Volume 3 — S (continued 3)

+ Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.

Smith, Mary P. Wells. Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.

7–31225.

Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships, their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal to young readers.

N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending chapter.”

+ − R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w.

Smith, Richard. Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.

6–32121.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w.

410“The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness. Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too, calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray, was it not strictly alphabetical?”

+ + − Nation. 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w.

Smith, Rodney. Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1. Revell.

“This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.

“An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by unmistakable sincerity.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w.

Outlook. 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w.

Smith, Ruel Perley. Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.

7–5061.

A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757, after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety animate the pages.

“A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old age,” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

“If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy him.”

− Ind. 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.

Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w.

“In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w.

“All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”

+ Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.

Smith, Ruel Perley. Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill. $1.50. Page.

7–30991.

This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill, in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.

N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w.

Smith, Rev. Samuel George. Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.

7–20333.

A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours, increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control, state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty, freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

J. Pol. Econ. 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w.

Smyser, William Emory. Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.

7–6733.

This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.

“The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”

+ Ind. 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.

“Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”

+ Outlook. 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w.

Smyth, Eleanor C. Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform: told by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.

The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous detail concerning the originator’s home life.

“This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”

+ Ath. 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”

+ Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w.

“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake to apply to the past the standards of the present.”

+ − Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w.

Smythe, William Ellsworth. Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.

5–41786.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the conquest of arid America.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w.

Snaith, John Collis. Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

6–14547.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the ultra-cynical scene at the end.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w.

“Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of mediocrity.” Mary Moss.

+ + − Atlan. 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w.

“Is a book to be reckoned with.”

+ Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w.

411“Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”

+ − Ind. 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w.

“The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr. Snaith.”

+ + − Putnam’s. 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w.

Snaith, John Collis. Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd. by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

6–37964.

A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.” (Nation.)

“The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the mind of the man involved.”

+ Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.

“A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”

+ Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

“The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due admixture of fire.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

Snider, Denton Jaques. American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.

6–34283.

The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.” (Outlook.)

“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”

− + Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.

“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read these illuminative and instructive chapters.”

+ + − Ind. 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w.

“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is negligible.”

− + Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w.

“It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”

− + Outlook. 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w.

Snider, Guy Edward. Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.

6–46362.

A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w.

“This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.

+ − J. Pol. Econ. 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w.

Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w.

Snyder, Carl. World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism. *$2.50. Longmans.

W 7–93.

When complete there will be three volumes under the general title, “The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection, into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 129. My. ’07.

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w.

“It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the general reader more information on the history of science than he can find anywhere else in a readable form.”

+ + Ind. 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w.

“He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash prophecy.”

− Nation. 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w.

“The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.

− Nature. 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w.

“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of assured facts.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”

+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w.

“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout, and, at times, picturesque.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w.

“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing character.”

− Sat. R. 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w.

412Sociological society, London. Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their meaning very obscure.”

+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)

Soden, Hermann, baron von. History of early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.

6–11299.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w.

“A good English translation.”

+ + Ind. 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w.

Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of. Correspondence of two brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.

“This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.

“Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a competent and conscientious piece of work.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w.

“The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for the characters revealed by it.”

+ Ind. 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.

“To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in a very high degree.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w.

“If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”

+ − Nation. 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w.

“These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students of the Waterloo period.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w.

“The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the modern Athens.”

+ Spec. 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w.

Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin). Some Irish yesterdays: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ. Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.

7–35223.

“A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.

“These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish R. M.’ have ever done.”

+ Acad. 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w.

“Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 130. My. ’07.

“The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w.

“One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle expression in the brogue.”

+ Lond. Times. 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.

+ Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w.

“The book is seldom interesting, often dull, and sometimes almost unintelligible.”

− Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.

+ Sat. R. 102: 617. N. 17. ’06. 220w.

+ Spec. 97: 624. O. 27, ’06. 1420w.

Soothill, W. E. Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.

“A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author tells of the difficulties of establishing a mission, of its daily work, of the travels of the missionary about the country and the multitude of varied things his hands find to do, of the Chinese converts to Christianity and the aid they give, of the work that is done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese education.”—N. Y. Times.

“His book is vigorously informative, shot thru and thru with human interest, and made attractive with wit and humor.”

+ Ind. 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w.

“It is an entertaining volume, brimful of information about the life and work of the missionary, and vivid with pictures of the daily life of the Chinese.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.

“With many interesting descriptions and touches of humor.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

Sorrel, Moxley. Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2. Neale.

