Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 24)
Reading edition
For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion, Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them easy of access.
“The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special subject can be readily found.”
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Arena. 36: 334. S. ’06. 80w.
“No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 230w.
Spyri, Johanna. Moni the goat boy, and other stories tr. from the German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.
There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals, and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.
Squire, Charles. Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50 Scribner.
“It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following have merely conjectured.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 9. Ja. 6. 1010w.
“It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose satisfactorily.”
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Nation. 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
Staley, Edgcumbe. Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64 full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.
A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality that the volume should 332have a firmly established place on the shelves of the student desiring a general view of the period.”
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Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 70w.
“A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
Outlook. 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 50w.
Staley, Edgcumbe. Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.
The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography, chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine woodcuts.
“It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and irritating to read.”
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Acad. 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 201. O. ’06. 40w.
“It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”
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Ath. 1906. 2: 555. N. 3. 1450w.
“In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways. Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 371. D. ’06. 1420w.
“In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers, saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of social manners and customs.”
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Int. Studio. 30: 91. N. ’06. 500w.
“When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real information never is—he is by no means so happy.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 294. Ag. 31. ’06. 2010w.
“From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with mistakes.”
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Nation. 83: 537. D. 20, ’06. 630w.
“A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 380. D. ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth having for its pictures alone.”
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Spec. 97: 367. S. 15, ’06. 1680w.
Staley, Edgcumbe. Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
“We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric characterizations of the great painter.”
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Outlook. 83: 331. Je. 9. ’06. 280w.
Stamey, De Kellar. Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both sunshine and shadow.
Stamey, De Keller. Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.
Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home, children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.
Standing, Percy Cross. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.
This biography has been written under the sanction and practical co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.
“He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”
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Int. Studio. 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself would have the world know.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 1020w.
Outlook. 83: 670. Jl. 21. ’06. 60w.
Standish, Winn. Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.
Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him against the deep treachery that a
“Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of their teens and a little older.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 90w.
Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley). Modern Madonna. †$1.50. Century.
Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia, which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret, after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel law repealed.
“An interesting and readable novel.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 672. O. 13, ’06. 330w.
“A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much literary grace.”
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Outlook. 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
Stanwood, Edward. James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.” William Garrott Brown.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 701. Ap. ’06. 1160w.
333“Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality, insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.
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Bookm. 22: 513. Ja. ’06. 1570w.
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Dial. 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 540w.
“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told, furnishes a stirring narrative.”
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Ind. 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 380w.
“The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 459. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the general series to which it belongs.”
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Nation. 82: 141. F. 15, ’06. 2620w.
Starr, Louis. Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.
The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life.
Stauffer, David McNeely. Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign countries.
“The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”
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Nature. 74: 409. Ag. 23, ’06. 1420w.
Stead, Alfred. Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50. Lane.
“The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the libraries of all thoughtful people.”
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Arena. 35: 285. Mr. ’06. 3950w.
“Viewed as a manual of plausible and often valuable information, the book is a welcome addition to the library on Japan: but to take Mr. Stead’s statements on their face value is to accept a fabric of delusion.”
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Nation. 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 1210w.
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Westminster R. 164: 609. D. ’05. 1110w.
Stealey, O. O. Twenty years in the press gallery. $5. O. O. Stealey, 1421 G St., Washington, D. C.
A concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the interesting and impressive incidents; impressions of official and political life in Washington. There is an introduction contributed by Mr. Henry Watterson in which he alludes to the seamy side of a Washington correspondent’s experiences and to the side that makes the life endurable.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 211. O. ’06. 80w.
“He has a sunny, gossipy, conversational way of writing that leaves no wounds. And it is evident that he suppresses the unkind things he might say. The chief defect of the book is the suppression of the author’s personality. He tells too little of what he himself has seen and known of public men.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 433. Jl. 7, ’06. 1060w.
Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie Webster. Book of mortals: being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. $3. Macmillan.
“Reproductions of great paintings of animals have been published in attractive typographical form with a story written around them.” (R. of Rs.) “The book is divided into three parts—‘What our fellow-mortals are,’ ‘What animals have done for man,’ and ‘What our fellow-mortals are doing.’ In the first part the author shows the similarity of the ways of the ‘beasts that perish’ and those of mortals; Part 2, is given over to a few animal legends and tales of animal symbolism which have been interwoven with the history of the human race, while the third division concerns itself with the ways in which, day by day, hour by hour, they (our ‘fellow mortals’) make the life of each of us pleasurable, profitable—nay, more! possible.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author’s is a hopelessly sentimental view, but she is very much in earnest, and pleads her case with eloquence and with the address of an advocate.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 263. Mr. 3. 440w.
“There are both humor and kindliness in the writing of this book.”
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Outlook. 82: 274. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“Perhaps the secret of the unsatisfactory and somewhat mystifying effect of the work is due to the fact that she writes not like one but as two distinct persons.”
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Sat. R. 101: 696. Je. 2, ’06. 1130w.
Steffens, Joseph Lincoln. Struggle for self-government: being an attempt to trace American political corruption to its sources in six states of the United States, with a dedication to the czar. **$1.20. McClure.
In this volume the author of “The shame of the cities,” “describes the government in six of our states in the direction of a return to the political cleanliness of former times. It is the general movement against bossism, of which the elections of 1905 gave many cheering indications. Mr. Steffens’ account of what has been accomplished in Ohio, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri is full of encouragement to friends of popular government in other states.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is unfortunate, however, that Mr. Steffens, with so commendable a purpose, should adopt in his writing a tone of arrogance and a disinclination to restraint in his use of the picturesque. It is difficult at times to overlook this fault, and to keep in mind that the author’s object is truth rather than sensationalism.”
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Dial. 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“If there is any serious fault to be found with this book it is a fault of style rather than of substance.”
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Nation. 83: 19. Jl. 5, ’06. 600w.
“A specimen of workmanlike journalism rather than literature. Its value is of the moment, for there is no trace of the learning and insight which distinguish and give permanent worth to treatises like Bryce’s or De Tocqueville’s.” Edward A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 487. Ag. 4, ’06. 850w.
“We wish Mr. Steffens’s words were as sound and persuasive as they are courageous.”
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Outlook. 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 190w.
334Steindorff, Georg. Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.
“The booklet gives about as good a picture of a complicated and wide subject as could be given in such limited space, and some further minor criticisms would not alter this judgment.” W. Max. Müller.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 868. Jl. ’06. 890w.
“It would be impossible to gain anything like a clear idea of the individual Egyptian deities from Steindorff’s book, which is, perhaps necessarily, sketchy and some what superficial.” L. H. Gray.
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Bookm. 22: 359. D. ’05. 370w.
“As to the value of what Professor Steindorff has given us, there can be but one judgment. It is interesting in manner, and constructed on the best plan of advanced scholarship.”
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Cath. World. 82: 120. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“Prof. Steindorff’s lectures are comparatively comprehensive of all the light we have on Egyptian religion, set forth in popular and readable but distinctly scholarly terms.” Ira Maurice Pike.
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Dial. 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 320w.
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Ind. 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The most reliable, readable, and sane treatment of the religion of Egypt which has appeared.”
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Nation. 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 290w.
