Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 22)
Reading edition
A son who dares to array his intellect, his honor and his ideals against his father, a trust magnate with an iron hand, fights a creditable battle for political, financial and domestic liberty. Impersonal right is his might even tho it make useless the tools without which his father is helpless. It is an interesting character study backed by sound principle.
303“Not since Robert Herrick’s ‘The common lot’ has there appeared a finer study of present-day American life than ‘The district attorney.’” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 36: 570. N. ’06. 390w.
“A book that not only shows careful workmanship, but is apt to set the reader thinking rather seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 52. S. ’06. 460w.
Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“We are inclined to think that the note of didacticism is at times a little too effusively sounded: but to the book as a whole sincere praise may be accorded.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
Ind. 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“Barring a touch of ‘preciousness,’ a proneness to euphuistic smartness not quite foreign to more sincere artists, the style of Mr. Sage would lend itself well enough to building up a story that might touch the reader as a page out of life. But instead of this, it has been employed to provide verisimilitude for a conventionally sensational tale about conventionally unreal people.”
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Nation. 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 340w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author tells his story in a straightforward, manly fashion. His book deserves a wide reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
St. John, J. Allen. Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.
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Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Saint Maur, Kate V. Self-supporting home. **$1.75. Macmillan.
An interesting book which records an experiment made by an ambitious, energetic woman. From city flat life she transplants her family to the country, and shows how she makes a farm of twelve acres pay for itself and provide comfortably for all needs. She gives the stages in her farm development, with specific directions for each point gained, so that the book is of value to every amateur farmer and gardener.
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Critic. 48: 479. My. ’06. 80w.
“She writes with that tempered enthusiasm that is apt to be convincing; and although she takes her subject seriously, she allows herself occasional touches of humor.”
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Dial. 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Full of sound sense and practical advice.”
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Ind. 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 350w.
“The style of the author is simple and unaffected.”
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Nation. 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 460w.
“The book is no theoretical treatise or dream, but the earnest work of a woman of charming personality, which she modestly strives to conceal, who in sharing the fruits of her success with a public that has need of the information given, does it a greater service than a score of learned writers on social and political economy.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 872. D. 9, ’05. 800w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“It has particular value for the beginner in that the author was a city woman who had to learn by experience, so that she knows how to help others to avoid the mistakes which she made.”
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Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
“The author convinces us that she is intelligently at home in her environment, and that what she says is the result of discrimination and practical sense.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 140w.
“A simple, straightforward, delightfully written account.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“There is much instruction to be found in the book.”
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Spec. 96: 229. F. 10, ’06. 140w.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin. Portraits of the eighteenth century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley, with a critical introd. by Edmond Scherer. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
Miss Wormeley has not only translated but edited these Sainte-Beuve essays in a manner to insure their popularity. There are portraits of such historic and literary personages as the Duchess du Maine, Le Sage, Montesquieu, Voltaire, the Earl of Chesterfield, Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, Frederic the Great, Necker, Mme. de Lambert, Grimm, Rousseau, Goethe, Prevost, Beaumarchais, Adrienne Lecouvreur and others.
“It would certainly be impossible to mistake them for anything but translations, and translations of a rather literal order.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 250w.
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Critic. 47: 574. D. ’05. 60w.
Critic. 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 130w.
Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 90w.
“For delicacy, good taste, profundity of research, and brilliancy of finish, his work remains unique, and well deserves the tribute of adequate translation and sumptuous publication now being rendered it.”
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Dial. 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
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Ind. 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.
“For the most part accurately rendered, and disposed in such fashion as to convey a general impression of the interesting pre-Revolutionary epoch.”
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Nation. 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 110w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ’05. 220w.
“The translation by Katharine P. Wormeley is all that could be asked in sympathy, exactness and choice of phrase.”
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Reader. 7: 449. Mr. ’06. 510w.
R. of Rs. 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 130w.
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Sat. R. 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
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Spec. 96: 948. Je. 16, ’06. 2240w.
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. History of English prosody, from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 1, From the origins to Spenser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
The first of a three volume work whose aim is to examine “through at least 700 years of verse what the prosodic characteristics of English have actually been, and what goodness or badness of poetry has accompanied the expression of these characteristics.” Mr. Saintsbury’s examination is based upon facts which he presents chronologically, showing the simultaneous development of language and versification. He says “In this book we do not rope-dance, but keep to the solid paths, and where the paths are not solid we do not care to walk.”
“When the three volumes of which the work is to consist are published, a blank in the history of our literature will have been filled. Few people more competent than Professor Saintsbury could have been found for the task.”
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Acad. 70: 522. Je. 2, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One of the main qualities of Prof. Saintsbury’s book is what may be called its practicalness. The main value of the book is that it is a firm denial and, as it seems to us, complete disproof, of ‘the error that the prosody of English is a fixed syllabic prosody.’”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 629. My. 26. 2910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What saves him from pedantry is his fund of humor, of a peculiarly literary quality, 304which is so closely allied, as all humor is, with common sense.”
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Ind. 61: 394. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There are many passages in Professor Saintsbury’s book which only experts will be able to understand. He calls it a history, and he has tried to make it one; but no one ever had a style less suited to the telling of a plain story. Yet, anyone interested in the subject will make a great mistake if he refuses to read the book because of the way in which it is written; for it has one merit great enough to atone for a thousand minor faults.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 229. Je. 29, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that, unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse composition.”
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Nation. 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He writes in a breezy, somewhat pugnacious, frequently erratic style, ... and he manages to make even the dryer linguistic parts of his subject interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Freshness of style and illustration makes It much more delightful than most technical works.”
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Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
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R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Needless to say, the great erudition we have come to expect from all Professor Saintsbury’s work is apparent on every page.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
Saintsbury, George, ed. Minor poets of the Caroline period. 2v. v. 1, *$3.40. Oxford.
“The volume possesses so many points of interest that it is easy to forget the portentous mediocrity which is really its dominant feature.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 115. Ja. 27, ’06. 1780w.
Sakolski, A. M. Finances of American trades unions. 75c. Johns Hopkins press.
Under the divisions, Revenue, Expenditure, and Administration, this volume in the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science,” gives the results of much careful investigation of the financial phase of the leading American, national and international trade unions.
Saleeby, Caleb Williams. Evolution the master key. *$2. Harper.
Instead of reducing “the many and ponderous volumes of the synthetic philosophy to brief and popular form,” the author attempts to justify his conviction “that the philosophy of universal and ordered change is far more easily demonstratable to-day than ever before,” and he proceeds with his demonstration “in the light of human knowledge in the first lustrum of the twentieth century.” His discussion falls into seven parts: General, Inorganic evolution, Organic evolution, Suborganic evolution, Evolution and optimism, Dissolution, and Evolution and the religion of the future.
“The work it is true exhibits certain defects perhaps unavoidable in so comprehensive a scheme. Some of the chapters are too brief to do anything like justice to the vast topics of which they treat.”
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Acad. 70: 304. Mr. 31, ’06. 860w.
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Harper’s Weekly. 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.
Lit. D. 32: 519. Ap. 7, ’06. 1090w.
“The grand range and sweep of his reasoning is remarkable. He deals, and generally very ably though very briefly, with most of the profoundest problems of science and philosophy.” F. W. H.
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Nature. 74: 122. Je. 7, ’06. 750w.
“Dr. Saleeby has mastered his subject and knows what he wants to explain. He has a style lucid, incisive, exact, and boldly individual, and, considering his scientific enthusiasm, a sense of humor remarkably sane.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Beyond his exposition of his great master, ‘an immortal,’ it does not appear that Dr. Saleeby has contributed anything of importance upon the subject of evolution.”
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Outlook. 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 240w.
“Latest masterpiece of philosophy. Such recognition [of predecessors] does not grate, but rather makes an agreeable impression—and this, together with the use of the highest scientific ability and the purest English, makes this work invaluable in every way.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 790w.
R. of Rs. 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 130w.
Salter, Emma Gurney. Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.
“A very valuable manual.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 350w.
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Cath. World. 82: 847. Mr. ’06. 210w.
“Pictures of the saint began to be made as early as the thirteenth century, and are usually to be found in rather out-of-the-way places, such as Greccio, Subiaco, Pescia, etc. Not the least valuable portions of Miss Salter’s book are the few pages of ‘Practical hints’ for the traveler, showing him how to reach these places.”