Not so much of a narrative as a series of pictures of “camp and field and of the more striking personalities of the Southern armies.” (Ind.) The reminiscences begin with the battle of Manassas, and continue thru Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.

Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w.

+ Ind. 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w.

Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.

7–29580.

A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times, The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.

Souttar, Robinson. Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.

7–25500.

“Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress 413of the Roman empire from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that, notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of little use even to the historian.’”

+ − Acad. 72: 312. Mr. 30, ’07. 2140w.

“The reader appears to be in safe hands, however, for the current modern opinion is not departed from, unless the author takes occasion to differ with some one as to the causes of the decline and fall of the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.

+ Am. Hist. R. 13: 175. O. ’07. 470w.

“He has used in his book what may be regarded as respectable authorities but he shows no knowledge of the special literature concerning the topics which he treats. The author is seen at his best in his chapters on the early emperors, whom he treats with both fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w.

“Granting Mr. Souttar’s method, he has chosen his material with skill and knowledge and described it with as much vividness as his method will allow.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 230w.

“The whole thing is certainly not the work of a thorough scholar, or of a literary man with any cultivated skill in his craft.”

− + Sat. R. 104: 114. Jl. 27, ’07. 1370w.

“The truth of the matter is that Dr. Souttar is not sufficiently armed with authorities to reverse the judgment of history. Dr. Souttar’s inability to deal with the more obscure problems of history is shown by his treatment of the subject of Roman persecution of the Christians.”

+ − Spec. 99: 399. S. 21, ’07. 1340w.

Spargo, John. Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.

6–5679.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“This work is a masterly volume marked by a firm and comprehensive grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the hour.”

+ + + Arena. 37: 205. F. ’07. 5540w.

Reviewed by Mary Willcox Glenn.

Charities. 17: 497. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.

Spargo, John. Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.) 50c. Kerr.

7–23082.

The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor Goldwin Smith’s attacks on socialism in his book “Capital and labor;” the second, a lecture on “Modern socialism,” delivered to the students of the school of philanthropy, New York City.

Reviewed by Albion W. Small.

Am. J. Soc. 13: 272. S. ’07. 110w.

“The paper will be especially valuable to the average reader whose acquaintance with socialism consists chiefly of a bundle of misapprehensions.”

+ Ind. 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 150w.

Spargo, John. Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.

6–22326.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.

+ + Atlan. 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.

“Mr. Spargo’s views, which if not authoritative are representative, have the merit of being those of a socialist who is an educated man commanding a clear and temperate style, accustomed to dealing with actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene Balch.

+ Charities. 17: 464. D. 15, ’06. 2030w.

“In spite of the brevity of his work—the result of conciseness rather than of superficiality—Mr. Spargo gives a satisfactory general view of his subject, and his book is to be recommended especially as a foundation for a more detailed knowledge to be afterwards acquired.” Eunice Follansbee.

+ Dial. 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 300w.

“As an elementary presentation Mr. Spargo’s work is distinctly meritorious, in spite of undoubted faults of style, exposition, and reasoning. Economically it need mislead no one. Sociologically it will prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing, though it adds nothing to the specialist’s knowledge of socialist history or theory.” R. F. Hoxie.

+ J. Pol. Econ. 15: 122. F. ’07. 540w.

“It is to be regretted that in preparing such an able hand-book for the propagation of socialistic ideas, the author did not give more serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought and thus bring the ‘economics of socialism’ into closer harmony with the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.

+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 166. Mr. ’07. 960w.

Sparhawk, Frances Campbell. Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples ser.) †75c. Crowell.

7–26624.

Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the little boy in the lonely woods into Lincoln the patriot, the lover and friend of his whole country. The sketch has been prepared especially for boys and furnishes the keynote to a successful life in any place or station.

“Adapted to the understanding of the young. At the same time, it is not written in a tone of condescension, an attitude which boys are sure to resent. Adults might well read it and be instructed.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 70w.

Sparling, Samuel Edwin. Introduction to business organization. (Citizen’s lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) $1.25. Macmillan.

6–43943.

“This book is another indication of the growing interest in the systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work definitions and analysis of business organization are given with considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization. After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization, Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and collections.”

“The only book on the subject.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. Ap. ’07.

“So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.” Charles Lee Raper.

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w.

414“The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own business.” Wm. Hill.

+ J. Pol. Econ. 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w.

R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w.

