence in actual teaching,
and upon careful observation of the work for others.
* * * * *
“It contains nothing novel in interpretation, or even in statement,
but is brief, concise, and suggestive.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 74. S. ’06. 50w.
“The best manual for a training class we have seen.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, ’06. 190w.
“The best modern psychology is brought to bear on religious
instruction, with as much thoroness, coupled with good sense, as
characterizes the best text-books on pedagogy.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the
strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
Both the theoretical and experimental phases of the subject are here
presented making the work elementary enough for the use of students of
a junior grade in technical and engineering schools.
=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
Following a chapter in the “Development of the fern leaf” the author
treats of eighteen individual fern species, and devotes a double-page
illustration to each. The papers deal chiefly with the subject of
cell-growth and kindred phenomena. “They scarcely touch upon the
development of the form and venation of the leaf in each species, and
in its individual aspects only, without reference to its relation to
such development in other fern species.”
* * * * *
“We may confidently recommend the book to fern students.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 480w.
“The book is more of a contribution than its elaborate form would
suggest.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 496. D. ’06. 160w.
“Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed her subject, and some of
her discoveries no doubt throw light upon the phytology of the group.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 230w.
“While valuable particularly to technical botanists, the work will be
helpful to others.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.
“It is to be regretted that through no fault of her own the
nomenclature is open to criticism, but aside from the matter of names,
the book can be heartily recommended.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 86. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“This volume does not come within the popular scope but should have a
place on the shelves of the botanist’s working library.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 320w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology: an exposition of the main
development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. *$4.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“He has no system of his own to project, and therefore does not assail
the work of other men with a devastating criticism. The book may be
recommended to all who are not afraid to trust their today’s thinking
as against their yesterday’s thought.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 382. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“Viewed by individual sections or chapters, the volume contains much
of great value, particularly to the advanced student. Viewed as the
whole, the volume is less satisfactory. It will be of little service
to the beginner, for the style is involved and at times confusing.”
Carl Kelsey.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly
because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author
believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy
farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.
– =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.
“As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the
literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human
experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid
upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a
correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W.
Blackmar.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.
“His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the
advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared
thinker on sociological problems.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.
Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.
=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean
de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot
Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
“The new matter alone is nearly equal in volume to everything
heretofore published. [Major Chittenden’s] research work has been
thoro and fruitful.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 513. Mr. 1. ’06. 590w.
=Smiles, Samuel.= Autobiography. *$4. Dutton.
“This last word from one whose writings have had a world-wide
influence contains the features that gained instant popularity for its
predecessors and invested them with such weight—the homely and sound
philosophy, the appreciation of the possibilities of human nature, the
unfailing sympathy for all seeking to better their condition by honest
means, and the thorough readability.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Judiciously edited.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“He tells it very well, with a practised pen guided by a sane
and balanced judgment. It is an excellent autobiography,
characteristically vigorous, cheerful, encouraging and
wholesome.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 28. Ja. 26, ’06. 1270w.
“His autobiography is a decidedly dull book. As an account of the man
Smiles, except in this matter of vanity, the book is quite valueless.”
– =Nation.= 82: 83. Ja. 25, ’06. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 250w.
“His autobiography is, in fine, a delightful and significant human
document.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 330w.
=Sat. R.= 100: 551. O. 28, ’05. 1360w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25.
Century.
The work of one who understands the psychology of teaching. The first
four chapters deal in an introductory manner with the general
characteristics of chemical phenomena. The remainder of the text
treats elements and their compounds. “These chapters deal largely with
the simpler physical properties of matter and include a brief and
clear exposition of the utility of scientific method; following
closely are the usual methods of determining equivalents, use of
symbols and various simple calculations.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“He has certainly earned the gratitude of all teachers of chemistry in
the clear and masterly manner in which he has presented his subject.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 580w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The book is doubtless the very best of its kind and will be found to
be particularly strong on explanations in connection with the
hypothesis of ions.” W. O. Walker.
+ + =School R.= 14: 612. O. ’06. 650w.
“Is certainly a good book for good students, and as such is to be
heartily welcomed.” H. L. Wells.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 398. S. 28, ’06. 230w.
=Smith, Anna Harris=, ed. Longfellow calendar. **50c. Crowell.
A quotation from Longfellow for every day of the year.
=Smith, Charlotte Curtis.= Girls of Pineridge. †$1.50. Little.
All about an active band of girls, fast friends and loyal. Their
flower hunts, patch-work parties, cooking bees, etc. show what child
energy wholesomely directed can accomplish.
* * * * *
“The parrot ... that dovetails his remarks into the conversation so
that they are perfectly relevant spoils an otherwise natural story of
four wholesome little girls who are fond of nature and appreciate life
in the woods.”
– + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
=Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.
“This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life
of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned
digression.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Tides of Barnegat. †$1.50. Harper.
A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr.
Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal,
fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of
happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the
child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid
heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its
characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door
atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.
* * * * *
“A painstaking study of feminine character.”
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.
“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty
years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K.
Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.