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Dial. 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The author does not suffer from the modern disease—the fussiness of expert knowledge; and the little book disarms criticism because it is so unpretending.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 150w.
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Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
“An entirely sound, useful, practical, much-needed work, which it would be difficult adequately to praise, and impossible almost to overestimate.”
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Sat. R. 100: 849. D. 30, ’05. 1010w.
Salter, William. Iowa: the first free state in the Louisiana purchase. **$1.20. McClurg.
“The little book seems quite free from errors.” E. E. Sparks.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 442. Ja. ’06. 510w.
Saltus, Edgar Evertson. Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident. †$1.25. Wessels.
“The book’s superficial smartnesses fail to conceal its lack of serious intention.”
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Critic. 48: 574. Je. ’06. 30w.
Saltus, Edgar Evertson. Vanity Square. †$1.25. Lippincott.
This “story of Fifth avenue life” written in the author’s clever vein is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the joys that wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including his charming wife and child. A woman of rare beauty comes into his home to nurse his little girl, and then developes a most heinous plot in which this beautiful viper tries to murder the wife by means of a subtle poison, so that she may win the husband and his wealth. In the excitement of this discovery and the events which follow, in their selfish joy at their re-union and their re-found happiness, they allow her to go unchallenged, and discover too late that she has made another woman and another home her prey.
305“Mr. Saltus has a strange taste in adjectives, and invents words that are new to our dictionaries.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 220w.
“Is a smart and interesting story; no better, ethically, perhaps than the ordinary ‘society novel’ but immeasurably better than most of that kind in its literary graces.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 365. Je. 9, ’06. 860w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
Sanborn, Katherine Abbott (Kate Sanborn). Old time wall papers. $5. Literary collector press, Greenwich, Conn.
An account of the pictorial papers of our forefathers’ walls, which includes, also, a study of the historical development of wall-paper making and decoration. Her treatment covers the following subjects: From mud walls and canvas tents to decorative papers, Progress and improvement in the art, Earliest wall papers in America, Wall papers in historic homes, Notes from here and there, and Revival and restoration of old wall papers.
“Should make a strong appeal to collectors of antiques as well as those interested in primitive house decoration.”
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Bookm. 24: 177. O. ’06. 330w.
“Miss Sanborn has had a most interesting subject in old time wall papers and she has treated it in a delightful manner.”
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Critic. 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“Her book is likely to become a standard, and people who care for antiques will wish to own it.”
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Dial. 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 740w.
Sanborn, Mary Farley. Lynette and the congressman. †$1.50. Little.
“Just a love story—and a particularly nice one.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 190w.
Sanday, Rev. William. Criticism of the fourth Gospel. **$1.75. Scribner.
Eight lectures on the Morse foundation delivered in the Union seminary, New York, in October and November, 1904. Stress is laid upon the internal argument for the authenticity of the fourth Gospel.
“The present volume bears the familiar marks that are characteristic of all Canon Sanday’s work: learning, clearness, fairness to opponents, judiciousness in judgment, conservatism.” Ernest D. Burton.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 115. Ja. ’06. 840w.
Reviewed by James Lindsay.
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Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 372. Ap. ’06. 630w.
Reviewed by James Drummond.
Hibbert J. 4: 442. Ja. ’06. 1880w.
“It seems a little strange that one so openminded as Professor Sanday should be unable to distinguish between intentional fraud and innocent pseudonymity, yet it is this inability which holds him to the traditional opinion on the question under discussion.”
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Ind. 59: 987. O. 26, ’05. 720w.
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Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ’05. 40w.
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Lond. Times. 4: 314. S. 29, ’05. 1690w.
Spec. 96: 306, F. 24, ’06. 160w.
Sanday, Rev. William. Outlines of the life of Christ **$1.25. Scribner.
“The work is done with all the author’s painstaking care, scholarly balance and fairness of mind; a mind ever open to new light, but instinctively leaning to conservative positions.” W. Jones-Davies.
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Hibbert J. 4: 933. Jl. ’06. 1260w.
Sandys, Edwyn. Sporting sketches. **$1.75. Macmillan.
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Ind. 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“As a sample of the better class of sporting literature Mr. Sandys’s work would be difficult to beat.” R. L.
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Nature. 73: 149. D. 14, ’05. 390w.
Sandys, John Edwin. Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.” P. S. A.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Fairest girlhood. **$1.50. Revell.
With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts, Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades, Christian service, and kindred subjects.
“Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”
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Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs. Sangster’s literary work.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“It deals with almost every phase of the life of girls, and is full of helpful suggestions.”
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Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Radiant motherhood. **$1. Bobbs.
“The book as a whole is rich in matter of vital interest and worth to home-builders.”
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Arena. 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 310w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Story Bible. **$2. Moffat.
A group of sixty-two stories, forty-eight of which are from the Old Testament, and fourteen, from the New. They are intended for children as an introduction to the Bible itself.
“Like all of Mrs. Sangster’s writings, this book for children is pervaded with the beautiful and gentle spirit of her personality. To the more modern students of the Bible the book may seem inadequate. The author has revealed no unusual insight in finding the central theme of the stories told. Also from the point of view of present educational thought the book is faulty.” Sophia Lyon Fahs.
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Bib. World. 28: 349. N. ’06. 300w.
Critic. 47: 577. D. ’05. 80w.
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Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
Sankey, Ira David. Sankey’s story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos. *75c. S. S. times co.
The life story of Mr. Sankey followed by the words and music of four of his most popular hymns forms the first part of the little volume while the larger portion “is devoted to brief 306narratives of the circumstances occasioning the compositions and the incidents connected with the use of the very many of the ‘Gospel hymns’ so effective in Mr. Sankey’s ‘singing the Gospel’ which Mr. Moody preached.” (Outlook.)
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Bib. World. 27: 480. Je. ’06. 20w.
“The book is of interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 250w.
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Outlook. 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 140w.
“The book is packed full of human interest.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Santayana, George. Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress. 5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Those who seek an abode for an abundant and varied life will find in his five volumes plans and elevations, together with many admirable suggestions for beautiful features or details very suitable for such a necessarily palatial residence as a developed modern mind requires.” T. Sturge Moore.
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Acad. 69: 1313. D. 16, ’05. 650w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“One cannot take leave of Professor Santayana without grateful recognition of the excellencies of his style and marvelous lucidity and untechnical character of his language.”
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 161. Ja. ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
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Ath. 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 1230w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volumes on Art and Society are excellent. But his discussion of Religion calls to mind the theory that no heretic has ever been condemned for heresy.” George Hodges.
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Atlan. 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Few readers will turn from its pages without consciousness of some mental renovation, without a whetting of some blunted perception.” H. B. Alexander.
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Bookm. 22: 527. Ja. ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
Current Literature. 40: 411. Ap. ’06. 1450w.
Reviewed by A. K. Rogers.
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Dial. 40: 87. F. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“For the combination of fertility, sanity, and keenness of insight in the criticism of life and human ideals, with a high degree of literary charm, it would be difficult to point its equal in modern philosophical literature.”
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Dial. 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by F. C. S. Schiller.
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Hibbert J. 4: 462. Ja. ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has well earned, therefore, the sustained interest which his readers continue to take in his ideas and in his style from first to last. And he has succeeded also in conveying a distinct impression of his individual soul which cannot but charm and instruct even those who differ widely from his views and dissent from the philosophic solutions which he favors.” F. C. S. Schiller.
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Hibbert J. 4: 936. Jl. ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 3–5.)
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Ind. 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Brilliantly written and stimulating exposition of his philosophy of life.”
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Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“It was to be expected that Professor Santayana’s volume on art would be authoritative; and in the main this expectation is not disappointed.” A. W. Moore.
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J. Philos. 3: 211. Ap. 12, ’06. 6300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite the discordant note of finalism, it still remains that nowhere has the essentially vital character of reason been more clearly, forcefully and gracefully stated than in these volumes. Moreover, the distinctive thing in Professor Santayana’s important contribution is that this character of reason has been exhibited, not in formal and dialectic fashion, but by scholarly appeal to the various continual ‘fields’ of experience.” A. W. Moore.
