Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 23)
Reading edition
“If only a few more pages were devoted to the history of the town—half a dozen written in the proper spirit would suffice—this little volume would be as welcome in the study as it undoubtedly will be in the pocket of the tourist.”
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Nation. 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 490w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
“Supplies the lack of a convenient guide-book in English, handsomely illustrated. It was a happy thought and is well worked out.”
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Outlook. 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
Sheldon, Walter Lorenzo. Divine comedy of Dante: four lectures. 50c. S. Burns Weston, 1415 Locust St., Phil.
Four lectures “intended especially for those who have never read the poem but would like to know something about it.”
Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The class of people for whom it is written may read it with both interest and profit.”
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Dial. 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 120w.
R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
Shelley, Henry C. Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
It is over the English footpaths that the reader is invited to journey in meditative mood with eye and ear eager for sights and sounds unfamiliar to the more frequented highway. The haunts of Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Penn, Burns, Keats, Carlyle are all visited, also the birthplace of Gray’s “Elegy” and Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.” The volume is generously illustrated with reprints from photographs.
“The novelty of the work does not consist so much in new discoveries, for there are none of consequence, as in presenting his subjects in a light not usual.” Wallace Rice.
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Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Shelley’s book is sympathetically written and gives evidence of individual research.”
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Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
“The author has not failed to make researches that were worth while, and he has an agreeable style.”
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Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.”
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Nation. 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 230w.
“The book should revive in many minds a longing to reread the English classics in the light thus shed in picture and text on some personalities which still inspire the finer things in letters.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Rarely does one come upon so charming a literary sketch-book as this.”
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Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 380. D. ’06. 140w.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poems; with introduction and notes by Edward Dowden. $1.25. Crowell.
A valuable feature of this “Shelley” which appears uniform with the “Thin paper poets” is the comprehensive sketch of the poet’s life by Edward Dowden.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahan. **$1.40. McClurg.
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Atlan. 97: 557. Ap. ’06. 320w.
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Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 67. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 140w.
Shelton, Louise. Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of instruction and information for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
A manual arranged as a calendar “giving detailed instructions as to what to plant in each month of the open season, with many useful hints of a miscellaneous character.” (R. of Rs.)
“The directions are clearly worded, well grouped, and reasonable. For a small garden and a young gardener, the book will render the real service for which it was written.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
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Dial. 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
“A very practical manual for the amateur.”
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Ind. 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 40w.
“The book supplements, but cannot replace, the formal garden handbooks.”
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Nation. 82: 846. Je. 7, ’06. 160w.
“She does not realize that the brevity of her descriptions may be confusing and not carry to the novice the very idea that she is seeking to implant.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 500w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 70w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 120w.
318Sherard, Robert Harborough. Life of Oscar Wilde. $4.50. Kennerley.
“The life-story of the brilliant but erratic genius, Oscar Wilde, whose sun of promise rose so bright and had so dire a setting, is presented to us in a handsome and dignified volume.... Although the book is confessedly an apology or defense, and promises at the outset to refute many calumnies and to effect noteworthy results in clearing from the foul aspersions of malignity a name still dear to hundreds of faithful disciples, yet there is fortunately, a wise avoidance of unsavory details regarding the events that clouded Wilde’s closing years and led to his tragic end.... The volume ... is supplied with a good index; while the bibliography, showing a surprising number of titles in prose and verse, with translations into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, and Polish, gives a new sense of the brilliancy of Wilde’s talents as a writer, mingled with regret and pity for his downfall as a man.”—Dial.
“One cannot deny that it is interesting, even though parts of it be painful.” Richard W. Kemp.
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Bookm. 24: 365. D. ’06. 1860w.
“Mr. Sherard’s account of this strange and broken life is full and interesting, although it suffers from the extravagant tone of eulogy and admiration which colors it throughout. It is to be taken as we have said, at the outset, as a defense and an apology; and taken thus, it well repays perusal.”
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Dial. 41: 156. S. 16, ’06. 2960w.
“This author has had access to abundant material, and writing with a full appreciation of the limitations of Wilde’s genius he has produced what may be called the most intimate biography that has yet appeared.”
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Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Sherard’s tones are not quite clear; his moral philosophy is not quite robust and direct enough for the terrible problem of human responsibility and error with which he has to deal.”
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Nation. 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1000w.
“Little excuse for its existence. As for Mr. Sherard he certainly possesses qualities we like to see in a biographer. He can draw distinctions and take note of both sides of his subject. He writes fluently and well. But he has chosen a hopeless, pitiful subject.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 545. S. 8, ’06. 820w.
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Twenty years in Paris; being some recollections of a literary life; 2nd ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
Interesting are the different ranges at which Mr. Sherard, an Englishman in Paris, views a group of men prominent in French affairs. Motives of friendship, of admiration for statemanship and for literary genius operate in his reminiscences. Zola, Renan, Daudet, de Lesseps, Guy de Maupassant, Madame Adam, Victor Hugo, and Jules Verne are among the notables who figure in Mr. Sherard’s recollections.
“The volume is full of good anecdotes which strike us as new.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 795. D. 9. 970w.
“The whole narrative moves so briskly, the dialogue is carried on by so many and so interesting actors, the stage is so crowded, and the scenes succeed one another so quickly, that it would be unhandsome to feel otherwise than friendly toward the purveyor of so much varied entertainment.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 41: 316. N. 16, ’06. 1640w.
Sherman, Frank Dempster. Southern flight [poems by] Frank Dempster Sherman and Clinton Scollard. *$1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
A volume of verse containing fifty-odd pieces with Southern themes.
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Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“A small volume of tender and graceful lyrics.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Contains no piece quite at the highest level of either of its authors. There is somewhat too much sweet in it, but it is full of melody and pretty imagery.”
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Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w.
“They are perilously slight in subject and treatment. Though the verses in ‘A Southern flight’ are metrically simple they demand more careful pruning than they have received.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.
Sherman, Waldo Henry. Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c. Macmillan.
