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J. Geol. 16: 388. My. ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too diffuse in describing the well-known, Dr. Sherzer has made a valuable and remarkably well-illustrated contribution to the literature of glaciers.” T. G. Bonney.
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Nature. 77: 463. Mr. 19, ’08. 1050w.
Shield, Alice, and Lang, Andrew. King over the water, il. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–11474.
The biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, the “Old Chevalier” or the “Old Pretender.” “The purpose has been,” so the preface states, “as far as may be, to avoid incursions into general history, confining the work to biography.”
Am. Hist. R. 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“We have noticed very few blunders. The reader who takes pleasure in Mr. Lang’s sprightly style will find something not unlike it in these pages.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 1100w.
“By a careful study of all the documents available, what is really the first complete modern biography of James has been produced.” Edward Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 169. Ap. ’08. 1200w.
“Miss Shield is interested in the human side of her subject, and gives us a delightful picture of every-day life at Saint Germains and Urbino.” L. M. Larson.
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Nation. 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“The present attempt at rehabilitation is a bright and spirited piece of writing, quite worthy in most parts of Mr. Lang, though he assigns the larger share of the credit for it 328to his collaboratrix, Miss Shield. It contains some good and curious reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 1330w.
“Very interesting, though here and there, in spite of Mr. Lang’s supervision, slightly effusive.”
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Spec. 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 1550w.
Shields, Rev. Thomas Edwards. Education of our girls. *$1. Benziger.
7–41558.
Higher education of women is advocated in this discussion but emphasis is laid upon the fact that it must be education for women. The author dwells at length upon the subject of coeducation, and concludes that women can be most fully and most naturally educated only in schools and colleges provided for them alone.
“Whosoever is interested in the subject will find a fund of suggestion in a modest little volume by Dr. Shields. To a thorough knowledge of theoretical pedagogics Dr. Shields unites a wide experience of the practical conditions of Catholic education for girls, as they exist in this country.”
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Cath. World. 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 550w.
Shoemaker, John Vietch. Health and beauty. *$3. Davis.
8–20542.
“Dr. Shoemaker, the well-known specialist and professor in the Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, has in this volume undertaken the serious and practical task of teaching people how to take care of themselves, and especially of their skin. The skin is not only the pane of glass through which we can see and read the condition of the internal organs, but it is the drain-surface of the body. The doctor shows us how it may be kept in a condition of efficiency, how it may be brightened and beautified.”—Lit. D.
“We are acquainted with no popular work of the kind so thorough, so learned, so voluminous, and so sane.”
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Lit. D. 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“His book is a capital one, and should be in the possession of every one who is interested in the acquirement or maintenance of sound health and the beauty derived therefrom.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 428. Ag. 1, ’08. 470w.
Shoemaker, Michael Myers. Wanderings in Ireland. **$2.50. Putnam.
The spirit of Ireland gets into Mr. Shoemaker’s pages from the moment he hears the Isle of Shamrock’s greeting to him. “Glory be to God, but yer Honor’s welcome.” He travels “by donkey-cart, by jaunting-car, by train and motor,” is a keen observer and sympathizer, and gives vivid descriptions of the people and their land.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Can be read with entertainment even by those who have no interest in motoring.”
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Nation. 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 270w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“A vivacious narrator.”
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Outlook. 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The description is entertaining and informing.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“There is plenty of information in this volume, information historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment as might have been expected.”
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Spec. 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
Sholl, Anna McClure. Greater love. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–17252.
A story which portrays the suffering of a woman whose daughter was born out of wedlock. The mother finds that no matter how extenuating were the circumstances of her offense she must atone for a broken law, which atonement involves the greatest conceivable sacrifice, viz., separation from her child.
“The style, if somewhat serious, is dignified, and the psychology of the mother’s love is made clear and credible without exaggeration or mawkish sentimentality.”
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Ind. 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 240w.
“As a statement of the omnipresent problem, the book has some novel adjuncts and complications. As a contribution to a solution it is worthless, since morally it is a long, indeterminate muddle.”
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Nation. 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 470w.
“Mrs. Sholl has written a book worth the writing, and written it with dignity and spirit.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 300w.
“Deep currents of feeling and character are indicated in an almost masterly fashion.”
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Outlook. 89: 531. Jl. 4. ’08. 170w.
Short. Ernest H. History of sculpture. *$3. Dutton.
8–19092.
“Mr. Short believes that true art is always the expression and interpretation of national life.... As a background for an intelligent understanding of the sculpture of any age one must have, then, an idea of its temper and tendencies. Such conceptions Mr. Short endeavors to supply in brief historical summaries and characterizations.... His book covers the entire ground from the rise of the sculptor’s art in Greece through the work of the French and British schools of the nineteenth century. Few biographical data are given, and attention is paid only to the most characteristic works of each artist.”—Dial.
“Many of the author’s opinions are disputable, but the facts are mostly taken from accepted textbooks, though their expression is sometimes inaccurate.”
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Dial. 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 150w.
“While the author’s critical qualifications are not of the highest order, and his style is often slipshod, he yet succeeds in taking sculpture out of the region of the archeological catalog of technical and dry discussion, and in describing many of its masterpieces as the expression of national or local feeling, and even in some of his pages in quickening the reader’s sense of plastic beauty.”
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Ind. 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“This book is readable and suggestive. It is not really a history of sculpture. It is rather a collection of readable essays for leisure hours.”
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Nation. 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“At both ends, it is manifestly incomplete. Its excellencies, however, are as patent as are its defects.”
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Outlook. 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 750w.
Shorter, Dora Sigerson. Collected poems; with an introd. by George Meredith. $1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Shorter with the true ballad and short-story gift scores many of her greatest successes in the field of Irish legend. Her poetry has been collected here with an introduction by George Meredith. “It is hard to choose where all is good, but if choice must be made ours shall be ‘The Dean of Santiago,’ ‘The beggar maid,’ ‘The white witch,’ ‘The little black hound,’ ‘The man who trod on sleeping grass,’ ... ‘Cean Duv Deelish,’ the beautiful little poem on ‘Ireland,’ ‘The suicide’s grave,’ and the final poem, ‘The enemies.’” (Spec.)
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Ath. 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 1000w.
“The true thing to say about them is—what is in fact very high praise—that they are nearly all very pleasant to read.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 340. N. 8, ’07. 1200w.
“Some extremely enjoyable verses.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 850w.
329“There is a readable flow and interest in many of Mrs. Shorter’s ballad and narrative poems.”
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Sat. R. 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Limited both in range of thought and expression, her poetry wins the reader by a certain sincerity, freshness, and simplicity.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
Shufeldt, Robert Wilson. Negro: a menace to American civilization. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–36977.
“An impassioned plea against the process of hybridization or ‘mongrelization,’ which, in the author’s opinion threatens the white race in this country so long as the negro remains with us. Admitting that the tendency of modern civilization seems to be the amalgamation of all races and their unification into one, he yet protests against the amalgamation of negro with white American, (which is proceeding steadily in his view).”—N. Y. Times.
“Careful students, administrators, educators already perplexed by the problems of race contact, will find no help in the volume.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Shufeldt is more lurid than scientific in the form of his statements at times, for he speaks rather as a justified alarmist than as an investigator, but his book, also, is not without its value as evidence in the case.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 38. Ja. 26, ’08. 300w.
Shurter, Edwin Du Bois. Extempore speaking for school and college. *90c. Ginn.
8–20155.
Aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at the end of each chapter and in the appendix, suggestions and topics for class exercises.
Sichel, Edith Helen. Later years of Catherine de Medici. *$3. Dutton.
8–36143.
“The first of Miss Sichel’s work, published some time ago, dealt with Catherine and the French reformation—the woman struggling for power. The second part, now before us, brings the story down to the year of her death, 1589 and consists principally in a study of the art of balancing parties and social forces by which the princess of diplomats maintained her sway.”—Ind.
“Our author has done well the work she has set out to do; she is unusually free from heated partisanship.”
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Ind. 65: 844. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“She has her material well in hand and makes it serve a natural gift for the analysis of human motives.”
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Nation. 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“Is written with a clear and ardent appreciation of the great personalities who made up the social and political life of the era, and with a firm grasp of the close sequence of events.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 536. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Miss Sichel is both a skilled and a powerful writer.”
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Outlook. 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 636. N. ’08. 90w.
“Interesting volume.”
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Sat. R. 106: 240. Ag. 22, ’08. 1100w.
“This is certainly the most striking book Miss Sichel has yet written, and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successful.”
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Spec. 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
Sickert, Bernhard. Whistler. (Library of art.) *75c. Dutton.
“Breadth of vision has enabled the author to see the painter’s art in relation to contemporary feeling, in its relation to his opponent Ruskin’s criticism, and to the artistic aspects of the modern world. The real, and not the superficial, points about Whistler’s art are understood, and the selection of etchings reproduced for illustration is the best that could have been made.”—Int. Studio.
“One might seek very far amongst the small books upon art which nowadays are issued in such numbers to find again a book so pleasantly written as this one. The writer shows insight into his subject.”