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J. Philos. 3: 469. Ag. 16, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 5.)
Lit. D. 32: 362. Mr. 10, 06. 950w.
“Its philosophy may be admirable, but it is unintelligible to one not a trained metaphysician, and its style seems constantly on the verge of a lucidity which as constantly proves elusive.”
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Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work remains of high interest as a human document, and abounds in memorable sayings and incitements to quotations.”
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Nation. 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If it fails wholly to please us it must be because we are too weak to care for the truth, or too lazy to follow it. One can hardly fancy a work on natural science more clear or more logical.” Bliss Carman.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 3870w.
“The fundamental misconceptions that have been noticed in the former volumes stand out in this. Professor Santayana’s skeptical criticism of scientific method and progress has the advantage of a charming literary style.”
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Outlook. 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is a work nobly conceived and adequately executed.” John Dewey.
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Science, n.s. 23: 223. F. 9, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
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Yale R. 15: 338. N. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
Sargent, Dudley Allen. Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
Believing that the training of the body should be placed upon the same educational basis as the training of the intellect, Dr. Sargent has published these papers as pioneer efforts toward the realization of his ideals. The earlier physical condition of the American people is described, and the urgent necessity for some form of physical training is shown, then follow chapters which contain “the principle theories which the author has employed in evolving a comprehensive system of physical training.” The table of contents includes; Physical education in colleges, The individual system of physical training, Athletes in secondary schools, Military drill in the public schools, and Physical training in the school and college curriculum.
Satchell, William. Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Owes its undeniable charm partly to the skill with which the author has utilised an unfamiliar and impressive background, and partly to qualities of sympathy and humour together with breadth and freshness of view.”
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Acad. 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
Saunders, Margaret Baillie-.Saints in society. †$1.50. Putnam.
The author’s first work accepted by Mr. Fisher Unwin for his “First novel library.” “A poor young couple become suddenly rich and experience all the debilitating effects of great wealth and a high social position in consequence. The husband forsakes the noble ideas of his younger days and finally dies unhappily. The widow founds a baby farm, where she lives quietly until it is decent for her to receive the lover whom she acquired, but held virtuously at bay, during her husband’s lifetime.” (Ind.)
307“Her story is interesting, and it is written with a kind of rough power, but it does not come within a thousand miles of being literature, while considered as a picture of modern English life it appears to us to be frankly farcical.”
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Acad. 69: 1105. O. 21, ’05. 550w.
“Mrs. Baillie-Saunders’s style is much the best thing about her novel. It is picturesque and clear, and has vivacity.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 320w.
“The author may be a little arbitrary—but the book interests and half convinces.”
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Critic. 48: 510. Je. ’06. 330w.
“Was intended to be a good book.... But it is simply another case of people being led into temptation instead of out of it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A well conceived, but far too cursorily executed book.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 450w.
“Here we have one more thesis novel, but despite the numbers of such this bears itself with a distinction quite its own.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“The author writes with superficial smartness, but fails to impress her readers with the reality of her convictions or the artistic command of her material.”
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Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 755. Je. ’06. 300w.
“Her work is an odd mixture of cleverness and absurdity, of improbability and realism, or knowledge and ignorance.”
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Sat. R. 100: 725. D. 2, ’05. 160w.
“It is to be hoped that if Mrs. Baillie-Saunders continues to write she will acquire her experience at first hand, and will take rather more pains in the construction of her story.”
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Spec. 96: 63. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
Sauter, Edwin. Faithless favorite, a mixed tragedy. Edwin Sauter, 1331 N. 7th St., St. Louis.
A play founded on old Saxon chronicles in which such historical personages as King Edgar, Athelstane, Athelwold, Elfrida and Dunstan figure. “It contains a deal of frank language and some bitterness.” (N. Y. Times.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 70w.
Savage, Charles Woodcock. Lady in waiting; being extracts from the diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady in waiting to her majesty Queen Marie Antoinette. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The romance of a little French countess in the court of Marie Antoinette.... Escaping ‘paying the debt’ that all her family paid with their lives, the lady fled to America, where she won the republican court at Washington as she had the aristocratic court of France. We are gratified to know that her sweetness and beauty were rewarded by happy love and a home in her own country at last.”—Outlook.
“Much familiar historical material is worked into the plot, but the style is good.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 70w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 322. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Is interesting, though not novel either in plot or style.”
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Outlook. 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.
Savage, Minot Judson. America to England, and other poems. **$1.35. Putnam.
“There are some notably good poems in the new volume.”
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Reader. 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 260w.
Savage, Minot Judson. Life’s dark problems; or, Is this a good world? **$1.35 Putnam.
“A distinct and powerful spiritual impulse is inevitable to the Christian who will read these luminous pages.” Edward Braislin.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 230w.
“The title of his book and the subjects considered suggest help and comfort to the sorrowful and perplexed: but if that be the author’s purpose, he has marred his work by slashing doctrinal controversy.”
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Ind. 59: 1541. D. 28. ’05. 190w.
Scarritt, Winthrop Eugene. Three men in a motor car. **$1.25. Dutton.
Mr. Scarritt, a former president of the Automobile club of America, tells the story of a tour which three enthusiastic automobilists made first thru England, thence to Paris, next to Lucerne by way of Basle, Switzerland, to Geneva, and back to Paris thru Aix-les-Bains. The illustrations show roads that an American only dreams of—the too-good-to-be-true variety.
“The intrinsic value of the book lies in the specific information that he gives to other automobilists as to how to ‘do’ Europe in a motor car.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Ind. 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 60w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
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Outlook. 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.
“Will be most thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by traveled Americans.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 90w.
Schafer, Joseph. History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Except for this neglect of the national point of view, Professor Schafer’s book could scarcely be improved.” F. H. Hodder.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 949. Jl. ’06. 480w.
“The author’s tone and treatment are admirable, and we can highly commend this most lucid history of the Pacific North-West.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.
Schauffler, Robert Haven. Where speech ends. $1.50. Moffat.
In this music makers’ romance “all the persons concerned are members of the great Herr Wolfgang’s symphony orchestra.... Franz, who is introduced as a boy violinist, sick with desire to be a real boy instead of a musical prodigy, grows up to be a very noble and serious sort of a genius. The other boy, who had the passion for the flute, also grows up, to play Jonathan to Franz’s David. And there is a girl. The girl plays the harp and writes poems, and she is very lovely and very good.... The other leading characters are a first violin, who is a villain, and the conductor, the famous Herr Wolfgang. The remainder of the orchestra is cast for comic parts.”—N. Y. Times.
“Nor can it honestly be said that Mr. Schauffler has given us a very satisfactory analysis of the musical temperament.”
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Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“The story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung together, charming in their freshness, and intimate in their revelation of the musician’s everyday life. It makes reading of an altogether wholesome and delightful sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 242. O. 6, ’06. 480w.
“It has an unhackneyed theme ... worked out in a convincing, if unskilful, way, and it tells an exceedingly pretty love story.”
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Lit. D. 33: 138. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.
308“There is no story except in a mechanical sense. The author is like his own young flutist—more absorbed than inspired.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 430w.
“A book not to be read very critically; its shortcomings are too obvious.”
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Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
Scherer, James Augustine Brown. Holy Grail. **$1.25. Lippincott.
“The Holy Grail” is the “binding theme that unites this sheaf of essays and addresses.” The first bears the title subject; the two following sketch the work of Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier respectively, than whom “no men since the days of Galahad and Percivale have more utterly lost themselves in the knightly quest;” and the last three essays are “The crusaders,” “Liberty and law” and “The century in literature.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 354. Je. 2, ’06. 530w.
Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 110w.
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio. Astronomy in the Old Testament. *$1.15. Oxford.
A scientific treatment of the scattered astronomical data of the Old Testament by the director of the Brere observatory in Milan. “The introduction discusses Israel’s learned men and its so-called scientific knowledge; and its general view of the physical world as seen in the book of Job. The firmament, the earth, and the abysses are sketched in a figure, which seems to represent as nearly as can be done, the Hebrew idea of the world. Indeed, it greatly aids the reader in understanding many hitherto obscure passages regarding the abyss, the depths of sheol, etc. With a master’s skill he treats stars and constellations—dependent, however, in many places on the results of Hebrew scholars for his word-meanings. The days, months, and the year of the Jewish calendar are particularly instructive after his discussion. While he recognizes some value in the Babylonian astronomical data, he is distinctly conservative in his use of them.” (Am. J. Theol.)