Steiner, Edward A. On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
Humanity and individual responsibility pulsate thru the pages of Mr. Steiner’s earnest statement of the immigrant problem. The work is offered as the result of careful study the author having been a steerage passenger himself, first out of necessity, and later, for the sake of a close range inquiry. He says that a new gigantic race is being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a race whose immigrant element is primitive, uncultured, untutored, with all the virtues and vices in the making. “They are the best material with which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in replenishing physical depletion: and capable of taking on the highest intellectual and spiritual culture.” Yet he admits that they are a serious problem.
“Dr. Steiner is a capital story-teller also, and enlivens his chapters with anecdote and incident. The book cannot fail to afford excellent material for the use of students of immigrant problems.”
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Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 754. D. ’06. 90w.
Step, Edward. Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.
“Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a book of this description which is intended for the general reader rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.
“While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”
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Acad. 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
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Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing, with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous sallies.”
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Spec. 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
Stephen, Leslie. Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.
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Dial. 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 330w.
Stephens, Robert Neilson. Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.
“A spirited and fairly-well written romantic love-story.”
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Arena. 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 200w.
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Ind. 60: 111. Ja. 11. ’06. 350w.
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Reader. 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 210w.
Stephens, Thomas, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.
Reviewed by Robert R. Rusk.
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Hibbert J. 4: 455. Ja. ’06. 1860w.
“Offers much attractive and suggestive material.” M. Mackenzie.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
Stephenson, Henry Thew. Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.
“Few volumes will do so much to supply the student of Shakespeare with what is necessary for visualizing not only the background of the life of the poet, but also the background present to the minds of him and his audience in many of his plays.” William Allen Neilson.
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Atlan. 97: 702. My. ’06. 520w.
“We could wish that Professor Stephenson’s book might commend itself as certainly to the lover of good letters as to the lover of history. Its style is hardly worthy of its theme.” Charles H. A. Wager.
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Dial. 40: 89. F. 1, ’06. 1330w.
“The curious matter is its own and best excuse for being, and the rarity of the forty odd illustrations adds, also, to the book’s value.”
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Reader. 6: 719. N. ’05. 330w.
Sterling, Sara Hawks. Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.
“The author has very much idealized the characters of both Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, but she has succeeded in writing a most delightful tale.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“The tale has been told in a quaint, old-fashioned atmosphere that cannot but be pleasing.”
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Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“In many respects the story is a pleasing bit of fancy and can not but win the reader.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.
“The story is told in quaint literary style, and the author has fairly succeeded in doing what she set out to do—in suggesting the rhythm of Shakespeare’s own poetry.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
Sterrett, James Macbride. Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. **$2. Macmillan.
“The author of these essays in apologetics is an impassioned pleader for religious conformity. Professor Sterrett is in greater sympathy with Loisy than with Protestant thinkers.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 373. Ap. ’06. 1770w.
“If the book offers the technical philosopher little material and few view-points that are new, yet here much that is not new receives virile, suggestive, stimulating treatment. Its logic is robust, but to a comprehensive survey it does not always appear discriminating and convincing.” E. L. Norton.
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J. Philos. 3: 239. Ap. 26, ’06. 2160w.
335“It is not very well put together and sometimes declamation is offered as a substitute for patient criticism. There is a good deal of mere repetition. In my opinion, he propounds a much truer and sounder philosophical standpoint for the interpretation of Christianity than one finds in those whom he criticises.” J. A. Leighton.
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Philos. R. 15: 338. My. ’06. 590w.
Stevens, George Barker. Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.
“The aim of this work is ‘to present a biblical, historical, and constructive discussion of the doctrine of salvation.’ It is therefore in the field of systematic theology, but approaches its problems distinctly from the historical side, through biblical theology, distinguishing between the different conceptions held by different biblical writers, and between the temporary and the permanent in their thought.”—Bib. World.
“There are several points in the book which, did space permit, might furnish matter for criticism. But these do not seriously affect the main argument.”
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Acad. 71: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 1210w.
“This magnificent piece of work is entitled to a hearty reception, for it not only abounds in rich and suggestive ideas, but it is also full of religious inspiration.” George Cross.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 747. O. ’06. 2390w.
“Prof. Stevens’s work is a notable addition to our modern theological literature. It is marked by lucidity in its historical presentations and acuteness in its criticisms; and there is evidence of the author’s acquaintance with recent books on his subject.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w.
Bib. World. 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s hand.”
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Ind. 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment. The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”
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Outlook. 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.
Stevenson, Burton Egbert. Affairs of state: being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.
A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business methods result in large patronage and among the guests are diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.
“The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at the end.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Fails to hold the interest or stimulate the curiosity.”
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Stevenson, Burton Egbert. Girl with the blue sailor. [+]1.50. Dodd.
“A young newspaper man, going upon his first real vacation since he left college, gets involved with an old college chum and the college chum’s bride upon their honeymoon, and entangled also with an interesting family consisting of a pompous papa, and affected mamma, and four charming unmarried daughters. All of them are guests at the same mountain tavern. The girl in the blue sailor also comes there.... First are jests Inspired by the presence of the bride and groom, then matchmaking plots, picnics, boating expeditions, sparkling conversations with rather frequent quotations from Browning. In the very midst of it the young newspaper man gets sent to South Africa, where he makes an immense name as a war correspondent. After several years he comes back after his reward.”—N. Y. Times.
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Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“A very college boyish and amateurish love story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 361. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.
“Slight but rather pretty summer romance.”
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Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.
Stevenson, Burton E., and Elizabeth B., comps. Days and deeds; a book of verse for children’s reading and speaking. **$1. Baker.
Significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great Americans has been grouped in this volume for use in schools and in the family. To this have been added a short anthology of the seasons, and eight lyrics that every child should know, including “The chambered nautilus,” Kipling’s “L’envoi,” “Abou Ben Adhem,” etc.
“This should prove a very useful book for schools.”
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Dial. 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 110w.
Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret Isabella (Balfour). Letters from Samoa, 1891–1895, ed. and arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour. *$2. Scribner.
“The second and last instalment of these letters written by the mother of Stevenson during her journeys to Samoa and her life in his household there up to her return home after his death. All lovers of the man will be interested in them from their connection with the last years of his life, and no less for their personal charm and wit combined with sterling commonsense. They show that mother and son were in many respects alike—in their patience and fortitude in suffering as well as in their intellectual qualities and tastes.”—Critic.
“This last batch of letters is always interesting, although Vailima was but a little world and life there much of a muchness day after day. Nor is anything described in these letters that is new to us.”
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Acad. 70: 426. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
“Had the letters contained anything noteworthy, either for its own sake, or as illustrative of Stevenson’s character or genius, they would have been welcome.”
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Critic. 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Though the motive in publishing the book may have been the desire to preserve some record of Mrs. Stevenson, it is quite certain that the only motive in reading it will be the desire to press still further if that is possible into the intimacies of her son’s life.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 103. Mr. 23, ’06. 650w.
“No more delightful book about Stevenson has been published since his death, and it is a moral tonic as well.”
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Spec. 97: 371. S. 15, ’06. 300w.
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. Child’s garden of verses. $2.50. Scribner.
“Stevenson’s delicate cameos of childhood have found a most apt interpreter who has a style of her own with a curious charm.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 90w.
“One of the most attractive forms in which this most delightful book about children has appeared.”
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Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.
336Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull. Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.
A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows: Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian, Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.
“Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon with.”
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Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of his verse.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.
R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Stiefel, H. C. Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.