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Int. Studio. 35: 319. O. 08. 120w.
“Mr. Sickert writes of the art of Whistler with great enthusiasm, but also with much discrimination.”
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Nation. 87: 80. Jl. 23, ’08. 240w.
Sidgwick, Cecily (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick). Home life in Germany. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–20729.
From a thoroly German point of view. Mrs. Sidgwick discusses the “German children, their schools, the education of the poor, that peculiar type of girl known as the ‘Backfisch,’ the students, women, marriage and housewives, householders and servants, food, shops, markets and sports and games, inns, restaurants, lodgings, summer resorts, peasant life, and the poor.” (Outlook.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 241. O. ’08. ✠
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Ath. 1908, 1: 754. Je. 20. 1400w.
“Has given her book an introduction which comes near being the best thing in it. It does exactly what a preface ought to do, it makes the reader eager to press on to the rest of the book whether he be interested in the subject or not, because he feels that anything such a sane, broad-minded, and amicably humorous woman has to say will be worth reading.” G. I. Colbron.
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Forum. 40: 63. Jl. ’08. 1300w.
“She has written no more interesting story than this book on home life in Germany.”
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Ind. 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of entertaining information, seasoned by lively anecdotes.”
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Nation. 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“An interesting book that shows an intimate knowledge of racial peculiarities in living and in point of view.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 20w.
“A singularly acute and intimate appreciation of home life in Germany.”
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Outlook. 87: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 440w.
“A really unusually interesting book this, by a woman who knows both English and German types and treats them with a kindly sympathy, a keen discernment, and a good-natured humor which make highly entertaining reading.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Sidgwick has written a book which was wanted, and written it with exceptional verve.”
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Spec. 100: 831. My. 23, ’08. 1500w.
Silberrad, Una Lucy. Desire. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Desire, the heroine of this novel, is called upon to choose, at the time of her father’s death, between a wealthy marriage and earning her own living. She prefers the bread-winner’s course. “Peter Grimstone, the hero, is the most attractive figure in the book, and his struggles, aided by Desire as his secretary, with the affairs of Grimstone and Son, and with the machinations of his wicked brother Alexander, are not a little interesting.” (Spec.) “The real strength of the book lies in the careful development of the two chief figures and the reader’s interest and belief in their ultimate happiness.” (Ath.)
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Ath. 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The book, in short, is decidedly unequal but the author’s charm of writing and sincerity of purpose will reward all readers who have patience and perseverance enough to proceed with the unsatisfactory early chapters.”
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Spec. 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
330Silver, Arthur P. Farm-cottage, camp and canoe in maritime Canada; or, The call of Nova Scotia to the emigrant and sportsman; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona. **$2. Dutton.
W8–122.
“The book, which is better printed than bound, is made up of a rather heterogeneous collection of papers on husbandry, angling, and hunting. The many illustrations are of varying excellence, but they serve to give the reader a good idea of the character of the maritime provinces and Newfoundland.”—Nation.
“The beautiful province of Nova Scotia has been well served here by Mr. Silver.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 350w.
“A number of minor mistakes might be noted.”
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Nation. 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 150w.
“Eminently readable.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is pleasantly and unpretentiously written.”
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Sat. R. 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“This is a most readable book, and we have enjoyed the description of life and sport.”
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Spec. 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
Sinclair, Bertrand William. Raw gold. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–21615.
The Canadian border furnishes the scene of this tale of Wild West life—primitive, exhilarating, spiced with dangers. Particularly is it a delineation of the character of the Northwest mounted police, sent by the English government to keep order “in a territory that was a city of refuge for tough people who had played their string out south of the line.”
“There is sentiment of the kind that fits with the open sky and life in the saddle, and the whole story moves with a swing and reality that are refreshing in the extreme.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 528. S. 26, ’08. 230w.
Sinclair, May. Immortal moment: the story of Kitty Tailleur. (Eng. title Kitty Tailleur.) †$1.50. Doubleday.
“In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, induces him to propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past.... The struggle between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose mistress Kitty Tailleur is—is described with extraordinary force. The tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.” (Spec.) “Her ‘immortal moment’ is ironically so called, for it is the moment in which the higher nature asserts itself, and she makes the confession which she knows must end her dream.” (Dial.)
“Miss Sinclair has up to a point made an excellent study of a type, and then shut her eyes and jumped at the rest. Yet her failure is more interesting than most successes.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 220w.
“It is seldom that a story brings to the reviewer such a sense of impotence to do it justice within the space of a single paragraph.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 264. N. ’08. 550w.
“As a faint reflex of the Camille story this one must be set down as essentially immoral, simply because its intention is to throw a sentimental glamor over the ugly outlines of depravity. But we cannot dispute its literary art or its emotional subtlety.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 280w.
“Rehabilitates the Camille motif by the sterling art of its treatment.”
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Ind. 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“Sometimes the reticence lies a little obscuringly over the effect. But the reticence is delightful; we forgive it our losses for the sake of the gain, and we admire the author’s determination to offer no concessions to stupidity.”
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Sat. R. 106: 21. Jl. 4. ’08. 630w.
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Spec. 101: 237. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
Sinclair, May. Judgment of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
8–9176.
An analyst’s portrayal of the subjective phases of two egoists’ married life. The sea change that gave their life the shimmer of something rich and strange as two souls struggled and fluttered after the immaterial is followed by a transformation caused by the failure to give fresh, wholesome, material expression to their ideals, leaving a “decomposing discolored shell” wholly at the mercy of the peace of dulness.
Ind. 64: 1039. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A sad story, interestingly told, but with a moral somewhat obscure.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The right people will probably never hear of ‘The judgment of Eve.’”
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Outlook. 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 180w.
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Metropolis. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–5582.
To expose the vice and extravagance of the New York rich has been Mr. Sinclair’s purpose in writing this story. Two brothers, one the antithesis of the other, are the mouthpieces which Mr. Sinclair uses respectively to shout forth the demagogue’s selfish creed and to denounce it.
“The strength of the novel is in its picturesqueness.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 250w.
“We close the book with the feeling that our time has been wasted upon a very dull tract.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A large part of it reads like the prospectus of a hotel or the advertisement of a department store, with the prices in plain figures on every article.”
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Ind. 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“It is a tract with enough of the air of fiction to draw the attention of a generally intractable public. The story element is delightfully ingenuous.”
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Nation. 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“A jumble of odds and ends. The yellow ‘sensations’ of two or three years reappear in a barbarous melange. It has all been done, and much better. The bad example, as Mr. Sinclair depicts it, only disgusts educated people because of the falsity of the picture, and ought to make the multitude laugh.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 1300w.
“Nothing is more patent than the author’s lack of personal knowledge concerning the social life of New York. If it were not so absurd, it would be a pitiful exhibition of misdirected energy.”
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Outlook. 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“True stories must often be harrowing and heartbreaking; but there is no excuse for writing brutal, hateful, sordid fairy stories.”
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Outlook. 88: 909. Ap. 25, ’08. 1200w.
“Morally and intellectually as repellant as the descriptions of the physical details of the Chicago stock-yards and slaughter-houses.”
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Sat. R. 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 400w.
“Books like ‘The metropolis’ act as a lure to the weak-minded instead of serving as danger-signals to keep them from the path of evil.”
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Spec. 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 530w.
Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Moneychangers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–24866.
A continuation of “The metropolis.” In this second of a trilogy aiming at an exposé of contemporary business and social corruption of New York, Mr. Sinclair reveals the rottenness of Wall Street’s high finance.
331“To say the truth, Mr. Sinclair is neither a Dickens nor a Zola, but ... a successful sensation-monger.”
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Nation. 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 130w.
“Is hardly to be classed as a novel, just as it savors of the absurd to class his previous works as fiction. It is a tract, a preachment in journalistic style, through the mouths of marionettes.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“If he is lying, this book ought to be burned; and if he is concocting the stories he tells so circumstantially, there are at least fifty well-founded prosecutions for criminal libel in the book.”
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Sat. R. 106: 581. N. 7, ’08. 770w.
* Singleton, Esther, comp. Great rivers of the world, as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34681.
“Victor Hugo’s glowing words repeat his impressions of the Rhine and Loire; Dickens tells of a trip down the St. Lawrence (was he so fair to it because it is more Canadian than American?); Pierre Loti pictures the Ganges, Thoreau the Concord and the Merrimac, and Mrs. Richings the Irrawaddy. All the rivers of the earth which are great either in size or in association are described by competent writers.”—Dial.
“The accounts are various in character, some statistical and some impressionistic, and they show entertaining variety of style.”
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Lit. D. 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 40w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
* Singleton, Esther. Holland. (Standard galleries.) **$1. McClurg.
8–29871.
In which visits are made to the Hague gallery; the Rijks museum; the Stedelijk museum; the Town hall, Haarlem; and the Boijmans museum, Rotterdam. Brief biographies of painters, helpful comment and criticism on the most famous pictures in each gallery, and illustrations which aid the text are presented in condensed form for the tourist.
“A careful resumé of the treasures of Holland, a compact book convenient for reference.”