Ind. 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 60w.
“On the whole, the book would prove an unreliable text in the hands of students. It should be of some value to teachers by reason of the suggestions in the second part in regard to the method of study and the teaching of civics.” A. R. Hatton.
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School R. 14: 466. Je. ’06. 220w.
“It is to be regretted that this new book on civil government was not written in a better style with more literary form and flavor, as to the average reader it is bound to be dull.” George L. Fox.
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Yale R. 14: 426. F. ’06. 370w.
Sherring, Charles A. Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6. Longmans.
Mr. Sherring’s book has grown out of a political mission for the Indian government upon which he was sent for the purpose of looking up this country and estimating its resources and commercial possibilities. “Unlike the many volumes dealing with Tibet and Lhassa that have been appearing the past two or three years, since the British expedition reached and entered the ‘heaven’ of Hindus and Buddhists, the present one treats popularly of the ‘holy lore’ most sacred to Tibetans, the legends and myths of Western Tibet, and the customs and manners of the people. The author writes from personal experience and study.” (N. Y. Times.) Numerous illustrations add to the interest of the book.
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Ath. 1906, 2: 542. N. 3. 1890w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“The qualification of the author for his task is a long and close acquaintance with the tribes of British India upon the Tibetan borderland; but he labours under the double disadvantage of having no previous knowledge of Tibet, save that derived from books, and no acquaintance with the language. Moreover, Mr. Sherring is apt to be led astray by his own learning.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 690w.
Sherwood, Margaret Pollock. Coming of the tide. †$1.50. Houghton.
Miss Sherwood “tells the story of a summer on the Maine coast whither the heroine, a Southern girl, goes to forget a great sorrow. The plot, which is very simple, involves a study in heredity. The hero, a dreamy philosopher, is morbidly conscious of his inheritance of ancestral traits and ancestral quarrels. But the girl from Virginia makes him feel the joy of living, and understand the song of the tides.”—Dial.
“There is, however, enough merit in the book to justify the belief that the author may write a much better novel when she has acquired more restraint.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 72. Ja. 20. 150w.
“The charm of the book lies largely in Miss Sherwood’s delicate humor, delightful fancy, and carefully finished, but never coldly classic, style.”
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Dial. 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
319“It is not quite so taking as her earlier romances probably because there is an intrusion of real things; and it is a little overloaded with description; but it is done with ... delicacy and refinement.”
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Outlook. 81: 709. N. 25, ’05. 140w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 110w.
Shirazi, J. K. M. Life of Omar Al-Khayyámi. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Shirazi has made an interesting book out of a subject that at first sight seems to have been done to death.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 810w.
“The biography is interestingly written, and is at variance in some minor points of western interpretation of the conditions under which Omar wrote. It cannot be regarded as a contribution of permanent value to the literature on this subject, but it is profitable reading.”
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Outlook. 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 230w.
Shorter, Clement King. Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. **$1. Scribner.
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Ind. 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 170w.
“It is disappointing to read a Brontë life that, however accurate and complete, is of cyclopediac aloofness and reserve.”
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Reader. 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 360w.
R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Altogether, Mr. Shorter has produced such an excellently concise handbook of “Brontëism” that it is hardly possible to conceive of a better taking its place in popular favour.”
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Spec. 97: 443. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
Shorter, Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement King Shorter). Story and song of Black Roderick. †$1. Harper.
The Black Earl Roderick for policy’s sake weds the Little Bride, and she dies because of her failure to win his love. Such is the burden of the first part of a quaint story told in verse and prose in whose second part the Little Bride’s soul, by self-sacrifice, saves that of Roderick.
“The whole story is mediaeval in tone, very daintily told, and full of tender grace.”
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Acad. 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A specimen of that somewhat difficult style of narrative, not altogether satisfactory.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 577. My. 11. 310w.
“It is inspired by recollection and study, not by genuine faith and feeling; and whether we are right or wrong as to the model which Mrs. Shorter had in mind, the praise of her story must be limited to the praise of the clever imitation.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 360w.
“It is like her former books, and like most books of poetry, tenuous.” Percy Vincent Donovan.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 832. D. 1, ’06. 2340w.
Shroy, John L. Be a good boy; good bye. J: L. Shroy, 1738 Diamond st., Phil. [Lippincott.]
A book of poems dedicated to “Mother” whose charge, “Be a good boy; good-bye” has been the author’s motto thru life. The poems are mostly reminiscent with such themes as Fourth of July, the country circus, apple-blossom time, sugared bread and running barefoot.
Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley. Greece from the coming of the Hellenes to A. D. 14. **$1.35. Putnam.
The first of the two volumes on Grecian history which Dr. Shuckburgh has been asked to contribute to the “Story of the nations” series. “In accordance with better ideas of relative importance, the emphasis is thrown upon political, intellectual, and artistic development rather than the vicissitudes of military operations.” (Nation.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“A work of some literary merit, but one pregnant with mischief through restating old misconceptions in graceful language. And yet there is an urgent need for somebody ... to animate a scholarly summary of recent work with the breath of a genial personality.” W. S. Ferguson.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 870. Jl. ’06. 1020w.
“The author’s learning is successfully devoted to enabling the reader to obtain a firm grasp of the events narrated rather than to perplexing him with discussion.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 220w.
“The narrative is well written and in this respect is superior to several of the recent volumes of this series.”
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Bookm. 23: 456. Je. ’06. 200w.
“The remarkable feature of the book is its comprehensive brevity.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“While no more scholarly than Bury or Bristol, is more readable. There are several other minor slips which detract from the pleasant impression made by the book as a whole.”
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Dial. 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 330w.
“The sketch of the history of Greek literature seems inaptly tacked on at the end of the book of which it is the least satisfactory part.”
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Ind. 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w.
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Lit. D. 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
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Nation. 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The narrative reads easily, and has the merits of a consecutive and well-proportioned story.”
