most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of
his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the
pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for.
The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the
narrative.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.
“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in
most of his other novels.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with
less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most
ripe of the novels.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his
delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned
in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 507. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
=Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 290w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
“It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a
creditable manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 270w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an
adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 90w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 170w.
“Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic,
always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is
the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest
charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of
the heart.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 410w.
“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light
reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those
who care to seek for them.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a
meditative hour.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been
gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at
Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s
observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his
pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and
music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life
in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic
view.
* * * * *
“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his
Parisian sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“A book notable for sprightliness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”
– =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books
either in smartness or in verity.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 627. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.
=Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as
interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it
is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof.
Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a
line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 890w.
“Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and
loosely written.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 720w.
“Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always
freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a
thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it
in a more than usually interesting way.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1080. D. 30, ’05. 1090w.
=Smith, Gertrude.= Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.
Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who
lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had
to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the
big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls
and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.
* * * * *
“Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are
the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection
of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.
Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’
contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical
subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief
and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he
believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 84: 105. O. ’06. 400w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 85. Ag. 16, ’06. 60w.
=Nation.= 82: 494. Je. 14, ’06. 1480w.
=Outlook.= 83: 264. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 633. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 898. Je. 9, ’06. 1940w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= Irish history and the Irish question. **$1.50.
McClure.
“An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up
to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from
the earliest times, politically and historically of England and
Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day
conditions.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent.
It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of
the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general
characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books,
but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good
in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.”
Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.
“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in
his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w.
=Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.
“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the
Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be
accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish
question.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.
“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical
study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question
lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no
quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The
concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish
barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place
in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist
newspapers.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.
“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually
misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive
statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout
strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly
anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.
“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant
exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been
written.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’08. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1014. Je. 30. ’06. 400w.
=Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith).= Living in the
sunshine. **$1. Revell.
Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their
religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of
his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.”
And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the
religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and
comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is
declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”
* * * * *
“This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
=Smith, Lewis Worthington.= In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut
st., Des Moines, la.
A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying,
Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white
czar, The violin.
* * * * *
“Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 350w.
=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25.
Badger, R. G.
There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the
conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.
* * * * *
“There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the
little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 440w.
=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk,
Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
“The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his
historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that
tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some
others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard
Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives
a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including
much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a
contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s
introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of
the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.”
(Putnam’s.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 574. S. 15, ’06. 430w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 100w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking.
$1.50. Page.
A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize
yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of
sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their
“Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 90w.
=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke
of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester,
seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 645. Ap. ’06. 1710w.
=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
“Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will
be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has
accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to
excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.”
E. J. Rapson.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 136. Ja. ’06. 590w.
=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.
“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the
continuance of the social separation between the races in the South,
and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for
maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where
he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability
of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the
early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it
is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific
theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.
“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this
impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.
=Smyth, H. Warington.= Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.
An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the
title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good
share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to
come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate
knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and
sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts
of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick
observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the
efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will
linger, comparing and contrasting.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.
“‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht
designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more
technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the
initiated.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 393. My. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject
treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully
illustrated.” W. H. White.
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 536. Ap. 5, ’06. 1030w.
“In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to
appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of
the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest
unsurpassed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 1520w.
“This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 30Ow.
+ =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added
outlining the progress made during the five years since the book
appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author
discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second,
some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several
arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent
undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the
movement which has led to the intervention of the United States
government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.
* * * * *
“The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical
makeup.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 316. Mr. 15, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his
extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so
handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to
last.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 259. F. 17, ’06. 100w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 453. My. 31, ’06. 1740w.
“As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves
fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past
few years.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 280w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 110w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Constructive democracy: the economics of a
square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in
this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a
peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a
clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the
justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor
who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman
whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures
her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of
debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him
an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and
sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is
passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident
that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the
prison cell.
* * * * *
“It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking
scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives
great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to
exert it.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 420w.
“Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece
in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor
key.” Charlotte Caxton.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 272. N. ’06. 1600w.
“The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that
strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so
arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, ’06. 660w.
“However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due
to a thing of crude force.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 680w.
“A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once
begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with
a shuddering protest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
“It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be
ranked with the author’s earlier book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 40w.
=Snell, Frederick John.= Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1.
Macmillan.
The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the
period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the
poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.
* * * * *
“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s
judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can
take no harm from accepting his opinions.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may
correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact
historians.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.
“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to
study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the
reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what
is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.
“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all
instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has
managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating
itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age
of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a
guide for the period that it treats.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.
“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always
fortunate.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed
indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or
reader.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30. ’05. 350w.
=Snyder, Harry.= Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an
appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by
experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is,
‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.
* * * * *
“There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together
with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the
book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue
form.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 540w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 180w.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.
“It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is
praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the
arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F.
Hoxie.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 668. N. ’06. 590w.
Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 143. Mr. ’06. 940w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis
Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
“Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on
‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great
amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and
written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The
school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national
life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on
social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable
collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 426. N. 06. 280w.
=Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 131. O. ’06. 1850w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume
contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.
+ =Nature.= 74: 29. My. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with
narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are
syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide
generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any
rate, is always practical.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 210. Ag. 18, ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of the early Christian literature:
the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by
Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
“As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a
spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held
to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical
questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive,
but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or
advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 720. O. ’06. 910w.
“Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 120w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time
well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful
to the average Bible student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 150w.
=Sollas, William Johnson.= Age of the earth, and other geological
studies. *$3. Dutton.
A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at
Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest
hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of
primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of
much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with
brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even
the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 473. O. 7. 1220w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 390w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 250w.
“The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all
manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial
is foreign to the subject of geology.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 513. Mr. 29, ’06. 1060w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 424. Mr. 17, ’06. 1130w.
=Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks).= Under the arch.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at
Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with
the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where
titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at
the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing
experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums,
strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady
Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be
regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her
canvas.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.
“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.
“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for
character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is
also well done.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.
=Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.= Francis Hopkinson, the first American
poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two
studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of
Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A very important contribution to the history of American music and
will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.”