“A minimum of information about some of the industries of the Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise. The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin. N.
Engin. N. 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.). In cure of her soul. †$1.50. Appleton.
The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife, meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set, into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument against divorce.
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Bookm. 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.
“With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that its like were more common.”
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Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.
“In failing to work out this problem psychologically, the author has missed a great opportunity, and to a certain extent disappointed us in the expectations which might reasonably be based upon the title he has chosen for his work.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 37. Jl. 16. ’06. 480w.
“Whether or not Mr. Stimson wrote his latest book keeping pace with a serial, it has faults which a serial form imposes. The lessons of the book are mainly noble ones developed with much generous interpretation of motive, much poetic breadth of vision.”
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Nation. 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 490w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Excision and compression would have added greatly to the value of a striking book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 720w.
“It lacks a certain vitality which makes some stories popular, a certain brilliancy of touch or definiteness of characterization which carries other stories to great audiences; but it is a clean, clear, strong piece of work.”
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Outlook. 83: 801. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.
Stodola, Aurel. Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
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Nature. 75: 50. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent. Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we all need.”
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Cath. World. 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Stoker, Bram (Abraham). Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50. Macmillan.
Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender, imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-
“Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here, at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards the contemporary dramatist.”
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Acad. 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.
“Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided want of the sense of proportion.”
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Blackwood’s M. 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.
“This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.
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Current Literature. 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.
“His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.
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Dial. 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.
“The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
“‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”
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Nation. 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.
“It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always amiable.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.
“Other shortcomings there are in these volumes besides the failure to make known to us the real Irving—Irving the man as distinguished from Irving the actor. But, after all is said, this is a book to be grateful for, a 337book that will be of deep interest to gentlemen of ‘the profession,’ and an important contribution to the history of the English stage.”
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Outlook. 84: 713. N. 24, ’06. 860w.
“Within the limitations laid down for himself by the author, however, the work is brimful of interest as a contribution not only to the history of the technical advance of the stage during half a century, but to that of its social rise as well.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 757. D. ’06. 280w.
Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, and Fickett, Mary Grace. Days and deeds of a hundred years ago. *35c. Heath.
Under the headings: Two heroes of a “Far old year” (1780), From Massachusetts to Ohio (1787), The inauguration of Washington (1789), The story of the cotton gin (1793), The Parkers’ moving and settling (1798), The success of Robert Fulton (1807), A canal journey (1826), Kindling a fire (1828), A railroad story (1830), The electric telegraph (1844), are told stories of a hundred years ago which will make those days seem real to the children of today.
Stoner, Burton. Squeaks and squawks from far-away forests: a sequel to Jim Crow tales; il. by C: Livingston Bull. $1. Saalfield.
All about the first, second and third floor dwellers in White oak castle—which, unshorn of its romance, is a plain old oak tree. The animals and birds that tenant it furnish bits of wisdom and entertainment for juveniles.
Strang, Herbert. Brown of Moukden: a story of the Russo-Japanese war; il. by W. Rainey. †$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Strang’s story is “an exciting narrative reciting the adventures of an English youth—Jack Brown—the son of a British merchant doing business in Moukden at the outbreak of the recent war between Russia and Japan.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Herbert Strang may be congratulated on another first-rate book.”
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Critic. 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“The fault of the story is that it is too long, and, to tell the truth, is sometimes tedious. Yet there is more good matter in it than in most of the kind.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 385. N. 10, ’05. 150w.
“A good story for boys.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 510w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
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Outlook. 82: 761. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“Is certainly a success.”
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Spec. 95: sup. 791. N. 18, ’05. 810w.
Strasburger, Eduard. Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
While in the main it is the botanist who studies his flowers for the reader’s benefit, yet in more than plants does he use his powers of observation. Descriptions of people, their surroundings, and the changes that the seasons make in both are to be found in the book, as well as intimate knowledge of the local flora. The illustrations reproduce almost every plant presented in the text.
“One’s interest in his luxuriously printed and illustrated book is primarily scientific.” Wallace Rice.
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Dial. 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“As a writer, he is a true impressionist, making some times a single line or a touch of color tell a long story. This record then, is an attractive, as well as sound guide-book.”
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Nation. 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 740w.
“This luxurious—one might truly say luxuriant—book is pre-eminently the work of a scientific mind which would remove itself as far as possible from reposeless, useless, pleasure-seeking modern life and find rest and acquire knowledge in a contemplation of nature.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 670w.
“Does for the Riviera something of the service that Mr. Thomas’s [‘Heart of England’] does for England.”
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Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Dr. Strasburger suggests a pursuit which would give novel zest to the walks of the dilettante sojourner.”
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Sat. R. 102: 711. D. 8, ’06. 910w.
Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham). More misrepresentative men. **$1. Fox.
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Critic. 48: 384. Ap. ’06. 230w.
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Ind. 60: 344. F. 8. ’06. 70w.
Streatfeild, Richard A. Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.
In this volume the author has made studies of most of the greater composers from the time of Palestrina to the present day, attempting to trace the growth of the idea of a poetic basis in music.
“Our author—somewhat impulsive, and ... not always charitable—may now and again irritate us, but there is more to be learnt from him than from one who follows custom, and therefore displays little or no individuality.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 702. D. 1. 850w.
“On the whole, his criticisms are temperate and judicial, albeit at times the bias of an English point of view is discoverable. His style, though not polished, is especially easy, flowing and serviceable.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
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Bookm. 24: 271. N. ’06. 840w.
“The whole volume seems to want a great deal of revision. It shows much reading and some research, it is well presented, with good illustrations and a good index, but it deals too lightly with a set of problems which, after all, are the most difficult in all musical criticism.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 800w.
“There is a good deal that is insular in Mr. Streatfeild.”
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Nation. 83: 399. N. 8, ’06. 660w.
“It is unfortunate that theories and prepossessions have taken so firm a hold of a writer who presents himself so authoritatively to the musical public as Mr. Streatfeild.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 930w.
Putnam’s. 1: 382. D. ’06. 200w.
“It Is a volume which may well be entitled to occupy an honoured place on the shelf of the book-lover, and which will make its appeal, as the reflection of a cultivated and catholic mind, far beyond the limited circle of English musicians.” Harold E. Gorst.
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Sat. R. 102: 392. S. 29, ’06. 1680w.
Street, George Edward. Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“The whole history is simply and interestingly told.”
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Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“It is of specific value as a local history, but it includes much that is beyond the range of its title.”
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Nation. 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 520w.
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
A story of greed end craft and a goodly amount of implied electrical information. Two people, an electrical inventor, and an English girl, by force of unusual circumstances play in a game of chance side by side under the direction of a bookmaker ogre who attempts by wiretapping 338to beat a pool-room in New York City. “Yet there is in it a plot, or the suggestion of a plot, that might have served Ibsen. In its earlier chapters it develops a posture of events on which a ‘psychological’ novelist or dramatist could have builded a powerful work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As a whole this novel is one of the most original, interesting and suggestive romances of the year.”
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Arena. 36: 217. Ag. ’06. 790w.
“Quite as clever in its way as Mr. Hornung’s ‘Raffles’ stories.”
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Bookm. 23: 642. Ag. ’06. 420w.
“The story is exciting, but the morale is unqualifiedly bad.”
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Critic. 49: 288. S. ’06. 80w.