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Outlook. 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Shuckburgh’s volume was needed to supplement Professor Harrison’s ‘Greece’ in the ‘Story of the nations’ series, because the latter volume covered so much ground that not any of it could be covered thoroughly.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
“The book deserves a welcome on its own merits. It is an able and scholarly production, and provides us with a very interesting sketch of one of the most important periods of the world’s history.”
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Sat. R. 101: 337. Mr. 17, ’06. 900w.
Sichel, Edith. Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3. Dutton.
“The gifted writer ... presents, here, the results of much research in out-of-the-way paths, and much plodding through old memoirs, documents and books, which have received but little recognition from the historians who have aimed at a comprehensive narrative of the times. She has made good use of her materials.”
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Cath. World. 82: 846. Mr. ’06. 380w.
“A book which will give great pleasure to a wide circle of readers.” E. Armstrong.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 375. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
Sichel, Edith Helen. Life and letters of Alfred Ainger. *$3.50. Dutton.
The chief interest of this work is derived from the correspondence of Canon Ainger with such men as Horace Smith, Du Maurier, Edmund Gosse, Sidney Lee, Swinburne and others. There are chapters on the different periods of his life, his literary work, his work as lecturer, preacher, critic, his canonical duties, his humor, and his friendships in literature.
“A charming biography of one of the few wits of our time.”
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Acad. 70: 469. My. 19, ’06. 1670w.
“Miss Sichel has done her work well on the whole; in dealing with the correspondence, however she has not always shown discretion. The volume is furnished with a four-page ‘Index;’ from which the more important topics and names appear to have been carefully excluded.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 325. S. 22. 1760w.
320“Miss Sichel has given a vivid delineation of a winsome personality. In evident sympathy with her subject, she writes in a way to enlist the reader’s sympathy also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 41: 83. Ag. 16, ’06. 1280w.
Reviewed by Henry C. Beeching.
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Living Age. 250: 242. Jl. 28, ’06. 2730w.
“Miss Sichel has armed herself with so many documents, she has printed such masses of correspondence, and quotations, and confirmatory opinions, as almost to obscure the image she would evoke before us.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 178. My. 18, ’06. 2000w.
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Nation. 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.
“She might, too, have left a clearer-cut impression by more rigid exercise of her editorial prerogatives in the matter of the correspondence, not all of which seems worthy of preservation. Taken as a whole, her volume is not an unworthy memorial.” H. Addington Bruce.
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Outlook. 84: 835. D. 1, ’06. 2810w.
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Spec. 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 370w.
Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur Sidgwick). Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
“Henry Sidgwick represented the most modern type of University teacher, the type which is closely in touch with all sides of national life and exercises an influence far beyond the lecture-room. He was a distinguished professor, a successful administrator, a writer of good books, but above all things he was a personality from whom radiated a subtle attraction which many felt and few could wholly describe.... It is almost impossible to reproduce for those who did not know him the charm of his character and the peculiar distinction of his mind. His books do not show it, and the tributes of friends are mere evidence for what cannot be glibly summarized. On the whole, the editors of this Memoir seem to have chosen the wisest path, and made their books a series of extracts from his letters and journals, connected with the bare minimum of narrative.”—Spec.
“This is a long and baffling life of an extremely interesting man. The impression produced by the whole [is] one of commonplace.”
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Acad. 70: 198. Mr. 3, ’06. 1370w.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 383. Mr. 31. 2860w.
Reviewed by Wm. Everett.
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Atlan. 98: 93. Jl. ’06. 2330w.
“Is of deep interest and value both to those who had the great privilege of knowing him, and to others. It is perhaps not too much to say that the book does not contain a page, or even a paragraph which is not interesting.” E. E. C. Jones.
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Hibbert J. 5: 208. O. ’06. 2360w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 78. Mr. 9, ’06. 2020w.
“Many of [the letters] are not greatly above the level of ordinary epistolary communications, and may disclose little of what was actually going on in their author’s life.”
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Nation. 82: 471. Je. 7, ’06. 2130w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 188. Mr. 24, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
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Outlook. 84: 332. O. 6, ’06. 2200w.
“Our only complaint is that in the earlier chapters there are too many quotations so scrappy as to have little value, and too many examples of what is a common stage of development in young men at college. Throughout the book also there is a little too much University politics. But, taken as a whole, the book is one of high value, and absorbing interest.”
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Spec. 96: 459. My. 24, ’06. 1930w.
Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullman) (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick). Professor’s legacy. †$1.50. Holt.
“It is better than most of its kind, in being rather carefully done, the characters being drawn with a care that makes them seem real.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“An agreeable composition of nicely-adjusted parts.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“A very German story.”
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Ind. 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 260w.
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Spec. 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 350w.
Sidgwick, Henry. Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by E. A. Taylor.
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Philos. R. 15: 91. Ja. ’06. 480w.
“In fact so admirable is the form of these ‘Essays and addresses’ that it is scarcely too much to say that they merited republication as models of style quite apart from the undoubted timeliness of nearly every one of the discussions which they contain.” Henry R. Seager.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 720. D. ’06. 970w.
Sidgwick, Henry. Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.
Acad. 70: 202. Mr. 3, ’06. 850w.
“The lectures on Kant, Green and Spencer contain an unusually clear account of the most striking metaphysical doctrines of these philosophers.” G. E. Moore.
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Hibbert, J. 4: 686. Ap. ’06. 2460w.
“He appears to be too apt to emphasize apparent contradictions, without considering how far the changes in expression are due to the development of the writer’s thought. Notwithstanding this defect, however, there can be no doubt that the criticisms are extremely valuable.” J. S. Mackenzie.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 261. Ja. ’06. 270w.
“Personally, I should, I think, be inclined to regard the lectures which deal with the ‘analytic’ as the best, and those which discuss the ‘antinomies’ as the weakest part of the course.” A. E. Taylor.
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Philos. R. 15: 214. Mr. ’06. 470w.
“From beginning to end his attitude is critical and destructive.”