“We are disappointed to find that the Clarendon press should allow a book of such intrinsic value to leave its presses without an index of subjects and scripture texts. Such omission discounts its value in these times.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 210w.
“It is impossible to read this interesting little work without admiring the wealth of learning with which the author has discussed astronomical and chronological allusions in the Old Testament; and. for the reasons given above, the English edition will be of value even to those who have read the Italian.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 650. N. 11. 260w.
“Has been turned into very good English. The book with all its discursiveness or rather by reason of it, is quite entertaining.”
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Nation. 82: 246. Mr. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“All is most interestingly expressed, and the archæological and historical references are most valuable.”
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Nature. 74: 410. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Dr. Schiaparelli’s little book has been excellently translated, and is likely to be accepted as the final authority on questions relating to Hebrew astronomy.”
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Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.
Schillings, C. G. Flashlights in the jungle; tr. by F: Whyte from the Germ. with co-operation of the author. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Same; with title With flashlight and rifle; photographing by flashlight at night the wild animal world of equatorial Africa; tr. and abridged from the Germ. by Henry Zick. **$2. Harper.
A naturalist’s reproduction of the intimate life of animals “which no human eye had ever before witnessed.” “The lion, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, and hyena, monkeys, antelope, jackals, leopards, and many kinds of birds are the subjects. All of them Mr. Schillings has hunted, photographed, studied, and killed, often at the greatest risk.” (Outlook.)
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Ath. 1906, 1: 476. Ap. 21. 460w.
“His pluck, endurance, sincerity and enthusiasm are as real as his pictures.”
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Critic. 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“It is probably no exaggeration to say that this is the most remarkable book of wild animal photography that has ever been printed, but there our praise is inclined to stop. We can commend the laborious efforts of Mr. Schillings in gathering his elaborate scientific data, but we can hardly praise his narrative or descriptive skill.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 40: 232. Ap. 1, ’06. 780w.
“The translation [by F: Whyte] is a good one and appears to follow the text closely. It is a portrait gallery of wild life for Africa, such as is Wallihan’s ‘Camera shots at big game’ for the Rocky mountains.”
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Ind. 60: 221. Ja. 25, ’06. 720w.
Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 16w.
“The book ... is not a unified whole so much as a series of detached monographs in which a great deal too much is taken for granted. The work has obviously suffered in translation.”
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Lit. D. 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 760w.
“His observations of their habits, full of careful insight as they are, add a large number of substantial stones to the cairn of human knowledge.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 36. F. 2, ’06. 520w.
“The finest series of reproduction of photographs from life of the various animals encountered which have ever been produced.”
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Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 1660w.
“Neither he nor his translator, Frederick Whyte, excels in narrative or descriptive skill. The work ... is packed with information and suggestion.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 31. Ja. 20, ’06. 1300w.
“The volume contains what is probably the most remarkable series of photographs ever made of wild animals in their native haunts.”
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Outlook. 81: 717. N. 25, ’05. 80w.
“Aside from his photographs, Herr Schillings’s book is a valuable account of exploration and of hunting big game; it is a sturdy narrative, the dramatic value of which one does not have to be a hunter to appreciate.”
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Pub. Opin. 39: 602. N. 4, ’05. 140w.
“The translation seems to be well done, and the text is extremely interesting from end to end.” Francis H. Herrick.
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Science, n.s. 23: 540. Ap. 6, ’06. 2480w.
“His book is a real contribution to our knowledge of wild beasts.”
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Spec. 96: 343. Mr. 3, ’06. 900w.
Schmidt, Ferdinand. Gudran, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people” series, this old German epic, which traces its origin to the thirteenth century, is put into a simple prose form which brings the romance of Gudran the courageous maiden of long ago, within the reach of the less venturesome little maids of today.
309Schmidt, Ferdinand. Nibelungs, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
The translator has used the old form of English expression in this version of the Nibelungen Lied which gives it a quaintness in keeping with the story of Siedfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Hagen and the rest. The story has been slightly softened and some parts have been omitted to make it conform in both size and style to the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people” series.
Schmidt, Nathaniel. Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth, that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills, that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard His word.” R. T. Herford.
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Hibbert J. 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.
“No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”
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Ind. 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.
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Int. J. Ethics. 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w.
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Spec. 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.
Schnabel, Clark. Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“It is the best book of its kind, and that is the best that can be said of it.”
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Nation. 82: 11. Ja. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The translation, as well as the original, bears the impress of authority and direct knowledge.”
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Sat. R. 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a whole, the book is reliable. The material is sufficiently comprehensive to give a thorough review of present metallurgical practices and the history of their development from early times.” Joseph Struthers.
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Science, n.s. 23: 66. Ja. 12, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies. Saxons: a drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.
“‘The Saxons’ is one of the best reading dramas that has appeared in years. The thought is elevated and it is presented with the dignity that such a theme requires.”
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Arena. 35: 555. My. ’06. 580w.
Schouler, James. Americans of 1776. **$2. Dodd.
“‘An original study of life and manners, social, industrial, and political, for the revolutionary period.’ It comprises in substance occasional lectures given at Johns Hopkins university during the years 1901–1905.”—Am. Hist. R.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 746. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“The author of a standard history of the United States has here supplemented his larger canvases with what one might be tempted to call literary picture postals of colonial scenes.” Woodbridge Riley.
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Bookm. 23: 627. Ag. ’06. 1260w.
“Other writers have in recent times attempted with varying success to give us glimpses of the environment of our forefathers,—their homes, their furniture, and their customs; but no one has approached the task with the scholarly experience of Mr. Schouler.”
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Dial. 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 500w.
“Not deterred by the ‘dignity of history,’ the author has seized the straws floating upon the currents of colonial life and arranged them in an entertaining way.”
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Ind. 61: 221. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.
“A most entertaining and distinctly valuable volume. Hardly a detail escapes his eager scrutiny.”
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Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 720w.
“The author, indeed, makes no claim to originality of treatment, and if there is from first to last no observations of a profound or illuminating character, we have observed few misleading or erroneous statements.”
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Nation. 82: 347. Ap. 26. ’06. 340w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 110w.
“A novel monograph which should find a place in the working library of every student of American history and a wide circulation among the educated public generally.”
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Outlook. 83: 904. Ag. 16, ’06. 1040w.
Schuen, Rev. Joseph. Outlines of sermons for young men and young women; ed. by Rev. Edmund J. Werth. *$2. Benziger.
“Building materials,” “simple sketches,” “outlines,” are the author’s words for a series of chapters which he hopes will help the preacher to build finished addresses for young men and women in Roman Catholic leagues and sodalities. The young man’s aim, and amusements, the path of iniquity, drunkenness, impurity, The Christian young woman’s crown, the virtue of modesty, wolves in sheep’s clothing and kindred subjects are treated.
Schultz, Hermann. Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75. Macmillan.
Am. J. Theol. 10: 372. Ap. ’06. 280w.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 640w.
Schupp, Ottokar. William of Orange, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
This volume in the “Life stories for young people” series, furnishes an elevating study for youth in the life of William the Silent and the noble part he played in the history of the Netherlands. The whole story of cruelty and bloodshed is given in a such way that the moral is not lost.
310Schuyler, Livingston Rowe. Liberty of the press in American colonies before the revolutionary war; with particular reference to conditions in the royal colony of New York. **$1. Whittaker.
“The very first amendment adopted for the Constitution of the United States was that which forbids congress making any law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. What existed in this country before that time in regard to the freedom of the press is told in a most interesting and curious way in this monograph. The several chapters take up the question as it existed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the Southern colonies, while the conclusions reached in the final chapter show that at the close of the period under discussion there was really no liberty of the press as we now understand the term.”—Outlook.
“Authorities in print have mainly been consulted; dates are lacking in places where they ought to appear, and where they could have been given with a little further research; and the index is inadequate.”
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Nation. 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 520w.
