will live. Should those ideas ever become commonplaces—an unlikely
contingency!—his plays possess, apart from their humour and wit, no
quality which can save them from the doom of oblivion. They contain
but the smallest amount of story, no plot worth speaking of, and very
little emotional stress or conflict; any catastrophe they set forth is
of a strictly intellectual sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 107. Jl. 27. 1500w.
“The latest is the most interesting volume of Brentano’s new edition
of Shaw, because none of the three plays in it has appeared in print
before and only one of them has been played often enough in this
country for many people to see it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 879. O. 10, ’07. 860w.
“If only to find the secret that is in Mr. Shaw’s heart, his prefaces
are to be read. There are the plays to be read, as well—two of them as
good plays as Mr. Shaw has ever done, and all three as amusing and
stimulating in print as on the stage, all three brilliantly successful
devices for compelling you to swallow the powder of the
‘paper-apostle’ in the jam of the ‘artist-magician.’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 1890w.
“As a study of actual social conditions, or as drama, [Major Barbara]
is quite worthless, being wholly unreasonable and packed, as is the
writer’s habit, with all kinds of false and reckless generalizations,
cynical extravagancies, and perverse misrepresentations; but it is,
nevertheless, highly entertaining in its witty, bumptious, paradoxical
and wholly irresponsible fashion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 350w.
“The present writer is considering not Mr. Shaw the playwright, but
Mr. Shaw, the clairvoyant, the acute observer and the critic of things
as they are in the year of grace, 1907, the philosopher, if you will,
of the open eye and mind. He is, as a matter of fact, the very
inspiration of critics whether of literature or of life, for he is
inexhaustively suggestive because he is marvelously perceiving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 437. Jl. 13, ’07. 2370w.
“In these two more substantial plays, as always, Mr. Shaw makes it
plainer than ever, as has already been said, that he is first the
determined moralist, the servant of his profoundly passionate
convictions; then the architect of what happens to be their vehicle:
in this case, satiric and imaginative drama. But scarcely less notable
is the demonstration which is here furnished of that other
inconvenient and embarrassing fact which Mr. Shaw is at such elaborate
pains, when he is on his guard, to conceal: the fact that he is, ‘au
fond’ and incurably a poet.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 284. O. ’07. 2000w.
“Not even Mr. Bernard Shaw’s wit and paradox can make his play about
Ireland ... altogether easy reading.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“The three plays show Mr. Shaw’s characteristic genius.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 100w.
=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. **$1. Whittaker.
6–31412.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The literary quality of the book is very good indeed; and, while the
author does not pretend to original thinking, he has the knack of
putting ancient truth in a fresh and pleasing, as well as convincing,
manner.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Early essays and lectures. *$1.60.
Longmans.
7–11584.
A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they
appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan
discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such
subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and
Irish youth and high ideals.
* * * * *
“In many places, the essays would have been improved by the
application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have
gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one
find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph
that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w.
=Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.
7–34809.
The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the
few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the
“young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the
beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the
environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and
also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The
Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and
The praise of John Harvard.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John
Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard
might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w.
“Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his
slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in
piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious
possibilities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to
the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an
interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the
first twenty years of its history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w.
“In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand
entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he
shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w.
“Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to
Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Shelley is entitled to the honor due a pioneer and to the
satisfaction of feeling that he has produced a book interesting in
itself and bearing the promise of fruitful results.” Elisabeth L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 679. O. 26, ’07. 1600w.
“It is no detraction from the supplementary value and interest of Mr.
Shelley’s work if we recognize at once that his is a secondary book.”
Ripley Hitchcock.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 611. D. ’07. 1830w.
“As the life of John Harvard it can only be described as conjectural
biography carried to the nth degree. Its sole distinction is its
attractive reconstitution of the environment in which John Harvard was
brought up, and the people he possibly knew.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
6–34854.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Shelley is in many respects quite the ideal guide, unassuming,
sympathetic, and exceedingly well informed. He refreshes vague
memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is
exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to
poetic shrines, but—and it is a serious but—for the clumsy proportions
and gross material weight of the volume.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 390w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of information
and instruction for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
6–19004.