Louis C. Elson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 419. Ja. ’06. 550w.
=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de
Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 180w.
“It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a
complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into
the Southern United States.” E. H.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 825. O. ’05. 690w.
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie
R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 849. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children
of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and
their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial
suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing,
respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child,
remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children.
The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study
of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on
‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter;
it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children....
Chapter III of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably
the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory
boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many.
As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of
infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection
of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by
Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors,
editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or
education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and
facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.
“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.
“Rather painfully interesting study.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.
“No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of
pulses that have never stirred before.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 868. Ap. 12, ’06. 1080w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the
turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no
one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 340w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 271. Mr. 3. ’06. 1090w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 160w.
=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist
principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo
offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to
state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does
not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little
volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the
world to-day.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer
could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr.
Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as
instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology
which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader,
yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 693. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 628. O. 6, ’06. 2150w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most
treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to
current discussion.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 540w.
“Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 90w.
=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Whispering Smith. †$1.50. Scribner.
A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the
northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman
of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair,
dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and
pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men,
after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is
essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love
interest.
* * * * *
“The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action
rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to
finish.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 160. O. ’06. 1040w.
“It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is
much to be learned from the book.”
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 568. S. 15, ’06. 880w.
“It is full of action and not without originality.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 20w.
“We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our
reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of
our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering
Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both
consciences and tastes in this matter.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 260w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
“In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed
among the best books of its kind.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
=Spelling, Thomas Carl.= Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.
From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a
“conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in
his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big
business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has
looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery
wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of
conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects
him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial
action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated
remedies.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious
consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their
country.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 240w.
“A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward
Cary.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 870w.
=Spender, R. E. S.= Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging
that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa
a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned
men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be
suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in
Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to
much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in
satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young
and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1230. N. 25, ’05. 250w.
“On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ’05. 360w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language
by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.
A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for
young readers.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit
of the poem.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Una and the red cross knight and other tales from
Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by
F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.
The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional
interspersions of the verses.
* * * * *
“Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will
interest old and young readers equally.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ’05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ’05. 290w.
“A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell
some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for
children’s reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
=Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway.
*$6.50. Putnam.
“These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly,
sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the
requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr.
Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal
friendship.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 23. Ja. 6. 1270w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 430w.
“On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt
tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 119. Ja. 27, ’06. 960w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 15. Ja. 4, ’06. 2080w.
“This is a sympathetic biography.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.
=Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford).= Old
Washington. †$1.50. Little.
Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes
the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving
breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old
woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the
lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room
sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception
halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters
which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department
clerks and politicians.
* * * * *
“Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and
society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more
years ago.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.
“As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her
imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of
material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style
that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her
stories pleasant diversion indeed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time
characterize these tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.
“Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as
surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.
=Sprague, John Francis.= Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.
A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who
devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the
banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 749. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of
view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of
historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the
possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 112. O. ’06. 490w.
=Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.
=Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon.= Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes;
arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20.
Funk.
For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes
with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the
compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which
Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings
as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion,
Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them
easy of access.
* * * * *
“The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special
subject can be readily found.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 80w.
“No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition
under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting
by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 230w.
=Spyri, Johanna.= Moni the goat boy, and other stories tr. from the
German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.
There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which
make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals,
and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience
was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not
want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when
you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be
stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the
story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.
=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to
Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50 Scribner.
“It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the
scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to
assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following
have merely conjectured.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 9. Ja. 6. 1010w.
“It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology
as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the
mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the
ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose
satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64
full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.
A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley
depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether
lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk
of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality
that the volume should have a firmly established place on the shelves
of the student desiring a general view of the period.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 70w.
“A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
=Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 50w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.
The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the
Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the
trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so
thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected
history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put
forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the
omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and
industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves
are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The
five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the
life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their
patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography,
chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely
illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine
woodcuts.
* * * * *
“It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth
defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and
irritating to read.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 40w.
“It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of
the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”
– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 555. N. 3. 1450w.
“In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that
arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways.
Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the
dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere
figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 371. D. ’06. 1420w.
“In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers,
saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very
life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a
history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of
social manners and customs.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 91. N. ’06. 500w.
“When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and
clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what
he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real
information never is—he is by no means so happy.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 294. Ag. 31. ’06. 2010w.
“From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with
mistakes.”
– =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20, ’06. 630w.
“A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a
valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her
history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources
difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth
having for its pictures alone.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 367. S. 15, ’06. 1680w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael
Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
“We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric
characterizations of the great painter.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9. ’06. 280w.
=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.
Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife
and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both
sunshine and shadow.
=Stamey, De Keller.= Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.
Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home,
children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.
=Standing, Percy Cross.= Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.
This biography has been written under the sanction and practical
co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his
career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises
the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces
from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they
have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and
study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the
power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.
* * * * *
“He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of
Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”
– + =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself
would have the world know.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 1020w.
=Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21. ’06. 60w.
=Standish, Winn.= Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.
Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston
Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story
published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school
eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him
against the deep treachery that a
* * * * *
“Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of
their teens and a little older.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 90w.
=Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley).= Modern Madonna. †$1.50.
Century.
Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia,
which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn
child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret,
after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds
that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her
husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a
brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and
tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel
law repealed.
* * * * *
“An interesting and readable novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 672. O. 13, ’06. 330w.
“A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much
literary grace.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other
writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that
consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.”
William Garrott Brown.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 701. Ap. ’06. 1160w.
“Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him
occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the
large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De
Wolfe Howe.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and
one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality,
insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 513. Ja. ’06. 1570w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 540w.
“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet
the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told,
furnishes a stirring narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 380w.
“The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a
biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s
astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those
whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.
– =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 459. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the
general series to which it belongs.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 141. F. 15, ’06. 2620w.
=Starr, Louis.= Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.
The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and
feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management
of the ordinary emergencies of early life.
=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the
introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by
special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of
the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made
the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples
taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign
countries.
* * * * *
“The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having
produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for
engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the
fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 409. Ag. 23, ’06. 1420w.
=Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50.
Lane.
“The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The
work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that
have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the
libraries of all thoughtful people.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 285. Mr. ’06. 3950w.
“Viewed as a manual of plausible and often valuable information, the
book is a welcome addition to the library on Japan: but to take Mr.
Stead’s statements on their face value is to accept a fabric of
delusion.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 1210w.
+ – =Westminster R.= 164: 609. D. ’05. 1110w.
=Stealey, O. O.= Twenty years in the press gallery. $5. O. O. Stealey,
1421 G St., Washington, D. C.
A concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th
congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the
interesting and impressive incidents; impressions of official and
political life in Washington. There is an introduction contributed by
Mr. Henry Watterson in which he alludes to the seamy side of a
Washington correspondent’s experiences and to the side that makes the
life endurable.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 80w.
“He has a sunny, gossipy, conversational way of writing that leaves no
wounds. And it is evident that he suppresses the unkind things he
might say. The chief defect of the book is the suppression of the
author’s personality. He tells too little of what he himself has seen
and known of public men.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 433. Jl. 7, ’06. 1060w.
=Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie Webster.= Book of mortals: being a record of
the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call
the lower animals. $3. Macmillan.
“Reproductions of great paintings of animals have been published in
attractive typographical form with a story written around them.” (R.
of Rs.) “The book is divided into three parts—‘What our fellow-mortals
are,’ ‘What animals have done for man,’ and ‘What our fellow-mortals
are doing.’ In the first part the author shows the similarity of the
ways of the ‘beasts that perish’ and those of mortals; Part 2, is
given over to a few animal legends and tales of animal symbolism which
have been interwoven with the history of the human race, while the
third division concerns itself with the ways in which, day by day,
hour by hour, they (our ‘fellow mortals’) make the life of each of us
pleasurable, profitable—nay, more! possible.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author’s is a hopelessly sentimental view, but she is very much
in earnest, and pleads her case with eloquence and with the address of
an advocate.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 263. Mr. 3. 440w.
“There are both humor and kindliness in the writing of this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“Perhaps the secret of the unsatisfactory and somewhat mystifying
effect of the work is due to the fact that she writes not like one but
as two distinct persons.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 696. Je. 2, ’06. 1130w.
=Steffens, Joseph Lincoln.= Struggle for self-government: being an
attempt to trace American political corruption to its sources in six
states of the United States, with a dedication to the czar. **$1.20.
McClure.
In this volume the author of “The shame of the cities,” “describes the
government in six of our states in the direction of a return to the
political cleanliness of former times. It is the general movement
against bossism, of which the elections of 1905 gave many cheering
indications. Mr. Steffens’ account of what has been accomplished in
Ohio, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri is full of
encouragement to friends of popular government in other states.” (R.
of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate, however, that Mr. Steffens, with so commendable a
purpose, should adopt in his writing a tone of arrogance and a
disinclination to restraint in his use of the picturesque. It is
difficult at times to overlook this fault, and to keep in mind that
the author’s object is truth rather than sensationalism.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“If there is any serious fault to be found with this book it is a
fault of style rather than of substance.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 19. Jl. 5, ’06. 600w.
“A specimen of workmanlike journalism rather than literature. Its
value is of the moment, for there is no trace of the learning and
insight which distinguish and give permanent worth to treatises like
Bryce’s or De Tocqueville’s.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 487. Ag. 4, ’06. 850w.
“We wish Mr. Steffens’s words were as sound and persuasive as they are
courageous.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 190w.
=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.
“The booklet gives about as good a picture of a complicated and wide
subject as could be given in such limited space, and some further
minor criticisms would not alter this judgment.” W. Max. Müller.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 868. Jl. ’06. 890w.
“It would be impossible to gain anything like a clear idea of the
individual Egyptian deities from Steindorff’s book, which is, perhaps
necessarily, sketchy and some what superficial.” L. H. Gray.
– + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 370w.
“As to the value of what Professor Steindorff has given us, there can
be but one judgment. It is interesting in manner, and constructed on
the best plan of advanced scholarship.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 120. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“Prof. Steindorff’s lectures are comparatively comprehensive of all
the light we have on Egyptian religion, set forth in popular and
readable but distinctly scholarly terms.” Ira Maurice Pike.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The most reliable, readable, and sane treatment of the religion of
Egypt which has appeared.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 290w.
=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
Humanity and individual responsibility pulsate thru the pages of Mr.
Steiner’s earnest statement of the immigrant problem. The work is
offered as the result of careful study the author having been a
steerage passenger himself, first out of necessity, and later, for the
sake of a close range inquiry. He says that a new gigantic race is
being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a race whose
immigrant element is primitive, uncultured, untutored, with all the
virtues and vices in the making. “They are the best material with
which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in
replenishing physical depletion: and capable of taking on the highest
intellectual and spiritual culture.” Yet he admits that they are a
serious problem.
* * * * *
“Dr. Steiner is a capital story-teller also, and enlivens his chapters
with anecdote and incident. The book cannot fail to afford excellent
material for the use of students of immigrant problems.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 90w.
=Step, Edward.= Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.
“Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is
full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where
they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a
book of this description which is intended for the general reader
rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the
flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some
five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with
plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with
inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and
the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The
volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.
* * * * *
“While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting
descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it
is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing,
with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous
sallies.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.
+ =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 330w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.
“A spirited and fairly-well written romantic love-story.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11. ’06. 350w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Stephens, Thomas=, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.
Reviewed by Robert R. Rusk.
+ =Hibbert J.= 4: 455. Ja. ’06. 1860w.
“Offers much attractive and suggestive material.” M. Mackenzie.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.
“Few volumes will do so much to supply the student of Shakespeare with
what is necessary for visualizing not only the background of the life
of the poet, but also the background present to the minds of him and
his audience in many of his plays.” William Allen Neilson.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 520w.
“We could wish that Professor Stephenson’s book might commend itself
as certainly to the lover of good letters as to the lover of history.
Its style is hardly worthy of its theme.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 89. F. 1, ’06. 1330w.
“The curious matter is its own and best excuse for being, and the
rarity of the forty odd illustrations adds, also, to the book’s
value.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 330w.