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Int. Studio. 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 40w.
* Singleton, Esther, comp. Switzerland, described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
8–34593.
“The first division of the book deals with the country and the race, the second with their history, the third with Alpine climbing, the fourth is descriptive purely, the fifth sets forth social life among the Alps, and the last is devoted to statistics. The names of Ruskin, Tyndall, Goethe, and Victor Tissot are in the list of writers.”—Dial.
“Shows Miss Singleton’s careful editing. Mr. Edward Whymper’s exciting account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn alone makes the book notable.”
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Dial. 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 100w.
Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
Slaughter, Rev. Philip. History of Truro parish in Virginia; ed. with notes and addenda by Rev. E. L. Goodwin. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14829.
The parish whose history is sketched here included among its vestrymen George Washington, George Mason, and other noted statesmen. The sketch is important because it shows the character of the church school which, hand in hand with religion, taught men of genius the rudiments of popular government, the foundations of human rights, and the reconciliation of diverse rights.
N. Y. Times. 13: 140. Mr. 14, ’08. 100w.
Slosson, Mrs. Annie. Dissatisfied soul; and A prophetic romancer. *75c. Bonnell.
8–19156.
Two stories of New England life. The first set in the White mountains sketches a woman characterized by her sister-in-law as the “fittiest, restlessest, changeablest” woman living, who was “never, never quite satisfied.” Even death did not bring her rest, so she returns to earth after three weeks. The second story whose scenes are laid in Connecticut tells how the story which a young girl writes comes true in dream fashion.
“She shows her usual skill in the handling of a grotesque theme.”
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Ind. 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“It is a clever and very entertaining short story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 350w.
Slosson, Annie Trumbull. Simples from the Master’s garden. *$1. S. S. Times co.
7–42011.
A group of stories in each of which is a simple exemplar or expositor who reveals the healing power of some phase of Christ truth.
“In homely phrases she sends out many a truth which might be ignored in more costly dress.”
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Ind. 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Mrs. Slosson continues to write in her original vein of tender human feeling and deep spirituality.”
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Outlook. 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“All are of good quality.”
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Spec. 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 400w.
Small, Sidney Alymer-. Electrical railroading; or, Electricity as applied to railroad transportation. $3.50. Drake, F. J.
8–10297.
“Evidently this volume was prepared mainly for men who had no knowledge of electricity previous to securing the particular book.... The first third of the book deals with elementary electricity and magnetism, covering, in an inferior way, about the same ground as could be studied with any good text-book on elementary physics. The other two-thirds of the book seem to be largely copied from descriptive catalogs of prominent manufacturing companies, and from employee’s instruction books, as issued by a few railroads.”—Engin. N.
“The book is clearly-written, and for the man who has not had a technical training it will prove a valuable aid in enabling him to keep up with the advances in his profession.”
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Engin. D. 4: 547. N. ’08. 190w.
“There is enough in the book that is new and useful to make it a matter for regret that so many criticisms need to be made. The book is safe for the instruction of motormen, etc., only under the direction of a well-educated engineer who will be able to recognize troubles which exist for the confusion of most readers.”
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Engin. N. 59: 546. My. 14, ’08. 960w.
Smedley, Anne Constance. Daughter: a love story. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10433.
A daughter suffocating in her home and town surroundings breaks away from her family, goes to London and throws herself into “socialism, emancipation of women and various other popular movements of a radical type.” A wealthy young Englishman falls in love with her, but realizing the futility of wooing her, masquerades as a young mechanic, wins her, and finally, after demonstrating his manhood and the sanity of his ideas, secures her forgiveness for the deception. “The author has turned out a good tale—a sane mixture of the socialistic, purposeful, and often hectic novel, with the 332healthy story of an admirable love match.” (Nation.)
“She has not allowed her charming gift of imagination to be stifled in a riot of either abuse or argument.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 445. Ap. 11. 150w.
“The chief fault with Constance Smedley’s vigorous and carefully written book, ‘The daughter,’ is not the lack of a message, but rather an obscurity in its scope and purport.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
Ind. 65: 552. S. 3. ’08. 40w.
“Has interest, the interest not of a great or a literary product, but of a faithfully planned and well told story.”
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Nation. 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“It is a tract, spirited, clever, often dramatic, but still essentially a tract on the marriage question.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
“Quite entertaining are the adventures of Delia.”
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Sat. R. 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
Smith, Alton Lincoln. Frederic William Maitland: two lectures and a bibliography. *85c. Oxford.
A presentation “of Professor Maitland’s historical method, of his conception of history, and of the quality of his work.” “In the first lecture the clue to Maitland’s greatness is found in his spiritual conception of history ... and in his broad and profound human sympathy, with which his imagination, insight and humor are closely allied. In the second lecture, Maitland is considered as a ‘converted lawyer,’ come back to the historical fold, whose legal training gave him an interest in the history of ideas and a practical, as opposed to a purely academic, point of view.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“Thoughtful discussions.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 907. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The careful bibliography appended to these lectures might be more conveniently arranged.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 443. Ap. 11. 620w.
“Contain a panegyric ... which is splendidly generous, yet after making all deductions we cannot dispute its substantial justice.” C. J.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 621. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“This is a tribute of praise worthy of the man to whose memory it is paid,—more it would not be possible to say.”
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Spec. 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 400w.
Smith, Arthur. Game of go, the national game of Japan. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–21547.
A guide to the Japanese national game which is played on a board like chess or checkers and is a game of skill not of chance. There are 361 positions for the men instead of 64, and it requires about thirty years at the rate of one game a day for the player to attain professional rank of the lowest degree.
Ind. 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Smith’s exposition, with the abundant diagrams, details of rules and methods, and illustrative games, is admirable.”
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Nation. 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 390w.
Outlook. 90: 137. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
Smith, Charles Sprague. Poems. *$1. Wessels.
8–24852.
A little volume of verse which sounds the dream note of a busy man’s life. Poems of his college-days, several written during years spent in Europe, and poems of the people, with liberty and fraternity for themes, are included in the group.
“The thoughts exprest are inspiring and the feeling sympathetic.”
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Ind. 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 130w.
* Smith, Elmer Boyd. Santa Claus and all about him. †$2. Stokes.
“The pictures and texts give an account of the whole Christmas history of Santa Claus from the time of his waking up one cold morning at the north pole, his trip down into the world of boys and girls to see what is needed, then back to the pole, work in the toy shops, and finally the return with a load of presents. The book comes in a box showing Santa and his reindeer on it.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 384. D. ’08. 110w.
“It is not the text that matters, but the interpretative drawings in color; here the detail is joyously clever and will please older people because of a subtle humor, even as it will hold the youngsters because of the strong appeal to imagination.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 110w.
Smith, Ernest Ashton. Hildebrand: the builder. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–22118.
A scholarly presentation of the times of Hildebrand, the manner in which the papacy as an institution was evolved, the condition of the clergy, the sway of German popes, the power behind the papal See, and the progress and results of Hildebrand’s mission to raise the morality of the church, and to strengthen its unity.
Smith, F. Dumont. Blue waters and green and the Far East to-day. $1.50. Crane & co.
8–22265.
After many experiences with people the world over, Mr. Smith believes that the ideal race would be the composite one, with the industry, honesty and temperance of the Chinese, the courtesy of the Japanese, the frugality, wit and the artistic sense of the French, the stability and balance of the Germans, the tenacity of purpose of the English, and the energy, initiative, the driving power, and saving sense of humor of the Americans.
“Adds to a lively sense of fun the qualities of serious contemplative judgment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 300w.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver, one who was not afraid and who spoke the truth. (True American types ser., v. 5.) *60c. Am, Unitar.
8–28435.
A sketch of Captain Scott, the original of Caleb West in “Caleb West; master-diver.” Thru his submarine work on the Race Rock lighthouse off New London harbor, which Mr. Smith built in his profession of engineer, Captain Scott became an honored friend of the author’s, valued for his integrity, command of resources, indomitable courage, fearlessness and control over his men.
N. Y. Times. 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It is a good little book for a pessimist to read.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23554.
Peter, gentle and manly, shrewd and ingenuous, young and sixty, gives unstintingly of his time, his service and his love to young Jack, the hero, an impulsive southern lad who cares more for honor, independence, and friendship, than for the profit to be derived from his uncle’s Wall street office. Peter, as Jack’s Prospero, provides him with adventures and opportunities for heroism as the confidential clerk to a contracting 333engineer; nor is the magic wand laid aside until Jack has come into his fortune and has brought to a successful issue a diffident courtship of his employer’s daughter.
“A very cheerful, wholesome book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 246. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a characteristic story, betraying all the recognisable qualities of the author; it is well-bred, nicely written, with a painter’s instinct for light and shade, constructed with an engineer’s sense of form, and it glamours with the usual suspicion of personal reminiscence and autobiographic impressions.” G: Middleton.
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Bookm. 28: 153. O. ’08. 460w.