(2d ed. rev. and enl.
7–18184.)
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07. S.
* =Shepard, William Kent.= Problems in strength of materials. *$1.25.
Ginn.
7–30998.
“A collection of nearly 600 specific problems or exercises in the
strength of materials ... [which] confines itself strictly to the
statement of problems, and with one exception, eight pages on the
design of riveted joints, avoids explanatory interjections.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“In the absence of either explanation or cautionary reference, the
student is likely to go astray, even when the book is being
administered by a teacher. Regardless of this, however, we welcome the
appearance of such a collection of problems.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 537. N. 14, ’07. 620w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 584. D. ’07. 100w.
=Shepherd, Henry Elliot.= Life of Robert Edward Lee. $2. Neale.
6–46779.
Not so much a biography as a characterization. The conditions under
which Lee lived and worked and the results he achieved are outlined,
as well as his ideals, motives, genius and character. The author says
“It is my distinctive purpose to exhibit the life of our hero in those
critical and all-pervading relations which constitute the abiding test
of true greatness.”
=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Running horse inn. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18182.
George Kennett, a soldier in the Peninsular campaign, returns to
Running Horse inn in a little town in the south of England upon the
day that his brother, believing him dead, weds the girl who had
promised to wait for him. At first the returned soldier succeeds
fairly well in accepting the inevitable, but when financial hardships
come, and his old love for Bess masters him, he turns scoundrel, and
brings misery to his brother’s home. He pays the penalty for the guilt
which he was morally responsible for, although he is innocent
technically of the charge that hangs him.
* * * * *
“A really fine historical novel.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 479. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“His military experiences show more power than any other portion of
the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“The tender character studies of rural English folk, the captain’s
yarns, the homely life within the Inn, and the eternal scenery along
the downs, and, above all, the solemn tread with which all events seem
to march toward the final, inevitable tragedy gives the book power.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 140w.
“Has set himself a difficult task and if he has not fully succeeded it
is fair to recognize the ambition.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 250w.
“The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole,
interest is fairly well maintained.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
“The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the
best part of it is near the close.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
“The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr.
Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a
theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere
of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the
growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is
of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Sheppard, S. E. and Mees, C. E. Kenneth.= Investigations on the theory
of the photographic process. *$1.75. Longmans.
A theoretical rather than practical work whose subjects are dealt with
from the point of view of what is now understood as physical chemistry
and are described in the language of that branch of science.
* * * * *
“This volume will find a place, which it will worthily fill, in the
libraries of all who are interested in the scientific aspects of
photography.” C. J.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 70w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some
recollections of a literary life; 2d ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
6–18833.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= Major dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
The rivals, The school for scandal, The critic; ed. with introd. and
notes by George Henry Nettleton. (Athenaeum press ser.) *90c. Ginn.
6–43927.
A school edition with abundant editorial matter.
* * * * *
“He succeeds, not only in giving all the information needed by
beginners with sterling fulness and accuracy, but in adding a great
deal that will interest those who have already a good working
knowledge of the plays.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 112. F. 2, ’07. 1310w.
“Is by far the most pretentious attempt yet made to edit these
masterpieces of English comedy. It is to be regretted that the
apparatus is more evident than the criticism. The several sections in
which Professor Nettleton discusses Sheridan’s position in the English
drama display no real insight into the art of dramaturgy.” Brander
Matthews.
− + =Educ. R.= 33: 318. Mr. ’07. 1200w.
“A compact and careful piece of work, containing a considerable amount
of useful information in small compass.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 251. Mr. 14, ’07. 310w.
“We do not know any other book on Sheridan which crowds so much
information into so small a compass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
“Admirers of Sheridan’s [plays] may now have their favorites printed
(for the first time in America) from the authentic text of Sheridan’s
plays taken from the original manuscripts and edited (for the first
time anywhere) with complete annotation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 625. O. ’07. 350w.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley B.= Rivals; with an introduction by Brander
Matthews. il. $2.50. Crowell.