=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.
“The author has very much idealized the characters of both Shakespeare
and Anne Hathaway, but she has succeeded in writing a most delightful
tale.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“The tale has been told in a quaint, old-fashioned atmosphere that
cannot but be pleasing.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“In many respects the story is a pleasing bit of fancy and can not but
win the reader.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.
“The story is told in quaint literary style, and the author has fairly
succeeded in doing what she set out to do—in suggesting the rhythm of
Shakespeare’s own poetry.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics.
**$2. Macmillan.
“The author of these essays in apologetics is an impassioned pleader
for religious conformity. Professor Sterrett is in greater sympathy
with Loisy than with Protestant thinkers.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 373. Ap. ’06. 1770w.
“If the book offers the technical philosopher little material and few
view-points that are new, yet here much that is not new receives
virile, suggestive, stimulating treatment. Its logic is robust, but to
a comprehensive survey it does not always appear discriminating and
convincing.” E. L. Norton.
– – =J. Philos.= 3: 239. Ap. 26, ’06. 2160w.
“It is not very well put together and sometimes declamation is offered
as a substitute for patient criticism. There is a good deal of mere
repetition. In my opinion, he propounds a much truer and sounder
philosophical standpoint for the interpretation of Christianity than
one finds in those whom he criticises.” J. A. Leighton.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 338. My. ’06. 590w.
=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50.
Scribner.
“The aim of this work is ‘to present a biblical, historical, and
constructive discussion of the doctrine of salvation.’ It is therefore
in the field of systematic theology, but approaches its problems
distinctly from the historical side, through biblical theology,
distinguishing between the different conceptions held by different
biblical writers, and between the temporary and the permanent in their
thought.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“There are several points in the book which, did space permit, might
furnish matter for criticism. But these do not seriously affect the
main argument.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 1210w.
“This magnificent piece of work is entitled to a hearty reception, for
it not only abounds in rich and suggestive ideas, but it is also full
of religious inspiration.” George Cross.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 747. O. ’06. 2390w.
“Prof. Stevens’s work is a notable addition to our modern theological
literature. It is marked by lucidity in its historical presentations
and acuteness in its criticisms; and there is evidence of the author’s
acquaintance with recent books on his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s
hand.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment.
The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ
is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our
thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state: being an account of
certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the
land of windmills; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.
A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a
poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction
of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the
proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business
methods result in large patronage and among the guests are
diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession
to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and
misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.
* * * * *
“The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part
of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no
small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at
the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Fails to hold the interest or stimulate the curiosity.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 10w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Girl with the blue sailor. [+]1.50. Dodd.
“A young newspaper man, going upon his first real vacation since he
left college, gets involved with an old college chum and the college
chum’s bride upon their honeymoon, and entangled also with an
interesting family consisting of a pompous papa, and affected mamma,
and four charming unmarried daughters. All of them are guests at the
same mountain tavern. The girl in the blue sailor also comes there....
First are jests Inspired by the presence of the bride and groom, then
matchmaking plots, picnics, boating expeditions, sparkling
conversations with rather frequent quotations from Browning. In the
very midst of it the young newspaper man gets sent to South Africa,
where he makes an immense name as a war correspondent. After several
years he comes back after his reward.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
– =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“A very college boyish and amateurish love story.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 361. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.
“Slight but rather pretty summer romance.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.
=Stevenson, Burton E., and Elizabeth B.=, comps. Days and deeds; a book
of verse for children’s reading and speaking. **$1. Baker.
Significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great
Americans has been grouped in this volume for use in schools and in
the family. To this have been added a short anthology of the seasons,
and eight lyrics that every child should know, including “The
chambered nautilus,” Kipling’s “L’envoi,” “Abou Ben Adhem,” etc.
* * * * *
“This should prove a very useful book for schools.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
=Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret Isabella (Balfour).= Letters from Samoa,
1891–1895, ed. and arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour. *$2. Scribner.
“The second and last instalment of these letters written by the mother
of Stevenson during her journeys to Samoa and her life in his
household there up to her return home after his death. All lovers of
the man will be interested in them from their connection with the last
years of his life, and no less for their personal charm and wit
combined with sterling commonsense. They show that mother and son were
in many respects alike—in their patience and fortitude in suffering as
well as in their intellectual qualities and tastes.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“This last batch of letters is always interesting, although Vailima
was but a little world and life there much of a muchness day after
day. Nor is anything described in these letters that is new to us.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 426. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
“Had the letters contained anything noteworthy, either for its own
sake, or as illustrative of Stevenson’s character or genius, they
would have been welcome.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 340w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Though the motive in publishing the book may have been the desire to
preserve some record of Mrs. Stevenson, it is quite certain that the
only motive in reading it will be the desire to press still further if
that is possible into the intimacies of her son’s life.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 103. Mr. 23, ’06. 650w.
“No more delightful book about Stevenson has been published since his
death, and it is a moral tonic as well.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 371. S. 15, ’06. 300w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50.
Scribner.
“Stevenson’s delicate cameos of childhood have found a most apt
interpreter who has a style of her own with a curious charm.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 90w.
“One of the most attractive forms in which this most delightful book
about children has appeared.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.
=Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull.= Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.
A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work
that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows:
Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian,
Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.
* * * * *
“Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous
poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of
form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon
with.”
– =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that
nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of
his verse.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Stiefel, H. C.= Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage
by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil
City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.
“A minimum of information about some of the industries of the
Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip
and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise.
The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may
be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.).= In cure of her soul.
†$1.50. Appleton.
The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of
events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who
married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can
love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to
sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife,
meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the
admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set,
into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united
on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument
against divorce.
* * * * *
– =Bookm.= 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.
“With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of
construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few
genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that
its like were more common.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.
“In failing to work out this problem psychologically, the author has
missed a great opportunity, and to a certain extent disappointed us in
the expectations which might reasonably be based upon the title he has
chosen for his work.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16. ’06. 480w.
“Whether or not Mr. Stimson wrote his latest book keeping pace with a
serial, it has faults which a serial form imposes. The lessons of the
book are mainly noble ones developed with much generous interpretation
of motive, much poetic breadth of vision.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Excision and compression would have added greatly to the value of a
striking book.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 720w.