“This new story of his has both charm and fragrance; if it does not reach very far into the depths of life, it at least shows us the surface in most alluring colors.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Its great charm lies in the author’s marvelous descriptions and his genius for picking the good instead of the evil out of life ... a high, fine, friendly goodness that belongs to earth and mortality here and now.”
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Ind. 65: 718. S. 24, ’08. 870w.
“It is a very cheerful and wholesome sort of book, with lots of people wandering in and out of its pages, not much of a plot, and such as there is rather loose-jointed, plenty of good talk—most of it Peter’s—on a great variety of subjects and a general aren’t-you-glad-you’re-alive sort of air.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 380w.
“‘Peter’ is a bit of romanticism in a day of commercial engrossment, and makes the charm of the old South, which was non-commercial, credible.”
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Outlook. 90: 272. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
Smith George Adam. Jerusalem: the topography, economics and history from the earliest times to A. D. 70. **$7.50. Armstrong.
8–20144.
A work that is complementary to the author’s “Historical geography of the Holy Land.” The first volume treats of the geology, the water supply and of topographical problems. The second volume gives a connected history, religious and political, of the city and its people from the days of Tell-el-Amarna to the conquest of Titus.
“We feel that even in a long review it is impossible to do full justice to the many-sided interest of this important work, in which true scholarship is never flaunted, but is felt in every line, and in which moderation and sound sense dominate every conclusion.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 631. My. 23. 2100w.
“As a whole this is the most elaborate and scholarly work on Jerusalem that has appeared in any language.”
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Lit. D. 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 680w.
“The value of these volumes lies, not in the presentation of new discoveries, but in the sane exposition and discussion of what we already know with regard to the topography, the archaeology, and the history, religious, social, and political, of Jerusalem.”
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Nation. 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 1700w.
“An interesting and instructive work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 482. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Smith has the caution of a true scholar, he will not go beyond the place where he has sure footing.” E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 670w.
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Sat. R. 106: 82. Jl. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“We are warmly grateful for an admirable book.”
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Spec. 101: 95. Jl. 18, ’08. 1850w.
Smith, H. Clifford. Jewellery. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
8–20539.
“With the exception of a chapter dealing with Egyptian jewelry the author has confined himself to Europe, dividing his work into four main divisions. The first deals with the jewelry worn during classical times and until the ninth century of our era; the second treats of the jewels of the middle ages; the third is devoted to the jewels of the renaissance, and the fourth includes those of subsequent times. In compiling the work the best authorities have been consulted, and the owners of famous collections have been generous in the matter of photographs of their choicest treasures.”—N. Y. Times.
“That this attractive subject has fallen into eminently capable hands is at once apparent, as is also the restraint the author has exercised in order to bring the work within reasonable bounds.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 308. S. 12. 1300w.
“Scholarly volume.”
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Int. Studio. 36: 165. D. ’08. 330w.
“That which is most admirable in the book is the author’s strong sense of the artistic value and significance of jewelry.”
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Nation. 87: 59. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Interesting volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 392. Jl. 11. ’08. 400w.
“The thoroughness of the author’s work and his excellent equipment for his task are evident on every page. It is sure to occupy an honored place in the libraries of collectors and to be regarded by museums and specialists as a high authority on a fascinating subject.”
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Outlook. 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
Smith, Harry James. Amédée’s son. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23927.
Cape Breton folk, staunch in Catholicism and steeped in superstition, form a background for this story of simple deeds. In the foreground are an orphan lad, dreaming of the call of the sea and finding study intolerable, a grandfather whose dearest wish is that the boy shall resist religion as it is taught, and study to find God in the law and order of the world of science, and an old servant who opens the eyes of the grandson to the duty of love that he owes the aged man.
“A gentle and gracious idyll. The story is of the slightest, the handling graceful but somewhat amateurish.”
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Nation. 37: 341. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“He is quite a real person all the way along, and he moves among real persons, some of whom are well worth meeting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
Smith, Rev. John Talbot. Training of a priest: an essay on clerical education, with a reply to the critics. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–13666.
Deals with the “studies and mental culture of Catholic priests.... Dr. Smith is himself a priest, and writes with a view to improving the intellectual status of American seminaries.” (Ind.)
“We have our doubts whether Dr. Smith’s recommendations will strike to the root of the trouble.”
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Ind. 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The clear account of the training of a young man for the priesthood, the charm and ease of style, and the eminent good sense and breadth of the author make the book much more than a mere sectarian essay.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 381. Jl. 4. ’08. 140w.
Smith, Joseph Russell. Story of iron and steel. (Appleton’s lib. of useful stories.) **75c. Appleton.
8–5612.
“Gives what larger volumes have failed to do—namely, an intelligent, readable presentation of the broad aspects of iron and steel making, which are of interest to the average man. It discusses not only the purely technical development from a historical standpoint, but also the no less important economic and commercial results 334accompanying this development.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“An excellent little book for the use of teachers, as well as for the pleasure of the interested general reader.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 108. Ap. ’08. ✠
“May truthfully be described as the first satisfactory popular history of the world’s greatest industry.” W. S. Tower.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 462. S. ’08. 430w.
“His style is clear and simple; he has succeeded in his purpose to ‘make every paragraph intelligible to the lay reader,’ but it would still be possible for an unregenerate man to take a nap while scanning the pages.”
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Ind. 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
Smith, Logan Pearsall. Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2v. *$7.75. Oxford.
8–9089.
Mr. Smith has collected Sir Henry Wotton’s letters, presented them with necessary annotations in order of data and prefixed to the collection a life of the writer.
“He has come only a little short of producing himself a literary masterpiece. For this achievement both his method and his style prove a shade too severe. This book is one which no student of European history during the first quarter of the seventeenth century may safely neglect.” Barrett Wendell.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 852. Jl. ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is the master of a close scholarly style, relieved now by a happy metaphor, now by a touch of dry humour. His work in these volumes shows a rare combination of literary sense, painstaking care in collecting, elucidating, and dating his material, balanced judgment, and self-repression.” G. C. M. Smith.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 361. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith has the essential qualifications for dealing with a man like Wotton—he can write lightly and readably. The biography, which fills half of the first of his two fine volumes, in no sense competes with Walton. It is full and complete, whereas Walton’s is simply an inimitable portrait of his friend.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 345. N. 15, ’07. 3300w.
“His letters are edited with rare erudition and still rarer taste.” P. E. M.
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Nation. 86: 278. Mr. 26, ’08. 3500w.
“Mr. Pearsall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word, and his wide erudition, his scrupulous exactitude, his immense and enthusiastic industry, have combined to produce a work which will serve as a permanent object-lesson to the great host of slipshod literary historians.”
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Spec. 99: 821. N. 23, ’07. 1900w.
Smith, Nora Archibald. Adventures of a doll. †75c. McClure.
8–277.
“The scenes of this little story for children by the well-known sister of the equally well-known Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, are laid in the Scottish highlands. The three characters are Betty, a little five-year-old girl, her dog Muff, and her rag doll.”—N. Y. Times.
“A merry little story.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 24. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss Smith tells the stories in a breezy manner.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
Smith, Robinson. English quotations. *$2.50. Dutton.
W8–110.
A collection of the more memorable passages and poems of English literature, arranged according to authors, chronologically, containing a full index of words. It is neither an anthology nor a handbook; it is rather a scrapbook of “elegant extracts” which Mr. Smith invites the public to share with him.
“We cannot call the book either a good anthology or a good reference manual of familiar quotations. The poetry selected is good, as far as it goes, but the selection seems to be representative of one man’s taste, instead of illustrating the consensus of received critical opinions.”
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Dial. 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The selections are too short for reading and not numerous enough for reference.”
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Ind. 64: 926. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
“The poetical value of a passage has more weight with the editor than proverbial portability. As such the pages of the volume may be turned over with unflagging interest.”
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Nation. 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 80w.
“A preposterous book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 430w.
Smith, Rollin Edson. Wheat fields and markets of the world. $2.15. Modern miller co., 3d & Pine sts., St. Louis, Mo.
8–21514.
“It is often impossible to answer the questions concerning wheat fields and wheat markets without a long search in newspapers, pamphlets, and encyclopaedias. In the present volume we have replies to very many questions which would ordinarily occur in connection with wheat fields and markets—not so much, however, in connection with the methods of grainhandling, milling, and manipulation of prices.” (Outlook.) “Conditions in Western Canada are especially instructive and the countries of Europe and Argentina contribute their quota of important data.” (R. of Rs.)
“Mr. Smith’s book fills a long-felt want.”
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Outlook. 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“This is a decidedly useful book and one that makes us wonder why the idea was not worked out long ago.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
Smith, Rev. Samuel George. Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The attempted distinction between political and economic socialism is not clear.” M. O. Lorenz.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 297. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Smith is apparently not so well acquainted with socialist writers and advocates as with trade unionists.”
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Ind. 64: 105. Ja. 9, ’08. 240w.
Smith, Theodate Louise, ed. Aspects of child life and education, by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–21334.