“Although this story is about as immoral in its tendencies as any that we have ever read the crimes which it deals with are so ingeniously contrived as to prove remarkably interesting.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 280w.
“The book is at once action and life, virile and alluring. It grips, and remains a pleasant memory.”
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Lit. D. 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 690w.
“We care much less for the characterization than for the incidents and the felicitous handling that gives them the semblance of reality.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 620w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Ingenious story.”
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Outlook. 83: 387. Je. 16. ’06. 90w.
Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.
“Mrs. Strong’s story is of the slightest, but it leaves you with a cheerful sense of having lately picnicked in some pleasant spot where a perpetual sun shone with pure benevolence.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Strong, Josiah. Social progress: a year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics, 1906. **$1. Baker.
“Social progress” for this present year directly aids the Department of international social information of the American institute of social service in its aim to create an exchange of thought and knowledge between the workers and students in all departments of social activity around the world. It takes its place in statistical value with the statesman’s year book, the census abstract, and the metropolitan almanacs.
Stuart, Charles Duff. Casa Grande. †$1.50. Holt.
Casa Grande is the California ranch house of a young Southerner who, in the early fifties, was forced into a serious struggle to make good his title to an unconfirmed Mexican grant in the Sonoma valley. The eviction of the squatters, who would neither sell their improvements nor buy his land, brings him in contact with Belle, a spirited young girl of true frontier type, adored by the sheriff, her family and dogs. In the course of the events which follow, Belle is mellowed into a truly womanly woman and, laying aside gunpowder and an explosive temper becomes the mistress of Casa Grande.
“Mr. Stuart goes quietly to work to draw a romantic environment and succeeds in placing in it a number of people who, like volcanoes smolder without exploding until the right time comes.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 320w.
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Outlook. 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 110w.
Stubbs, Charles William. Christ of English poetry: being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1904–5. **$2. Dutton.
Dr. Stubbs calls four poets representing four periods in English history to witness to the personality of Christ. They are Cynewulf, Langland, Shakespeare and Browning. Some of the poems of each man are analyzed and there have been added full explanatory notes to each lecture.
“The Christianity of these lectures is a little too vague and indefinite to be either historically true or practically valuable. This is not to deny that the argument of the lecturer is often clever, and that contact with a spirit so tolerant, so hopeful, so appreciative of the best in English life, is refreshing and delightful.”
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Ind. 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“They exhibit the preacher’s inevitable limitations. The most serious of these is the determination to force an edifying conclusion out of matter which in fact refuses to provide one. Many interesting things are said and quoted, both in the lectures and in the notes: but the book as a whole must be admitted to be a disappointment.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 102. Mr. 23, ’06. 840w.
“It is a keen intellectual pleasure to read these scholarly and most graceful discourses, stimulating as they are to our own thought.”
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Outlook. 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
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Spec. 96: 449. Mr. 24, ’06. 1640w.
Stubbs, Rev. Charles William. Story of Cambridge; il. by Herbert Railton. $2. Macmillan.
The Dean of Ely’s work belongs to the “Mediaeval town series” and tells the reader “what Cambridge was in the past, how it grew materially and spiritually, and what it is now.” (Spec.)
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Ath. 1906, 1: 544. My. 5. 70w.
“The book is somewhat dry reading, rather a book of reference.”
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Ind. 61: 754. S. 27. ’06. 110w.
“This little book is a handy guide to the university town.”
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Nation. 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.
“His style is not attractive; but everything he knows about town and university is placed at your service, you may help yourself.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 75. F. 3, ’06. 600w.
“Dean Stubbs knows his Cambridge at first hand, and, what is as important, knows also how to write.”
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Outlook. 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 110w.
“The Dean has made a lively and picturesque volume out of his superabundant materials.”
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Sat. R. 101: 136. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.
“This volume ... is in every way attractive.”
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Spec. 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 220w.
Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford. Lectures on early English history; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$4. Longmans.
“The first half of the volume is, in some measure, a commentary upon the author’s ‘Select charters.’ ... The second half of the book is a series of lectures on an entirely different topic—a study of medieval constitutions in the light of nationality and religion. In these pages Bishop Stubbs is less restrained than in his treatment of the details of the English constitution, and they reveal, not, indeed, the humour of the companion volume, but some of the speaker’s fundamental positions and convictions.”—Lond. Times.
“We may be grateful for the publication of Bishop Stubbs’s ‘Lectures on early English history’ ... for biographical reasons, if for 339no other, for the light they throw on the author’s methods of work. For those who can separate what is obsolete from what is still of value, they are worth much more than this.”
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 933. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“Their work was done in the hour of their delivery; they can never have been meant for publication, for Stubbs knew how fast and far knowledge had posted since they were written.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 384. Mr. 31. 1200w.
“Mr. Hassall has taken his editorial duties much too lightly.” James Tait.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 763. O. ’06. 790w.
“Students of early English history will find in these pages much that is useful and suggestive, and they will leave them with greater admiration than ever for the learning and the wisdom of the great Bishop of Oxford.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 99. Mr. 23, ’06. 670w.
“Some of the discourses published by Mr. Hassall would hardly have left Stubbs’s own hand for the press in their present unrevised condition, but, as revealing his more spontaneous habits of thought, it is well to have them in their present form.”
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Nation. 82: 532. Je. 29, ’06. 210w.
“It is doubtful whether he intended these lectures to be published; and he would have been the first to admit that some parts of them required further elaboration before their argument could be regarded as complete.”
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Sat. R. 101: 697. Je. 2, ’06. 880w.
“Here for the first time he has placed in his hands full, and for the most part satisfactory, explanations and the technical terms used in the laws and charters of the Norman kings, and what is really a full commentary upon the texts of the ‘Select charters.’”
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World To-Day. 11: 1219. N. ’06. 210w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: a commemorative volume by former students of Charles Edward Garman. *$2.50. Houghton.
A volume presented to Professor Charles Edward Garman on the 20th of June, 1906, in commemoration of his twenty-five years of service as teacher in philosophy in Amherst college. There are thirteen papers on philosophical subjects, nine of whose contributors are professors in American colleges and universities, one a professor in a theological seminary; two are college instructors; and one is head of the South End house, Boston.
“The present volume will serve as a permanent and worthy memorial of this service, upon which the outside world may be permitted to congratulate all concerned.” James Rowland Angell and A. W. Moore.
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J. Philos. 3: 631. N. 8, ’06. 6200w.
“The ‘Outlook’ congratulates him on this well-deserved monument which they have reared to his memory.”
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Outlook. 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 420w.
Sturgis, Howard Overing. All that was possible. †$1.50. Putnam.
A series of letters written by a woman who had sold her birthright for a mess of pottage. “The Earl of Medmenham was Sybil Croft’s first serious indiscretion; and when he took her from the stage and agreed to be responsible for her expenses, she justified herself by the belief that she really loved him. But when the Earl married, she realised that she was not in the least broken-hearted, philosophically accepted the modest settlement he offered her, and betook herself to a remote corner of Wales.” (Bookm.) Here Robert Henshaw finds her; “they fall in love,—she, uplifted by him, honourably; he, dragged down by her, dishonourably.” (Pub. Opin.).
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Acad. 70: 590. Je. 23, ’06. 1020w.
“The subtle understanding of mood and temperament stamps this book as a finer piece of art than many a more pretentious volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 470w.