Spears, John Randolph. Short history of the American navy. **50c. Scribner.

7–12867.

Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of America’s history.

“This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.” Charles Oscar Paullin.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 172. O. ’07. S.

“Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim consideration as a serious historical study.”

− + Nation. 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w.

“This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so labeled.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w.

+ R. of Rs. 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w.

Speed, Capt. Thomas. Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50. Putnam.

7–14671.

A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active participant.

“The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the best available source of information about the Union cause in Kentucky.”

+ − Dial. 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w.

+ Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

“The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and events, sometimes only locally interesting.”

− + Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w.

“It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w.

R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.

Speer, Robert E. Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–16361.

The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects, Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.

Speicher, Jacob. Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.

7–20641.

A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in southern China.

“Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training the missionary needs.”

+ Ind. 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

* Spinners’ club. Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.

7–32566.

A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb. Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the earth-quake is the first beneficiary.

+ Dial. 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

“A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”

+ Outlook. 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w.

Spinney, William Anthony. Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.

7–2729.

An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.

“There is much ... nonsense in the book.”

− Ind. 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.

Spitta, Edmund J. Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the microscope. *$6. Dutton.

This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates the most recent types.”—Ind.

“We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w.

“Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume extremely helpful.”

+ + Ind. 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w.

“In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w.

+ Nation. 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w.

“The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”

+ − Sat. R. 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w.

Squires, Grace. Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50. Dutton.

6–39753.

The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.

“It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would suggest.”

+ Bookm. 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w.

“It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do any girl good to read it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.

415Stael-Holstein, Mme. de. Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr. from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.

7–29169.

“These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.

“These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest, but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too obviously a translation.”

+ − Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w.

“As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”

+ Outlook. 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w.

“The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this publication of new letters.”

+ Spec. 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w.

Staley, Edgcumbe. Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.

6–37191.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07.

“It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ − Dial. 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w.

“Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”

+ + + Ind. 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.

Staley, Edgcumbe. Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.) *$1.25. Scribner.

“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173 pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity, daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.

“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real quality of the work praised.”

− Nation. 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.

“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his pictures inserted as marginal notes.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.

“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”

− Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.

Stamey, De Kellar. Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

6–16206.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.

Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton. Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.

7–20751.

Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been carefully sought out.

“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”

+ − Am. Hist. R. 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.

Ath. 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.

“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified with study of the original records and documents, has written a thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.

“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case, there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”

+ − Spec. 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.

Standage, H. C. Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.

Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron. Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

7–28487.

Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and policies.” (Outlook.)

“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and opinions.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.

“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no books which are 416more valuable from this point of view than the biography of Sidney Herbert.”

+ Ind. 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.

“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.

“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the space.”

+ − Nation. 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.

“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work formidable and rather dreary reading.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.

“Very interesting memoir.”

+ + Sat. R. 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.

Spec. 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.

Stanton, Coralie. Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.

7–11588.

The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the adventuress.

Starbuck, Robert Macy. Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly by the author for this work. $4. Henley.

7–2755.

A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.

“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably fulfilled.”

+ + − Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”

+ + Technical Literature. 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.

Starke, Dr. J. Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the German. **$1.50. Putnam.

7–12259.

A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms, especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that “There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes, exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.

“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in order to influence public opinion more effectively.”

− Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.

Current Literature. 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.

“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in circulation.”

+ Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.

Ind. 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.

“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are somewhat obscure.”

+ − Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.

R. of Rs. 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.

“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.

+ − Science, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.

Starr, Frederick. Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles. $1. Forbes.

7–20882.

An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well illustrated by photographs of the natives.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 172. O. ’07. S.

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.

+ + Cath. World. 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.

Nation. 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.

“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on his Congo trip.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.

“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy over alleged atrocities there.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.

R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.

Stauffer, David McNeely. Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.

6–7716.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.” F. Lavis.

+ − Engin. N. 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.

* Stead, Richard. Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.

“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St. Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.

417“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to run through the 328 pages.”

+ Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”

+ − Spec. 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.

Stead, Richard. Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.

6–45336.

An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to Klondyke.” (Nation.)

Ath. 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.

“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure and wilder beasts.”

+ Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+ − N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.

“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think, the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine stories of adventure and exploration.”

+ Spec. 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.

* Stead, William Thomas. Peers or people? the House of lords weighed in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.

A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has done, and What must be done with the House of lords.

“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of the problem.”

+ Nation. 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.

R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.

Stearns, Frank Preston. Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2. Lippincott.

6–37623.