7–24460.
A de luxe edition illustrated by a series of five drawings, the work
of Mr. O’Malley, which are reproduced in full-page photogravures. The
drawings, the introduction by Brander Matthews and the excellent
workmanship of the book make it a choice holiday offering.
* * * * *
“Mr. Power O’Malley has illustrated the play for the present edition
in a fashion to emphasize both its old-time quaintness and its
sparkling humor.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“The notes are of little value.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Sheridan, Wilbur Fletcher.= Life of Isaac Wilson Joyce. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.
7–20972.
A biography of Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church which
reveals him as preeminently the man of action, a man “too busy making
history to record it.” His missionary zeal at home and in foreign
fields sounds the strongest note in the sketch.
=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Words to the wise—and others. **$1.50. Holt.
7–36126.
A dozen delightful essays upon social and literary subjects such as:
The root and foliage of style, Our kin and others, A plea for the
naturalization of ghosts, Ruskin, Modern letter-writing, and Our
comédie humaine. In each we find a discriminating taste for the best
works of God and man.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6.
Longmans.
7–19489.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It comes too late, and it is far too bulky.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
“The best parts of Mr. Sherring’s volume are the chapters devoted to
the legends and myths of the natives especially the Bhotia tribes of
the frontier, and to the quaint customs and manners of the British
borderland.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 580w.
“The present volume is one of the most valuable works that we have
seen upon the subject.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Sherring is much to be congratulated upon the way in which he has
acquitted himself of his task.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1030w.
“Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist,
botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that
the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important
additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best
things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most
of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w.
=Sherrington, Charles Scott.= Integrative action of the nervous system.
**$3.50. Scribner.
6–38912.
“The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in
detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together
in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The
whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a
strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness....
The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author
supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own
extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by
other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc.,
illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.
=J. Philos.= 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w.
“We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the
comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared
up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments
quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due
inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands
out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w.
* =Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Princess Pourquoi. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–31285.
The five tales in this volume are wonderstory fables. “The ‘Princess
Pourquoi’ represents, let us say, the modern spirit of feminine
inquiry in its dignified aspect; ‘The princess and the microbe’ and
‘The seven studious sisters’ represents the same spirit in an amusing
light; and ‘The clever necromancer,’ its pathetic side. ‘The gentle
robber’ is a more pungent satire upon the theoretical and the actual
attitude of the world toward greed and dishonesty on a large scale.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
“They are very gracefully written, and the effect of each is something
like that of an old piece of richly colored embroidery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 649. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Shoemaker, Blanche.= Woven of dreams. **$1.25. Lane.
7–10279.
Under the four headings, Sonnets, Youth’s journey, Gathered petals,
and Woven of dreams, are gathered more than a hundred exquisite
verses, full of the joy of life and the depths of its emotions.
* * * * *
“The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There
is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that
poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before
us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Winged wheels in France. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–42912.
The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the
author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The
snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The
book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer
him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The
volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.
“The descriptions are graphic, and there is a wise avoidance of the
geographical details.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 899. D. 22, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Shoemaker writes with sympathy, although his pages might well
have been more picturesque and luminous considering his subject
matter.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
“A good bit of descriptive travel writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“It is a succession of rapid impressions, which seems to require eyes
and a brain especially made for the purpose, if any fixed recollection
is to be carried away. Yet these impressions are clear, in spite of
their quickness and slightness.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Through wintry terrors. $1.50. Cassell.
“A struggling clerk and his silly young wife, a vicious little poet,
an old maid, and a few of the submerged—these are the characters in
‘Through wintry terrors.’” (Lond. Times.) The tragedy of a hasty
marriage is enacted in which misunderstandings lead to separation, and
this, for the wife, to the sober trouble of London’s darker side. “The
simple story moves straight to its end through troubles very real and
affecting, shaped by the hand of an artist and touched with the spirit
of a poet.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a
number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst,
that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”
− =Acad.= 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.
“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.
“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has
the qualities of a work of art.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Shurter, Edwin DuBois=, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.