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Sat. R. 100: 848. D. 30, ’05. 990w.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. On the field of glory: a historical novel of the time of King John Sobieski; tr. from the Polish original by Jeremiah Curtin. †$1.50. Little.
The scenes of Mr. Sienkiewicz’s latest story are laid in Poland during the reign of King John Sobieski, just before the Turkish invasion in 1682 to 1683. It concerns the romance of Panna Anulka and Pan Yotsek, an impecunious scion of a noble house. The guardian of the heroine, a strong-headed Polish nobleman determines to marry his ward, but dies on the eve of their betrothal. The fibre of the story is woven amid brawls and duels, lawlessness, riot and drunkenness: yet on the plane of this early barbarity are expressed fine notions of honor, loyalty and patriotism which are elements in Poland’s spiritual harvest.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
Arena. 35: 558. My. ’06. 290w.
“The translation lacks ease, and must be called indifferent.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 240w.
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Cath. World. 83: 263. My. ’06. 150w.
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Critic. 48: 574. Je. ’06. 240w.
“Although the story has this background of patriotic expectancy, it is in reality a story of private interest, a love-story of freshness and charm, a story of strange manners and exciting adventures.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w.
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Ind. 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 250w.
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Lit. D. 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 590w.
321“Whoever has read and liked Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical romance is advised to read ‘On the field of glory.’ There is the family likeness of authorship. The translation is made with Mr. Curtin’s accustomed brilliancy, flecked by an occasional blur.”
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Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 600w.
“M. Sienkiewicz, unlike some lesser writers, does not find his great powers trammeled by the telling of a thoroughly pure, healthful tale.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has translated the book with his usual faithfulness and sympathy with the author’s genius.”
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Outlook. 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
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Outlook. 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 30w.
“The action is rapid and the pictures veracious.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
“We cannot altogether concur in the eulogy of this historical novel offered in the ‘Publisher’s preface.’ The translation runs easily.”
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Sat. R. 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
“The book is full of adventures related with all the author’s picturesqueness of detail and vigour of outline; but the plot has no very great coherence, and the story cannot be called very pleasant reading.”
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Spec. 97: 336. S. 8, ’06. 20w.
Silberrad, Una Lucy. Curayl. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Beatrice Curayl has married Sir William Goyte for his money and her father’s convenience. She longs to break the bargain between herself and her despised and despicable husband, but is restrained by the advice of a stranger, Anthony Luttrell, who reminds her that ‘it is not gentlemanly for either party to cry off.’ Then comes the epidemic, and Sir William’s refusal to help the tenants drives Beatrice to offer her personal assistance to the little band of volunteers who are fighting the fever. She finds Luttrell in command, adored and obeyed by all.... The developments of the finer side of Beatrice’s nature, from the moment she realises that sordid motives alone prompted her to marry Sir William to the end of her purgation show that Miss Silberrad is capable of doing strong and skillful work, as wholesome as it is clever.”—Acad.
“Here, as in former novels, the author gives us pleasant proof of her duality as a storyteller; but construction is not one of her strong points.”
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Acad. 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w.
“This cannot, in the common acceptation of the term, be called a ‘good story,’ because it has not the requirements—plentiful incident and growing excitement.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 180w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 417. Je. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault lies in the excess of brutality—as far as artistic effect is concerned—with which the unspeakable Sir William Goyt and the equally detestable Delmar are endowed.”
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Critic. 48: 574. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Were the character drawing more subtle we should not so much resent the book’s stuffiness but it is for the most part superficial and conventional.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 93. Mr. 16, ’06. 240w.
“Is a very good little novel of the minor order, and throughout holds the interest.”
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Nation. 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 320w.
“‘Curayl’ the reader is inclined to believe, is a very superior novel, but one which requires the most careful and thoughtful reading to be appreciated fully.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 294. My. 5, ’06. 400w.
“An ill-constructed plot.”
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Sat. R. 101: 433. Ap. 7, ’06. 110w.
“The story is successful in as far as it engages the attention of the reader, though, perhaps, a doubt may be permitted as to whether it is quite up to the literary standard which Miss Silberrad has set for herself in her previous work.”
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Spec. 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 230w.
Sill, Edward Rowland. Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
This complete edition of Mr. Sill’s poems, chronologically arranged, makes its appearance in the “Household series” of standard English and American poets.
Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“An edition of Edward Rowland Sill’s poems in a single inexpensive volume has long been a desideratum. There may be some question about the additions, for in case of a minor poet the half is commonly better than the whole; there certainly can be no intelligent question about the illustrations which were far better omitted.”
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Nation. 83: 328. O. 18, ’06. 370w.
“In his desire to give us much of the as yet unpublished work the editor has doubtless had in mind an edition for the student rather than the lover of Sill. This is perhaps a mistake, for Sill will have many lovers, but few students. His brief introductory note is a model of sane criticism, written with becoming sympathy and regard.” Christian Gauss.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 820. D. 1, ’06. 2070w.
Sill, Louise Morgan. In sun or shade. **$1.50. Harper.
The thought of infinite and invincible energy gives character to Mrs. Sill’s poetry, whether it be the buoyancy of responsibility, the faith of hero worship, the lessons of bird and flower, or the perfection of love in its great limitless reaches. Whether in “sun or shade” she urges mankind to live, to act.
“There is not a morally unwholesome line in her whole work. The book, therefore, is one which the author may well feel proud of having produced and the reader thankful to possess.”
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Cath. World. 83: 266. My. ’06. 730w.
“We are indebted to her for much that is lovely, tender, and charming,—and, often, for a wise note of womanly wisdom.” Edith M. Thomas.
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Critic. 49: 218. S. ’06. 240w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Although there is much in her book that is rather dull, occasionally ... she strikes a fairly searching chord.”
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Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than Louise Morgan Sill, and the poems are well arranged.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
R. of Rs. 33: 768. Je. ’06. 40w.
Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre. Robert Louis Stevenson. *75c. Luce, J: W.