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Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
Schuyler, William. Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
With a setting true to historical fact, and in the spirit of reverence the author has traced the important events of the closing years of Jesus’ mission. The story is in the form of letters written by a nephew of Pontius Pilate to a friend in Athens. There are near-by views of the disciples, of Mary Magdalene, of people whom Jesus healed, of the Roman officials and of the mob. The book has the atmosphere of dramatic intensity thruout.
“Aside from the intrinsic value of the narrative ... the interest of the book lies in its unusual point of view and in the vraisemblance which the author has contrived to impart to a contemporary account of the momentous epoch.”
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Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
Schwartz, Julia Augusta. Elinor’s college career. †$1.50. Little.
The girl who came to college for fun, the one who was sent, the daughter of wealth who came for the sake of atmosphere, and the “shabby girl” whom the other three call a genius are roommates and chums during their four years at college—presumably Vassar. Their frolics and study make anything but tame pastime for the young reader bent upon wholesome entertainment.
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Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“There is very little of the story element in the book, but the author is skillful and vivid in her portrayal of student life and of the characters of the young women, and the young girls who are looking forward to a college career will find the book very readable.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 760. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
Scollard, Clinton. Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
“His rhythms are raised above mediocrity only by their almost unvaried pomp. His style is in keeping; it is lacking in precision as much as in restraint.”
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Acad. 70: 59. Ja. 20, ’06. 480w.
Scott, Duncan Campbell. New world lyrics and ballads. 60c. Morang.
“Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown, history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from poetry.”—Nation.
“Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”
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Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.
Scott, Eva. King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
“A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.
Scott, John Reed. Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The mythical kingdom of Valeria becomes very real to the reader who follows the fortunes of the young American army officer who becomes a grand duke and a suitor for the hand of his new found cousin, the beautiful princess royal. The story is full of love and intrigue, of court life, masques and duels and one meets a king, a villain, an adventuress, a dashing prince, a very human princess and many other people both brave and clever in the course of the well devised plot.
“While the book is not without exaggeration and incongruity it at least keeps above the level of the ‘opera bouffe.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 51. S. ’06. 510w.
“The story is a capital one of its kind.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Those with a taste for love, sword, and mystery in liberal mixture will find this volume a pleasant toothful.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
Scott, Robert H. Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.
“Captain Scott’s account of the voyage of the ‘Discovery’ is the most important narrative of adventure and investigation in the Antarctic regions that has been produced in the last half century.” Albert White Vorse.
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Bookm. 23: 292. My. ’06. 1780w.
“Despite blemishes, this story of effort will long endure as a standard of high endeavor and heroic accomplishment.” General A. W. Greely.
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Ind. 60: 33. Ja. 4, ’06. 2590w.
“An intensely interesting story of the adventures of his party.”
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Lit. D. 32: 140. Ja. 27, ’06. 1110w.
“The narrative of Captain Scott easily takes rank among the foremost books of travel and discovery which a half-century has brought out, and it will be read with the same pleasure that both old and young like to associate with the reading of Livingstone and Kane.”
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Nation. 82: 13. Ja. 4, ’06. 1710w.
“Is a most valuable contribution to the knowledge of what will probably always be one of the most interesting parts of the Antarctic continent. It is written in a charmingly easy and fluent style; the narrative is modest and frank: and the story is always pleasant reading.” J. W. Gregory.
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Nature. 73: 297. Ja. 25, ’06. 2610w.
“Probably the most complete account of the antarctic regions ever published in English.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 100w.
311Scott, Sir Walter. Complete poetical works; with introd. by Charles Eliot Norton. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” this pocket edition of Scott contains besides the complete text full editorial helps.
Seaman, Louis Livingston. Real triumph of Japan; conquest of the silent foe. **$1.50. Appleton.
“Major Seaman expatiates further in this volume upon the same theme exploited by him in his former account of his experiences with the Japanese army—the success of the Japanese officials in preventing and curing disease. The reasons for this remarkable record are the simple, non-irritating food of the Japanese soldier, the obedience to orders of the surgeons invariably displayed, and the thorough preparation and constant vigilance of those in charge of the health of the army. Major Seaman considers this a greater victory than that won on the field of battle, and makes an earnest plea for similar measures in the American army.”—Critic.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 360w.
“The book is deserving of more careful consideration than ‘From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ as it enlarges upon the reasons for the statements made in that readable volume.”
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Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 140w.
“The American patriot, the soldier in the ranks and his relative at home, as well as the book-critic, can gladly commend this well-written work and be thankful for it. It is a trumpet-blast of prophecy.” William Elliot Griffis.
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Dial. 40: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 1130w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 650w.
“Is perhaps a rather more seasoned and mature judgment than the other books.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 150w.
“Dr. Seaman’s book is worth reading from end to end.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 330w.
Seawell, Molly Elliot. Chateau of Montplaisir: 4 full-page il. by Gordon Grant. †$1.25. Appleton.
A poor Frenchman, Louis Victor de Latour inherits with no income the dilapidated Chateau of Montplaisir. He is the object of interest to one Victor Louis de Latour, a soap-boiler who offers 300,000 francs for the privilege of sharing the glory of the name and placing the family crest on his carriage. Among the gay group who are responsible for a series of surprising situations is “the antique Comtesse de Beauregard, with a predilection for youthful habiliments and abhorrence for piety in men.” (N. Y. Times.)
“This trivial tale is quite unworthy of the author of ‘Children of destiny.’”
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Critic. 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“It is sparkling with humor and is full of amusing situations.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
“Pure merriment, absurd combinations, delicious impertinence, sparkle throughout these pages.”
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Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 90w.
Seawell, Molly Elliot. Loves of the Lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A midshipman upon one of his English majesty’s ships of the line who takes part in a successful engagement with the French and thereby wins promotion, tells the story of the beautiful Lady Arabella, ward of his uncle Sir Philip Hawkshaw, whom he at first loves and then comes to despise. A joy to the eye, Lady Arabella is a menace to the morals. A lover of cards and a trifler with men, she throws her heart at the feet of a man who will not have it, and all but swears away the life of an impetuous youth whose love she has spurned and who tried to elope with her, then later, to spite them both, she marries the head of their house and thru her first-born succeeds in cutting them both off from a fortune. Other characters, however, share the honors with Arabella and there is a truly true love story which is not hers.
Seawell, Molly Elliot. The victory. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The scenes of the story are laid at the time of the Civil war. The adopted daughter of a Virginia family is married to a son of the house, who goes over to the union lines. She is very young and does not know what real love is, although her husband adores her. While he is away fighting, a French family moves into the neighborhood, and their son and the girl learn to love each other. Both, however, respect her marriage vows, and neither tells the other of the attachment. The girl’s husband is killed in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
“While there is nothing particularly original in theme or style, the story is well told and the characters are lifelike and interesting.”
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Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs. Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.
“The book is full of humorous touches.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”
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Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
Secret life: being the book of a heretic. **$1.50. Lane.
“In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’ Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul etc.”—N. Y. Times.
“Ostensibly, it is a diary in which a married woman, of middle age, moving in a cultivated circle of American society, sets down the wild, original, heretical ideas which she has elaborated during her travels in Europe. Actually, it is a story of the spiritual adventures of a commonplace mind of a chameleon nature vagrant among unrealised worlds of thought.”
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Acad. 71: 394. O. 20, ’06. 1020w.
“However much we may differ from her expressions of opinion, their frankness and sincerity combined with the author’s genuine culture and love for literature and art in all forms make them worth reading.”
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Critic. 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 140w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Banks.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 1630w.
“The excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy certainly deserve to have their author known.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. Shadow of life. †$1.50. Century.
If indeed it is in the shadow of things that 312this story pursues its way, it is such a shadow as Ruskin attributes to disappointment, the Titian twilight in which one sees the “real color of things with deeper truth than in the most dazzling sunshine.” Gavin and Eppie are two lonely children, hungering for happiness, who during a brief summer in a Scottish country home exchange their weird confidences. During sixteen years, Gavin is absent, then returns to find Eppie a splendid young woman of such strength, sweetness and daring that she seemed a “Flying victory” done by Velasquez. The romance that is quickened to the point of vows is blighted by temperamental differences. Gavin forces Eppie who loved life and battle to see that he would suffocate her, that he was the negation of everything that she believed in. The tragedy is one of helplessness.
“The book is an achievement, and an achievement on a high and unusual plane.”