A volume which makes accessible to parents and teachers, in condensed form and at moderate price, the results of researches conducted by President Hall’s pupils along the line of the psychology of childhood and its applications to education. The chapters are as follows: The contents of children’s minds, The psychology of daydreams, Curiosity and interest, The story of a sandpile, A study of dolls, The collecting instinct, The psychology of ownership, Fetichism in children, Boy life in a Massachusetts country town forty years ago.
“The papers contain much curious and interesting matter.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 900w.
“Aside from the particular theory underlying most of the articles, the reports themselves are of course of peculiar interest to all parents and teachers, and they certainly tend to bring us into closer touch with child life.” Irving King.
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School R. 16: 204. Mr. ’08. 900w.
335Smith, Vincent Arthur. Early history of India from 600 B. C. to the Muhammadan conquest including the invasion of Alexander the Great. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$4.75. Oxford.
“The enlargement consists chiefly in the expansion of the last three chapters of the book dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the North, the Kingdoms of the Deccan, and the Kingdoms of the South, which contain forty-three of the seventy-two new pages. A new appendix, pp. 260–264, deals with the question of the hostages obtained by Kaniska in consequence of his conquests in Chinese Turkestan.... The date of Kaniska is the subject of a new and lengthy note.... The account of the Caka immigration and of the Indo-Parthian princes has also been enlarged.... Finally, recent translations of Canakya’s ‘Arthaçastra,’ have enabled Mr. Smith to give from contemporary Hindu sources interesting information of the Greek accounts of Candragupta’s empire.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The painstaking care for details and the additions that make the new edition a distinct improvement upon the old, deserve the gratitude of all students of the history of India.” G. M. Bolling.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 894. Jl. ’08. 450w.
“The revision has been a careful one.”
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Nation. 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 260w.
Smyth, Newman. Passing Protestantism and the coming Catholicism. *$1. Scribner.
8–10863.
The author sees in the “modernist” movement in the Roman Catholic church of which he gives a discerning and sympathetic account, and in the failure of Protestantism to make religion a vital force in the life of the present generation and to command the unreserved enthusiasm and loyalty of earnest men, evidences that the superficial divisions of western Christianity are passing away, giving us glimpses of the underlying bed-rock of unity. The unity, he says, already exists. It is the duty of Christian churches to manifest it. The author speaks from the broad level ground of Christian charity.
“The style is pleasing and forceful and with the timeliness of the theme will doubtless give the book a wide reading.”
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Bib. World. 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 70w.
Lit. D. 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 170w.
“One feels almost ashamed to remain an unbeliever, and yet, since the truth must be told, there can be little question that the outlook is not so bright in fact as it is on Dr. Smyth’s pages.”
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Nation. 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 670w.
“It is interesting reading, and will appeal to the reader as being the careful conclusions of a fine and balanced mind.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 227. Ap. 18. ’08. 280w.
“This is written in a charming style. It is animated by an excellent spirit, and its ideas and ideals are presented in attractive attire.”
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Outlook. 89: 263. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“A very suggestive and thought-provoking book.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 640. My. ’08. 150w.
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Spec. 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 260w.
Snaith, John Collis. William Jordan, junior. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–6984.
The story of a frail, unworldly boy brought up as a recluse by an aged father and fed on “the old authors, irrespective of day or night and apparently of the ordinary needs of human beings.” Unfitted to buffet hardships he is nevertheless plunged into the maelstrom of London commercial life. Dreamy idealism is his substitute for practical worldly wisdom, and he is scathed at every turn. The world knew him not nor the soul flights that he expressed in his swan song and in his epic poem on Reconciliation.
“The book is certainly far above the average as a piece of writing, but it requires more careful reading, in order to comprehend the meaning of the author or his view-point than readers of fiction ordinarily wish to give.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 158. My. ’08.
“Easily the most important novel of the month, if not of many months,—the novel which best deserves careful and sympathetic consideration. An uncommon book, written in a most uncommon and often very beautiful phraseology. There is no use in denying that the book is marred, here and there, by its obscurity; it leaves one often groping in the dark.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 181. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The book is one to love, and one that may act as a leaven upon the spirits that are not wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort or degree of fermentation.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Its symbolism does not spoil the beauty of the simple narrative.”
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Ind. 64: 1404. Je. 18, ’08. 270w.
“Whatever it is, it is so bizarre, so grotesque, so mysterious, and so uncomfortable as to afford little pleasure. One chapter, however, is clear enough, and a very fine thing—that in which the boy sees the ocean for the first time. But as a whole the book fails.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 349. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“Not that the book has not solid merits—purity of English, strength of handling, beauty of thought, dignity of construction—but these things seem but the foundation work for a psychological loveliness, half mystic, half human, which eludes, even while it thrills us.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 400w.
“A most unusual piece of fiction. The object of the work, carefully done as it is, is inexplicable. If it aims to portray exalted genius in an unsympathetic and cruel world, it misses its aim by extravagance.”
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Outlook. 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
Snedden, David Samuel. Administration and educational work of American juvenile reform schools. (Columbia univ. Teachers college. Contributions to education, no. 12.) $2. Teachers college, Columbia univ., N. Y.
7–39061.
“A study of the problems which lie in that borderland between education and penology. The disappearance of the old prison discipline, the rise of the cottage system with its added possibilities of classification, better physical and moral care, vocational training both agricultural and industrial, the increased use of libraries and other aids to character-building, and, finally, the perfection of the parole system,—all are carefully discussed, both historically and comparatively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Although there are a number of small errors ... the book is eminently worth while. It should be in the hands of every superintendent and teacher of the juvenile reform schools of this country and could very profitably be read by all educators who are also citizens.” T. J. Riley.
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Am. J. Soc. 13: 568. Ja. ’08. 500w.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 509. Mr. ’08. 100w.
Ind. 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
Snedden, David Samuel, and Allen, William H. School reports and school efficiency. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10624.
A popular, untechnical book designed to show how school facts may be presented. The authors believe that reasoning from fact to policy will improve the latter, increase the efficiency of schools, further their support and settle questions. The whole subject of reports is undertaken 336to the end of showing the best methods of making reports, answering questions and meeting the criticisms of the public.
“It is the only book of the kind accessible to superintendents.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“So far the most satisfactory attempt to bring educational statistics more into uniformity and put them on a basis which will enable them better to serve the ends for which they are used.” C. A. Herrick.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 638. N. ’08., 340w.
“This book should do much to improve the conditions.” J. M. C.
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El. School T. 9: 164. N. ’08. 440w.
“Will prove helpful to all who are interested in determining the scope, outlay and results of American education.”
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“The little volume is addressed naturally to school authorities and to teachers primarily, but ultimately to the interested public.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 1050w.
R. of Rs. 37: 639. My. ’08. 150w.
“This is an educational work of unusual importance. The business man and the social worker as well as the schoolman have reason to welcome this book.” F. A. Manny.
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School R. 16: 694. D. ’08. 270w.
Snow, Louis Franklin. College curriculum in the United States. $1.50. Teachers’ college, Columbia university, N. Y.
E 8–10.
Dr. Snow shows that the college curriculum is a growth and not an accident. “His volume, containing 186 pages, is an elaborate study of the development of the curriculum from the founding of Harvard to the present day. Dr. Snow has laid under contribution a large mass of books and documents, many of them not easily accessible.”—Nation.
“The thesis is fully annotated; and both text and notes contain many curious and interesting facts gleaned from the history of higher education in this country.”
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Nation. 85: 209. S. 5, ’07. 250w.
R. of Rs. 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 50w.
Snow, William Gage. Principles of heating: a practical and comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating. il. $2. Williams.
7–36224.
Deals almost wholly with steam and hot-water heating, and includes the results of numerous tests made by the author on various heating apparatus and systems, together with practical original tables and charts useful in the solution of heating problems.
“A more suitable title for this book would seem to be ‘Notes on the theory and practice of heating,’ since the volume is by no means confined to principles, and most of the contents have the fragmentary character of writings, reproduced, with little change, from the trade press.”
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Engin. N. 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well indexed and the data contained are thus made readily accessible.”
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Technical Literature. 2: 334. O. ’07. 220w.
Snyder, Carl. American railways as investments; with an introductory chapter on the methods of estimating railway values. *$3.20. Moody corporation.
7–25023.
A detailed and comparative analysis of all the leading railways from the investor’s point of view. “This book is written primarily with reference to the investor who is seeking information regarding the properties whose securities he may desire to purchase or to sell.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Mr. Snyder’s book is useful, but not indispensable.”
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“A study of Mr. Snyder’s book should transfer many from the foolish to the wise class—from the gamblers to the investors—with much advantage to themselves and the public.” William Hill.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 44. Ja. ’08. 780w.
“Mr. Snyder’s book comes as near to disclosing true values as any such treatise has done.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 970w.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
Sociological society, London. Sociological papers, v. 3. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“While most of the papers deal either with the relations of sociology to biology or with sociological aims and methods, two have an historical interest. One of these, ‘The Russian revolution,’ by Mr. G. de Wesselitsky, is mainly an historical sketch of the development of autocracy in Russia; the other, an interesting paper on ‘The origin and function of Religion,’ by Mr. A. E. Crawley, gives some of the results of a survey of religious phenomena, which starts from a study of certain savage peoples. The conclusion is reached that religion, which may be defined as a psychic temper, has for its origin the vital instinct, and for its sociological functions, ‘the affirmation and consecration of life,’ the intensification of personality the keeping of man in harmony with the earth and the raising of human nature to a higher power.”—Am. Hist. R.