“A ten minute life of the novelist,” the second volume in the “Spirit of the age series.” The illustrations are four portraits of Stevenson, including the one painted by Count Nerli in Samoa.
Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 20w.
“There is little new in Miss Simpson’s book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
Simpson, Frederick Moore. History of architectural development. 3v. *$4. Longmans.
“Professor Simpson’s book ... is the first of three volumes destined to treat of all the historic styles from Egyptian to the Renaissance, and they are intended to form part of a new 322series of books on architecture.... He deals exclusively with the great historic styles, wisely leaving aside the mazes of Hindoo, Chinese, and other exotic art. His work is an excellent example of the modern method of regarding architectural history as a continuous whole.”—Spec.
“Having studied all the authorities and weighed all the evidence, he gives a well-reasoned and balanced opinion on each disputed point. The book is therefore pre-eminently a safe guide for the beginner.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 930w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Int. Studio. 27: 373. F. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the most part we have sound criticism, forcibly set forth. Slips are rare.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For reasonably mature beginners, who intend to make a serious study of architecture, we know of no work which seems so well fitted to give them a general view of the development of the subject without undue time being spent on the aesthetical phases which can readily be supplied by teachers or more fanciful books.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 83. F. 10, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His writing is lucid and concise.”
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Spec. 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
Simpson, W. J. Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.
“He has not the pen of a vigorous and interesting writer, but, on the whole, he has performed the task with judgment and skill; and his book may be taken as a compendious statement of all that is known or reasonably surmised about plague up to the present time.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 660w.
Sinclair, May. Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
“The story of the moral havoc wrought in the lives of men by a woman without a heart.... An early novel in a new edition.” (Lit. D.) “Audrey herself is a distinct creation, dominating the story even more than is the wont of heroines. Beside her, her lovers are shadowy.... Having yielded her heart in rapid succession to the child of nature, to the painter, to the writer, to the austere divine, she ends as the wife of the dullard.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author is not without the defects of her qualities; and while these do not seriously mar the beauty of her work as a whole, they are not unapparent to critical admirers of an author whose novels may be said to make waste paper of most of the fiction of a season.”
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Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 200w.
“While remarkable in quality, is immature. The interest of the story never flags, but it has its thin places. The writer’s powers are well in evidence, but not yet held firmly in hand.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 543. S. 1, ’06. 580w.
“While ‘Audrey Craven’ is not well rounded out and lacks breadth of treatment and firm grasp on the reader’s attention, it shows very clearly the intelligent quality and the subtle knowledge of character that are applied in ‘The divine fire’ to a more complex play of motive and action, and to a far more striking situation.”
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Outlook. 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 120w.
“Lacks dramatic power and real human interest.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.
Sinclair, May. Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.
Edinburgh R. 203: 72. Ja. ’06. 610w.
Living Age. 248: 730. Mr. 24, ’06. 610w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
Sinclair, May. Superseded. $1.25. Holt.
Little Miss Quincey, the pathetic old-maid teacher of mathematics, who has withered away under her daily drudgery and has never known youth or life, is the real heroine of this sad little story altho the personality of Rhoda, beautiful and brilliant, overshadows and eclipses her, and altho happiness, love and her beloved Mr. Cautley all pass her by. For “Nature has made up for any little extra outlay in one direction by cruel pinching in another.... Nature had indulged in Rhoda Vivian and she was making Miss Quincey pay.”
“Is one of the books which ought not to be missed.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 53. S. ’06. 290w.
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Critic. 49: 207. S. ’06. 230w.
“There are real pathos in the book and considerable underlying humor.”
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Lit. D. 33: 157. Ag. 4. ’06. 190w.
“She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and human.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range, substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale told with the most delicate feeling.”
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Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
Sinclair, May. Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.). $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
“There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature. For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity, and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s death in Africa.”—Bookm.
“It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.
“The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite its faults.”
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Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 80w.
“The story, powerful as it is, is too ‘unpleasant’ to commend itself to the wider reading public.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 600w.
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Chicago in its worst industrial phases is the scene of Mr. Sinclair’s story. His hero is a sturdy Lithuanian who, with a little colony of fellow countrymen, including the frail Ona whom he would wed, settles in the Packingtown district. It is first as a wage-earner—the victim of foremen’s immoral practices and of real estate sharks’ trickery—that Jurgis Rudkus struggles; worsted in his battle, and yielding to exhaustion and hopelessness, he becomes a tramp, a common thief, a highwayman, a beggar. Temporary respite comes with the protection offered by a corrupt political machine whose bosses secure him work. He looked out on “a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.” Finally the “saving grace” of socialism is balm for his industrial grievances, and here the author expatiates upon the salutary virtues of socialism.
323“Is one of the strongest and most powerful voices of protest against a great wrong that has appeared in America.”
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Arena. 35: 651. Je. ’06. 5780w.
“It is a book that holds the attention by its vividness, earnestness, and simplicity.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 240w.
“It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm; and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted, that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w.
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Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.
“Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”
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Ind. 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w.
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Ind. 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
Lit. D. 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w.
Lit. D. 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
Lond. Times. 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.
“We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’ his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems to write not from the heart but from the head.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.
“Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque that we have in English fiction.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 182: 925. Je. ’06. 230w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s indictment of the employing classes would have been more convincing if it were less hysterical.”
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Outlook. 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s bias ... has led him to indiscretions of the head rather than of the heart.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 870w.
“When a story reveals so much of artistic penetration and power as does ‘The jungle’ one keenly regrets what seems like unfairness in point of view. The very brutality of the book is likely to cause it to be talked about.”
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Reader. 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 200w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 759. Je. ’06. 700w.
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Sat. R. 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“We are inclined to believe that more enlightenment is to be gained from ‘The jungle’ than from Mr. Lawson’s ‘Frenzied finance.’”
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Spec. 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 950w.
Sinclair, William A. Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson. **$1.50. Small.