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Acad. 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
“Even more compelling in its hold over the imagination of the reader and in its searching analysis of the hidden springs of human action than her previous work.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“Withal, the thing has been done really well.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7, 260w.
“Has written ‘an impossible love-story’ with immense skill, delicacy and grace.”
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Critic. 48: 464. My. ’06. 550w.
“The story is interesting, the scenery is charming, and the author leads her characters thru it according to her despair, a despair which she spreads over the reader’s mind with astonishing wisdom of words.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 650w.
“The author has employed a seductive, pseudo-mystical manner of expression and made a deliberate effort to destroy every reason for the hopes and affections which fill life with interest.”
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Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Mrs. Sedgwick works on a high plane, and many who care little for the metaphysics of the book will value it for its graces of style and grasp of character.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 420w.
“It is a book of great power and significance. The author’s grasp of her material and her instinct for what is vital have kept her characters thoroughly alive—even Gavin, in spite of himself—but the novel would have gained in every way had not the drama been so often obscured under the study of a soul.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 1490w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 390w.
“Is unreal and unconvincing”
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Spec. 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 280w.
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, jr. Short history of Italy. **$2. Houghton.
A short history of Italy which covers a wide range of years—from 476 to the end of the nineteenth century. It “makes no pretense to original investigation,” but aims to give a bird’s-eye view of Italian history as a whole.
“Mere differences of view as to relative emphasis will keep no fair-minded person from doing full justice to the author’s grasp, his sober judgment, and his charm of manner.” Ferdinand Schwill.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 877. Jl. ’06. 740w.
“He shows good judgment in selecting the points of greatest interest, and putting the emphasis there.” J. W. Moncrief.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 348. Ap. ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has done an exceedingly difficult thing better than it was ever done—in English, at least—before, and about as well, one may venture to affirm, as it ever can be done.”
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Atlan. 97: 554. Ap. ’06. 490w.
“For the reading public rather than the scholarly world, the volume combines brevity, conciseness and a grasp of essentials with accuracy of fact and a pleasing narrative style.”
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Bookm. 22: 645. F. ’06. 240w.
“It is hard to determine for what class of readers this book was written.”
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Critic. 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“It is not childish enough for children, it does not show sufficient research to give it value to the student, and is far too casual in its descriptions of many events ... to be useful to persons of little knowledge, but much desire to learn history.”
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Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 70w.
“He has a good sense of proportion, and good ideas of historical perspective; he writes in a vivid style, and possesses a keen sense of humor which contributes not a little to the entertaining quality of his book.”
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Dial. 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Nevertheless, after making all necessary deductions, we conclude by recommending the book to the public for which it was written. It has no competitors in English.”
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Ind. 60: 166. Ja. 18, ’06. 820w.
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Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“It is a mine of condensed information, imparted brilliantly and trenchantly, and abounds in philosophic generalizations which at once visualize and explain.”
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Lit. D. 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has little to fear from the abstract of Sismond’s ‘Italian republics’ (1832). good but antiquated, or from the Rev. William Hunt’s ‘History of Italy’ (1875), a dry textbook.”
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Nation. 82: 391. My. 10, ’06. 740w.
“It is a lively and interesting narrative that he has written.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 794. N. 25, ’05. 780w.
“The present volume has suffered from the necessity of over-condensation.”
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Outlook. 81: 942. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.
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Spec. 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 110w.
Seeley, Levi. Elementary pedagogy. *$1.25. Hinds.
“The main purpose of the school is to furnish instruction,” says Dr. Seeley, and he gives valuable information and advice to young teachers along the lines of elementary processes.
“Adds one more to the list of educational works, already too numerous, which are chiefly compendiums of the ideas of others with a modicum of the writer’s own thought. In plan of organisation and continuity of development, the book is distinctly weak.”
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Bookm. 24: 296. N. ’06. 160w.
“Dr. Seeley’s ideas are always sane and practical, and no one need hesitate to follow him, always of course with intelligent choice and adaptation.”
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Dial. 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.
“Dr. Seeley writes for young teachers what every parent may read with profit. It is a well-digested manual of practical wisdom, well assorted and packed.”
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Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 180w.
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. Principles of economics; with special reference to American conditions. *$2.25. Longmans.
Professor Seligman’s work is divided into four parts: Introduction; Elements of economic life; Structure and process of economic life; Conclusion.
313“The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which enables him in many cases to present more than one view and explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.
“The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.
“So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C. V.
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Bookm. 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly, effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.
“With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’ has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any other recent work.”
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Nation. 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.
“His style is remarkably clear, easy, logical, and candid.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
“We commend this volume heartily to any thoughtful layman who desires to get from a responsible authority some grounding in the essential principles of industrial laws.”
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Outlook. 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 300w.
“There are passages in Professor Seligman’s book where either the reasoning is at fault or else the exposition so brief that it is impossible to make out just what the reasoning is. Sometimes, too, there is positive carelessness. The book is an encyclopedic plan, and, as a textbook, suffers from covering so much ground.” Frank W: Taussig.
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Quarterly Journal of Economics. 20: 622. Ag. ’06. 4100w.
“This book is interesting both as a restatement of economic theory, and particularly as an exposition of actual conditions in this country.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“A thorough, well-balanced treatment of the subject which he handles.” G. W. Flux.
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Yale R. 15: 93. My. ’06. 840w.
Selincourt, Basil de. Giotto. *$2. Scribner.
“Surveys the painter’s works with thoroughgoing system, and it is rational in criticism.” Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 280. F. ’06. 70w.
“His arguments are not always the soundest, nor is his criticism as discriminating as it might be. Moreover, his treatment of the whole subject lacks thoroughness. Should prove of much value to beginners in the study of art, and may serve them better than would many a more scientific but less enthusiastic work.”
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Dial. 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.
Selkirk, Emily. Stigma. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
A Southern girl teaching in Arkansas and the Southern principal of the school appear on the stage of this drama as champions of the negro race. One of the chief actors is a mulatto girl whose “stigma” of blood makes life unbearable, so she ends it. “Equal educational and political advantages for black and white are urged, and from the text furnished in ‘a crimson-backed novel by a Baptist preacher’ the unequal standards obtaining in the South and all over the country are strongly arraigned. There is unquestioned truth in the representation, and it may be well to meet an appeal to public opinion in fiction by fiction.” (Outlook.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 290w.
“The story is extremely painful, and as a story is simple almost to baldness.”
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Outlook. 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.
Selous, Edmund. Bird watcher in the Shetlands. **$3.50. Dutton.
A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his “tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)
“There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr. Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious, though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and luxuriant.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.
“The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”
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Dial. 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.
“It deserves its place alongside with the investigations and vaticinations of Thoreau. In fact, it is one of the best books of its class that we have happened upon these many months.”
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Ind. 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 600w.
“Altogether, the book commends itself for unusual suggestiveness and interest.”
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Nation. 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 310w.
“He discourses, with digressions, delightfully upon his experiences.”
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Nature. 73: 414. Mr. 1, ’06. 730w.
“You read his notes as he writes them, and begin presently to catch his enthusiasm, and sharing in imagination his physical point of view to share his mental attitude also—in part, at least.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 720w.
“With this somewhat whimsical humor the book abounds—but more substantial and certainly of great value to the student are the detailed records of observations, both birds and seals having been minutely and most patiently studied.”
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“A sadly disappointing book.”
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Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 270w.
Semple, Rev. H. C. Anglican ordinations; theology of Rome and of Canterbury in a nutshell. 35c. Benziger.
A little book which addresses Catholics directly.
“A short, clear, temperately written essay from which anybody, in an hour, may get up the facts and arguments of the case.”
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Cath. World. 84: 399. D. ’06. 180w.
314Serao, Mathilde. In the country of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Richard Davey. **$2. Dutton.
“As the translator says in his brief note, Signora Serao writes from the point of view of a very orthodox and fervent Catholic, who unhesitatingly accepts not only the Gospels, but also the ancient traditions of her church. She sails along the Nile, goes through Cairo, sees the Pyramids, and goes on to Syria. She then takes in Jerusalem, visiting all the places of interest, Galilee, and other places visited by Christ or connected with his life and works.”—N. Y. Times.
“The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens the whole story.”