Acad. 73: 287. D. 28, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 3)
Am. Hist. R. 13: 339. Ja. ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 285. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The Sociological society’s third volume maintains its high level.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 500w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume before us is certainly the best which has been published by this society and its appearance marks the steady progress, high purpose, and future possibilities of social science in England.” H. O. Newland.
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Int. J. Ethics. 11: 269. Ja. ’08. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
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J. Pol. Econ. 15: 502. O. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[All the papers] are vicariously redeemed by Professor Thomson’s contribution. Fortunately he combines with a knowledge of biology an insight into the social heritage of civilized society.”
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Nation. 86: 177. F. 20, ’08. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume is quite equal in interest to either of its predecessors.” F. W. H.
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Nature. 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by M. M. Davis, jr.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 152. Mr. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Again we have a series of papers, some very interesting and suggestive, and others of the dull and heavy order.”
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Sat. R. 105: 48. Ja. 11. ’08. 1080w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, the three volumes of papers now printed are a disappointment.” A. G. K.
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Yale R. 16: 436. F. ’08. 1020w. (Review of v. 3.)
337* Somerville, Charles. Wolf, founded on the play, by Eugene Walter. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The novelization of Eugene Walter’s play in which the hero, a French Canadian, avenges the death of his sister, betrayed and deserted by the Wolf, an unprincipled engineer. The story is set in the Nipissing country.
Somerville, Edith A. Œ., and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin). Further experiences of an Irish R. M. †$1.50. Longmans.
8–23093.
A series of stories giving “first-rate pictures of the humours of the hunting-field.” “The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is worthy of attention, independent of the threads of amusing misadventure on which it is strung; the combination may be ephemeral, but nobody can feel that the moments spent upon it are wasted.” (Nation.)
“Have plenty of lively incident and are full of the drollery and unexpectedness of the Irish nature.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 305. D. ’08.
“There is ... the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The authors have a rare tact in the handling of the farcical, and never strain after effect. Their treatment of Irish peasant idiom is perfect.”
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Sat. R. 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It is in their dialogue that the authors chiefly excel, above all in reproducing the characteristic turn of phrase and intrepid imagery of the Irish peasant.”
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Spec. 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 1100w.
Sons of the Puritans; by various authors. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
8–30957.
Here are sketched the careers of eleven men, all serving the public welfare, each of whom owed his success to “a certain moral idealism which is a part of the Puritan inheritance.” The group includes George F. Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles F. Dunbar, Phillips Brooks, Francis C. Barlow, Henry S. Russell, Roger Woolcott, William E. Russell, Charles Eliot, and William H. Baldwin.
N. Y. Times. 13: 673. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
Sorel, Ernest. Carbureting and combustion in alcohol engines; tr. from the French by S. F. Woodward and John Preston. $3. Wiley.
7–36878.
The only book of its kind. It contains a treatment of the information to date dealing with the physical and chemical properties of alcohol and other commercial liquid fuels so far as concerns their use in engines.
“It is not too much to say that this is the standard book on the subject, and that a great number of years must elapse before it can be neglected by any one who has to design an alcohol engine of maximum efficiency.” L. S. Marks.
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Engin. N. 59: 201. F. 20. ’08. 1200w.
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Engin. Rec. 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
Spargo, John. Common sense of the milk question. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12780.
A thoroughgoing treatise on the problem of the relation of the public milk supply to the public health, particularly to the health of babies who are wholly or almost wholly dependent upon it for food. The ills of the milk problem are stated and remedial measures are discussed.
“If all socialists kept as close to reality as Mr. Spargo does in this book they would improve their reputation for sanity.” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 129. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“The book makes a valuable addition to dairy literature. While of special interest to physicians and philanthropists, it is so written that any reader of average intelligence can understand it.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 211. Je. ’08. ✠
“A reasonable, practical book.” H. R. Mussey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 463. S. ’08. 280w.
“Every farmer should peruse this book. Every mother and nurse should be acquainted with its contents. It is of more vital importance than it is possible to express in this brief review.” R. E. Bisbee.
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Arena. 40: 468. N. ’08. 500w.
“The interested lay student of the milk question desiring to follow up the subject will find the notes and authorities somewhat carelessly put together. It would have been of service if more definite references to state and national government bulletins had been made and attention called to the fact that many of these which are excellently adapted to enlighten the general public are to be had free of cost.” G. N. Lauman.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 329. D. ’08. 440w.
“A busy doctor, farmer, milk dealer or reformer will find in ‘The common sense of the milk question’ facts, arguments and program to persuade, to convince, to inspire.”
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Ind. 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 340w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“It would be well worth while to adopt the English custom of publishing a shilling edition for general circulation; and it is to be hoped that the author may see his way clear to render this real social service.” J. E. Pope.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 731. D. ’08. 1000w.
“It is one of the merits of his book that it guides the reader to the works of specialists which otherwise might be passed by without consultation.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 756. Je. ’08. 170w.
Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Old England: with 80 illustrations in color and halftone by James Orrock. **$6. Pott.
“This volume is meant to be something more than a collection of picturesque buildings, landscapes, etc., which are described by pen and set forth by pencil. It is an illustrated history in the broadest sense of the word; not a chronicle of events, but a presentation of the great influences which have made the country what it is.” (Spec.) “The book is really a portfolio of Mr. Orrock’s work, and the idea of Mr. Sparrow’s text is to show how the English story is told by the pictures Mr. Orrock paints.” (Sat. R.)
“The pictures are the most valuable part of the book. It is much to be wished that the writing of the letterpress had fallen into more capable hands.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 970w.
“A handsome and valuable work in which the history of old England is connected with her monuments both natural and man-made.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 350w.
“Though we have a great collection of facts there is an air of their being dragged in for the sake of filling the space between one picture and another; and a good deal of violent wrestling to get the matter fitted to the picture. The pictures are much better than the usual class of work of this kind.”
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Sat. R. 106: 150. Ag. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Altogether, Mr. Sparrow has given us, with the very able help of Mr. Orrock’s pencil, a most delightful volume.”
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Spec. 101: 413. S. 19, ’08. 400w.
338Spears, John Randolph. History of the United States navy. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–5238.
A history that lies between Spears’ five volume “History of our navy” and his “Short history of the American navy.” The whole story of the navy is told, all the important naval battles are described, and facts and conditions that have created public opinion in favor of, or against, the employment of the navy are considered. Victories are treated less in the spot-light sense and more in relation to the character-development of the heroes.
“The present work is the most desirable for the ordinary library.”
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Reviewed by R. G. Gettell.
Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 463. S. ’08. 200w.
“Its special excellence is found, we think, in the author’s vivid and graphic descriptions of the heroic deeds and great achievements of the naval forces in critical moments.”
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Arena. 39: 492. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“At times his judgment is immoderate. Some fault might also be found with the author’s arrangement of his materials. But these are minor defects in a generally creditable and useful book.”
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Dial. 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, it is not quite clear why this book should have been written.”
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Ind. 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 510w.
“Mr. Spears ... has done the work in a workmanlike manner and made a good book of its kind. Its value and interest are enhanced by the illustrations, some portraits of ships or sailors, and some ‘scenes.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“An uncommonly good book.”
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Outlook. 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book as it stands is the best single-volume summary of American naval history that has yet been written.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 100w.
Spears, John Randolph. Story of the New England whalers. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28292.
In popular form Mr. Spears, the recognized authority on the American navy, tells the story of the whaling industry from its merest beginnings in the middle of the seventeenth century on through the period of its greatest commercial success in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present days of decline. It is important that every library should have this book.
“The book should appeal to all who find delight in brave and skilful deeds, done in a peaceful cause.”
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Nation. 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“No important phase of the subject has escaped him.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 637. N. ’08. 80w.
Speer, Robert Elliott. Master of the heart. **$1. Revell.
8–20734.
“A series of addresses that were first made to the young men and women of the Northfield conferences. They are eminently practical and are mainly devoted to an analysis of the spiritual relation of Christ to his followers and an application of that relation and influence to the every-day lives of modern men and women.”—N. Y. Times.
“They evidence great earnestness and sincerity of belief and have a simplicity and sweetness of manner that give them more the character of intimate talks with some young and troubled friend seeking for help to see the right way than of set addresses.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 497. S. 12, ’08. 120w.
“No recluse, but a man who leads a strenuous life, sets forth here the lesson which gives to life both peace and power in pursuit of divine ideals.”
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Outlook. 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
Spender, John Alfred, ed. Comments of Bagshot. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12973.
Epigrams of a contributor to the Westminster gazette, whose identity was veiled under the name Bagshot. His range of comment is wide, and he goes beneath the surface of such questions as friendship, religion, bores, immortality and animal instinct, the secret of youth, the poetry of the future, the “most disagreeable fact in the world,” shyness, the dramatic temperament and the artistic, wealth, poverty, war, pain, the needy and the greedy, woman’s morality, her logic, gambling systems, literature and the middle-aged genius, etc.