A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it “contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)

“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.

“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the distinctive feature of his work.”

− + Dial. 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.

“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his surroundings.”

+ Ind. 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.

“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne should not be.”

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.

* Stearns, Frank Preston. Life and public services of George Luther Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.

7–38430.

A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting sidelights on the civil war and its issues.

Steel, Flora Annie. Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.

6–26482.

“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her, and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but, being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on his lips.”—Spec.

+ − Acad. 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.

“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.

“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that, out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − Bookm. 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.

“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian life.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.

“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and noble outlook upon life.”

+ + Ind. 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.

“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”

+ + Lit. D. 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.

418“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”

− Nation. 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.

“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.

“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ No. Am. 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.

“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps. Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.

“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”

− + Spec. 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.

Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.). Naomi’s transgression. †$1.50. Warne.

A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its untangling is deftly accomplished.

Stein, Evaleen. Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.

6–25686.

“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

Steiner, Bernard Christian. Maryland during the English civil wars. pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

7–11189.

pt. 2. Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of 1649.

Steiner, Edward A. On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.

6–39003.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon personal experience and investigation.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.

“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.

Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.

Charities. 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.

+ Ind. 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.

“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific interest.”

+ + Yale R. 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.

* Stejneger, Leonhard Hess. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. $1. Supt. of doc.

7–35282.

With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to geographical distribution.

“A valuable systematic monograph.”

+ Nature. 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.

“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits, produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.

+ + − Science, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.

Stelzle, Rev. Charles. Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.

6–20202.

A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment. The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.

“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.

+ − J. Pol. Econ. 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.

“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity, and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”

+ + Outlook. 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.

Stephen, Sir Leslie. Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

v. 6. English literature and society in the eighteenth century.

The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903, which deal more with the literature of the period than with society. “Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y. Times).

“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the work of his prime.”

+ − Nation. 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.

419“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining style than that in which the average professor delivers the average lecture.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.

* Stephen, Sir Leslie. Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.

W 7–196.

Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”

Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert. Clementina’s highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.

7–27613.

The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century beau.

“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of George II.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.

Sterling, Sara Hawks. Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25. Lippincott.

7–31224.

The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.

* Sterns, Justin. Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.

The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing, climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the poem.” (Nation.)

“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”

+ Arena. 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.

“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an admirable promise.”

+ − Nation. 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.

Stevens, George Barker. Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.

5–32666.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and belief.” W. H. Drummond.

+ − Hibbert J. 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.

Stevens, Horace J. Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.

“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history, biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.

“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”

+ − Engin. N. 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.

“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful in making the contents accessible.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.

Stevenson, Burton Egbert. Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.

6–34368.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.

“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the attention.”

+ Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.

“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr. Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of continental politics convincing.”

− Sat. R. 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.

Stevenson, Burton Egbert. That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.

7–34779.

A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and mystery to the last page.

Stevenson, Richard Taylor. John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

7–14592.

A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R. Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.

7–33227.

The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful picture all done in silver-gray.

Stewart, Charles D. Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.

7–12003.

In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone, happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance, sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever cheerful philosophers.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠

“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as long as his river, and as crooked.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.

“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough, the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.

+ − Bookm. 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.

420“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive one.”

+ Ind. 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.

Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.

“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”

+ + Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.

“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in critical prose.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”

+ Outlook. 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.

Stickney, Albert. Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.

6–37188.

“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.

“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.

“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of their value or lack of it.”

− Ind. 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.

Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.

“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make his book not uninteresting.”

+ − Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.

Still, Alfred. Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.

W 7–56.

“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the rotary converter.”—Engin. N.

“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.

− + Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.

“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a field.”

+ Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.

Stockton, Francis Richard. Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales. $2.50. Scribner.

6–39760.

The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine, Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The accomodating circumstance.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 23. Ja. ’07.

“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it is almost in a class by itself.”

+ Bookm. 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.

Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

+ Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.

Stockwell, Chester Twitchell. Evolution of immortality: suggestions on an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.

6–37617.

That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions either suggested or demonstrated.

“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.

+ Arena. 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.

“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.

+ Philos. R. 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.

Stoddart, Anna M. Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.

7–25137.

A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and philanthropist.

“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its usual fine steadiness.”

+ + − Acad. 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.

“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird, and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is that she has written an excellent book.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.

“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of her travels.”

+ Ind. 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.

“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.

“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”

+ − Nation. 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.

“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer; suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.