7–3094.
A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a
view of offering them to students as models for study.
* * * * *
“Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has
committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w.
“Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains
such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task
well.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w.
=Sichel, Walter Sydney.= Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original
sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new
letters. *$5. Dodd.
6–1105.
The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story
of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman;
it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his
capacity for taking pains is great.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w.
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w.
“There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole
subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy
Jeaffreson.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w.
“His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly
always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and
not very often quite convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w.
“His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period,
not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too
minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a
complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that
robs the book of value.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w.
“He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he
has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His
style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and
expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w.
“This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w.
=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur
Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
6–18307.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in
the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.”
F. Melian Stawell.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w.
“It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British
thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann.= Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–4161.
Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A
young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to
England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon
his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a
worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been
drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his
well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end
everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a
happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak,
pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.
* * * * *
“An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠
“The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but
is wholesome and mildly amusing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w.
“A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any
doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be
an excellent thing of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
“An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being
read and of no consequence afterward.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w.
“Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce,
yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and
chivalrous sentiment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
=Siegfried, Andre.= Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.
7–22822.
Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1,
considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and
instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by
Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in
ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of
part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and
endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject
full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French
Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
=Sigerson, George.= Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic
literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the
Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.
A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It
follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series
specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times
and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of
the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this
edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well
translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present
volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing
the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader
that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than,
that of the Greeks.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w.
“A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w.
=Silberrad, Una L.= Good comrade. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–30840.
An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia
Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for
“shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch
bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb,
sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does
steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable
explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to
secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally
crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.
* * * * *
“She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both
vivid and true.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and
has produced an exceptionally good novel.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.
“In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of
the hero the book is not a silly one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as
American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write
such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of
the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so
atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w.
“The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of
honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in
the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The
character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor
gentle and pleasing.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w.
“Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has
made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
6–35717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. 07.
=Simpson, M. W. Hilton-.= Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.
The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of
Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the
mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within
the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the
region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of
the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most
genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s
versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate.
He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a
useful and practical sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w.
“What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very
agreeably set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend
his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with
things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w.
=Sinclair, May.= Helpmate. †$1.50. Holt.
7–25509.
While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach
the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once
enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby
securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she
martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates
intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away
the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks
consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does
Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one,
and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as
a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier
group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.
* * * * *
“It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a
bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
“Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse
for the small library putting money into it, first because it has
appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore,
accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be
consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the
small library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and
with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is
almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are
not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w.
“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its
predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run
of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w.
“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a
day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w.
“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the
year comes from May Sinclair.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too
artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and
admirably distinguished in expression.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w.
“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various
reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on
the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to
examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British
convention.” Eleanor Cecil.
− + =Living Age.= 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w.
“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite
of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a
document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we
admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of
all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and
tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w.
“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a
picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our
literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of
kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which
is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing
which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of
understanding.” H. I. Brock.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w.
“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for
some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a
great story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a
perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a
powerful study of temperament.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Sinclair, May.= Tysons. $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the
relations of an ill-assorted pair.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Industrial republic: a study of the America
ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–18298.
It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a
dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory
of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a
careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts
that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the
presidential election of that year, that after that will be
established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.
* * * * *
“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but
little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the
reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which
deal with the present and not the future.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w.
“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A
modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than
is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer.
His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own
intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of
his own judgment.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w.
“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is
one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his
story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor
broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the
worst together, and makes the most of it.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w.
“His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in
regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and
slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not
like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most
ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the
book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the
consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the
social and political conditions of the moment.”
− − =Spec.= 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–6264.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
“If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the
experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a
cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work
had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Overman. 50c. Doubleday.
7–30837.
A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who
went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a
tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty
years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly
passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by
contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer
and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to
break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to
make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr.
Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural.
And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that
it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and
convincing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Dutch and Flemish furniture. **$7.50. McClure.