“The book is extremely interesting, although much shorter and slighter in construction than that brilliant study of London life, Belchamber.” M. K. Ford.
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Critic. 48: 432. My. ’06. 750w.
“It is the most normally written, least emotional book of the season; and it may be a good one, but, if so, goodness may be regained, like the health by a change of scene, diet and climate.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 320w.
“The letters are brilliantly written.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.
“The man, Robert Henshaw, is wooden and unconvincing—the woman behind the letters is strange, but very true.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 411. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
“A successful psychologic study.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 190w.
Spec. 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
Sturgis, Howard Overing. Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Belongs among those books which are good enough not only to read, but to discuss.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 190w.
Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
“Judging the book strictly on the standards thus set up by its author it is found to be of very uneven merit. We should like it better if the author had taken more pains with his verbal style, which is, barring the occasional technical jargon, a very ordinary journalese.”
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Ind. 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 290w.
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Lit. D. 32: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Mr. Sturgis strongly resembles Mr. Hamerton in the perverted diligence with which he forces the most unsuitable pairs of artists to work in harness under the same category for his own nefarious book-making ends.”
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Sat. R. 101: 528. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.
“This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded appreciation of art.”
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Spec. 96: 101. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
Sturgis, Russell. Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
Reviewed by John La Farge.
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Architectural Record. 19: 199. Mr. ’06. 4870w.
“The subjects are multitudinous, indeed, which Mr. Sturgis treats, and it seems invidious almost to claim a superiority of handling of one over the other.” Frank Fowler.
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Bookm. 23: 106. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“It is a form of notebook, but also of encyclopaedia, and one more offshoot of a habit of life constantly curious in everything connected with art.”
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Nation. 82: 121. F. 8, ’06. 2790w.
Sturt, Henry. Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Under this Baconian title an Oxford scholar, Mr. Henry Sturt, rips up some current philosophic fallacies. Recent British philosophy (and American also) has been carried captive, as he views it, by a German invasion inculcating a one-sided idealism, in which the conative factor of thought is overshadowed by the speculative.... The general charge is that the ‘idols’ deceive by substituting a static for the dynamic 340conception of reality, with resulting damage to various interests, chiefly those of ethics, politics, and religion.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Sturt is sincere, and his way independent: but the structure of the book is slight; and in closing it we are haunted by the suspicion that its author has failed to master the doctrines he attacks.”
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Acad. 71: 106. Ag. 4, ’06. 2070w.
“Unfortunately, this is written from a very narrow outlook. It is history to suit a special interest. The attempt is made to convict Idealism of three great crimes—called Intellectualism, Absolutism, and Subjectivism.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 95. Jl. 25. 1230w.
“The work lacks systematic thoroughness; the criticisms are often haphazard, and the positive views adopted are so various that the reconciliation and substantiation of them all prescribes a somewhat difficult task to that yet unwritten new system of philosophy to which the author looks for a complete proof of his ‘master principle.’” J. W. Scott.
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Hibbert J. 5: 212. O. ’06. 2220w.
“But altho the book is far from effective as a whole, the criticisms it contains of certain points in Green’s metaphysics and in Mr. Bradley’s doctrine of the Absolute are perfectly sound, and the protest on behalf of the importance of activity or conative experience may be accepted as substantially true.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 321. S. 21, ’06. 1340w.
“Mr. Sturt’s work is worthy of all commendation. And in condensing so much and such crabbed material into so interesting a form he has achieved a considerable feat. His book deserves to be read, and doubtless will be.”
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Nation. 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 1460w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Sturt is keen, vigorous and clear.”
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Outlook. 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 310w.
“The main purpose of the book is critical, and ... we are prepared to admit that Mr. Sturt is, on the whole a ‘very respectable person’ in that field. Constructively the book is weak, and the weakness is a serious blemish.”
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Spec. 97: 266. Ag. 25, ’06. 1730w.
Sudermann, Hermann. Undying past; tr. by Beatrice Marshall. †$1.50. Lane.
“The scene of the story is East Prussia ... and the setting is agricultural. Two landed proprietors have grown up from childhood with the love of David and Jonathan.... Leo, having been detected in an intrigue with the wife of a nobleman of the neighborhood, is challenged by the injured husband to a duel, slays his opponent, is sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and, after his release, goes to South America, for a period of years. Ulrich, in the meanwhile, knowing nothing of his friend’s guilty relations with the widow of the slain, offers himself to her in marriage and is accepted. They have been united for some time, when Leo returns to his home, and at this point the story opens.... Leo is all the time conscious of the dark shadow of guilt that separates him from Ulrich. The latter, wholly unsuspecting, seeks to reknit the old relations, yet must defer to the stubborn fact that his wife had been made a widow by the deed of his friend.... Her old passion for her husband’s friend is revived upon his return, and ... the substance of the book is the struggle between these two characters-her struggle to bring him back into the old sinful relation, his to banish her from his thought, and purify his soul by repentance and expiation.”—Dial.
“It cannot be said altogether that Miss Marshall has attained a very high standard. But at least it may be said that she has given us a readable and fairly literary rendering of the original.”
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Acad. 70: 576. Je. 16, ’06. 520w.
“This is a gloomy but powerful psychologic study which also gives a fine realistic picture of life on the great landed estates of Prussia.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 36: 571. N. ’06. 290w.
“If from the artistic point of view it is hardly equal to some of the author’s other novels that appeared before it, it is none the less a fine and forcible romance, and contains some of his best writing.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 480w.
“The pages and chapters which are devoted to a portrayal of local customs and modes of thought, careful and vivid though they are, tend to obscure the real issue of the story rather than to elucidate it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 117. O. ’06. 530w.
“[This] English version is carelessly made.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Lond. Times. 5: 217. Je. 15, ’06. 600w.
“That which is eminently unsatisfactory besides the title, however ... is the absence of any biographical introduction.”
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Nation. 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“A powerful drama of humanity.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 494. Ag. 11, ’06. 1120w.
“There is a profound depression over the whole book, though the literary art which presents it is, as usual with Sudermann, full of force and of fine restraint.”
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Spec. 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$8.35. Oxford.
A work complete in five volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts. “The first consists of five chapters, in which are discussed the movements of the outer crust of the earth, diluvial, seismic, dislocatory and volcanic. In the second part the mountain systems of the world are examined in very varying detail, but sufficiently to bring out the main trend lines.” (Ath.) “The main purpose of [the second] volume is the statement of the evidence for Suess’s contention that continents are never uplifted in mass, and that the occurrence of raised shore lines and horizontal sheets of marine rocks is due to the lowering of sea level, and not to the raising of the land.” (Nature.)
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Nation. 83: 12. Jl. 5. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
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Nature. 74: 629. O. 25. ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
Sutcliffe, Halliwell. Benedick in Arcady. †$1.50. Dutton.
Really the sequel to “A bachelor in Arcady,” the book reveals a rather prosaic coloring. “The scene is the same, but it has lost some of its colour and breeziness. Cathy is not less fascinating as wife than as maid: the Wanderer is as courtly and buoyant as ever; but the Bachelor, by turning Benedick, has become a different being. His touch with nature is less intimate. Instead of the delightful notes on gardens, fields, animals, and birds in the earlier book, we have attractively written essays on such subjects as the Stuarts, superstition, the yeomanry, and old age.” (Ath.)