“It lacks a certain vitality which makes some stories popular, a
certain brilliancy of touch or definiteness of characterization which
carries other stories to great audiences; but it is a clean, clear,
strong piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 801. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.
=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and
the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 50. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50.
Lothrop.
“The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we
all need.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.
=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50.
Macmillan.
Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from
first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality
potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender,
imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-
* * * * *
“Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here,
at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the
gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in
the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his
art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards
the contemporary dramatist.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.
“Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is
conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided
want of the sense of proportion.”
– =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.
“This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant
lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 367. D. ’06. 1120w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.
“His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character
to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous
men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the
incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render
the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.
“The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of
first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his
line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally
records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
“‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to
show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says
Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal
reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this
extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.
“It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry
Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as
has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always
amiable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.
“Other shortcomings there are in these volumes besides the failure to
make known to us the real Irving—Irving the man as distinguished from
Irving the actor. But, after all is said, this is a book to be
grateful for, a book that will be of deep interest to gentlemen of
‘the profession,’ and an important contribution to the history of the
English stage.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 713. N. 24, ’06. 860w.
“Within the limitations laid down for himself by the author, however,
the work is brimful of interest as a contribution not only to the
history of the technical advance of the stage during half a century,
but to that of its social rise as well.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 280w.
=Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, and Fickett, Mary Grace.= Days and deeds of a
hundred years ago. *35c. Heath.
Under the headings: Two heroes of a “Far old year” (1780), From
Massachusetts to Ohio (1787), The inauguration of Washington (1789),
The story of the cotton gin (1793), The Parkers’ moving and settling
(1798), The success of Robert Fulton (1807), A canal journey (1826),
Kindling a fire (1828), A railroad story (1830), The electric
telegraph (1844), are told stories of a hundred years ago which will
make those days seem real to the children of today.
=Stoner, Burton.= Squeaks and squawks from far-away forests: a sequel to
Jim Crow tales; il. by C: Livingston Bull. $1. Saalfield.
All about the first, second and third floor dwellers in White oak
castle—which, unshorn of its romance, is a plain old oak tree. The
animals and birds that tenant it furnish bits of wisdom and
entertainment for juveniles.
=Strang, Herbert.= Brown of Moukden: a story of the Russo-Japanese war;
il. by W. Rainey. †$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Strang’s story is “an exciting narrative reciting the adventures
of an English youth—Jack Brown—the son of a British merchant doing
business in Moukden at the outbreak of the recent war between Russia
and Japan.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Herbert Strang may be congratulated on another first-rate book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 720. N. 25. 100w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“The fault of the story is that it is too long, and, to tell the
truth, is sometimes tedious. Yet there is more good matter in it than
in most of the kind.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ’05. 150w.
“A good story for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 510w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 761. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“Is certainly a success.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 791. N. 18, ’05. 810w.
=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O.
and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
While in the main it is the botanist who studies his flowers for the
reader’s benefit, yet in more than plants does he use his powers of
observation. Descriptions of people, their surroundings, and the
changes that the seasons make in both are to be found in the book, as
well as intimate knowledge of the local flora. The illustrations
reproduce almost every plant presented in the text.
* * * * *
“One’s interest in his luxuriously printed and illustrated book is
primarily scientific.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“As a writer, he is a true impressionist, making some times a single
line or a touch of color tell a long story. This record then, is an
attractive, as well as sound guide-book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 740w.
“This luxurious—one might truly say luxuriant—book is pre-eminently
the work of a scientific mind which would remove itself as far as
possible from reposeless, useless, pleasure-seeking modern life and
find rest and acquire knowledge in a contemplation of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 670w.
“Does for the Riviera something of the service that Mr. Thomas’s
[‘Heart of England’] does for England.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Dr. Strasburger suggests a pursuit which would give novel zest to the
walks of the dilettante sojourner.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 711. D. 8, ’06. 910w.
=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men.
**$1. Fox.
+ =Critic.= 48: 384. Ap. ’06. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8. ’06. 70w.
=Streatfeild, Richard A.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.
In this volume the author has made studies of most of the greater
composers from the time of Palestrina to the present day, attempting
to trace the growth of the idea of a poetic basis in music.
* * * * *
“Our author—somewhat impulsive, and ... not always charitable—may now
and again irritate us, but there is more to be learnt from him than
from one who follows custom, and therefore displays little or no
individuality.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 702. D. 1. 850w.
“On the whole, his criticisms are temperate and judicial, albeit at
times the bias of an English point of view is discoverable. His style,
though not polished, is especially easy, flowing and serviceable.”
Lewis M. Isaacs.
– – =Bookm.= 24: 271. N. ’06. 840w.
“The whole volume seems to want a great deal of revision. It shows
much reading and some research, it is well presented, with good
illustrations and a good index, but it deals too lightly with a set of
problems which, after all, are the most difficult in all musical
criticism.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 800w.
“There is a good deal that is insular in Mr. Streatfeild.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 399. N. 8, ’06. 660w.
“It is unfortunate that theories and prepossessions have taken so firm
a hold of a writer who presents himself so authoritatively to the
musical public as Mr. Streatfeild.” Richard Aldrich.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 930w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 200w.
“It Is a volume which may well be entitled to occupy an honoured place
on the shelf of the book-lover, and which will make its appeal, as the
reflection of a cultivated and catholic mind, far beyond the limited
circle of English musicians.” Harold E. Gorst.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 392. S. 29, ’06. 1680w.
=Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot;
with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“The whole history is simply and interestingly told.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“It is of specific value as a local history, but it includes much that
is beyond the range of its title.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 520w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
A story of greed end craft and a goodly amount of implied electrical
information. Two people, an electrical inventor, and an English girl,
by force of unusual circumstances play in a game of chance side by
side under the direction of a bookmaker ogre who attempts by
wiretapping to beat a pool-room in New York City. “Yet there is in it
a plot, or the suggestion of a plot, that might have served Ibsen. In
its earlier chapters it develops a posture of events on which a
‘psychological’ novelist or dramatist could have builded a powerful
work.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a whole this novel is one of the most original, interesting and
suggestive romances of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 217. Ag. ’06. 790w.