“The over-zealous critic might point out many faults in the work. It is not well-digested, there are some overstatements, and much padding in the way of poetry and quotations from easily-accessible sources. And yet the book is of great value. It is alive. It is throbbing.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
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Dial. 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 520w.
“To the student of social problems the book is of great value, not as a repository of facts, for the facts in it are badly warped, but simply as a ‘human document.’ As voicing the sentiments, then, of the class of influential negro radicals that book has a distinct value.” Walter L. Fleming.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 344. Je. ’06. 540w.
Singer, Hans W. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. *$1. Scribner.
The life and art of Rossetti receive enthusiastic treatment in this volume which also contains an account of Pre-Raphaelitism and a list of Rossetti’s principal works in both public and private collections. Reproductions of a dozen of his best pictures are given with a portrait of the artist-poet.
“The sketch, in the main, contains several interesting observations and some facts, but little that is new. It merely attempts to popularize knowledge.” Wm. T. Brewster.
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Forum. 38: 104. Jl. ’06. 330w.
“In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”
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Int. Studio. 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w.
Int. Studio. 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.
“The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”
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Nation. 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
Singer, Hans W. James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.
“This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin, Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs, etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of praise is to be said.”
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Nation. 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
Singleton, Esther, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
Miss Singleton’s “Holland” is a book of extracts compiled upon the plan of her books on London, Paris, etc.—excerpts being taken from prominent writers’ works. The book is divided into six parts, as follows: The country and race, History, Descriptions, Manners and customs, Painting and statistics.
“It gives us expert description and criticism.... is therefore an admirable supplement to all the guide-books.”
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Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.
Dial. 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 40w.
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Outlook. 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 70w.
Pub. Opin. 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
Skae, Hilda T. Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“So many and so elaborately controversial have been most of the numerous works recently published upon Mary Stuart, that it is hardly possible not to welcome as a relief a little volume like this, which takes a very great deal—including Mary’s essential goodness—for granted, and tells the familiar old story in the spirit and language of romance.”—Spec.
Critic. 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 40w. 324
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Dial. 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A narrative bringing out into strong relief the sentimental and pathetic features is what she provides.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 633. S. 30, ’05. 390w.
“She has constructed a pleasant readable book which even Mariolaters may find useful for reference purposes.”
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Spec. 95: 697. N. 4, ’05. 200w.
Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton. Sicilian marriage. †$1.50. Pott.
“Mr. Sladen says: ‘To make my story exciting I have crowded it with melodramatic events which really only come like angels’ visits.’ This quotation is an adequate description of ‘A Sicilian marriage’ and a characteristic example of Mr. Sladen’s style. His book is a fair specimen of the guide-book novel, which sandwiches history with love-scenes, and art-criticism with adventure.”—Sat. R.
“The characters are like the incidents, stereotyped and familiar.”
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Acad. 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“A love story of much interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Sladen evidently knows a great deal about Sicily, but has not a very fortunate manner of imparting his information.”
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Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
“The story proper is not interesting, and the descriptions of the antiquities of Sicily would be really much more readable without the personages who move, rather stiffly, among the temples and museums.”
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Spec. 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
Slater, John Herbert. How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume will be found to contain a feast of good things for every book collector.”
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Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 100w.
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Sat. R. 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 30w.
Slater, John Rothwell. Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A monograph which discusses the circumstances under which Tyndale gained his knowledge of Hebrew, the sources he used in his version of the Pentateuch and to what extent his work was original, and the influence his version exerted upon later translations and upon English literature.
Dial. 11: 169. S. 16, ’06. 80w.
Slattery, Margaret. Talks with the training class; with introd. by Patterson Du Bois. 60c. Pilgrim press.
These talks designed for the teacher-training department in the Sunday-school are based upon the study of what the great teachers of the ages have given us, upon personal influence in actual teaching, and upon careful observation of the work for others.
“It contains nothing novel in interpretation, or even in statement, but is brief, concise, and suggestive.”
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Bookm. 24: 74. S. ’06. 50w.
“The best manual for a training class we have seen.”
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Ind. 61: 936. O. 18, ’06. 190w.
“The best modern psychology is brought to bear on religious instruction, with as much thoroness, coupled with good sense, as characterizes the best text-books on pedagogy.”
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Ind. 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee. Text-book on the strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
Both the theoretical and experimental phases of the subject are here presented making the work elementary enough for the use of students of a junior grade in technical and engineering schools.
Slosson, Margaret. How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
Following a chapter in the “Development of the fern leaf” the author treats of eighteen individual fern species, and devotes a double-page illustration to each. The papers deal chiefly with the subject of cell-growth and kindred phenomena. “They scarcely touch upon the development of the form and venation of the leaf in each species, and in its individual aspects only, without reference to its relation to such development in other fern species.”
“We may confidently recommend the book to fern students.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 480w.
“The book is more of a contribution than its elaborate form would suggest.” J. M. C.
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Bot. Gaz. 42: 496. D. ’06. 160w.
“Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed her subject, and some of her discoveries no doubt throw light upon the phytology of the group.”
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Dial. 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 230w.
“While valuable particularly to technical botanists, the work will be helpful to others.”
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Ind. 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.
“It is to be regretted that through no fault of her own the nomenclature is open to criticism, but aside from the matter of names, the book can be heartily recommended.”
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Nation. 83: 86. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“This volume does not come within the popular scope but should have a place on the shelves of the botanist’s working library.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 320w.
Small, Albion Woodbury. General sociology: an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
“He has no system of his own to project, and therefore does not assail the work of other men with a devastating criticism. The book may be recommended to all who are not afraid to trust their today’s thinking as against their yesterday’s thought.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 382. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“Viewed by individual sections or chapters, the volume contains much of great value, particularly to the advanced student. Viewed as the whole, the volume is less satisfactory. It will be of little service to the beginner, for the style is involved and at times confusing.” Carl Kelsey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.
“As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W. Blackmar.
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Dial. 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.