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Ind. 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“It is not quite perfect. There are florid passages which we regret, chiefly, perhaps, because the translator has not exercised a wise discretion. There are also slight mistakes.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1750w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Davey’s translation is admirable for Anglo-Saxon readers, for he admits that in his work he has lopped off certain extravagant expressions. Extravagant or not, Mathilde Serao is seldom uninteresting.”
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Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 100w.
“There is much in this book to charm the reader. But it is impossible not to be struck by her curious ignorance of what one would suppose every visitor to the Holy Land would be sure to know.”
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Spec. 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 390w.
Sergeant, Philip Walsingham. Burlesque Napoleon: being the story of the life and the kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. *$3. Brentano’s.
“An account of the flashy Jerome Bonaparte in court and camp and at home. It is one of many books on members of the Bonaparte family published of late years which are chiefly read with interest for the sidelights that they may throw on Napoleon, and a good specimen of its class.”—Sat. R.
“The book adds nothing to the sum of our knowledge of the period.”
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Acad. 69: 1183. N. 11, ’05. 310w.
“The narrative is well put together, and the style is not without merit, though occasionally it is disfigured by slipshod expressions.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 740w.
“There is no lack of incident ... but it is poorly and thinly written, and throughout the author seems to be in an attitude of apology for having written it at all.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 330w.
“His literary powers are not sufficient to impart freshness or interest to such a personage.”
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Nation. 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Sergeant is a lively raconteur.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 337. My. 26, ’06. 1450w.
Sat. R. 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 120w.
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
Bookm. 23: 90. Mr. ’06. 450w.
“Except for the reindeer story, Mr. Seton has made certain advances here even over his first work. He shows greater variety of treatment, more flexibility of style, and less strain.”
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Critic. 48: 122. F. ’06. 140w.
“Read with a mind closed to doubt, however, they are hugely entertaining and no better book could be asked for an evening’s diversion.”
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Lit. D. 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“His methods are not sensational, his literary art is excellent, his knowledge is wide.”
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Nation. 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 230w.
“Alike to young and old the book may be heartily commended as an excellent example of the best style of animal biography.”
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Nature. 74: 295. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
Spec. 97: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 1770w.
Severy, Melvin Linwood. Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Admirers of Sir Conan Doyle will find this detective story replete with the inductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes, while missing the highest artistic finish of their favorite.”
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Ind. 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
Sewell, Cornelius V. V. Common-sense gardens. **$2. Grafton press.
A veritable spur to people who neglect the garden possibilities of their bit of earth. “Two points in this excellent and amply illustrated book are worthy of special notice,—the author’s praises of box, and his pictures of enclosed gardens.” (Dial.) “The instructive volume is illustrated by good reproductions of photographs, and decorated in excellent taste at the beginnings of the chapters.” (Nation.)
Reviewed by Sara Andrew Shafer.
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Nation. 82: 435. My. 24, ’06. 1020w.
“The hints are such as may be followed, as a rule, by people of ordinary means, and it is to the credit of the work that it always prefers the sensible and practical thing to that which is a fad of the day or which leans toward ostentation.”
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Outlook. 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
Shadwell, Arthur. Industrial efficiency: a comparative study of industrial life in England, Germany and America. 2 v. *$7. Longmans.
Dr. Shadwell’s investigations are the result “of laborious inquiries to which the authors of comparisons between the industrial conditions of different countries rarely condescend—inquiries conducted in England, Germany and the United States, and with ‘the help of hundreds of people, from the British ambassadors in Berlin and Washington to ordinary workmen,’ inquiries not merely in books and documents, but in many factories and workshops.... Rarely do chief conclusions emerge in such distinctness and due proportion from a crowd of individual facts. Some of the chapters ... are models of economical investigation.”
“The style is excellent for its subject: even lucid, simple, carrying the reader insensibly forward through nearly a thousand pages without any sense of fatigue.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 660. Je. 2. 1450w.
“Two volumes of clear, interesting, forcible writing that are worthy to stand on our shelves alongside the classical works of Bryce and De Tocqueville.”
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Ind. 61: 751. S. 27, ’06. 1180w.
“To have written an original book upon a somewhat trite subject; to have set in a new light many facts which have been treated recently by a score of writers, some of them of no mean ability; to have made a narrative of dry facts readable as well as instructive, is a considerable achievement. It is not too much to say that Dr. Shadwell has accomplished all this.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 69. Mr. 2, ’06. 1750w.
“A shrewd observer of men and affairs, who has cared more to gather facts than to spin theories about them.”
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Nation. 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 840w.
“These volumes discuss [the topics] instructively and with scientific love of truth and lack of prejudice. The author is no faddist or theorist.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 272. Ap. 28, ’06. 2270w.
315“Throughout, these chapters are full of acute criticism and while it is a personal view which is put forward it is a view based not only on reading and travel but on countless interviews with all sorts and conditions of men.” Henry W. Macrosty.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 550. S. ’06. 1360w.
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Spec. 97: 493. O. 6, ’06. 1610w.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. **75c; limp. lea. **$1. Crowell.
“The editors are exceptionally well fitted for their work. Indeed, we doubt whether there are in America two persons better fitted for the task. Far and away the best popular set of Shakespeare that has appeared in America.”
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Arena. 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 340w.
Shakespeare, William. Poems and Pericles: being reproductions in facsimile of the original editions; with introds. and bibliographies by Sidney Lee. 5v. *$30. Oxford.
This work supplements the Clarendon press edition of the facsimile reproduction of the Shakespeare first folio, and contains besides, “Pericles” the four volumes of poems, “Venus and Adonis,” “Lucrece,” the “Sonnets,” and “The passionate pilgrim.” A great wealth of critical and historical matter is provided for each volume.
“We have met with few books more thoroughly satisfactory than this Shakespeare facsimile. The book, as it stands, is a treasure that ought to be in every library.”
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Acad. 69: 1282. D. 9, ’05. 1470w.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 838. D. 16. 2040w.
“The five introductions transcend in interest even Mr. Lee’s introduction of 1902.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 437. D. 15, ’05. 2050W.
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Nation. 82: 264. Mr. 29, ’06. 3020w.
“The Introductions and Bibliographies ... leave little or nothing to be desired. All that unwearied industry and research can acquire he has made his own.”
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Sat. R. 101: 80. Ja. 20, ’06. 1290w.
Spec. 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 140w.
Shakespeare, William. Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
“For the general reader who is interested in the history of the texts, it is a cheap and satisfactory substitute for the costly facsimiles of the Folio of 1623.”
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Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.
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Outlook. 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 70w.
Shakespeare, William. Twelfe night, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The famous first folio text of 1623 with its original Shakespearean spelling and punctuation is here reproduced in handy form and at a popular price, with notes which indicate the editorial changes of three centuries, an introduction, glossary, lists of variorum readings, and selected criticism.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 530w.
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Outlook. 83: 1007. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Man and the earth. **$1.50. Duffield.
“He has written an interesting little book, which will repay reading.”
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Dial. 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
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Engin. N. 55: 315. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“It would be difficult to match this little book with another so simple, so strong, so informed with material knowledge and so inspired with loving reverence for our common mother, the young old Earth.”
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Nation. 82: 285. Ap. 5, ’06. 1670w.
“Written by an eminent geologist who has command of a fascinating English style.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.
Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page. Masters of fate; the power of the will. **$1.50. Duffield.
Self-mastery over various kinds of disadvantages of life is the keynote of Mrs. Shaler’s study. In it are recorded “the achievements of noted persons who, under the stress of grave difficulties, have shown skill in marshalling their physical and spiritual forces to play the part of men.”
“Mrs. Shaler’s book should give chronic invalids renewed courage, and should help them to resist the disheartening down-pull of bodily weakness and decay.”
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Lit. D. 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 70w.
“A heroic spirit pulsates thru this book. It is an inspiring story, or rather a series of such stories, briefly told, and told for a purpose.”
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Outlook. 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 200w.
“Mrs. Shaler has chosen her examples happily. The book breathes precisely that spirit of high endeavor that is most bracing, and its admonition is for the sound as well as the feeble, for if the sorely hampered can do these works, what ought not to be done by the whole?”
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Putnam’s. 1: 317. D. ’06. 220w.