A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It
opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury
first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and
plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of
battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the
religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and
prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its
comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the
Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a
great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive
work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and
its material adjuncts in the low countries.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w.
“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic
connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book
unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w.
“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her
subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has
considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it.
Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative
faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not
appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the
necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur
and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of
various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The
general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the
narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared
for.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Historic buildings of America as seen and described
by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–38380.
“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the
best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in
her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is
possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is
persistent enough in search.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.
“Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in
unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and
described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
7–35639.
“The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and
soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only
cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.”
(Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington
Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel
Rawson Gardiner, and others.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a
place in a collection of this character.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–40554.
“The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous
buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful
environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of
modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week,
the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr.
Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the
multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will
be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to
the librarian in reference work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S.
“The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those
who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the
vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive
information, well distributed between topography, history,
architecture, and manners and customs.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w.
“Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the
writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too,
is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or
publisher.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to
authors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.
Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social
life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John
and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de.= History of the Italian
republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the
light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by
William Boulting. $2. Dutton.
Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into
eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts
are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate
republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.
* * * * *
“The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack
of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the
text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and
revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the
work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the
most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things
Italian can do without it.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w.
“The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto.= Pagan races of the Malay
peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.
7–11553.
The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the
Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and
the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr.
Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material
culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available
material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the
path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved
by our authors.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w.
“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their
task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from
consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes
have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs
with which they are illustrated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w.
“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is
never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in
anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember
any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not
only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native
decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected
by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w.
“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of
interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more
graphic by reproductions of photographs.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w.
“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication
of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and
critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt
with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which
may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature
of much that has been written as well as by the length of the
bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together
in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published
by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with
material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social
life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is
quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races
whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w.
=Skinner, Robert P.= Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first
mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of
Kings. *$3. Longmans.
7–7544.
The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to
treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that
country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces,
elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its
history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full
of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization
and equipment of a caravan.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’
which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that
needs one.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w.
“Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of
personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his
lively, entertaining account of his travels.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w.
“The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up
with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining
manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and
contains some profitable suggestions.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5.
Lippincott.
7–37968.
The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is
“guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of
the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present
edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–145.
“It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the
moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle,
sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the
intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous
descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments,
curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the
country.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his
subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not
easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w.
“_The_ book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good
advice.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Very practical book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch.
*50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–29757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis.= Master of the world: a study of Christ.
**$1.50. Longmans.
6–45051.
“The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern
scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of
information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have
grown up around his person.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”
− =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w.
“The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by
combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a
considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to
his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present
faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical
judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w.
“Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from
dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.
=Slicer, Thomas R.= Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6629.
The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book.
The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by
self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way
of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship:
happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home;
The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the
vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.
* * * * *
“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor
Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w.
“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not
through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than
to the flesh.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w.
“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many
passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w.
“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and
encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the
wall.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the
strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
6–35989.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened
to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find
much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until
only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating
textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational
profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w.
“It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in
engineering design.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w.
=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
6–23320.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Nature.= 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Small, Albion W.= Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the
methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–32182.
A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic
partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development
of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to
take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which
was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed
for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the
production of wealth.
* * * * *
“Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very
strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does
not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w.
“In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make
out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious
and severe criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago
press.
5–32452.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w.
“In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only
one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the
anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated
with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of
another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand
of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he
has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of
thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with
imperfect appreciation of real issues.”
− =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w.
=Smalley, Harrison Standish.= Railroad rate control in its legal
aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public
regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.
6–26074.
“This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public
regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial
review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter
specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a
plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.”
William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–9556.
“The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born
fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her
daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling
she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book,
apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the
day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that
this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the
present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w.
“Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss
Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she
does not obtrude it.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w.
“The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack
of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity
about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false
ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing
solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had
something genuine to say.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a
vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under
the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to
demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w.
“The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an
opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by
the first few chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, A. Croxton.= British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in
colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.
“A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first
friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how
to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general
management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science
of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments.
Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter
hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish
setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms
criticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w.
“The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour
and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very
readable, but not very thorough or practical.”
+ − =Spec.= 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-.= Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.
7–16502.
A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited
opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”
=Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo.= Machine design. $3.
Wiley.
5–39881.
“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions
of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of
all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the
proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up....
Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then
considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their
bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then
follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed
wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the
concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine
frames are discussed.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design
which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book
should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their
first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country,
with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.
A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in
1863.
* * * * *
“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its
happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as
worth buying and reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w.
=Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25.
Century.
6–7325.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w.
“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill,
and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the
facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information
little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical
chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w.
=Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.= Montlivet. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33573.
“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French
rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old
materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and
freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de
Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in
disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.
* * * * *
“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting,
it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 217. N. ’06.
“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be
described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with
an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The book has unusual merit.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it
contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s
rest from the dread of horrors to come.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= China and America to-day: a study of
conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.
7–26625.
In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is
shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and
discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a
discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United
States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is
given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly
changing conditions and relations.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and
customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many
volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s
missionary movement.
7–38590.
A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a
bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged
for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up
and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is
attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.
“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with
an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to
be found in the same compass.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Smith, Bertram.= Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences
in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.
“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the
night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the
covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets
forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the
United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind
to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to
show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and
satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover
the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this
guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that
there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a
number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches
and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written
is pleasantly humorous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
* =Smith, Bertram T. K.= How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.
A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information
regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other
matters included in the field of philately.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w.
“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w.
“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little
book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29156.
The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother
love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains
a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Hill top girl.
†$1.50. Lippincott.
Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and
poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the
top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this
symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A
sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is
discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion
against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w.
“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in
the ‘Hill-top girl.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
− =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Little school mothers: a story for
girls. 75c. McKay.
7–21231.
A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a
contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the
school-mother of a motherless child.
* =Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Three girls
from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most
intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for
financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain
prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt
in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is
a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to
the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in
consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This
dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end
of complication and humiliation.
=Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told
and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–42437.
Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in
picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full
of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the
expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the
new volume.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury
than a necessity.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w.
“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text
is apparently historically correct.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Francis Asbury.= Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the
defendant. Knickerbocker press.
7–8252.
A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature
claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.
* * * * *
“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome
note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater
commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w.
“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s
book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as
literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the
conditions under which they are probably produced.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading,
but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm.
J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w.
=Smith, Francis Henry.= Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the
centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.
6–32410.
“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its
creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt
university maintain.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the
Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of
fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands
of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 356. Ap. ’07. 570w.
“The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close
debate.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 9, ’06. 160w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E.
Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.
7–17373.
“A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an
arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity,
written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a
stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating
the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.”
(N. T. Times.)
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 200w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–31210.
“In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome,
noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from
the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as
a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of
life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past,
though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a
younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely
through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as
well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠
=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr.
Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds
its magic to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 410w.
“‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and
true.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Veiled lady, and other men and women, il.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–12697.
Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of
the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have
grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that
delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and
indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. 70w. ✠
“There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in
‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume
of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion
and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1102. Jl. 11. ’07. 180w.
“For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and
unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the
stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many
of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 130w.
“It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but
the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of
the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 300w.
“The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except
the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the
painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in
them.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 620w.
“A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but
every one will repay the time spent in reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
5–34173.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they
seem to be—charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 504. Ag. 11. ’06. 240w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
6–35588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much
those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and
precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 419. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Smith, George Armitage.= Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25.
Dutton.
7–6425.
An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on
which it is based.
* * * * *
“Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods
of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be
commended for educational purposes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 607. My. 19. 510w.
=Smith, Gertrude.= Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.
7–36981.
Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by
Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl
and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a
pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other
people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their
plays and their pleasant surprises.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend.
**50c. Macmillan.
7–7165.
A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression.
“Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than
revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the
socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of
the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no
leaping into the millenium.”