“We suspect that if Mr. Bagshot had been an Athenian, he would have run great risk of sharing the fate of Aristides. He is always so eminently sane and correct in his judgments that it is hopeless to try to argue against him, while all the time one is conscious of some subtle danger to the republic in his views, or rather, his point of view.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
“No one, unless hopelessly dull and unimpressionable, can fail to find something refreshingly original in many of Bagshot’s opinions and judgments of men and things.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 337. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
Ind. 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“A series of observations upon life, remarkable at once for insight, enlightened common sense, and literary pungency.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 580w.
“Wit and wisdom are the qualities which distinguish the writer’s style.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 384. S. ’08. 30w.
“His sayings are not all of equal merit, but there are few pages in this book without something to set one on thinking; and there are some of delightful excellence.”
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Sat. R. 105: 48. Ja. 11, ’08. 1400w.
“Whether Bagshot is dealing with death and immortality, or riches and socialism, he always contrives to be pungent and interesting and yet urbane, for there is no attempt in the book either at flashy cynicism or cheap epigram.”
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Spenser, Edmund. Complete poetical works; ed. by R. E. Neil Dodge. (Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.
8–11738.
A volume of Spenser uniform with the Cambridge edition, containing all of Spenser’s poetical works arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order and supplied with full editorial equipment.
“It may be commended as the best edition of the poet. The various introductions are critically sound, and the notes are well informed and useful.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 1: 241. O. ’08.
“All the special features, both editorial and typographical, which fit this series so admirably for the use of readers and students alike are once more exemplified in this noble tome.”
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Dial. 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We may commend this as the best edition of a poet still warmly cherished by a select audience. So far as we have looked into the notes, they are well-informed and useful.”
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Nation. 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Keeps well to the standard of these model editions of the poets.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 250w.
Spingarn, Joel Elias. Critical essays of the seventeenth century. 3v. v. 1 & 2, ea. *$1.75. Oxford.
8–26854.
Two of the contemplated three volumes, which Professor Spingarn will contribute to the literature of formal criticism. “As for the essays, 339letters, and poems reprinted, it can only be said that they cover practically the whole field of seventeenth-century literary discussion, with the exception of Dryden’s work, which Professor Spingarn has wisely left to be consulted in Professor Ker’s edition.” (Nation.)
“The disquisitions which Professor Spingarn has here collected reward reading.” Brander Matthews.
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Forum. 40: 121. Ag. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“His introduction is not easy, nor altogether agreeable, reading. There is a kind of bustling haste in its procedure, which might have been relieved by better composition, without sacrificing the ideas. It is, nevertheless, a highly valuable piece of work, showing in a single page more real grasp of the subject than Saintsbury’s ‘History of criticism’ displays in a chapter.”
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Nation. 86: 568. Je. 18, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“One may be thankful for Mr. Spingarn’s scholastic erudition.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Professor Spingarn’s introduction is an illuminating piece of work, laying down the main lines of his subject with admirable charity, and following them up with real force and insight and that rare kind of erudition which never grows pedantic.”
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Spec. 100: 706. My. 2, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Spivey, Thomas Sawyer. Hoosier widow. il. $1.50. Neale.
8–5225.
The story records the experiences of a young and beautiful girl from a village in Indiana who, marrying a man on his death bed, became a widow without having been a wife. She goes to New York and meets a young lawyer who is the victim of a disastrous marriage. Her subsequent relations with him form the principal plot-interest in this slight story, The other characters merely contribute to the happy termination of the love episode.
Spooner, Henry John. Machine design, construction and drawing: a text-book for the use of young engineers. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–34187.
“A book of detail. It consists of 32 chapters of practically all the various mechanical details met with in ordinary design.” (Engin. N.) “The work contains over 1,400 illustrations, mostly detail drawings and sketches intended to show good British practice, and about 80 numerical tables.” (Engin. D.)
“The contents are quite up-to-date, and, aside from whatever excellence it may possess as a text-book for engineering students, the work will be found most convenient as a handy reference book of machine details.”
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Engin. D. 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The definition of diametrical pitch found in the chapter on toothed gearing is very bad. An excellent book of reference for this subject. It is unique in its being so complete in so small a volume giving as it does a few examples of complete machines and a thorough line of details. It will surely be found of greater value in modern designing than Reauleux’s ‘Constructor,’ after which it is apparently modeled.” Amasa Trowbridge.
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Engin. N. 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
Sprague, Rufus Farrington. True nature of value. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–829.
Theories simply stated which are designed to assist students who are struggling to ascertain the true principles regulating exchange values and the various social problems that confront the world to-day. The author shows that equity demands that compensation should be in proportion to service rendered, a result secured wherever free competition is established; but that greed results in monopoly which demands compensation not on the equitable basis of utility of service, but on the unequitable basis of the utility of the product itself.
“It shows unusual power and incisiveness, and sets forth conclusions which are, in the main, sound. Business men are so accustomed to taking short cuts by the use of metonymy, simile and metaphor, that it is refreshing to find one who writes so clearly and with so much regard for exact definition.” T. N. Carver.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 30. Ap. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Sprague’s book is admirably ingenious, compact, and original in thought, as it is admirably clear in point of exposition.” H. J. Davenport.
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Stacpoole, H. De Vere. Blue lagoon: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of two castaways, a boy and a girl, who alone on an island grow into primitive beings, discovering for themselves the facts of love and life.
“There is real poetic feeling as well as imagination in Mr. Stacpoole’s story.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 120w.
“Is not a well-constructed book according to accepted standards; but that does not rob it of the credit due to a successful attempt to do a rather difficult and unusual thing.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 260w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Stacpoole too often despises grammar, but he possesses imagination, and for once the title of ‘romance’ found in so many modern stories is really justified.”
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Sat. R. 105: 146. F. 1, ’08. 260w.
Standage, H. C., ed. Decoration of metal, wood, glass, etc.; a book for manufacturers, mechanics, painters, decorators, and all workmen in the fancy trades. *$2. Wiley.
8–8483.
“In the early sections the bronzing of iron, tin, zinc, alabaster, plaster of Paris, paper, and feathers is dealt with. Afterwards follow directions for such miscellaneous processes as the platinising of metals; plating with aluminium; the colouring of metals by immersion in chemicals; silvering and gilding; tinning and galvanising; the use of enamels and glazes; etching; varnishing, lacquering, and japanning.”—Nature.
“A valuable reference volume.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Contains information which should give it a wide field of usefulness.”
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Engin. N. 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 60w.
“So far as can be judged from a recipe here and there, the methods seem to be trustworthy. The book has no pretensions to being scientific, and it is necessarily, perhaps, more or less of a medley. Even so, the editing leaves something to be desired.” C. S.
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Nature. 78: 389. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
Standard handbook for electrical engineers. *$4. McGraw.
8–347.
(2d. ed. 8–17558.)
“Consists of twenty sections, ranging from 20 to 130 pages in length, which have been prepared by engineers who are thoroughly conversant with the subjects they write upon, and who know from practical experience the sort of information that is most frequently required by these having occasion to use such compilations.”—Engin. D.
“The entire field of electrical engineering has been more completely covered in this book than in any similar book the writer has seen, not excepting those published in England, Germany, 340France and Italy. It is a book of which American engineers can well be proud.”
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Elec. World. 51: 58. Ja. 4, ’08. 820w.
“The co-ordinated presentation of the subjects treated renders it especially desirable for students and those who have occasion to require concise and clear statements in regard to electrical matters.”
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Engin. D. 3: 188. F. ’08. 470w.
“It would seem that the library of any practicing electrical engineer should contain all the theoretical discussions which may be found in this book, and these, too, in nearly as convenient and in a more complete and satisfactory form.”
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Engin. N. 59: 205. F. 20, ’08. 400w.
“A most valuable reference manual.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 55. Ja. 11, ’08. 600w.
Stansfield, Alfred. Electric furnace: its evolution, theory and practice. *$2. Hill pub.
8–35541.
Aims “to present as simply as possible, the principles on which the construction and use of the electric furnace depend and to give an account of its history and development.” Treats the history, various types of electric furnace, efficiency, cost of electrical and fuel heat, design, construction, operation and uses of the electrical furnace.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 211. Je. ’08.
“Will be found valuable by metallurgists as being a complete and thorough compendium of present day knowledge on the subject of the electric furnace.”
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Engin. D. 3: 529. My. ’08. 300w.
“The book is brought as well up to date as is possible in the case of a subject undergoing such rapid development as the electric furnace.” F. A. J. FitzGerald.
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Engin. N. 59: 652. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
Stanton, Stephen Berrien. Essential life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14659.
Twenty essays on the following subjects: The spirit in man; Time; Individuality; Imagination; Happiness; Morality; Environment; Spiritual companionship; Expression; Action; Spiritual capacities; Attitude; Eternal youth; The centrality of the soul; The obscuration of the present; Travel; Realities; Instrumental hands and orchestral hearts; Wayside healing; Beauty; Life’s new lands.