“In fact, the book is an idyll, and much better written than such idylls are wont to be.”
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Acad. 70: 530. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.
“Is disappointing only because its predecessor was much better.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 280w.
341“The wanderers with Mr. Sutcliffe into his Arcady will be rewarded for their stroll, and will come upon many a bye-the-bye bit, well worth tucking into their memories.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 480. Jl. 28, ’06. 440w.
“Though hardly the equal of its predecessor, ‘A bachelor in Arcady,’ there are to be found both grace and charm in these chapters, which occupy a middle ground between the story and the essay.”
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Outlook. 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 60w.
Sutphen, William Gilbert van Tassel. Doomsman. †$1.50. Harper.
New York in the year 2015 A. D. forms the setting for a story of love and adventure in which the hero is supposed to rediscover the use of firearms and electricity, the knowledge of which has been lost in a great catastrophe which wiped out our modern civilization ninety years earlier. But for the gaunt and partially destroyed skyscrapers and other remains of our own day the tale, with all its primitive human nature, might well be one of the far past and not of the future.
“In places the book is almost grotesque enough to be humourous; but if the author meant it for humour, he disguised his purpose too well. As it stands it is simply tedious and unprofitable.”
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Bookm. 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 360w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 1240w.
Suttner, Bertha, baroness von. “Ground arms:” “Die waffen nieder;” a romance of European war, tr. from the German by Alice Asbury Abbott. †$1.25. McClurg.
—Same. With title “Lay down your arms: the autobiography of Martha Von Tilling: authorized tr. by T. Holmes.” 75c. Longmans.
This book, which won the Nobel peace prize for 1905, is a powerful plea for universal disarmament. It is the autobiography of an Austrian countess born with true martial spirit, her only grief that she cannot win laurels on the field of battle. At seventeen she marries a dashing young lieutenant and one short year later, clasping her fatherless son to her heart she awakens to the real horrors of war. Her hatred of war and warfare is justified by the story of the thirty years that follow. She draws pictures of agony, disease and mutilation as seen in 1864, 1866, and again when she lost the love of her mature years at Paris, and she shows between these periods such happy years of peace that the reader shudders with her at the contrast.
“Regarded merely as a novel, the book has fine qualities—the reader’s interest never flags, and the realism is so vigorous that one who does not know the facts will continually feel inclined to suspect that the autobiography is fictitious only as far as the names of the personages are concerned.”
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Cath. World. 82: 841. Mr. ’06. 1320w.
“This version ... is both idiomatic and exact.”
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Lit. D. 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
“Constructively it shows no literary genius, and its war pictures fall far short of those in Tolstoy’s ‘War and peace.’”
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Nation. 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The supreme grace of simplicity has been given her, and an exquisite tenderness whereby she holds the heart of her reader in the hollow of her hand.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“The story is thoroughly German, in remarkable good English.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 398. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The story itself is of keen interest, but the argument is stronger than the story.”
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Outlook. 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.
“The greatest philanthropical novel of this generation.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 170w.
Suyematsu, K., baron. Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.
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Lond. Times. 4: 322. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Why, in the days of ‘The risen sun,’ when concealment of facts is no longer possible, should so frank a scholar, refined gentleman, true patriot, and man of the world as Baron Suyematsu is, and with so noble a recorded service, seek to imitate the uncanny fashion of his old-time literary brethren?”
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Nation. 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 1070w.
Swayne, Christine Siebeneck (Mrs. Noah F. Swayne). Visionary and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
Three score little verses which sing much of love and something of nature.
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Sweetser, Kate Dickinson. Boys and girls from George Eliot; pictures by George Alfred Williams. †$2. Fox.
Really a happy thought contribution to child literature. Aside from the pleasure and value of the stories to young readers it is hoped that interest will extend to the books from which these pictures of child life are taken. The little people who are introduced are Tom and Maggie Tulliver, Eppie, Tottie Poyser, the Garths, Little Lizzie, Jacob Cohen, Tina, “The little black-eyed monkey,” Job Tudge and Harry Transome.
“We question the advisability of such a volume, however; it gives a wrong impression of George Eliot, and adds a somber tone that will come later in life.”
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Ind. 61: 1410. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
“In these drawings Mr. Williams shows a mounting command and simplification.”
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Int. Studio. 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.
“The work is very well done.”
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
“For all its slightness, the book leaves an impression. You have a far clearer vision of every person than of the elaborately explained Lady Kitty, in ‘William Ashe.’” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 420w.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Poems: selected and edited by Arthur Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.” The poems have been carefully selected and annotated, and the volume is supplied with a prefatory note and an introduction, the latter briefly sketching Swinburne’s life.
Dial. 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 50w.
“Is worth having, for it contains some of the finest poems of the century and is mercifully free from some of the more luxuriant passages of the great poet.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 60w.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected lyrical poems. $1.50. Harper.
Swinburne’s first published volume, Poems and ballads, is included in this edition together with many later poems that are best representative of the poet’s genius.
342Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Tragedies. Collected lib. ed. 5 v. *$10. Harper.
A five volume edition of Swinburne’s “Tragedies” which with the six-volume edition of his “Poems” makes available in collected form the “entire poetical product of the greatest of living poets.” (Dial.) Volume 1 contains “The Queen mother” and “Rosamund;” Volume 2 contains “Chastelard,” and the first two acts of “Bothwell,” the remaining three acts of which constitute Volume 3; Volume 4 includes the drama “Mary Stuart” and essays on her life and character; and Volume 5 contains “Locrine,” “The sisters,” “Marino Faliero,” and “Rosamund, queen of the Lombards.”
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Dial. 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
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Lond. Times. 5: 33. F. 2, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
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Nation. 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by George S. Hellman.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 320. My. 19, ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
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Sat. R. 100: 54. Jl. 8, ’05. 1050w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Sat. R. 101: 238. F. 24, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.). B. R. Haydon and his friends. **$3. Dutton.
“George Paston has admirably illustrated a fascinating subject.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 873. D. 23. 830w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 274. F. ’06. 440w.
“Is, for all its sorrow and tragedy, brightened by the record of many joyous days and hours, and is altogether a fascinating biography.”
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Dial. 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 350w.
Symons, Arthur. Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
“These stories, each of which deals with a separate personality, are studies of decadence. They explore the relation between life and art.” (Ath.) In each of the eight studies the author “is intent on reproducing a distinct temperamental type, or, to put it in another way, in each case he has isolated a temperament and assigned it to a person.” (Outlook.) “‘Esther Kahn’ is perhaps the most wholesome of these haunting stories, having a definite culmination in the creation of the artist through suffering. But on the whole, ‘The death of Peter Waydelin’ is the achievement of the book, in the tragedy and realistic horror of its setting.” (Critic.)
“They are all, as one would expect, stories of the better sort, not depending upon incident, but expounding some emotional situation. For the work of an author not accustomed to express himself in this medium, they are surprisingly well told, though they present some of the technical defects which the essayist who sets himself to write stories is seldom able to avoid.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 161. F. 10. 1790w.
“It is Mr. Symons’s simple and forceful style, with its delicate psychic touches, combined with his really great gift for the vital story, which disarms our criticism of his philosophy.”
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Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 380w.
“His very cleverness and facility make it more to be regretted that he has wasted his time in portraiture, brilliant but without significance, of subjects that are hardly worthy of such distinction.”