“Quite as clever in its way as Mr. Hornung’s ‘Raffles’ stories.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 642. Ag. ’06. 420w.
“The story is exciting, but the morale is unqualifiedly bad.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 80w.
“Although this story is about as immoral in its tendencies as any that
we have ever read the crimes which it deals with are so ingeniously
contrived as to prove remarkably interesting.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 280w.
“The book is at once action and life, virile and alluring. It grips,
and remains a pleasant memory.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 690w.
“We care much less for the characterization than for the incidents and
the felicitous handling that gives them the semblance of reality.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Ingenious story.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16. ’06. 90w.
=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu.
†$1.50. McClure.
“Mrs. Strong’s story is of the slightest, but it leaves you with a
cheerful sense of having lately picnicked in some pleasant spot where
a perpetual sun shone with pure benevolence.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress: a year book and encyclopedia of
economic, industrial, social and religious statistics, 1906. **$1.
Baker.
“Social progress” for this present year directly aids the Department
of international social information of the American institute of
social service in its aim to create an exchange of thought and
knowledge between the workers and students in all departments of
social activity around the world. It takes its place in statistical
value with the statesman’s year book, the census abstract, and the
metropolitan almanacs.
=Stuart, Charles Duff.= Casa Grande. †$1.50. Holt.
Casa Grande is the California ranch house of a young Southerner who,
in the early fifties, was forced into a serious struggle to make good
his title to an unconfirmed Mexican grant in the Sonoma valley. The
eviction of the squatters, who would neither sell their improvements
nor buy his land, brings him in contact with Belle, a spirited young
girl of true frontier type, adored by the sheriff, her family and
dogs. In the course of the events which follow, Belle is mellowed into
a truly womanly woman and, laying aside gunpowder and an explosive
temper becomes the mistress of Casa Grande.
* * * * *
“Mr. Stuart goes quietly to work to draw a romantic environment and
succeeds in placing in it a number of people who, like volcanoes
smolder without exploding until the right time comes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 320w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 110w.
=Stubbs, Charles William.= Christ of English poetry: being the Hulsean
lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1904–5. **$2.
Dutton.
Dr. Stubbs calls four poets representing four periods in English
history to witness to the personality of Christ. They are Cynewulf,
Langland, Shakespeare and Browning. Some of the poems of each man are
analyzed and there have been added full explanatory notes to each
lecture.
* * * * *
“The Christianity of these lectures is a little too vague and
indefinite to be either historically true or practically valuable.
This is not to deny that the argument of the lecturer is often clever,
and that contact with a spirit so tolerant, so hopeful, so
appreciative of the best in English life, is refreshing and
delightful.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“They exhibit the preacher’s inevitable limitations. The most serious
of these is the determination to force an edifying conclusion out of
matter which in fact refuses to provide one. Many interesting things
are said and quoted, both in the lectures and in the notes: but the
book as a whole must be admitted to be a disappointment.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 102. Mr. 23, ’06. 840w.
“It is a keen intellectual pleasure to read these scholarly and most
graceful discourses, stimulating as they are to our own thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 449. Mr. 24, ’06. 1640w.
=Stubbs, Rev. Charles William.= Story of Cambridge; il. by Herbert
Railton. $2. Macmillan.
The Dean of Ely’s work belongs to the “Mediaeval town series” and
tells the reader “what Cambridge was in the past, how it grew
materially and spiritually, and what it is now.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 544. My. 5. 70w.
“The book is somewhat dry reading, rather a book of reference.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27. ’06. 110w.
“This little book is a handy guide to the university town.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.
“His style is not attractive; but everything he knows about town and
university is placed at your service, you may help yourself.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 75. F. 3, ’06. 600w.
“Dean Stubbs knows his Cambridge at first hand, and, what is as
important, knows also how to write.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 110w.
“The Dean has made a lively and picturesque volume out of his
superabundant materials.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 136. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.
“This volume ... is in every way attractive.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 220w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Lectures on early English
history; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$4. Longmans.
“The first half of the volume is, in some measure, a commentary upon
the author’s ‘Select charters.’ ... The second half of the book is a
series of lectures on an entirely different topic—a study of medieval
constitutions in the light of nationality and religion. In these pages
Bishop Stubbs is less restrained than in his treatment of the details
of the English constitution, and they reveal, not, indeed, the humour
of the companion volume, but some of the speaker’s fundamental
positions and convictions.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“We may be grateful for the publication of Bishop Stubbs’s ‘Lectures
on early English history’ ... for biographical reasons, if for no
other, for the light they throw on the author’s methods of work. For
those who can separate what is obsolete from what is still of value,
they are worth much more than this.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 933. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“Their work was done in the hour of their delivery; they can never
have been meant for publication, for Stubbs knew how fast and far
knowledge had posted since they were written.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 384. Mr. 31. 1200w.
“Mr. Hassall has taken his editorial duties much too lightly.” James
Tait.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 763. O. ’06. 790w.
“Students of early English history will find in these pages much that
is useful and suggestive, and they will leave them with greater
admiration than ever for the learning and the wisdom of the great
Bishop of Oxford.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 99. Mr. 23, ’06. 670w.
“Some of the discourses published by Mr. Hassall would hardly have
left Stubbs’s own hand for the press in their present unrevised
condition, but, as revealing his more spontaneous habits of thought,
it is well to have them in their present form.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 532. Je. 29, ’06. 210w.
“It is doubtful whether he intended these lectures to be published;
and he would have been the first to admit that some parts of them
required further elaboration before their argument could be regarded
as complete.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 697. Je. 2, ’06. 880w.
“Here for the first time he has placed in his hands full, and for the
most part satisfactory, explanations and the technical terms used in
the laws and charters of the Norman kings, and what is really a full
commentary upon the texts of the ‘Select charters.’”
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 210w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: a commemorative volume by former
students of Charles Edward Garman. *$2.50. Houghton.