“The suggestion everywhere is of Emerson, or an echo of an echo of Emerson, and yet the writer is an original thinker, with a spicy charm of his own.”
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Ind. 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“It bears the mark of ingenuousness, if not originality.” H. W. Boynton.
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Putnam’s. 5: 107. O. ’08. 460w.
Starr, Frederick. In Indian Mexico: a narrative of travel and labor. *$5. Forbes.
8–11833.
A popular account of the author’s experiences in the interests of ethnology in the more remote Indian communities of Central and Southern Mexico. “The purpose of the author’s trip was three-fold—to measure the heads of 100 men and twenty-five women in each Indian locality, taking fourteen measurements of each; to take pictures, portraits showing Indian costumes, customs, occupations, types, dwellings, landscapes, etc., and to make plaster casts of five individuals in each of the different Indian tribes.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Many interesting sidelights are thrown on local conditions and government and on the manner of life and thought of the natives, but no effort is made to systematize any of this information. The book contains ... no map—a most serious defect in a book of this character.” A. B. Lewis.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 111. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“The field has been little worked so the book puts in convenient form much information about the land and the people otherwise inaccessible.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 629. N. ’08. 80w.
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Ath. 1908, 1: 602. My. 16. 470w.
“That the narrative has literary faults, cannot be denied. The meagre accounts of some tragic experiences serve to pique the reader’s curiosity without gratifying it. But these faults are largely atoned for by the general interest of the narrative.”
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Dial. 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 360w.
“It is but a scrappy compilation from notebooks of hasty trips—far too hasty, one would say, for the best scientific work. The value of the book is not great.”
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Ind. 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 500w.
“Combining the qualities of a trained ethnologist with a rare sense of the picturesque, he has given us an altogether admirable book.”
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Nation. 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The work is a revelation in its descriptions of Indian life, showing the contrasting degrees of intelligence and barbarity in various Indian towns.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
Stebbing, William. Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340–1892; impressions. 2v. *$3.20. Oxford.
8–26221.
“In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if Chaucer began to write in 1360 and Samuel Rogers died in 1855; in his second are included thirty, who take in a little more than a hundred years from Wordsworth’s first effort in 1786 to Tennyson’s last in 1891.” (Spec.) The author “sets down his ‘impressions’ of about seventy poets (including four Americans), interspersing the statement of his ideas with copious extracts.” (Dial.)
“In the main Mr. Stebbing is a pleasant guide, his sympathy is unbounded, and his sense of poetry is seldom at fault.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 284. Mr. 7. 200w.
“It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of an ardent lover of poetry, but it is too personal an expression to have any marked critical value.”
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Dial. 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 100w.
“Not an important work by any means, but one pleasant to read.”
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Nation. 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A student of this portion of English literature could not find a better guide.”
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Spec. 100: 29. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
* Stedman, Edmund Clarence. Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
8–34145.
The poems contained in the “Household edition” of “Stedman’s Poetical works” and in “Poems now first collected,” together with seventeen later pieces have been grouped under eleven headings as follows: In war time; Poems of Manhattan; Poems of New England; Poems on occasion; Poems of Greece; The blameless prince; Poems of nature; The Carib sea; Songs and ballads; Various poems; and Shadow-land. Index of titles and index of first lines.
Steele, Zadock. Indian captive; or, A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Zadock Steele as related by himself; to which is prefixed an account of the burning of Royalton. (Indian captivities ser. v. 2.) *$2.50. Huntting.
8–30488.
A reprint of a work first published in 1818. The story of the burning of Royalton, Vermont, in 1780 prefaces the tale of Zadock Steele’s captivity in Montreal and on Prison island in the St. Lawrence, and his escape back to Vermont.
“His narrative is direct and simple. It was 341worth while to reprint it in the attractive little book.”
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Ind. 65: 1313. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
“The narrative well deserved reprinting, and our only regret is that so little pains was taken with the editing.”
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Nation. 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
Steiner, Bernard Christian. Life and correspondence of James McHenry. *$6. Burrows.
7–24607.
The biography of a surgeon upon Washington’s staff and afterwards Secretary of war under Washington and Adams. It throws new light upon revolutionary personages whom Dr. Steiner knew intimately.
“Dr. Steiner is so warm an admirer of McHenry’s attractive personality that he is a very sympathetic but by no means an uncritical biographer.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 145. O. 08. 950w.
“The editor is at times indiscreet in his notes, some of which are uncritical and some spiteful. By far the most valuable material in the volume is the letters and drafts of state papers by Alexander Hamilton. A volume of one-half the size, comprising McHenry’s own letters and a selection of those from his correspondents, would have conveyed a better impression of the man. The index is inadequate.”
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Nation. 86: 79. Ja 23, ’08. 550w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 70w.
“Many of the letters, to be sure, are purely personal, and but for the delightful glimpses of the man’s private life might advantageously have been omitted; but there are many of real historical value.”
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Outlook. 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 370w.
“His correspondence, most of which now sees the light for the first time, contains many important references to persons and events that have long since become historic.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 253. F. ’08. 150w.
Steiner, Edward A. Mediator: a tale of the Old world and the New. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29568.
“The story begins in Russian Poland and describes in a graphic way an anti-Semitic persecution. In consequence of the danger and suffering to which they are exposed, the principal characters emigrate to New York, and the author gives a realistic account of their life in the Jewish quarter. The book is evidently intended as an eirenicon to compose the differences of Jew and Gentile.”—Nation.
“As a novel the story is not strong. It does not seem that this volume begins to have the value of the author’s earlier book ‘On the trail of the immigrant.’”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“The realistic parts of the narrative contain many offences against good taste; and these are the more to be regretted because the conception of the author is original and he writes at times with dramatic power.”
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Nation. 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The story has not a little imaginative power, and ‘rings true’ both as a reflex of actual conditions and a stimulus toward better things.”
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Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“A vein of sincere religious feeling runs through this interesting book.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 128. Ja. ’08. 80w.
Stelzle, Rev. Charles. Christianity’s storm center. **$1. Revell.
7–27620.
“The author, skilled laborer, minister, superintendent of the Department of church and labor of the Presbyterian church, is interested in aggressive evangelism, and believes that the church should so change its methods as to meet present needs. The problem is not properly stated by asking, ‘Do workingmen go to church?’ but by the query, ‘Does the church go to the workingman?’ The chapters bear such titles as: ‘The trades union’; ‘The city slum’; ‘Social centers’; ‘The institutional church’; ‘Aggressive evangelism.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The discussion is, however, extremely rambling and decidedly lacking in logical order. Nevertheless, the book is of rather exceptional merit. If the church fails to profit by such a book it speaks badly for its own future influence.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 510. Mr. ’08. 150w.
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Ind. 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“Churchmen who would understand the conditions, threatening or hopeful, that challenge or invite them to the field, should not neglect this report.”
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Outlook. 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
* Stenton, Frank Merry. William the conqueror and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
8–31143.
Carefully selected and judiciously elaborated details of William the Conqueror’s life fill nine chapters of this history to which three chapters have been added sketching the changes in constitutional organization and social life which followed the events of 1066.
Stephan, Walter George. Drawing instruments, their use and abuse. *$1. McGraw pub.
8–21049.
A student’s guide to the selection of instruments, their testing, their use and abuse. Besides the regulation drawing instruments are considered the slide rule, the section liner, the universal drafting machine, the elliptograph, the pantograph, the planimeter and the plane table.
Engin. D. 4: 184. Ag. ’08. 60w.
“It will prove interesting to all engaged in the actual work of drafting, and is of special value to beginners.”
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Engin. N. 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 70w.
Stephen, Leslie, and Lee, Sidney Lazarus, eds. Dictionary of national biography. 22v. ea. *$4.25. Macmillan.
A new edition occupying about half the shelf space of the former issue and costing one-third the price. “The work was begun in 1885 and completed in 1900 under the editorship of Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, and its 31,000 separate articles cover practically all the notable names in the history of English politics, religion, literature, art and science, including many American.” (Ind.)
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Ath. 1908, 1: 381. Mr. 28. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is really preferable, both on account of accuracy and the amount of shelf-room required, to the original issue.”
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Dial. 44: 217. Ap. 1, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
Ind. 64: 640. Mr. 19, ’08. 120w.
“It is a pity, looking to the proven utility of the work, that the three supplementary volumes issued in 1901 are to form the supplementary volume of the reissue.”
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Sat. R. 105: 410. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Sat. R. 105: 504. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
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Sat. R. 105: 636. My. 16, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
Sat. R. 105: 762. Je. 13, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume contains some notable contributions.”
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Sat. R. 106: 244. Ag. 22, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
Sat. R. 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 7.) 342
Sat. R. 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 8.)
Sat. R. 106: 616. N. 14, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The work is really indispensable to the student, and every public library, not to speak of private purchasers, should be supplied with a copy.”
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Spec. 100: 423. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
Spec. 100: 677. Ap. 25, ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
Spec. 100: 872. My. 30, ’08. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)