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Dial. 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Evocations, these tales, if tales you can call them, will prove attractive for some to whom English fiction has become too material, too much a thing of bricks and mortar.” James Huneker.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 680w.
“No matter how impersonal the reader tries to be, he will probably close this book with a sense of depression.”
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Outlook. 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The work of a literary artist with an extraordinarily engaging and subtly morbid personality, they sometimes fascinate and sometimes disgust but always awaken interest and rivet attention.”
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Sat. R. 101: 365. Mr. 24. ’06. 1310w.
Syrett, Netta. Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
The “day’s journey” of a novelist and his wife from a state of infatuation to one of quiet affection carries them thru many stages. The young writer tires of a quiet country life and seeks emotional inspiration and sympathy from a frowsy artist of Greek robes and sandals who poses as a true Bohemian. He neglects his wife and to cover his latest “friendship” thrusts upon her the society of an old lover. This old lover inspires her to self assertion and she develops into a woman of character and talent who wins literary honors for herself, and turns from an admiring social world to find her husband once more at her feet.
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Acad. 68: 639. Je. 17, ’05. 360w.
“Miss Syrett has a charming style and a dramatic faculty for keeping what Besant called the ‘flat times’ of her characters out of the reader’s knowledge. Her limitations, so far at least as the present novel is concerned, are chiefly those of environment.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 310w.
“The whole story is told in a crisp style which never drags and which is always charming.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is written with considerable sense of humor and charm of manner.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 617. O. 6. ’06. 470w.
“Netta Syrett wields a clever pen and shows much wit in her society sketches.”
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Outlook. 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“The book is fairly written.”
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Taggart, Marion Ames. Daddy’s daughters. †$1.50. Holt.
Daddy’s daughters are four in number,—Rosamund, sweetly even-tempered; Gaynor, quick as a flash of steel, but big-hearted and loyal; Sibyl, fretful and petulant of disposition, and Austiss, sunny, cheerful and loving. Daddy himself is a dreamer, a student, a poet, an ultra-refined and lovable man. The story records the lively doings in the family with the household ballast reposing in Mary Frances, the housekeeper.
“A pleasant story.”
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Ind. 61: 1412. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“Is quite as pleasing a book for girls as its suggestive title indicates.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
Taggart, Marion Ames. One afternoon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-one short stories, each of which gives sure, strong touches of real life—its romances, its strifes and its triumphs.
343Taggart, Marion Ames. Pussy-cat town; il. in colors by Rebecca Chase. $1. Page.
A tale for young people. It gives a brisk account of a band of cats that built the city of Purrington in the river Meuse, a place where all poor, abused cats could come and live happily all their nine lives.
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Taggart, Marion Ames. Six girls and Bob: a story of patty-pans and green fields; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
A mother, six girls, and a son make up the spirited group that lived first in patty-pans—so they called their New York flat because the rooms resembled the cups of a patty-pan—and later in the country. The children are the lively wholesome sort and reflect health and happiness well tempered with bits of wisdom.
N. Y. Times. 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 90w.
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe. Balzac: a critical study tr. with an appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke. *$1. Funk.
The excellent appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke which occupies the first part of this volume adds much to the reader’s appreciation of Taine’s critical study of Balzac which follows. The great critic treats of the great novelist as both man and artist, giving his life and character, estimating his genius, discussing his style, his world, his character and his philosophy until he and his work stand forth as tho re-created.
“The translator of this minor work of the great French critic has done his original into, easy, flowing English, which retains the clearness of the French. Mr. O’Rourke has placed his meritorious piece of criticism at a great disadvantage by putting it into such close juxtaposition with Taine’s estimate of Balzac.”
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Lit. D. 32: 970. Je. 30, ’06. 700w.
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Nation. 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“Taine’s study of Balzac combines biography and criticism, and the translation seems excellent.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 462. Jl. 21, ’06. 160w.
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Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert. My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
Let no one think that because the book is written by an Episcopal bishop it is an account of ceremonies and sermons. It is a human not an ecclesiastical document and the pictures it gives of pioneer life in Wyoming and Idaho, among cattlemen, gamblers, adventurers, Indians and army men are full of life and interest. The personal element is modestly subordinated and we think we can understand why the bishop was everywhere welcomed—even so cordially as by the old Indian with his limited cow-boy English. “Me damned glad to see you, heap-sleeve bishop.”
“It is not amiss to call this one of the most cheerful books of the year. In a sense, it is the best of Christmas stories. The book is a lesson in simplicity. It is more vital than any essay on the art of living.”
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Harper’s Weekly. 50: 1716. D. 1, ’06. 1210w.
“The literary style is effective and the book adds a new chapter to the history of American missions.”
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Lit. D. 33; 814. D. 1, ’06. 330w.
“The reader will lay this book down with the feeling that he has listened to a pleasant and instructive talk from a genuine man.” Cameron Mann.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
“An excellently written little volume.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
The articles of the Apostles’ creed are taken up separately here and simplified to serve as instruction for Catholic little people.
Tallentyre, S. G., pseud. (E. V. Hall). Life of Voltaire. 2v. **$3.50. Putnam.
A third and illustrated edition of this life of Voltaire, the man of strong and varied emotions. “His life was a long conflict ... but when in old age he had become the acknowledged leader of European thought ... he was born with a genius for friendship; he was a man of heart and of feeling.... He took a low, some might say true, view of human nature, but he constantly sought to relieve miseries of humanity.... The attack upon oppression was the true work of his life. In this he was absolutely sincere. He told lie after lie, but he never descended to that most insiduous form of falsehood under which a man forsakes his own convictions.... He never deserted the cause to which he was devoted.” (Nation.)
Nation. 83: 80. Jl. 26, ’06. 2110w.
“The book lacks perspective and proportion. The author’s painting is the reverse of the impressionist.... But it does not lack material carefully collected. It does not lack clearness, precision, a rational judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be, we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire, in the English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of detail.”
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Outlook. 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 140w.
Tapp, Sidney C. The struggle. †$1.50. Wessels. (Am. Bapt., Southeastern distributing agts.)
An arraignment of trusts. The author makes use of a quadruple romance to furnish characters and setting for his exposure of the evils of organized wealth. He drawls a living picture of the inside of Wall street and the great gambling institutions of the country which are overthrowing and destroying our civilization.
R. of Rs. 33: 760. Je. ’06. 70w.
Tappan, Eva March. Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.
Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“To write a short history of a vast subject in the form of animated story is so difficult a task that its successful achievement is specially commendable. Miss Tappan has done this skillfully, singling out the things most worth knowing, and showing them in a succession of flashlights that stay in the memory.”
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Outlook. 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat). Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the international Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
In this large and comprehensive volume Dr. Tarbell presents something more than a mere guide; she gives the Bible texts of the lesson, explains their words and phrases, quotes suggestive thoughts from helpful writers, explains phases of Oriental life, and adds valuable suggestions for teaching the lessons under which are included: Three lesson thoughts with illustrations; Sentence sermons; The Bible its own interpreter: The lesson summary; Subjects for Bible class discussion; and Work to be assigned. The lesson course forms an outline of the life of Christ, gives the purpose and authorship of the gospels and the geography of Palestine. The volume is illustrated with maps, diagrams and pictures.
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of equal value.”