A volume presented to Professor Charles Edward Garman on the 20th of
June, 1906, in commemoration of his twenty-five years of service as
teacher in philosophy in Amherst college. There are thirteen papers on
philosophical subjects, nine of whose contributors are professors in
American colleges and universities, one a professor in a theological
seminary; two are college instructors; and one is head of the South
End house, Boston.
* * * * *
“The present volume will serve as a permanent and worthy memorial of
this service, upon which the outside world may be permitted to
congratulate all concerned.” James Rowland Angell and A. W. Moore.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 631. N. 8, ’06. 6200w.
“The ‘Outlook’ congratulates him on this well-deserved monument which
they have reared to his memory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 420w.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= All that was possible. †$1.50. Putnam.
A series of letters written by a woman who had sold her birthright for
a mess of pottage. “The Earl of Medmenham was Sybil Croft’s first
serious indiscretion; and when he took her from the stage and agreed
to be responsible for her expenses, she justified herself by the
belief that she really loved him. But when the Earl married, she
realised that she was not in the least broken-hearted, philosophically
accepted the modest settlement he offered her, and betook herself to a
remote corner of Wales.” (Bookm.) Here Robert Henshaw finds her; “they
fall in love,—she, uplifted by him, honourably; he, dragged down by
her, dishonourably.” (Pub. Opin.).
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 590. Je. 23, ’06. 1020w.
“The subtle understanding of mood and temperament stamps this book as
a finer piece of art than many a more pretentious volume.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 470w.
“The book is extremely interesting, although much shorter and slighter
in construction than that brilliant study of London life, Belchamber.”
M. K. Ford.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 432. My. ’06. 750w.
“It is the most normally written, least emotional book of the season;
and it may be a good one, but, if so, goodness may be regained, like
the health by a change of scene, diet and climate.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– + =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 320w.
“The letters are brilliantly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.
“The man, Robert Henshaw, is wooden and unconvincing—the woman behind
the letters is strange, but very true.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 411. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
“A successful psychologic study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 190w.
=Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Belongs among those books which are good enough not only to read, but
to discuss.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
“Judging the book strictly on the standards thus set up by its author
it is found to be of very uneven merit. We should like it better if
the author had taken more pains with his verbal style, which is,
barring the occasional technical jargon, a very ordinary journalese.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 290w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Mr. Sturgis strongly resembles Mr. Hamerton in the perverted
diligence with which he forces the most unsuitable pairs of artists to
work in harness under the same category for his own nefarious
book-making ends.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 528. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.
“This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded
appreciation of art.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 101. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various
handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
Reviewed by John La Farge.
+ + =Architectural Record.= 19: 199. Mr. ’06. 4870w.
“The subjects are multitudinous, indeed, which Mr. Sturgis treats, and
it seems invidious almost to claim a superiority of handling of one
over the other.” Frank Fowler.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 106. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“It is a form of notebook, but also of encyclopaedia, and one more
offshoot of a habit of life constantly curious in everything connected
with art.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 121. F. 8, ’06. 2790w.
=Sturt, Henry.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and
thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Under this Baconian title an Oxford scholar, Mr. Henry Sturt, rips up
some current philosophic fallacies. Recent British philosophy (and
American also) has been carried captive, as he views it, by a German
invasion inculcating a one-sided idealism, in which the conative
factor of thought is overshadowed by the speculative.... The general
charge is that the ‘idols’ deceive by substituting a static for the
dynamic conception of reality, with resulting damage to various
interests, chiefly those of ethics, politics, and religion.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sturt is sincere, and his way independent: but the structure of
the book is slight; and in closing it we are haunted by the suspicion
that its author has failed to master the doctrines he attacks.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 106. Ag. 4, ’06. 2070w.
“Unfortunately, this is written from a very narrow outlook. It is
history to suit a special interest. The attempt is made to convict
Idealism of three great crimes—called Intellectualism, Absolutism, and
Subjectivism.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 95. Jl. 25. 1230w.
“The work lacks systematic thoroughness; the criticisms are often
haphazard, and the positive views adopted are so various that the
reconciliation and substantiation of them all prescribes a somewhat
difficult task to that yet unwritten new system of philosophy to which
the author looks for a complete proof of his ‘master principle.’” J.
W. Scott.
– =Hibbert J.= 5: 212. O. ’06. 2220w.
“But altho the book is far from effective as a whole, the criticisms
it contains of certain points in Green’s metaphysics and in Mr.
Bradley’s doctrine of the Absolute are perfectly sound, and the
protest on behalf of the importance of activity or conative experience
may be accepted as substantially true.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 321. S. 21, ’06. 1340w.
“Mr. Sturt’s work is worthy of all commendation. And in condensing so
much and such crabbed material into so interesting a form he has
achieved a considerable feat. His book deserves to be read, and
doubtless will be.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 1460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Sturt is keen, vigorous and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 310w.
“The main purpose of the book is critical, and ... we are prepared to
admit that Mr. Sturt is, on the whole a ‘very respectable person’ in
that field. Constructively the book is weak, and the weakness is a
serious blemish.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 266. Ag. 25, ’06. 1730w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.= Undying past; tr. by Beatrice Marshall. †$1.50.
Lane.
“The scene of the story is East Prussia ... and the setting is
agricultural. Two landed proprietors have grown up from childhood with
the love of David and Jonathan.... Leo, having been detected in an
intrigue with the wife of a nobleman of the neighborhood, is
challenged by the injured husband to a duel, slays his opponent, is
sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and, after his release, goes to
South America, for a period of years. Ulrich, in the meanwhile,
knowing nothing of his friend’s guilty relations with the widow of the
slain, offers himself to her in marriage and is accepted. They have
been united for some time, when Leo returns to his home, and at this
point the story opens.... Leo is all the time conscious of the dark
shadow of guilt that separates him from Ulrich. The latter, wholly
unsuspecting, seeks to reknit the old relations, yet must defer to the
stubborn fact that his wife had been made a widow by the deed of his
friend.... Her old passion for her husband’s friend is revived upon
his return, and ... the substance of the book is the struggle between
these two characters-her struggle to bring him back into the old
sinful relation, his to banish her from his thought, and purify his
soul by repentance and expiation.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It cannot be said altogether that Miss Marshall has attained a very
high standard. But at least it may be said that she has given us a
readable and fairly literary rendering of the original.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 576. Je. 16, ’06. 520w.