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 647. My. ’07. 60w.
“The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of
a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is
reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 80w.
“A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Written in a characteristically clear style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.
=Spec.= 98: 985. Je. 22, ’07. 820w.
=Smith, Rev. Haskett.= Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.
7–10989.
“The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who
journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by
various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form
the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal
of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 061. D. 29, ’06. 120w.
“The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day
Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a
certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that
subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9. ’07. 130w.
“Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or
his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic
picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of
finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 147. F. 2, ’07. 1120w.
=Smith, James Allen.= Spirit of American government: a study of the
constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–16497.
In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system
upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He
calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent
opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way
of majority rule.
* * * * *
“Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and
earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will
from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly
exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be
safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy
vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the
nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the
inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 620. N. ’07. 620w.
“It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and
inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth
annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and
highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 560w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
“The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing
to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a
movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What
Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the
untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no
understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty
of the individual as also of the masses.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 1540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Smith, Captain John.= Generall historie of Virginia, New England and
the Summer isles. 2v. *$6. Macmillan.
7–18581.
An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called
forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in
convenient form for the first time since their original publication in
1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the
maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits
of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 310. Mr. 30, ’07. 1070w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the
work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers
have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence.
J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 163. S. ’07. 2290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 26. My. 9, ’07. 1060w.
“These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color
and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.
“Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory
statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in
ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For
this there can be no excuse.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.
“It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The
volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may
make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 460. Mr. 23, ’07. 1860w.
=Smith, Justin Harvey.= Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada
and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.
7–26025.
The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own
independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal
primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general
readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to
gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those
which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are
so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done
differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for
broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt
to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part
of his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 970w.
“What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our
attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith
has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an
interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7. ’07. 390w.
“Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile
and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort
to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a
levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while,
on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to
include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But
his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves
the heartiest of welcomes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be
interesting.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable
industry.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 150w.
=Smith, Margaret Bayard.= First forty years of Washington society: a
portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith;
ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–40262.
Letters which until recently have been kept well guarded make
available an authentic record of Washington society during its first
forty years. Manners and customs, no less than notable political
characters, appear in a new and intimate light.
* * * * *
“The editor has furnished a satisfactory index and the notes necessary
to explain the text.” Montgomery Blair.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 669. Ap. ’07. 760w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“The editor’s notes are always to the point.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 494 O. ’07. 480w.
“Upon the deeper character and influence of the many notable men about
her, Mrs. Smith’s comments are of no great value. But a clever woman
is often able to see and portray the peculiar characteristics of an
individual or an event in a way that is illuminating and valuable. It
is this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayard Smith that makes
their publication well worth while.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 139. Mr. 1, ’07. 1620w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book is too long ... but when we lay it down we feel as if we had
been at a pleasant gathering, where no evil was spoken, and every one
had a moderate old-fashioned enjoyment of life.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 83. Mr. 15, ’07. 1220w.
“Possessing no special charm in themselves, they will be often
resorted to for color by other writers. The editorial work is
competently done by Gaillard Hunt. His candor in preserving the
simplified spelling of the writer, and certain even more simplified
grammatical constructions, contributes to the impressions of essential
veracity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“This collection of letters ... is a distinct and valuable
contribution to the completeness of the historical pictures of life in
the highest political circles in the first half century of the
American republic.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 870. D. 15. ’06. 1740w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25.
Badger. R. G.
6–25984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and
unusual feeling for rhythm.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mary P. Wells.= Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.
7–31225.
Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are
narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which
brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary
period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion
true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships,
their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the
narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal
to young readers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the
overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending
chapter.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w.
=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk,
Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
6–32121.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with
praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the
popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student
already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs
enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to
the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness.
Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader
disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a
satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too,
calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray,
was it not strictly alphabetical?”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
=Smith, Rodney.= Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1.
Revell.
“This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from
its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in
four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and
forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by
unmistakable sincerity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.
7–5061.
A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of
wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757,
after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the
happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The
Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold
spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety
animate the pages.