“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of her accomplishments.”

+ Outlook. 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.

“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of ignorance.”

+ − Sat. R. 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.

“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration which it deserves.”

+ Spec. 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.

Stoddart, Jane T. Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.

7–26628.

After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and various authoritative 421works the author has presented some fresh material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents, descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.

“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”

+ Acad. 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.

“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is espoused.”

+ + − Ath. 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.

“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view, however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its subject.”

+ − Ind. 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.

“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very unsatisfactory.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.

Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.

R. of Rs. 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.

“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil, irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.

Stoker, Bram (Abraham). Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving. **$7.50. Macmillan.

6–36011.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ Putnam’s. 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.

Stone, Christopher. Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.

7–12668.

“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’ ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days, ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’ and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty, the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.” (Lond. Times.)

“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships. We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive form of the volume.”

+ + Acad. 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 130. My. ’07. S.

“All that is given here deserves preservation.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.

+ Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.

Lond. Times. 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.

“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as entertaining.”

+ Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)

Sat. R. 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

Spec. 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

Stone, Melville E., jr., comp. Book of American prose humor. lea. $1.25. Duffield.

7–25552.

A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes written by the best known American writers.

Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.

7–29585.

Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.

“A most attractive series of tales.”

+ Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.

Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *$65c. Century.

7–29582.

Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of war, and their vast commercial importance.

Storm, Theodor W. Immensee; translated from the German by George P. Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.

7–33212.

Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of “Immensee.”

“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm and his work.”

+ Dial. 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

+ Outlook. 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.

Strachan, James. Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part 2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c. Scribner.

“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib. World.

+ Am. J. Theol. 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)

Bib. World. 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.

+ − Bib. World. 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)

422Strang, Herbert. Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–41714.

A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and cruelty.

“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of the triteness of its characterisation.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.

“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all Mr. Strang’s books.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.

Strang, Herbert. In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India. †$1.50. Bobbs.

6–32681.

Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)

“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to historical setting.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 143. My. ’07.

“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”

+ Arena. 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.

“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.

“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any normal, healthy boy.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.

“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and romantic in acceptable proportion.”

+ Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.

“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much when we remember how good his previous work has been.”

+ Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.

“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”

+ Spec. 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.

* Strang, Herbert. On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–29572.

Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”

* Strang, Herbert. Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

7–31414.

A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec. It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of the story.

Ath. 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.

Strang, William. Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.

It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)

“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style, without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.

“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of this kind.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.

Nation. 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.

“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”

+ + Outlook. 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.

Strange, Edward Fairbrother. Hokusai; the old man mad with painting. (Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.), *$1. Scribner.

6–46317.

Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and ten times more pretentious.”

“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an entertaining and stimulating fashion.”

+ + Acad. 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.

“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”

+ − Nation. 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.

“Excellent monograph.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.

423Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.

7–17360.

Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan Stevens and others.

“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.

Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.

7–18099.

Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of the Constitution.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 210. N. ’07.

Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.

7–18097.

The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman, a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe and others.

Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.

7–15588.

This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown. They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis, and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival Redsdale and others.

Strasburger, Eduard. Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.

7–4810.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w.

Streatfeild, Richard Alexander. Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.

6–45303.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 131. My. ’07.

“All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”

+ − Ind. 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w.

Spec. 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.

Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney. Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ: a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics. *$1.25. Meth. bk.

“The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.

“Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further, the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.

+ − Am. J. Theol. 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w.

“The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”

− + Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w.

+ Spec. 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w.

* Streckfuss, Adolf. Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

7–33203.

A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the straightening of the tangle.

N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

* Street, George Slythe. Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.

With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton, Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.

“On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about the Town.”

+ Acad. 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w.

“Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a medium of imaginative talk.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w.

“Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”

+ Dial. 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

“If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but in installments.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w.

“Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”

+ + Sat. R. 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w.

“A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for every reader.”

+ − Spec. 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w.

Stringer, Arthur. Phantom wires. †$1.50. Little.

7–12004.

A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to turn against them and 424once more Durkin turns his electrical engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite as novel as they are thrilling.

“We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”

− Arena. 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w.

“The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than ordinary ability.”

+ − Nation. 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w.

“It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with restraint.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w.

“There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of this intricate and highly sensational novel.”

+ Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w.

Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.

6–16649.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.

− + Forum. 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w.

* Stringer, Arthur John A. Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25. Little.

7–37033.

In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the “huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in Leucadia.”

“Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers). Roman sculpture: from Augustus to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.