325“His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared thinker on sociological problems.”
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Outlook. 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.
Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.
Smet, Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
“The new matter alone is nearly equal in volume to everything heretofore published. [Major Chittenden’s] research work has been thoro and fruitful.”
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Ind. 60: 513. Mr. 1. ’06. 590w.
Smiles, Samuel. Autobiography. *$4. Dutton.
“This last word from one whose writings have had a world-wide influence contains the features that gained instant popularity for its predecessors and invested them with such weight—the homely and sound philosophy, the appreciation of the possibilities of human nature, the unfailing sympathy for all seeking to better their condition by honest means, and the thorough readability.”—Outlook.
“Judiciously edited.”
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Ind. 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“He tells it very well, with a practised pen guided by a sane and balanced judgment. It is an excellent autobiography, characteristically vigorous, cheerful, encouraging and wholesome.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 28. Ja. 26, ’06. 1270w.
“His autobiography is a decidedly dull book. As an account of the man Smiles, except in this matter of vanity, the book is quite valueless.”
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Nation. 82: 83. Ja. 25, ’06. 410w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 250w.
“His autobiography is, in fine, a delightful and significant human document.”
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Outlook. 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 330w.
Sat. R. 100: 551. O. 28, ’05. 1360w.
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Spec. 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
Smith, Alexander. Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25. Century.
The work of one who understands the psychology of teaching. The first four chapters deal in an introductory manner with the general characteristics of chemical phenomena. The remainder of the text treats elements and their compounds. “These chapters deal largely with the simpler physical properties of matter and include a brief and clear exposition of the utility of scientific method; following closely are the usual methods of determining equivalents, use of symbols and various simple calculations.”—Bookm.
“He has certainly earned the gratitude of all teachers of chemistry in the clear and masterly manner in which he has presented his subject.”
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Bookm. 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 580w.
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Nation. 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The book is doubtless the very best of its kind and will be found to be particularly strong on explanations in connection with the hypothesis of ions.” W. O. Walker.
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School R. 14: 612. O. ’06. 650w.
“Is certainly a good book for good students, and as such is to be heartily welcomed.” H. L. Wells.
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Science, n. s. 24: 398. S. 28, ’06. 230w.
Smith, Anna Harris, ed. Longfellow calendar. **50c. Crowell.
A quotation from Longfellow for every day of the year.
Smith, Charlotte Curtis. Girls of Pineridge. †$1.50. Little.
All about an active band of girls, fast friends and loyal. Their flower hunts, patch-work parties, cooking bees, etc. show what child energy wholesomely directed can accomplish.
“The parrot ... that dovetails his remarks into the conversation so that they are perfectly relevant spoils an otherwise natural story of four wholesome little girls who are fond of nature and appreciate life in the woods.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
Smith, Rev. David. Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.
“This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”
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Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned digression.”
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Spec. 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Tides of Barnegat. †$1.50. Harper.
A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr. Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal, fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.
“A painstaking study of feminine character.”
Ath. 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.
“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K. Ford.
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Bookm. 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.
“Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for. The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the narrative.”
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Ind. 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w.
Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.
“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in most of his other novels.”
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Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most ripe of the novels.”
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Nation. 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 507. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 109. O. ’06. 290w.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
“It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a creditable manner.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 270w.
326“Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”
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Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 90w.
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Ind. 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 170w.
“Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic, always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of the heart.”
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Lit. D. 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 410w.
“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those who care to seek for them.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a meditative hour.”
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Reader. 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.
Smith, Frank Berkeley. In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic view.
“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his Parisian sketches.”
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Lit. D. 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“A book notable for sprightliness.”
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Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”
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Nation. 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books either in smartness or in verity.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 627. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.
Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W. International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof. Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 890w.
“Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and loosely written.”
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Nation. 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 720w.
“Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it in a more than usually interesting way.”
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Outlook. 81: 1080. D. 30, ’05. 1090w.
Smith, Gertrude. Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.
Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.
“Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.
Smith, Goldwin. In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.
Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’ contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)
Cath. World. 84: 105. O. ’06. 400w.
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Critic. 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”
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Dial. 41: 85. Ag. 16, ’06. 60w.
Nation. 82: 494. Je. 14, ’06. 1480w.
Outlook. 83: 264. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.
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World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 130w.
Smith, Goldwin. Irish history and the Irish question. **$1.50. McClure.
“An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from the earliest times, politically and historically of England and Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day conditions.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent. It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books, but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.” Sidney B. Fay.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w.
Ath. 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.
“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”
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Critic. 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w.
Dial. 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.
“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish question.”
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Lit. D. 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.
“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist newspapers.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.
“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”
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Nation. 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.
327“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been written.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 1014. Je. 30. ’06. 400w.
Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith). Living in the sunshine. **$1. Revell.
Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.” And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”
“This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”
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Outlook. 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
Smith, Lewis Worthington. In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut st., Des Moines, la.
A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying, Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white czar, The violin.
“Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 350w.
Smith, Marion Couthouy. Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.
“There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the little volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 440w.
Smith, Richard. Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
“The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.” (Putnam’s.)
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Putnam’s. 1: 380. D. ’06. 190w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 511. O. ’06. 100w.
Smith, Ruel Perley. Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking. $1.50. Page.
A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their “Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 90w.
Smith, Sydney Armitage-. John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 645. Ap. ’06. 1710w.
Smith, Vincent A. Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
“Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.” E. J. Rapson.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 136. Ja. ’06. 590w.
Smith, William Benjamin. Color line. **$1.50. McClure.
“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the continuance of the social separation between the races in the South, and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.
“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”
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Outlook. 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.
Smyth, H. Warington. Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.
An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)
“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will linger, comparing and contrasting.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.
“‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the initiated.”
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Nation. 82: 393. My. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully illustrated.” W. H. White.
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Nature. 73: 536. Ap. 5, ’06. 1030w.
“In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest unsurpassed.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 1520w.
“This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”
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Sat. R. 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 30Ow.