Shand, Alexander Innes. Days of the past: a medley of memories. **$3. Dutton.
“Not a mere bookman, but also a general amateur of life—a sportsman, a gastronomer, even a taker of ‘fliers,’ or, as he calls them, ‘flutters,’ on the stock exchange.” (N. Y. Times.) Mr. Shand records with a sure and steady touch the interesting phases of sixty-five years of memories. “Mr. Shand’s recollections of old Edinburg and the almost forgotten ecclesiastical Scotland in which Guthrie and Tulloch played their not unimportant parts shows him at his best. Next to these are his portraits of hosts of men of letters and journalists whom he has come across in his time, such as Blackwood, Delane, Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Lockhart, Kinglake, Hayward, and even Mr. George Meredith.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Shand’s memories, however, might with advantage have been less of a ‘medley.’ His tendency to hop from topic to topic produces a blurred impression, and he is provokingly chary of dates.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 460w.
“Written in vivacious and free-and-easy style not unmixed with slang.”
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Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“The author writes in a rapid, readable style and draws on an ample store of personal experience in many lands, although his adventures never approach the thrilling, or even the extraordinary.”
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Dial. 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Is not merely an amusing book, but also something far more valuable. It is an account unconscious, perhaps, but none the worse for that, of the philosophy of a happy life.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Mr. Shand’s peculiar weakness is gastronomic. He delights to record his various experiences in eating and drinking. On the other hand, his chapters on the changes in London and on Old Edinburgh, and his literary recollections, are both interesting and valuable.”
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Nation. 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 230w.
316“If he knows how to write, how can he help writing a delightful book out of his reminiscences of such an enjoying and enjoyed life? At any rate, Mr. Shand has not been able to help writing such a book.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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“The book is discursive and agreeable rather than important.”
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Outlook. 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 60w.
“This is one of the most delightful books of the reminiscences’ order that has been published for a long time.”
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Spec. 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ’05. 540w.
Sharp, Evelyn. Micky. $1.50. Macmillan.
An entertaining story of a sturdy little English boy and his brother who are left at home with their father and the servants while their mother is absent in Australia. “The book is designed to inculcate manners and morals in the young, and if it accomplishes this end there is little doubt that it will be worth while.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has both an excellent grasp of the childish mind, and a capital way of putting on paper its humors, limitations, and sincerity.”
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“Reminds us of that clever and charming story, ‘Helen’s babies.’”
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Lond. Times. 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 70w.
“An engaging little story, with an improbable plot, but very probable characters.”
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Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ’05. 110w.
“Is designed for older as well as young readers. The result is that it is hardly likely to absolutely hold the attention of either.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 915. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“It seems, however, more likely to interest older people who like to read about children than the children themselves.”
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Outlook. 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 30w.
“Miss Evelyn Sharp’s picture of a sensitive, imaginative child is most delicately and tenderly drawn.”
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Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 40w.
Sharpless, Isaac. Quakerism and politics: essays. $1.25. Ferris.
In his collection of essays and addresses, President Sharpless of Haverford college treats chiefly the political conditions of Pennsylvania, past and present, and the part played by members of the Society of Friends in the state politics.
“There are a few instances of careless proofreading in this volume.” Herman V. Ames.
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Ind. 61: 220. Jl. 26, ’06. 270w.
“A book which in general gives wholesome and needful counsel to Pennsylvania Quakerism as to its political duties and responsibilities.”
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Nation. 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 300w.
“Written from the Quaker point of view, they are valuable to non-Quakers as an exposition of the principles underlying Quaker conduct, and to Quakers as a stimulus to definite action in the direction of insuring political reforms.”
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Outlook. 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 250w.
Shattuck, George Burbank, ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.
“It is the most complete and authoritative work that has ever been published on these islands.”
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Ind. 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 220w.
Shaw, George Bernard. Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
Selections collected from the dramatic criticisms of Bernard Shaw during 1895–1898 when he sat with the “critical mighty and filled his eyes and ears with bad, mad, and mediocre plays.” So says Mr. James Huneker in his prefatory “Word.” Also, “Here is a plethora of riches. Remember, too, that when Shaw wrote the criticisms in this volume he was virginal to fame. It is his best work, the very best of the man. It contains his most buoyant prose, the quintessence of Shaw. His valedictory is incomparable. He found that after taking laughing gas he had many sub-conscious selves. He describes them.”
“The drama in America is about ten years behind that of England, and we are passing thru a transition period similar to that when these ‘Opinions’ were written, so they are especially pertinent.”
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Ind. 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 470w.
“Contains a large amount of entertaining matter. It is doubtful, however, whether the collection will prove beneficial to his reputation.”
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Nation. 83: 490. D. 6, ’06. 460w.
“A more or less patent examination of these essays has convinced at least one reader that they show flippancy, verbosity, unbounded egotism, and that they fail to rise above the pretentious mediocrity.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 898. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
Shaw, George Bernard. Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.
“In brief, it is the raw, inexperienced venture of an immensely witty person, formless in a way, full of pith, full of promise.” Mary Moss.
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Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“He leaves us just where he finds us, as far as any serious discussion of the question goes. The display of pyrotechnics in the story is not bad, though of course these be but pale and ineffectual fires beside the author’s later work.”
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Reader. 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 560w.
“Its cleverness is beyond question; so too is the frigidity of its characterisation. We can cordially recommend the first twenty-five out of the four hundred odd pages which the book contains.”
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Spec. 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: pleasant and unpleasant. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
The first of the two volumes contains the “unpleasant plays,” “Widowers’ houses,” “The philanderer,” and “Mrs. Warren’s profession.” They are so called because “their dramatic power is used to force the spectator to face unpleasant facts,” and in “dealing with economics social and moral relations, Shaw has delivered the most direct blow yet levelled by the stage against the cowardice of social compromise.” The “pleasant plays” are “Arms and the man,” “Candida,” “The man of destiny,” and “You never can tell.” They “deal less with the crime of society and more with its romantic follies.”
Ind. 61: 396. Ag. 16, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Shaw is not only entertaining in his plays, as are some other men, but he is also immensely entertaining in his prefaces.”
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Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.
R. of Rs. 33: 767. Je. ’06. 80w.
Shaw, George Bernard. Three plays for Puritans; being the third volume of his collected plays. **$1.25. Brentano’s.
A reprint of the 1900 edition of the three plays, The devil’s disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound’s conversion. The volume contains the author’s characteristic preface to the 1900 edition and a note—the only new matter included in the issue—in which the following statement appears: “Now that the 317turmoil has abated, the platformer, ever ready to seize upon the public’s passing whim, has told all he does not know about Shaw, the dust settled, one gets a clear perspective, and finds him standing pretty firmly after all.”
Shaw, Judson Wade. Uncle Sam and his children. **$1.20. Barnes.
“In prosecuting the work of his organization Mr. Shaw found everywhere a demand for a book that should not simply outline the machinery of the government, but should emphasize its special advantages and the duty of citizens in the use of their privileges. He has accordingly, embodied in the present volume an account of the struggles through which the founders of the country passed, a statement of the principles that actuated them, an outline of our territory and its resources, and some discussion of the perils that threaten us and how to meet and escape them.”—R. of Rs.
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Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 40w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 408. Je. 17, ’05. 170w.
“His book is a sort of elementary manual of American good-citizenship.”
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R. of Rs. 32: 638. N. ’05. 150w.
Shaw, L. H. De Visme. Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.
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Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M. Briefs for our times. *$1. Whittaker.
Some three dozen brief but strong pleas for Christian living under such headings as: The value of self control, The duty of service, Socialism true and false, Money mad, Choosing a life work, Begin at home, The gospel of wealth, The gospel of pain, “The house of mirth.”
“Mr. Sheedy seems to be a fearless, straightforward preacher, with a turn for the moral and practical, and with ability to couch his thought in vigorous English.”
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Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 140w.
Sheldon, Anna R. Pistoja [a guide book]. *$1.25. Brentano’s.
A “few pages of collated facts” gleaned from a variety of sources which throw light on “one of the most interesting cities in Tuscany, because of its charming situation, its long and varied history, its people—a hardy, vivacious, and well-favored race; as the birthplace of many illustrious men, patriots, jurists, and churchmen, scholars, poets, and artists, and finally, because of its valuable monuments of art.”