“This is a gloomy but powerful psychologic study which also gives a
fine realistic picture of life on the great landed estates of
Prussia.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 290w.
“If from the artistic point of view it is hardly equal to some of the
author’s other novels that appeared before it, it is none the less a
fine and forcible romance, and contains some of his best writing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 480w.
“The pages and chapters which are devoted to a portrayal of local
customs and modes of thought, careful and vivid though they are, tend
to obscure the real issue of the story rather than to elucidate it.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 530w.
“[This] English version is carelessly made.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1. ’06. 650w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 217. Je. 15, ’06. 600w.
“That which is eminently unsatisfactory besides the title, however ...
is the absence of any biographical introduction.”
– =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“A powerful drama of humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 494. Ag. 11, ’06. 1120w.
“There is a profound depression over the whole book, though the
literary art which presents it is, as usual with Sudermann, full of
force and of fine restraint.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$8.35.
Oxford.
A work complete in five volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts.
“The first consists of five chapters, in which are discussed the
movements of the outer crust of the earth, diluvial, seismic,
dislocatory and volcanic. In the second part the mountain systems of
the world are examined in very varying detail, but sufficiently to
bring out the main trend lines.” (Ath.) “The main purpose of [the
second] volume is the statement of the evidence for Suess’s contention
that continents are never uplifted in mass, and that the occurrence of
raised shore lines and horizontal sheets of marine rocks is due to the
lowering of sea level, and not to the raising of the land.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
+ + =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Nature.= 74: 629. O. 25. ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Sutcliffe, Halliwell.= Benedick in Arcady. †$1.50. Dutton.
Really the sequel to “A bachelor in Arcady,” the book reveals a rather
prosaic coloring. “The scene is the same, but it has lost some of its
colour and breeziness. Cathy is not less fascinating as wife than as
maid: the Wanderer is as courtly and buoyant as ever; but the
Bachelor, by turning Benedick, has become a different being. His touch
with nature is less intimate. Instead of the delightful notes on
gardens, fields, animals, and birds in the earlier book, we have
attractively written essays on such subjects as the Stuarts,
superstition, the yeomanry, and old age.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In fact, the book is an idyll, and much better written than such
idylls are wont to be.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 530. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.
“Is disappointing only because its predecessor was much better.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 97. Jl. 28. 150w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 280w.
“The wanderers with Mr. Sutcliffe into his Arcady will be rewarded for
their stroll, and will come upon many a bye-the-bye bit, well worth
tucking into their memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 480. Jl. 28, ’06. 440w.
“Though hardly the equal of its predecessor, ‘A bachelor in Arcady,’
there are to be found both grace and charm in these chapters, which
occupy a middle ground between the story and the essay.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Sutphen, William Gilbert van Tassel.= Doomsman. †$1.50. Harper.
New York in the year 2015 A. D. forms the setting for a story of love
and adventure in which the hero is supposed to rediscover the use of
firearms and electricity, the knowledge of which has been lost in a
great catastrophe which wiped out our modern civilization ninety years
earlier. But for the gaunt and partially destroyed skyscrapers and
other remains of our own day the tale, with all its primitive human
nature, might well be one of the far past and not of the future.
* * * * *
“In places the book is almost grotesque enough to be humourous; but if
the author meant it for humour, he disguised his purpose too well. As
it stands it is simply tedious and unprofitable.”
– =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 1240w.
=Suttner, Bertha, baroness von.= “Ground arms:” “Die waffen nieder;” a
romance of European war, tr. from the German by Alice Asbury Abbott.
†$1.25. McClurg.
—Same. With title “Lay down your arms: the autobiography of Martha Von
Tilling: authorized tr. by T. Holmes.” 75c. Longmans.
This book, which won the Nobel peace prize for 1905, is a powerful
plea for universal disarmament. It is the autobiography of an Austrian
countess born with true martial spirit, her only grief that she cannot
win laurels on the field of battle. At seventeen she marries a dashing
young lieutenant and one short year later, clasping her fatherless son
to her heart she awakens to the real horrors of war. Her hatred of war
and warfare is justified by the story of the thirty years that follow.
She draws pictures of agony, disease and mutilation as seen in 1864,
1866, and again when she lost the love of her mature years at Paris,
and she shows between these periods such happy years of peace that the
reader shudders with her at the contrast.
* * * * *
“Regarded merely as a novel, the book has fine qualities—the reader’s
interest never flags, and the realism is so vigorous that one who does
not know the facts will continually feel inclined to suspect that the
autobiography is fictitious only as far as the names of the personages
are concerned.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 841. Mr. ’06. 1320w.
“This version ... is both idiomatic and exact.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1492. Je. 21. ’06. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
“Constructively it shows no literary genius, and its war pictures fall
far short of those in Tolstoy’s ‘War and peace.’”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The supreme grace of simplicity has been given her, and an exquisite
tenderness whereby she holds the heart of her reader in the hollow of
her hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“The story is thoroughly German, in remarkable good English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 398. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The story itself is of keen interest, but the argument is stronger
than the story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.
“The greatest philanthropical novel of this generation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 170w.
=Suyematsu, K., baron.= Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 322. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Why, in the days of ‘The risen sun,’ when concealment of facts is no
longer possible, should so frank a scholar, refined gentleman, true
patriot, and man of the world as Baron Suyematsu is, and with so noble
a recorded service, seek to imitate the uncanny fashion of his
old-time literary brethren?”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 1070w.
=Swayne, Christine Siebeneck (Mrs. Noah F. Swayne).= Visionary and other
poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
Three score little verses which sing much of love and something of
nature.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.
=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from George Eliot; pictures
by George Alfred Williams. †$2. Fox.
Really a happy thought contribution to child literature. Aside from
the pleasure and value of the stories to young readers it is hoped
that interest will extend to the books from which these pictures of
child life are taken. The little people who are introduced are Tom and
Maggie Tulliver, Eppie, Tottie Poyser, the Garths, Little Lizzie,
Jacob Cohen, Tina, “The little black-eyed monkey,” Job Tudge and Harry
Transome.
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