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Spec. 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
Smythe, William Ellsworth. Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added outlining the progress made during the five years since the book appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second, some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the movement which has led to the intervention of the United States government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.
328“The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical makeup.”
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Engin. N. 55: 316. Mr. 15, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to last.”
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Nation. 82: 453. My. 31, ’06. 1740w.
“As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past few years.”
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Outlook. 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 280w.
Pub. Opin. 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 110w.
Smythe, William Ellsworth. Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”
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Ind. 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.
Snaith, John Collis. Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the prison cell.
“It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to exert it.”
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Acad. 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 420w.
“Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor key.” Charlotte Caxton.
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Bookm. 24: 272. N. ’06. 1600w.
“The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 170. My. 11, ’06. 660w.
“However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due to a thing of crude force.”
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Nation. 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 680w.
“A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with a shuddering protest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
“It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be ranked with the author’s earlier book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”
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Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 40w.
Snell, Frederick John. Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1. Macmillan.
The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.
“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can take no harm from accepting his opinions.”
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Acad. 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact historians.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.
“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”
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Ind. 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.
“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a guide for the period that it treats.”
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Nation. 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.
“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always fortunate.”
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Sat. R. 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or reader.”
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Spec. 95: 1130. D. 30. ’05. 350w.
Snyder, Harry. Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is, ‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.
“There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue form.”
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Nature. 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 540w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 180w.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.
“It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F. Hoxie.
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Philos. R. 15: 668. N. ’06. 590w.
Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 143. Mr. ’06. 940w.
Sociological society, London. Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
“Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on ‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.
Am. J. Soc. 12: 426. N. 06. 280w. 329
Ind. 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.
Int. J. Ethics. 17: 131. O. ’06. 1850w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.
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Nature. 74: 29. My. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any rate, is always practical.”
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Sat. R. 102: 210. Ag. 18, ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 2.)
Spec. 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
Soden, Hermann, baron von. History of the early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
“As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.
“There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive, but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 720. O. ’06. 910w.
“Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”
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Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 120w.
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Ind. 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful to the average Bible student.”
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Outlook. 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 150w.
Sollas, William Johnson. Age of the earth, and other geological studies. *$3. Dutton.
A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.” (Outlook.)
“The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 473. O. 7. 1220w.
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Dial. 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 390w.
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Nation. 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 250w.
“The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial is foreign to the subject of geology.”
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Nature. 73: 513. Mr. 29, ’06. 1060w.
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Outlook. 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 40w.
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Spec. 96: 424. Mr. 17, ’06. 1130w.
Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks). Under the arch. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums, strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her canvas.”—Sat. R.
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Critic. 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.
“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.
“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”
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Sat. R. 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is also well done.”
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Spec. 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.
Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A very important contribution to the history of American music and will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.” Louis C. Elson.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 419. Ja. ’06. 550w.
Soto, Hernando or Fernando de. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 180w.
“It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into the Southern United States.” E. H.
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Eng. Hist. R. 20: 825. O. ’05. 690w.
Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster. Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
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Cath. World. 82: 849. Mr. ’06. 60w.
Spargo, John. Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing, respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child, remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children. The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on ‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter; it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children.... Chapter III of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many. As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.
“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors, editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.
330“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.
“Rather painfully interesting study.”
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Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
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Dial. 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.
“No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of pulses that have never stirred before.”
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Ind. 60: 868. Ap. 12, ’06. 1080w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 1400w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
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Outlook. 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 340w.
Pub. Opin. 40: 271. Mr. 3. ’06. 1090w.
R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 160w.
Spargo, John. Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the world to-day.”—R. of Rs.
“Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr. Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader, yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”
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Ind. 61: 693. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
Lit. D. 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”
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Nation. 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
N. Y. Times. 11: 628. O. 6, ’06. 2150w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to current discussion.”
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Outlook. 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 540w.
“Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 90w.
Spearman, Frank Hamilton. Whispering Smith. †$1.50. Scribner.
A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair, dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men, after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love interest.
“The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to finish.” Mary K. Ford.
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Bookm. 24: 160. O. ’06. 1040w.
“It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is much to be learned from the book.”
N. Y. Times. 11: 568. S. 15, ’06. 880w.
“It is full of action and not without originality.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 20w.
“We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both consciences and tastes in this matter.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 224. N. ’06. 260w.
Spears, John Randolph. David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
“In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed among the best books of its kind.”
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Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
Spelling, Thomas Carl. Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.
From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a “conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated remedies.” (Ind.)
“Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their country.”
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Ind. 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 240w.
“A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 870w.
Spender, R. E. S. Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.” (Ath.)
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Acad. 69: 1230. N. 25, ’05. 250w.
“On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.
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Sat. R. 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ’05. 360w.
Spenser, Edmund. Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.
A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for young readers.”
“Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit of the poem.”
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Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
Spenser, Edmund. Una and the red cross knight and other tales from Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.
The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional interspersions of the verses.
331“Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will interest old and young readers equally.”
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Dial. 39: 450. D. 16, ’05. 50w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 894. D. 16, ’05. 290w.
“A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for children’s reading.”
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Outlook. 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes. Kate Greenaway. *$6.50. Putnam.
“These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly, sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr. Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal friendship.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 23. Ja. 6. 1270w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 277. F. ’06. 430w.
“On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”
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Int. Studio. 28: 275. My. ’06. 220w.
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Lit. D. 32: 119. Ja. 27, ’06. 960w.
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Nation. 82: 15. Ja. 4, ’06. 2080w.
“This is a sympathetic biography.”
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Spec. 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
Spiers, R. Phene. Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford). Old Washington. †$1.50. Little.
Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department clerks and politicians.
“Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more years ago.”
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Critic. 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.
“As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her stories pleasant diversion indeed.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time characterize these tales.”
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Outlook. 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.
“Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.
Sprague, John Francis. Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.
A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 749. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”
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Cath. World. 84: 112. O. ’06. 490w.
Outlook. 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.
Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon. Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes; arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20. Funk.