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Arena. 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.
344“It will not replace Peloubet or the ‘Sunday school times,’ for it is antiquated and uncritical but its numerous quotations will often be suggestive and convenient.”
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Ind. 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 40w.
“Ranks with the best of its class. It would be difficult to excel it in the line which passes over all critical problems to illustrate and apply to pupils of all ages the teaching of the text as it stands.”
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Outlook. 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.
“Delightful in name as well as in nature.”
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Reader. 6: 722. N. ’05. 220w.
Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.
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Ath. 1905. 2: 829. D. 16. 240w.
“Is one of the best of popular novels, a book that even the person of superior mind can read with secret joy, and that more ordinary and honest mortals can devour with open and avowed delight.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 22: 517. Ja. ’06. 1240w.
“The chief beauty of Mr. Tarkington’s novel is its intense sincerity. Its value as a historical document is not inconsiderable and there are parts, at least, of the story whose artistic excellence is solid and indisputable.”
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Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 182: 926. Je. ’06. 160w.
“Nothing that Mr. Tarkington has written so clearly shows his gain in power as ‘The conquest of Canaan.’ Is a beautiful story, and it has the distinction too, in this day of clamorous and ill-judged titles, of possessing one that is exceptionally simple, strong and fitting.”
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Reader. 7: 224. Ja. ’06. 610w.
Taylor, Bert Leston. Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A young neophyte of the provinces is one day visited by Enlightenment, more substantially known as Mrs. Maybury, who discovers in the country maid great musical genius. This story tells of the planning and sacrifices on the part of the farmer parents to send their Hope to the city for instruction, of her kindly reception there, many friends, and hard work. There is a fresher atmosphere with the Bohemian setting and a more spiritual sympathy for fellow mortals, than tales of the artist’s world usually possess.
“This is a bright, entertaining novel that will appeal to the general reader as a pleasing story of present-day life.”
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Arena. 36: 683. D. ’06. 420w.
“Any one who is familiar with the manners and habits of a certain class of musicians will realize how excellent is Mr. Taylor’s portrayal of this phase of life in a large city. The book, therefore, is veracious, and it is both satirical and amusing.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“For the blasé reader of novels it is genuinely refreshing.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
Taylor, C. Bryson. Nicanor, teller of tales. †$1.50. McClurg.
Great Britain under Roman rule furnishes the setting for this romance. Nicanor inherits from Melchior, his grandfather, so great a gift of telling tales that he casts a veritable spell over his hearers. Among those who learn of his fame is Veria. a Roman lard’s daughter, who forgets that Nicanor is a slave and yields to his enchantment. Then there is the love of Eldris, one of Nicanor’s own class. The spirit of the period as expressed in the sharp inequalities of the noble and the slave class is drawn with many a passionate, dramatic touch.
“The author deserves credit for conceiving out of the dry pages of half-written history and out of the dust of traditions a character so consistent with both.”
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Ind. 61: 521. Ag. 30, ’06. 280w.
“The author ... can cast a spell with his words that seems to be of something more than the mere story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 328. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“A pure romance, in well sustained style.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
Taylor, Henry Charles. Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This volume is scientific in its substance, although for the most part popular in style.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
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Dial. 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 110w.
“In addition to the theoretical discussions, the book contains a few tables of prices, of tenancy, and other data which add to its convenience as a text book.” William Hill.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 184. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“The book contains many statistical details relating to the United States that are not readily accessible to the general reader.” E. H. G.
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Nature. 74: 193. Je. 28, ’06. 950w.
“The book is certainly full of suggestions, and will doubtless serve well enough its purpose of introducing American students to the further study of agriculture. There is too little information in the book about existing conditions, and too little explanation of those conditions.” G. S. C.
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Yale R. 15: 312. N. ’06. 690w.
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-. Molière: a biography; with an introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
A life of Molière for English readers “both scholarly and popular in which the man stands out in the midst of his managerial and literary labours.” It depicts Molière, the man, the actor and the dramatist with the political, social and literary background of Louis the Fourteenth’s time. The author’s intention has been to interpret Molière’s life by his plays and his plays by his life rather than to write an exhaustive criticism of his dramatic works.
“It is not simply a biography of Molière, but as complete a presentation as is needed by the general public of the history, the sources and the contents of his masterpieces.” Adolphe Cohn.
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Bookm. 24: 355. D. ’06. 2190w.
“This book most certainly comes nearer to absolute accuracy than many volumes of the kind: and hostile criticism of the book will be aimed less at the matter which it contains than at the style, the form and way in which it is presented.”
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Ind. 61: 1346. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“This new biography shows the careful student’s attention to details. More emphasis might have been placed upon the mechanism of Molière’s theater, which was the germ of a national home for French drama. There might likewise have been a deeper consideration of the special genre of play which Molière created. But despite all this, the volume, which is sumptuous in form, deserves special consideration.”
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Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 280w.
“Is a volume of some real note in Molière literature.”
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Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8. ’06. 110w.
345“Slips are comparatively few in this book. The extracts from the plays are judiciously chosen and felicitously, translated.”
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Nation. 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 980w.
“It is disfigured by the back-number orthography, which is still used by most British printers, although denounced by most British scholars. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has set an example to all who deal with foreign authors. He has not assumed in his readers any knowledge of French: therefore, whenever he is moved to quote he has turned the French verse into English.” Brander Matthews.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 792. D. ’06. 610w.
“It is from a failure in sympathy and insight that the book suffers most grievously—from a seeming incapacity to sound the tragic depths in the nature of the great comic master.”
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Outlook. 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
“A serious piece of work from the pen of a student who has spared neither time, nor trouble, nor care to produce the picture of a man of genius in his proper historical and social setting, and its reflection in and influence upon his life and his work.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 220w.
“A conscientious, thorough piece of biography.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 759. D. ’06. 100w.
Taylor, Ida A. Life of Queen Henrietta Maria; with 32 il. and 2 photogravure fronts, 2d. ed. **$7.50. Dutton.
“The object of these volumes is to present to us, not a period of history, but a living personality, to whom for the nonce the whole period is a skillfully sketched background, subordinated but true to nature. Not an unnecessary figure or point of view is introduced. We are intended to see the face, and hear the voice, and mark the thoughts, the woes and joys, of that Queen of England who called herself ‘La Reine Malheureuse,’ and it can truly be said that when the book is at last laid aside, a new Henrietta Maria is recorded in the mind—a queen intensely human, intensely living and wonderfully lovable.” (Spec.)
“The last word to the author must be one of sincere congratulation.”
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Acad. 70: 377. Ap. 21, ’06. 1260w.
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Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“The book is brightly and pleasantly written.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 326. O. 6, ’05. 1780w.
“We must call this work a much more finished and interesting performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”
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Nation. 82: 491. Je. 14, ’06. 560w.
“The author of these volumes has told his story well and sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth telling.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended. The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost every personage discussed.”
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Outlook. 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 330w.
“Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is preserved throughout.”
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Spec. 96: 98. Ja. 20, ’06. 2020w.
Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor). On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.
“If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
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Atlan. 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 240w.
“The volume brings much that is new, and what was previously known has been well retold. There is, in general, a wise discrimination as to content.”
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Nation. 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.
Taylor, Mary Imlay. Impersonator. †$1.50. Little.
An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary, a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful title of countess.
“Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable. Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”