* * * * *
“A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton
Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old
age,” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of
his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy
him.”
− =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
=Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w.
“In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical
literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but
taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w.
“All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but
wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill.
$1.50. Page.
7–30991.
This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting
things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new
adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses
his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill,
in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters
on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor
leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen
want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours,
increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete
suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control,
state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed
shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty,
freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work
for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The
author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a
final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion
that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w.
=Smyser, William Emory.= Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.
7–6733.
This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets
and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the
religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a
spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and
social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of
the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.
* * * * *
“The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought
in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the
poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a
sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w.
=Smyth, Eleanor C.= Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform: told
by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.
The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous
detail concerning the originator’s home life.
* * * * *
“This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter
of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate
and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but
this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes
on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but
such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake
to apply to the past the standards of the present.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
5–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is
valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of
all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the
conquest of arid America.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–14547.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the
ultra-cynical scene at the end.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w.
“Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and
carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its
measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of
mediocrity.” Mary Moss.
+ + − =Atlan.= 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w.
“Is a book to be reckoned with.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has
written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has
deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon
the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
“The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so
that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its
results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real
thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr.
Snaith.”
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd.
by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
6–37964.
A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after
the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely
coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of
his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch
between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he
had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that
held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat
landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at
last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of
the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the
mind of the man involved.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
“A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but
otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the
Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of
the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of
incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due
admixture of fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
=Snider, Denton Jaques.= American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.
6–34283.
The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its
starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the
beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the
Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It
represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the
varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there
some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in
regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”
− + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.
“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one
interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read
these illuminative and instructive chapters.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w.
“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of
the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to
the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is
negligible.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a
rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too
frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he
undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Snider, Guy Edward.= Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in
Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.
6–46362.
A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the
superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for
the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of
taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The
fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to
recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a
part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w.
=Snyder, Carl.= World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism.
*$2.50. Longmans.
W 7–93.
When complete there will be three volumes under the general title,
“The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one
treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The
mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how
the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude
fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection,
into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized
knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand
result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w.
“It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the
general reader more information on the history of science than he can
find anywhere else in a readable form.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w.
“He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few
references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability
to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash
prophecy.”
− =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w.
“The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea
or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author
has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science
whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a
trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.
− =Nature.= 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w.
“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of
assured facts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the
vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the
work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of
mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w.
“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The
story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout,
and, at times, picturesque.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w.
“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we
have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries
which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book
contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along
with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing
character.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis
Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their
meaning very obscure.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of early Christian literature: the
writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev.
W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
6–11299.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have
happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w.
“A good English translation.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w.
=Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of.= Correspondence of two
brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his
brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by
Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.
“This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of
distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke
and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by
no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several
short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and
the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not
ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a
competent and conscientious piece of work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w.
“The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is
valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for
the characters revealed by it.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be
ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in
a very high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w.
“If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness
is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w.
“These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students
of the Waterloo period.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w.
“The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the
cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the
modern Athens.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w.
=Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Some Irish yesterdays: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ.
Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–35223.
“A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and
gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and
the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form
an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to
those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as
amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish
R. M.’ have ever done.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07.
“The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less
spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w.
“One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the
gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle
expression in the brogue.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w.
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=Soothill, W. E.= Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.
“A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author
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done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of
the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese
education.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Sorrel, Moxley.= Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2.
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Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w.
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Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
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the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for
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* * * * *
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very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman
literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of
little use even to the historian.’”
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the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political
and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.
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fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated
because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w.
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=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–5679.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
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grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and
investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the
hour.”
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=Spargo, John.= Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.)
50c. Kerr.
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The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor
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of the school of philanthropy, New York City.
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=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist
principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–22326.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
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actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene
Balch.
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prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing,
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serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought
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the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.
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=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples
ser.) †75c. Crowell.
7–26624.
Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the
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=Sparling, Samuel Edwin.= Introduction to business organization.
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